The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-15
ENGINEERS
FROM HAWAII
IN SALT LAKE

SAIL LAKE CITY, october 1.-THE
Tribune says
Hawaii is interested in irrigation
more than most people know and we
have just completed for the Hawaiian
/ Irrigation company an irrigation sys-
TEN which will water the sugar plan
tations along the Hamakua coast in
Hawaii" The speaker was J. Jorgen-
sen, consulting engineer of the Ha-
waiian Irrigation company and the
Oahu Sugar Company of Hawaii, and
he was talking with The Tribune. Mr..
Jorgensen mas been a Salt Lake visit
or for the past several days. He is
accompanied by ]. Laird of Honolulu,
who is associated with him. These
gentlemen were in Salt Lake for the
purpose of looking over tunnel work
and methods of tunneling in the min
ing region of the state in order to APP
ply those methods to great projects
they have in Hawaii.
1--WE have just completed an irriga-
ton SYSTEM" continued Mr.. Jorgen-
sen, "by which we have conserved the
waters of the Waipio valley which en-
ables our company to supply TO-
100000 gallons of water per day to the
, sugar plantations. Our canal is twen-
ty-four miles long and nine miles of
this is tunnels in the mountains.
Many Tunnels Bored.
"Our longest tunnel is $500 feet
and we bored forty-three tunnels in
all. 1t took just fourteen months to
complete the work from the day we
started. We have other big projects
in view and it is to see if we can learn
anything new about tunnel work and
to see modern tunneling machinery at
work that has caused our visit to this
country.
1--WE have spent great deal of time
since coming here inspecting tunnel
work, particularly the work done
by the Montana-Bingham company.
Their property l might say, looked
good to me, and made an investment
in it. Our system which we have just
completed cost $1,O00,O00 We en-
ployed as laborers on the work Japa-
nese, Hawaiians and Koreans with
fair sprinkling of Chinese. Twelve
hundred men were on the pay roll
every month and the average paid for
labor was 81 per day. The completion
of the system will add largely to the
sugar output in the Hamakua district
and will increase the yield of sugar
which has been three to four tons per
acre to five to eight tons per acre.
Talks of Honolulu.
About Honolulu? Well, we have a
city of 10000 people, about 1000 of
whom are whites and the remainder
Hawaiians, japanese and SINE Chinese.
These islands of ours are q wonder.
They have been designated the cross
roads of the Pacific and when the
Panama canal is completed the trade
which will come to our island home
will be something enormous.
1.-THE Hawaiian isles have everything
that is modern We had the first wire
less telegraph system between the ISL
ands that was every constructed ana
everything that is new in the way OF
convenience and quick transit we take
hold of. 1t is an ideal place to live,
paradise you can say. There are sew
eral Salt Lakers in Honolulu, among
them A. P. Taylor and Wade Warren
Thayer, and all are doing nicely.
Taken With Salt Lake.
"Do we like Salt Lake? Well,
have been in many cities of the world
and am frank to say that your city Is
the most beautiful one / have ever
been in. Your broad streets with the
running water upon each side, your
beautiful business blocks and youl
hundreds of pretty homes, in mansion
bungalow and cottage, make it mos
beautiful place, and l should say
most desirable place to live. Yes,
love the islands but am captivatet
with your city.
1--WE go from here to Denver ant
will return home via the northern
route to Seattle and will sail from
there for home"
Messrs. Jorgensen and Laird wer
escorted about the city and the va
rious mining camps by w. E. Hubbar
and p. ]. Donohue of Salt Lake an
Mr.. Miller of Bingham. Both gentle
men expressed their warm thanks I
the Utahns who had been sa kind an
courteous and who had made thel
visit here so pleasant. They LETT to
Denver on the Overland Limited o
Thursday afternoon.
Monday, November IA, 1910.
Seattle-Sailed Nov. 10, S.
Hyades, for Honolulu.