Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-30
[. D. S. CHURCH ON
SANDWICH ISLES
Eight Thousand Native Saints, go
Branches and as Meet
ing Houses.
ELDER Sc. WO0LLEY RETURNS
Fifteen Years President of the Mission
Reports of Splendid Conditions
Prevailing at Hawaii

Thirty years a go when s. f. Woolley
for u years president Of the Hawaiian
] mission. went as Young man on a
mission to the Sandwich Islands. II
took 70 days to make the journey from
Utah Wednesday he arrived from
there over the same 3OO0-mile route,
and the trip was made in just seven
days and six hours. a reduction nearly
Of five days.
Everything Is I'm prosperous cond-
ton" said Elder Woolley today. I'VE
have 80 active missionaries In the is
lands, 5000 native' saints. so branches
and i5 mectinghouses. Since Jan.
there has been an Increase of over 200
persons, our headquarters are at
Laie, 80 miles by air line from Homo
lulu. but 20 miles by the round about
railroad around the mountain and by
the seaside
"Our school started up this year un-
der encouraging circumstances with an
enrolment of 50, made up of natives
japanese and Chinese. w. j. Flowers.
formerly OF the Rexburg, Ida, acade-
my. Is principal assisted by Sylvia Ma
son. formerly of Brigham city and
LILY Nalnoa. Miss Nainoa is Japa-
nese girl II years old. Her father was
Killed by accident and her mother gave
her into the care of the Saints, who
have reared and educated her. She is
exceptionally bright. and is proving
herself very successful teacher, and is
a thorough convert to the faith.
CHURCH PLANTATION
"The Church owns "A plantation OF
5000 acres in the vicinity. and including
the village Of Ldie. or this tract. 500
acres are under cultivation, principally
to sugar cane We average probably
800 acres In crops "A year The founda
ton of this plantation was laid In 1864.
This years crop win probably produce
200 tons OF sugar. We plant one year,
then get two years of voluntary crops
called ration" crops Accordingly
from one planting we reap three crops.
The stalks run up II TO IL feet high,
an average yield Of the first year be-
ing about so tons OF cane which win
produce seven tons of sugar to the
acre. IL requires about nine tons Of
cane to make one OF sugar. The "ra-
toon' crops average from three and a
half to four tons OF sugar 10 the acre
and on account OF the less amount 81
labor connected with them they prove
as profitable as the first year planted
crops. The above Yields are at our
plantation. which Is situated on the
wndward side Of the island OF Oahu
but over on the leaward side 10 tons
of sugar to the acre Is not considered
remarkable yield. witch means 1876 tons
OF cane. The cane Begins maturing IN
November and continues until as late
as June.
BIG PAYROLL.
we have a payroll OF 125 hands \
number of japanese are employed
They are given homes and paid $40 a
month.
During the Earnering season. tenn
porary tracks are laid into the great
cane fields; the stalks cut down and
loaded on cars, which are hauled by
mules over the rails to the main line,
which transports the cane 20 the sugar
factory, two and a half miles distant
The factory has a capacity of 80 tons
Of sugar every q hours.
The mean temperature on the island
Is 73, the extremes running from 80
in winter to IS in the heat of summer.
making the climate very mild ana
agreeable generally"
Elder Woolley has as an able as
sstant in the conduct Of the mission.
airy work and the management OF the
plantation, MILFORD j. Cole, formerly OF
Nephi. who has spent Ave years on the
islands. There are now 60 branches
presided over by native Hawaiians,
many OF whom are proving themselves
bright, progressive men.