The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-07-05
TRADE LAST YEAR
OF S7l,275,0O0
Port Statistics Of Major WinsloW
Show Importance of
Honolulu.

At the port of Honolulu, for the
year ending on June 80, Thursday last,
the collections at the eustomhouse on
behalf of Uncle Sam amounted to
nearly one and half million dollars,
which amount was, with small excep-
tion, made up of duties paid upon
goods entered for consumption in the
Territory.
During the same year, commerce ton.
mage to the value of $7l ,s75,OOO entered
the port.
This showing Of prosperity is found
in the report made by Major E. E. Win
slow, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., in
charge of the army fertilization work
in the Hawaiian Islands, who has com
pleted and forwarded to the military
authorities at Washington his annual
statement for the fiscal year. In this
he not only gives an outline of the
harbor work to be prosecuted at Homo.
lulu and Hilo during the coming year,
but gives statistics of the tonnage ac-
counted for at the customhouse, and
the duties and imports collected,
amounting to $l,41S,2S43S, and all
other moneys collected at the custom
house, amounting to $S7,09O,SO.
In the section devoted to rivers and
harbOrs Improvements for the fiscal
year Major Winslow says careful sur
vey of the Honolulu harDor made in
1909 showed shoaling to have taken
place at various points. There was a
general shoaling throughout the en-.
trance channel and noticeable shoaling
in the Nuuanu slip at the head of the
harbor. There is also reported q slight
shoaling in front of the naval station
and very slight shoaling in a few
other localities.
For the maintenance of the harbor
an allotment of $4,000 was made by
the Act of March 2, 1909 During the
year bids were asked for but the only
bid received was rejected as excessive.
On June 80, 1910, the sum of $795,s1S..
% had been expended on the project
The approved project for the develop.
ment of Honolulu harbor is about
forty-nine per cent completed. On
June 30, 1910, there was a minimum
depth in the entrance channel of about
thirty-three feet and within the harbor
proper there was a general depth of
thirty-five feet. The normal tide oscil
lation is about two feet.
Commerce Tonnage.
The commerce between this port and
ports not in the Hawaiian Islands, for
the calendar year 1909, amounted to
approximately $751; 46 tons, valued at
$43, 1885, 21. The commerce with other
ports of the Hawaiian Islands amount
ed to 346,773 tons, valued at about
$2S, $50, 900, making a total of 1,028, 7I9
tons, valued approximately at ST.
275,00O.
Out of any additional appropriation
to be made for this harbor it is
proposed to expend the funds in widen
ing the harbor in pursuance with the
approved project so as to make it pos
sible for vessels to enter and leave at
all hours of the day and night instead
Of by daylight only as at present.
Hilo Brealwater.
AS to Hilo Bay, described as an open
roadstead where there is a choppy sea
and considerable swell and not safe for
ships to lie at the existing wharves for
loading or unloading when bad weather
is on, Major Winslow reviews the pres.
ent breal1water project, adopted by con-
gress March 2, 1907 Between March
2, 1907, and March 4, 1909, $40O, 900
was appropriated for work on the
project, no part being for maintenance
About 69,618 tons of rock has been
placed in the breal1water during the
present year. The protection Of the
breakwater, he states, is beginning to
be felt in the eastern extremity of the
harbor, but will not be noticeable along
the portion of the harbor front now
used for wharf purposes until much
more of the breakwater shall have been
completed.
The commerce there for the calendar
year of 1909 amounted to approximately
223,0 900 tons, valued at over $4,000, 900.
Work on these harbor improvements has
not been carried far enough to have
any effect on freight rates.
The tonnage in ships registered at
Honolulu was as follows:
Entered-Steam vessels, 240; sailing
vessels. 100. Total, $40. Total ton.
mage, 1,168,751.
Cleared-Steam vessels, 243; sailing
vessels, 104. Total, BAT. Total ton.
mage, 1,14l,679.
Foreign Freight.
The receipts of freight from foreign
countries amounted to 1882 tons,
valued at s4,305, 167; and from the
United States 250,0l0 tons, valued at
$l5,s6l 100.
Exports.
The shipments 10 the United States
mainland and foreign countries were,
Sugar, 209,364 tons, valued at 900, 1895.
1875 fruits, II ,2b3 tons, tl,462, s25; cot.
fee, 976 tons, s237 1911, hides and skins,
5s5 tons, $4,000, rice, 97sl tons, sea-
065j miscellaneous, 1855 tons, 476s $751;
a total Of 2,505 tons, valued at t2S,,
02e,746.
IN addition 10 tho commerce actually
received At and shipped from this port,
all that commerce between the United
States, The Orient and Australia carried
by ships calling ~ this pors - directly
benefited BY these Improvements, 3
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