The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-02-05
NEWELL'S GOOD
WORK CONTINUES

What Director Newell of the Reclama.
ton Service has done in the line of
promotion work for Hawaii has been
commented on considerably of late by
Governor Frear, who with Mr.. Newell,
issued statements relative to the Is.
lands and the opportunities to be found
here while he was in Washington, but,
from the following clipping from the
Baltimore Trade journal, it would ap.
pear that Newell is not by and means
letting up in his boosts for Hawaii.
The following article, which was edited
by Mr.. Newell in Washington, appeared
in the January number of the Trade
Journal:
Frederick H. Newell, Director of the
Reclamation Service of the Department
of the Interior, who has just returned
from an inspection tour of the Hawai-
ian Islands, is planning extensive gov
eminent Investigations for that distant
part of the United States. He was as.
sisted in his investigations by Governor
F'rear of Hawaii. who accompanied him
home, and is working with him in his
plans which embrace the reclamation of
tracts of government land on the is.
lands for agriculture, general irriga-
ton system and ultimately the improve.
ment of the waterways and harbor
facilities for commercial purposes.
The chief industries of Hawaii are
the raising of sugar, the raising and
canning of pineapples and the cultiva.
ton of rice, bananas and little coffee.
Sugar is raised in the lowlands and
pineapples are raised on the higher land
where the climate is better and more
suitable for the employment of white
labor, and it is part of the plan of
the government to foster the employ
ment of white labor wherever possible
on the islands. The first work planned
is said to be the reclamation of many
thousands of acres of the high land
of the islands, and this decision was
reached after a careful study of the
possibilities as disclosed by a recent
inspection of the large acreage under
cultivation in the higher Sec
tions. 1t is said not to be the inten-
ton to suggest the increase of pine
apple cultivation, because that field is
already largely covered and filed, but
it is believed that the land will admit
of the introduction of other agricul-
tural industries which will afford equal.
ly good opportunities for the employ
ment of white labor.
The influence of American brains,
ingenuity, inventions and practical
scientific methods upon the pineapple
cultivation and canning industry had
a great effect in reaching this decision.
Only few years ago an inferior quail
ity and unimportant quantity of Ha-
wDiian ninpanDlas wara crudalu prn.
duced without an established market.
There are today thousands of acres I'M
der scientific pineapple cultivation, and
not only is the quantity produced
increased but the Hawai-
ian pineapple of today is the best in
quality on the American market. 1t
was found that where the pineapples
were originally either picked green for
shipment to distant points the fruit is
today permitted to ripen absolutely on
the plant, and is then either sliced,
crushed or grated entirely by machinery
and packed by machinery under the
best sanitary conditions, so that Amer.
lean brains and methods have raised the
Hawaiian pineapple from a neglected
condition in the fruit markets of the
United States to position at the head |
of the pineapple product of the world |
Mr.. Newell believes that if such great
strides can be made in Hawaii in one
agricultural industry it is possible, with
the help of the Federal government, to
raise the standard of other Hawaiian
products in like manner and so make
Hawaii more important possession OF
the United States and greater factor
in the commercial markets of the world. |