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

tween Onomea aud Honomu planta
tons Its lands totalling between
10000 and II goo acres are held In fee sim
pie with the exception Of three small lease.
holds Pepeekeo Is an old plantation. cane
having been grown here many years ago
II was formerly owned by G. Along of Homo
lulu aud was known as the Kaupakuea plan
tation II was purchased and Incorporated
by Alexander Young Of Honolulu In 1889 as
the Pepeekeo Sugar Company. Yellow Gale.
donia Is the principal variety Of cane grown.
Fifteen miles of stationary fumes besides
the ordinary supply of portable fumes,
transport cane to the mill the water neces.
sary to run the fumes being obtained from
streams upon the place. The plantation
has an ocean frontage of three miles and
extends back to the forest lands a distance
of four miles. One portion Of the land goes
back distance of thirteen miles. The com.
pany has about 1900 acres In cane each
year Cane Is grown at elevations ranging
from 25 to 1900 feet and natures In from
eighteen to twenty months. II Is rattooned
but once The plant cane averages from
3 to tons of sugar to the acre, while the
rattoons will average from two to three
tons to the same area Four tons Of sugar
per acre Is the average yield from all fields
upon the place.
About Ave miles of very good roads have
been constructed in order to reach the va
rious fields. at convenient points. mod.
ern rock crusher furnishes rock for building
roads and making foundations for new
buildings.
All labor performed upon the plantation
is done by the day-labor system, no con.
tracts being let. In some instances Japan
ese grow cane upon the hillsides and other
out.of.the-way places, selling the cane to
the plantation at given figure. ZIG la
borers live on the place, yet only about so
per cent of them work steadily. These
laborers are furnished with their dwellings
wood water and medical attendance free Of
charge. For the convenience of the help
the company maintains store, about mile
and one-quarter toward the mountains on
the Government road.
The labor distribution Is as follows:
American 6, Portuguese Al, Spaniards "a,
Hawaiians 3, Japanese ATS, Koreans 80,
Porto Ricans 50, Chinese a. Various IL.
Cane coming through the main hume is
dropped at the mill directly upon an endless
carrier and fed to a Krajewske crusher and
from thence to two 3.roler mills. The
cane trash, of which there Is a great abund
ance, goes direct to the fire room over a
long 175-foot endless carrier and is fed d.
rectly to the furnaces by new automatic
feeders.
The mill furniture Is complete In all de
partments, consisting principally Of vacuum
pans, sixteen 30nch centrifugals, mut
presses, etc. The mills are driven by two
150horse.power Putnam engines. The ma
chine shop, drying machines and electric
generator for electric lighting are run b,
water power.
An electric plant has been installed b!
the Hawaiian Electric Co. Of Honolulu ruI
by steam from the mill boilers which op
crates a motor up at the middle OF TIL
plantation for the fields below the iume
The cane is humed down to cars at tn
beach and hauled up by cable to the mail
nume into which II is dumped. A centrifu
gal two stop pump forces water up to tn
top of high knobs 1870 feet In height, AM
enables the cane to be numed from Their
straight to the mill.
Mud press cakes are ground up at tn
mill by two homemade corrugated roller