Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25
HONOLULU PLANTATION COMPANY
Where Sugar Is Refined And Made Ready To Put On Retail
Market-One of Younger Plantations

mode of livelihood and soon accumulate
stock of chickens, ducks, pigs and goats.
They grow vegetables along the lines OF
bitches and in their house-lots. The prin'
cipal advantage of this Family Contract
System" is In the opportunities a family man
has for a revenue from the work of his chill.
dren. The cane is bought from the contrac.
tors at stipulated sums per ton of two thou.
sand 10000 pounds, and advances are made
to him according to the size of and age of the
members of the family. The grown boy or
man is figured at full share; the wife or
grown girls at three-fourths share. and the
half grown boy or girl say of II years of age,
at onehaf share.
Water supply.
The water supply is entirely artesian.
There are one or two freshet bitches,
which catch storm water at times when
heavy rains have fallen In the mountains
but the balance of the water Is supplied by
artesian wells flowing into suction headers.
from which high-duty pumping machinery
plants take 1t and force 1t to the different
ditch lines ON the different contours of the
estate.
There are five pumping plants-one a 20.
million tripleeXpansion pump, lifting water
80 feet above sea level, supplying water to
low lands. This pump Is in No. l station,
situated in Halawa Valley and is located In
pit some IL feet below the level of the
ground and has total of 400 boiler horse
power. The boilers are of the Babcock and
Wilcox type in this station.
In the Waimau Valley are two pumping
plants-one at No. 2 station, which includes
triple.expansion pumping engine, deliver.
ing IL millions OF water per "a hours, 200
feet above sea-level, and triple expansion
pump delivering seven million gallons of wa
ter per "a hours, 300 feet above sea-level
The pumps in this station are situated in
pit 35 feet below the level of the ground. The
boilers are of the Heine type; total horse
power being $50. No 3 station, situate In
Halawa Valley has two pumping plants
one 9'millon gallon triple-expansion
pump, lifting water 800 feet above the sea
level every "a hours, and the other six
million gallon triple.expansion pumping en-.
CINE, lifting 200 feet above sea level
every "a hours. This station is situated
In Halawa Valley and is located in pit at IA
depth OF 10 feet below the level of the
ground. Total boiler horse power $50, and
OF the Hene type The pumping machinery
of the fy-wheel type, horizonal triple.expan.
sion in the Nos. l. 2 and 3 stations was
built by the Risdon Iron Works of San Fran.
cisco Cal. In all of these stations there Is
spare boiler capacity. Oil fuel Is used In
all of the pumping stations
In No. station. in Waimalu Valley, are
two pumping engines, horizontal fly wheel.
four-cylinder duplex which are situated
As feet below the level of the ground
delivering seven million gallons of water
each per "a hours, 45O feet above the sea
level. This station is the largest station
which the plantation has and while the
pumps are working to the highest contours
they are the most efficient of any pumps on
the estate. They were built by the Geo. E
Dow Pumping Engine Co., of San Francisco
Cal In this plant are four large Babcocl
and Wilcox boilers of total horse power
of 1900
The No. Pumping Station was put II
1907 near the government road. II has
triple expansion engine with capacity O
100000 gallons, which is used for supply
ing the mill.
Above the delivery of water from thes,
pumps, irrigation is by means of hydrauli,
rams, lifting water further 80 feet, usin.
the water power as II comes from $50 fee
ditch to force portion of the water hghe
up. Some 800 acres are irrigated by thi
method of pumping. An average effcenc
of go per cent is obtained from these rams
known as Rife rams. There is no loss how
ever, in the tail water, as It is used to irr
gate the fields below It,