Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25
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cane cars and thence carried by rail to the
mill.
There are fifteen miles of permanent
trackage, hve miles OF which is double track
four miles OF portable track, two large Bald.
win locomotives, 400 cane cars with a capac.
ity oil ~ tons each and sixteen sugar cars.
The plantation employs 100 skilled and
unskilled !abOrers, most of the work being
carried on by day labor. with the exception
of cane cutting and loading which is done
under the contract system. The laborers
in addition to their wages receive house
room. fuel water and medical attendance.
The plantation does not maintain hospital
of its own, but contributes to the support
of the Wamea hospital, of which the various
plantation managers of the district are
trustees The Company also supports the
foreign church of Waimea
new Japanese school house has been
built on plantation land and is free to the
children of Japanese laborers.
None of the land being held in fee simple
and all available land being planted in cane
no effort has been made to secure home.
steaders. Also the climate at Kekaha is the
hottest on the islands.
The nine.roller mill consists of three 3.
roller mills made by the Honolulu Iron
Works a few years ago. The rollers are
32x6O. The cane is fed through Krajewsh
crusher. The hydraulic pressure upon each
3.roller mill Is as follows. varying somewhat
according to the fibre of the cane. etc: No
! mill $50 tons: No. 2 mill, 275 tons; and
No mill, 300 tons. Formerly the mill was
operated seventeen hours day during
which time from forty to forty.fve tons of
sugar were turned out In consequence Of
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from time to time the mill can run night
and day. and during continuous run to
twenty-five hours make from 75 to so tons
of sugar.
The principal mill apparatus consists of
two quadruple effects six filter presses, one
Honolulu Iron Works, one German vacuum
pan. and pan that was installed by Mr. Lor.
enz with a total striking power Of eighteen
tons twenty.one centrifugals and the nee
essary pumps and other appliances.
The plantation has had in operation during
the last four crops central conden'
sation system put In by Consulting
Engineer LorenZ. This system consists OF
one central and one vacuum pump. to which
two quadruple effects and three vacuum
pans are connected. This condenser and
pump does the work formerly done by five
vacuum pumps. The new vacuum pan con.
tains a number of 1lS.inch straight tubes
the boiling being done by exhaust steam
only.
The condenser among other favorable
qualities Is a fuel saver and has been an
immense success in every particular II ap
parently is valuable adjunct to the mill
and has materially increased the sugar out
put.
The mill Is driven by large Hamilton
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burning of bagasse or cane trash and molas'
SEES Water for condensation purposes Is
obtained from artesan wells on the place.
The Company owns their own lime kiln
the lime being used for Qualification and
building purposes, etc.
Adjoining the mill building are the ma
chine shops. electric light plant and general
Offices of the Company In addition, the
Company maintains its own telephone sys'
TEN using portable instruments. Only one
grade of sugar Is manufactured, known as
the "A" grade all the low.grade sugars and
molasses being worked over
The sugar product when ready for ship
ment Is conveyed from the mill to the land
ing at Waimea by rail, whence II Is shipped
to Honolulu by steamer and loaded there
direct into vessels for the Pacific Coast and
the East
II. p. Faye is manager of the plantation
and has been actively identified with the
sugar industry for the last twenty eight
years and at this plantation 20 years.
Mr.. Faye has the following stan to assis
him. Head Overseer G. Hansen and VIM
Danford; Chief Mill Engineer, L. w. Barron
Bookkeeper, A. G. Hime; Assistant Book
keeper and Timekeeper. +. II. Aaser PumI
Engineer, A, NJ. Da Vico; Sugar Boiler, F
Kuhlmann and A. Faye; Chemist, Alex
Brodie; Steam Pillow Engineers, C. Jacobsen
and f. Deichen; Physician, DIR. b. +. San
dow
Following is the list of officers and direct
ors of the Kekaha Sugar Company: