Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25

crystaizers, two nineroller mills and filter
press are all upon the one main mill floor
the vacuum pans alone being upon the floor
above. The centrifugals, boiling house
pumps, boilers and the large sugar room are
on the cemented ground floor. The steel
staging for crystalizers, pans and filter
presses was furnished by Milliken Bros. Of
New York. Adjoining the sugar room q
large sugar warehouse has been built 74x200
feet, and an extension is being built to Il
this year.
The Kahului Railroad Company has built
a branch road to the mill which enables the
finished product to go direct from the bag.
ging room to the sugar room. whence 1t Is
transported by rail to Kahuui and shipped
to its destination In the American Hawaiian
steamers
Cane coming from the fields In cars is
unloaded at the mill by two four-chain Gregg
unloaders direct upon the two endless cane
carriers, which convey 1t direct to the crush
ers and on through the two nine.roler mills
The unloaders are assisted by tilted plat.
form which lifts the cars to proper angle
to facilitate unloading the cane. The mill
yards have been enlarged so that 800 cane
cars may stand near the mill at one time.
In the Juice Weighing, recording Howe
scales, furnished by Z. o. Hall & Son are
in use. Among other machinery in the mill
and boiling house. the following are the
most important: Deming lining tanks,
Honolulu Iron Works juice heaters, intermit.
tent open settling tanks one Honolulu Iron
Works triple effect capacity 100000 gallons
in "a hours, one triple effect (same capacity
with 1O.foot fourth effect making a double
quadruple effect so piped that either triple
effect can be operated independently, giving
a combined capacity of 100000 gallons In
"a hours, one 1O.foot Honolulu Iron Works
vacuum pan now used as a crystallizer, one
new 12.foot Honolulu Iron Works pan capac.
ity 35 tons Of dry sugar-which is used for
first sugars and supplemented by a 10.foot
Deely pan, which, with an S-foot molasses
pan, complete the boiling house equipment.
Fourteen open unjacketed crystallizers
capacity $50 cubic feet each, are a feature OF
the MILL Six new Watson & Laidlaw 40-inch
water-driven centrifugals have been installed
for No. / sugars and eight 40-inch Weston
centrifugals of the American type and fitted
with solid spindle ball bearings which were
formerly belt.driven, are now driven by wa,
ter power as are those Of Scotch make.
Low grade sugars are conveyed from the
centrifugals to vacuum pans by sugar ele
vators. First sugars are carried to bagging
bin by belt conveyer of the jeffrey type in
stead of screw conveyors formerly in vogue
The steam generating plant has been re-
Gently made more efficacious by the addition
of three 7x20 foot return multtubular boil.
ers which we're made by the Honolulu Iron
Works. Four old Galloway tubular tandem
combination boilers which are still In use
give a total of seven boilers
prodigious steel selfsupporting smoke
stack, the shell of which was furnished by
Mllliken Bros, has been erected at the mill
and looms up predominantly impressive to
height Of $50 feet laboratory cottage
has been built near the mill to prevent jar
ring of the delicate balances.
The wellequlpped machine shops have
been enlarged by the addition OF a 2S.inch
by 2O.foot lathe and one American 36-inch
radial drill press with 36x36xS foot metal
planer. A No. Bandry belt-driven power
hammer enables heavy steam plows. etc., to