The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-03-09

Inc hawaiian Pineapple Company
has arranged to transfer it's agency
from Castle & Cooke to thc Hawaiian
Development Company. This canning
company has placed an order for new
machinery and has arranged to go
right ahead with it's plans for
doubling the capacity of its plant and
warehouse accommodations.
Tobacco Company Enlarging.
The shareholders of the Kona To-
bacco Company have voted to increase
their capital stock to $4,000. The
first crop from their tobacco lands in
| Kona, amounting to about sixty bales,
will be ready to ship by the end of
| the month Samples have already been
| forwarded to New York and Tampa
manufacturers. The quality of tho
crop is good and satisfactory prices
are expected.
| The outlook for this company this
year is excellent There have been
/ good rains in Kona and the ground is
in excellent condition. About forty
five acres will be planted, and it is in
anticipation of very much larger crop
that the additional capital stock has
been decided upon. Additional curing
barns and a fermenting house win be
needed, while it is also intended to
increase very materially the stock car
ried in the company's store in South
Kona. These preparations are being
made with the prospect of five hun
dred bale crop this fall.
Hilo Railroad Statistics.
In anticipation of the building of
the Hakalau extension Of the Hilo rail
road, statistics have been compiled
showing the relation of the railroad rs
now constituted to HilO and the prob.
able passenger traffic of the proposed
extension. At the present time, operat-
ing in "A district with the comparative
, ly small population of about five thou.
sand the number of passengers carried
each month in and out of Hilo, both
ways, is 6525, the combined traffic be-
ing equal to shifting the entire popula.
ton of the country served fourteen
times a year. Taking this as basis,
it is figured that the Hakalau branch
= will carry an average of sixteen thoU-
=, sand passengers a month. At the pres
+ ent time the railroad company carries
!, payroll calling for $4,000 a year.
: Route of New Road.
The survey of the extension to Ha.
ealau is progressing satisfactorily,
. though not very rapidly, on, account OF
= a few engineering problems that have
= to be solved within the first mile oil
u 80 from town. To begin with, there
is the question: At what point shah
y the line be carried over the Wailukt
3 riverR This, it is understood, is prae
u tically decided upon. Behring'S hay,
e. proved that solid foundation for pier
&c can be obtained in the river bed al
't point almost in direct line with thu
le existing track on the Hilo side. Here
IN therefore, the bridge is likely to b.
d, located, despite the fact that it will b.
le three times longer than one litti
h. further up the river. BY adopting tn
RS long bridge, other problems will b,
greatly simplifed, for the grades will
g be easier, there will be less intcrfer
e. ence with roads, the convenience o.
a. residents will be better served, and thu
he property to be acquired by the com
IN pany will be less costly. The grea
ir determining consideration in the matte
n. will ultimately be the convenience o
I'd the public.
e. Pearl Harbor Work.
u Some uncertainty has been created j
Oh regard to the Pearl Harbor contract
al the question of added cost for the dry
he dock extension having been spran
W rather abruptly upon Congress, W.T.
IN the result that the whole appropria
ton, with the exception of the firs
amount of six hundred thousand do
re question of this appropriation bein
90 made ultimately. but in the meanwhll
90 the situation is embarrassing, to sa
-, the least, for the dredging compan
y ready to start in on u large scale o
va the channel work
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