The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-29
Honolulu Sugar Ex-
tractors Are Aiding
in Development of
Great Industry.


Far down in the southern part of the
island of Formosa, a dependency of the
empire of Japan, representatives of the
Honolulu Iron Works of this city have
been doing their part in the develop
ment of the sugar industry, one which
bids fair in time to supply all of Japan
with its sugar. Millions of dollars have
been paid over by the Formosa sugar
companies for mills, machinery and
equipment for turning cane into the
saecharine product and of these mil
lions the Honolulu Iron Works have
received a share and will receive al.
most as much more in the next two
years. An entire new mill of large
capacity is to be built by the local
iron works and another mill by them
TO handle 1900 tons of cane per day,
is to be more than doubled IN eapa-
city. So great is the pressure of work
at the iron works that much of the
work on these two latter contracts
must be let ON the mainland and Mr..
G. Hedemann has just gone to the
mainland for that purpose and James
Scott, who superintendent the. erection
of the Honolulu built mills in Formosa.
viii leave shortly to join him. w hen
the new contract work is ready and
has been shipped to Formosa, Mr..
Scott viii return to the big island and
superlntend construction.
This machinery will be shipped to
the coming great port of Takow, south
err Formosa, where Japan plans to
spend many millions in making a great
s.ou,mnrsiuf anfrapaf .hapual is hp.
ing dredged Large warehouses and
splendid buildings are being erected
and Japan viii make the place model
one. From this port all the sugar out
put of that section of Formpsa will
DE shipped.
The Taiwan Sugar Company, for
which the Iron Works built the mills
now in operation, is capitalized at &c..
100000 The company has called in
a little more than a half of this
amount. Each one of the three new
mills is doing much better work than
even the contract called for. The first
mill built here was intended to handle
only $50 tons of cane per day and
this one is now turning out about 600
TONS. The other two, one built TO
handle 1000 tons and the other 1900
tons Of cane daily, are working right
up to the limit of their capacity, and
are extracting 94.25 per cent. of the
weight of cane The cane of that
section of the island has an average
growth to maturity of ten months.
The planting season is January and
February and they begin to harvest
In December. After the last of April
the cane begins to deteriorate 50 rap
idly that the loss is considera bic. Con
asequently, they try to get everything
off between December and the end of
March or middle of April.
On the strength of the good work
done BY the Honolulu built mills, and
in the face of much active competi-
zion. the company recently decided to
order one. mill doubled in its capacity.
Mr. Scott who has just returned to
Honolulu from Formosa, firmly believes
that there will be from two to six
new mills erected to handle the rapid
Nv Increasing output. He states that
Mr. Hedemann had to refuse, this year,
10 put up another factory for eoihpe
titiye company from which he had an
offer. In Mr. Scott s opinion the "hoie
southern part of Formosa, taking In
about one hundred square miles Will
he in fpll control of this one great
sugar company.
The japanese government has iaid
aside a large amount of money to be
used in developing an irrigation scheme
for the southern section. Inc ls.aho
Is covered with rivers and the ldea
is to dam up some of the lesser ones Iar
mn in the mountains and conserve the
waters for use on the whole western
side, as well as southern. The western
side is largely devoted TO the raising
of tea, eampher and sugar
On the eastern side of the island from
north to south the eastern. slope IS u
vided from the hill country by new
and unique feature of agrleulturai
development. This is an electric fence