The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-07-01
WATERS FLOW
IN GREAT DITCH


furnishing the funds
The upper and lower bitches were
built under separate corporations or
ganized for the preliminary work, and
later, the present Hawaiian Irrigation
Company was organized as a holding
company for the Kohala ditch and the
Hamakua ditch.
Lewis & Co. purchased bonds and
made possible the upper ditch.
The bonds for the lower ditch opened
last evening, were taken to London by
Col. George Macfarlane, but after nego-
tiating there for six months without
success, they brought them back to Ho,
nolulu and hoated the entire issue in
thirty days, local capital alone taking
them up.
This was accomplished through the
Henry Waterhouse Trust Company, of
which Robert Single, one of the back
ers, is president. Recently T. Fl. Davies
& Co. were made agents for the ditch
company.
oficers Of the Company.
The officers are Fred NJ. Lewis, presi
dent; John T. McCrosson, vice presi
dent; E. I. Spalding, treasurer; G. f
Clemens, secretary; H. F. Lewis, Rich
ard Ivers and F. E. Thompson, direc
tors. Jorgen Jorgenson is the consult
ing engineer, under whose direction the
| bitches have been completed. He made
all the preliminary surveys and con
structed the ditch from top to bottom
The prospectus of the company wher
| given out as a confidential document
and subject to revision stated that the
| proceeds of bond issue of $1,000, 00t
would be used for improvement pur
poses. Eight hundred thousand dollars
was to he applied to the construction
of the Hamakua lower ditch, or sec
ton number two. The remaining 5000,
! 900 was to be held by trustees for thu
| bondholders until the completion of thu
lower ditch for the specific purpose o.
retiring the 100000 of bonds ISSUED
and outstanding on the Hamakua uppe
ditch, or section number one.
The Hawaiian Irrigation Company
was organized in Honolulu for the pur
pose of supplying mountain water, BY
means of one upper and one lowe
irrigation canal, from the large water
| shed and permanent streams of the Ko
kala mountains to the sugar estates il
( the HamalSua district, where a larg,
area, which is capable of considerably
| extension, is now under cultivation
The rights acquired by the compan,
| give it the practical monopoly of tn
supply and distribution of the noun
tain water for a term of forty year
from July l, 1904.
The plans and arrangements of tn
company's waterways and reservoir
were designed and laid out by Jorge
Jorgensen, civil engineer. The irriga
tion of the Hamalua ditch will great
increase the productiveness of tn
sugar cane plantations and will be cal
ried out by the two canals Just con
pleted. The upper section has a suppl
capacity of sixteen and half millio
gallons per day, and includes reservoir
for the storage of 350,000,00n gallons
The estimate for both bitches is abou
seventy-fve million gallons.
The upper ditch is about TWENTY-FIVE
miles long and the lower ditch abou
twenty-seven miles long. The latte
has about five times the capacity of til
upper canal.
The Paauhau Sugar Plantation Con
pany has contracted for 81 100000 ga
Ions; the Honolaa Sugar Company, Is
| O-1fONb kdAAOhb anu inc aCluC AOuEt
Mill about 100000 gallons.
BY enactment of the legislature {
the Territory the company is exemJ
from taxation for period of ten yea
from January /, 1908.
The company has contracted Fl
about 45,OO0,OO0 gallons of water an
the capacity of the two bitches wi
carry about 100000 gallons in e
cess. The company has estimated 1
revenue and above operating e1pens
there will be good profit, somewhere
the neighborhOod OF 100000. II
agency for the company Is In excellel
hands.
But chiefly, interest eenters in h
fact that John McCrossOn 3 dream
nearly quarter Of century ago b
been altogether realized and the waite
that for centuries wasted themsaly
IN the sea by way Of Waipio Vail
are now bringing life 10 the cane hel
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