The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-06-24
STOCK EXCHANGE
ISSUES MANUAL
Shows Over 10000 Acres Under
Cultivation for the 1910
Crop Of Sugar.

The Honolulu Stock and Bond Ex-
change will today issue its first manual
of Hawaiian securities, all the figures
therein, according to the introduction,
being taken from the reports Of the
various managers. All classes of Sc
curities are described at length in
statistical form and include sugar, pine
apple, rubber, industrial and miseella-
neous.
The booklet, which contains sixty
pages, was compiled by Ed. Towse and
is declared by the initiated along the
"street" to be one of the most ac-
curate and comprehensive compliments
of the nature yet issued locally.
There is no resume given of the total
cane acreage for 1910 and 1911 although
it is given individually by plantations,
but the sugar industry of the Island
is compactly illustrated in several we'll
chosen tables in the back of the book
By adding the total acreage planted
III sugar as given by plantations, the
results show 70,063.42 acres in the 1910
crop and 60,314.40 acres in that of the
following year or almost 10000 acres
less. Many of the plantations have not
the figures for the latter crop and for
some there are none available in acres
at all so that the real amount is far
above these totals. The only available
| figures for the crop of 1912 show 10,S05
acres in plant and ratoon cane.
The information supplied in this
booklet regarding the various compa-
MES include the capitalization, assets,
liabilities credit, balance, dividends,
highest priced shares the different vari-
cites of cane and the amount of each
in the 1909, 1910 and 1911 crops and
sometimes for the 1912 crops and other
data.
In footnotes the water facilities and
conditions of each plantation are pre-
sented and also the actions of the di-
rectors and the stockholders as regards
stock increases and similar matters dur
ing the past year.
| In rubber, the statistics show there
to be 2402 acres under cultivation and
represented on the local stock exchange.
OF this amount, 2202 is out of the Ter
ritory. The first commercial tapping
that will be done on the Hawaiian plan
tations listed will be on the Nahiku
1 Rubber Company's land at Nahiku,
Maui, this year. These figures are ex-
elusive of the holdings of the Hawai-
ian.American Rubber Company whose
cultivation is not given by acres. 1t
has 1922 trees of various varieties
growing.
Pineapples are represented by the
Hawaiian Pineapple Company, Limited,
the estimated output for this year be-
ing 100000 cases or $4,000 more than
last year. This company is at present
paying dividend of 90 cents per share
on the last day of each month.
Tobacco is represented by the Kona
Tobacco Company whose property is at
Keokea, South Kona, it having on
hand at present, $4,000 pounds of this
product.
Considerable space is devoted to
bonds and accurate and full information
is supplied on all OF. those issued by
the Territory and territorial corpora
tions and listed on the exchange.
Taken as whole the pamphlet i!
the most optimistic things that has evel
wandered through Honolulu, replett
with the most roseate promises of the
wealth of Hawaii as it is to be mani
tested during this and the following
years and as it has been manifested il
the past These promises are backed
up by uncontrovertible figures an(
statistics that preclude any idea tina
the book has been doctOred in any way
and as it is issued free from all com
ment, the actual figures alone tell o.
Hawaii's unbounded wealth.
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