Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-02-25
HOnOkaa' S
Annual

tation held their annual meeting to-
day and heard very satisfactory re-
ports on the condition OF their prop
erty. Manager Gjerdrum in his re-
view of the year says:
The weather conditions during the
past year could hardly have been bet
ter, the average temperature was
normal" and although the average
rainfall fr. short, what rain we got
was very evenly distributed. We had
rain durirE 1873 days last year
against lil days in 1907.
The grinding on the 1908 crop be-
gan the second week in December,
1907, and was finished during the
first week Of August. Having good
and fairly regular supply of water
from the IIamakua Ditch Company,
made II feasible to get our upland
cane harvested much earlier and
cheaper than in previous years. The
ratoons for 1910 on our upper, as
well as lower fields are therefore
well advanced. The crop exceeded
our estimate by 1867 tons sugar, the
total output being 1867 tons.
The manager estimates that 76,5O0
tons of cane ut SIS tons of cane per
one ton sugar, will make the total
sugar output for the 1909 crop 5000
tons.
On the crop for 1910 there is plan
ted and ratooned 1892 acres.
The young plant cane on the upper
new lands Is looking very promising
and well advanced.
For the crop OF 1911 It is intended
to plant 100 acres new land, 1910
acres old land, 1850 acres ratoons
19O9 planO, 100 acres outsiders, or
a total of 5000 acres. or this area
$50 acres Of the old land has been
lying fallow, plowed twice, lupined
and lined Planting is already in
constant progress.
Mill-The sugar factory did good
work during the past season, aver
age extraction 94.2S per cent. This
season we have commenced grinding
night and day, and have already
manufactured about 5000 tons sugar.
Owing to the rather wet weather
during the latter part of December
and January. the quality of the Juice
has been somewhat low; however,
same is gradually improving and we
believe the average tons of cane to
make one ton sugar will be same as
last year, S,25.
We have built one more new reser-
yoir, storing fifteen million gallons,
at n cost of $1,000. We have now a
storage capacity of about fifty mil
lion gallons of water.
To Judge from the yield of some OF
the irrigated low land fields, which
we have already partly harvested, we
must say that irrigation is a success;
to be able to give the cane water
during a short, dry spell has given
exceedingly good results. Some OF
our low land irrigated fields will
yield an average of between so and
60 tons cane per acre.
To enable us to take off the in
creased tonnage expected next yeal
and which can be looked forward tC
in the future and especially so wher
all the lands below the level of the
| lower ditch are under irrigation will
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| BreCkons, and he turned to the wit
nesses in the room and resumed hi
examination Of them.
Mr.. Atkinson was in his Office re
ceiving congratulations. He stated
that,he knew nothing Of his appoint
ment but he did not refuse the con
CALCULATIONS. One of the first visit
Ors was Theodore Richards, to whom
Mr.. Atkinson said, When duty call
friendship ceases" Another congra
ulatOr was Mr. Negoro of the High
Wage Society and the future Distric
Attorney asked him whether h
wished for u room upstairs or down
stairs in the High Henry Hotel.
The appointment of Atkinson
comes as n surprise in the business
section among many who had not fig
ured on his wanting the place, II 4
assumed among the politicians tina
Taft had as much TO do with tn,
naming OF Atkinson as Roosevelt
Taft has his own ideas about Hawai-