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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-17
The Sugar Market

heaviest avomge cane tonnages Of tho
state Irrespective Of specially favored
and fertile spots on the large sugar
plantations), have been grown during
the past ten years by white Creole ten.
ants and independent farmers and plan
ters who sell cane 10 the central fac
tories. During the past few years
there has been a considerable increase
in the number Of our Creole cano
farmers, particularly in the Lafourcho
country and the western and south
western parishes Of the sugar belt, with
comparative few in the parishes Of
the upper river coast.
But unfortunately there are not
enough Of these Creole farmers in the
state to fully develop our local sugar
industry. They would have cut a mark
ed figure in its advance during the
year recently ended had they not been
prevented from receiving the expected
supply Of seed cane through its heavy
loss by unaccountable injury last win
ter, and had the succeeding spring and
summer not been SO exceptionally un-
favorable to the crops from the limited
proportion of the seed which they we're
able to secure.
AS the LouisianR Planter has long
maintained, up to the year just closed,
irrespective of the damaging effects of
the great September storm of 1909 and
the spring drouth and wet summer of
1910, our Louisiana sugar industry has
kept practically stationary for a dozen
years through the inadequacy in num-
Der and the inferiority of its largest
labor supply.
So far this winter has been extremely
favorable to the preservation of the
fall paintings, the stubble and the
windrowed seed cane. OF that latter
we are led to believe that an extra
supply has been put up. In absolute
quantity that excess of seed is likely
TO be taken entirely by white tenants,
mostly Creole farmers, ex-cultivators of
cotton, and a comparative few pioneers
of the western farming classes, such
as have been recently introduced by
the Payne Investment Company. If
we should have am ordinarily favorable
winter followed by a fair spring and
summer for the cane crop, very mark
ed advance in our annual sugar produc-
tion is likely to be made this year.
But if that probable advance be an
accomplish fact, which it must be
without any injurious extremes of
weather, it will be gained through the
addition of white labor of the classes
mentioned to the cultivation of an ex-
tended cane crop.
And as those classes of labor are ad-
dicted to crop Investigation and maxi
ing their own lands, or those which
they cultivate, largely feed themselves
and their livestock, the extra crop IS
likely to be made at a cheaper direct
outlay of money than is required pro-
portionately for the larger part of the
crop made by the long-prevailing sys-
tenn of hired labor applied to the cul-
tivation of extensive fields in expen-
sive methods.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-17
TRAFF1o VA IsTHMusEs.

Eighty-two million dollars worth of
merchandise originating in the United
States crossed the Isthmuses of Pana-
ma and Tehuantepec last year, says an
exchange. Most of this merchandise
was moved across the isthmuses for
the mere purpose of transferring it from
one great section of the United States
TO another section; from the eastern
to the western coast, or from the west
ern coast and Pacific islands to the
eastern coast. Fifty million dollars
worth of this grand total originated on
the eastern coast and moved westward
ly across the isthmuses, four-ffths of it
passing thence northward to the Pa.
cifc coast of the United States, the
other fifth being distributed along the
Pacific coasts of Mexico, Central and
South America. The other thirty-two
million dollars worth of this grand
total moved eastwardly across the 18TH
muses., thirds of it originating in
Hawaii, and the remainder along the
western coast of the United States.
The Hawaiian sugar destined for the
eastern coast of the United States
which formerly made the trip by sail
ing vessel around Cape Horn, now
passes By steamer TO the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec, is there transferred to
the railway, carried across the isthmus
and again placed on steamers passing
thence to the refneries at Philadelphia
and New York. The steamers carrying
this sugar return from New York load.
ed with general merchandise which il
transferred to the Tehuantepee Rail
way, crossing the isthmus, and retrans
ferred to steamers which pass up the
western coast of the United States, ia
San Francisco and Puget Sound and
then, returning to Hawaii, reloaded
with sugar for the eastward trip.
This transisthmian traffic between
the eastern and western coasts of the
United States and between the eastern
coast of the United States and the
western coast of Central and Soutl
America has greatly increased in recen
years. In the fiscal year 1905 it ag
gTegated but eight million dollars; il
1910 it was over eighty million dollars
or ten times as much. This inereas'
Is the result in part of the opening
on january ], 1907, Of the railwa.
across the Isthmns of Tehuantepec
Mexico, 100 miles in length, operated
in conjunction with lines of 0eeal
steamers at either end and supple,
with facilities for transferring freigh
from steamer to railway and from rail
way to steamer. The value of its traf
fe in merchandise originating in, AM
destined for ports Of the United State
has grown from about twenty-five mil
lion dollars in the calendar year 1907
the first year of its operation, &
seventy million dollars In the fiscal YEA
1910. In the mean time the value O.
America merchandise crossing by wa,
81 the Panama Railway, largely oeen
pied at the present time with the scr
vioo incident to the construction Of th
Panama Ca a. has grown from MIN
and onebalf nillion dollars IN the asca
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-17
SUGAR NOTES.

The delightful weather which was re-
ported the last week in January has
continued in southern Louisiana. The
conditions have been ideal for blowing
and planting, and all this work is being
done under more favorable auspices
than has been the case for several
years. Great Roadway has been made
and large amount of the spring plant
cane is in the ground, and there is a
universal verdict to the effect that the
seed cane has been found in splendid
condition. Certainly the crop of 1911
is being started with bright prospects,
The New Orleans sugar market ruled
very quiet during the first of this
month, sympathizing to some extent
with the depression of the New York
market, and only sustained in so far as
the grocery grades were concerned, the
scarcity of which maintains the price
of them, Notwithstanding the gradual
decline in SO test. The molasses and
syrup market continued without quot
able change, and the receipts were all
taken at current quotations.
We learn from one Of our correspond
ents, who is now actively engaged in
the sugar campaign in Cuba, says the
Louisiana Planter, that the yield Of
sugar in his section is poor this season
and the shortage may reach thirty-fvt
per cent of the crop realized from the
same fields last year. Most of the cane
planted, if not all, in the spring and
fall is very small and will not be fl
for grinding this year. This is caused
by the cyclone and persisting drought
A notable statement is to the effect
that many farmers on Bayou Lafourche
Louisiana, have discontinued raising
potatoes and onions, and will hence
forth plant sugarcane and corn, which
crops they have found to be more
profitable.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-17
NEW YORK NEWS.

Henry Clews, in his financial New
York letter dated January %, says, in
part:
president Taft's reciprocity bill is
step in the right direction. 1t is
much more liberal than expected, and
should receive the prompt sanction Of
both the American and Canadian legis-
latures. There is no reason why trade
on the northern border should be com
PEELED to flow only East and West It
should also flow both North and South,
and would thus benefit both countries.
The chief obstacle is the undue selfish
ness of certain localities and interests
on both sides of the line. There is no
sound reason why New England should
not buy her coal in the best market,
that of Newfoundland; nor why Canada
should not draw upon our interior coal
fields when to her best advantage. Both
countries would benefit immensely by
thus lowering the barriers upon trade,
which, il should be remembered, could
not exist unless mutually profitable. A
strong argument in favor of the bill
is that it aims to reduce the cost of
living on both sides of the border by
enlarging the free list on foodstuffs
and the necessities of life. There will
of course be great opposition to the
proposal, but the discussion will at least
be enlghtening, and every effort should
i be made to secure its adoption.
Uncertainty about the Supreme
Court and railroad decisions at Wash.
i. ington still acts as a damper in bust
ness circles. 1t is to be hoped that
this element of doubt will be removed
as soon as practicable. The issues in
volved are of supreme Importance, for
they affect not only the machinery of
our great industrial corporations, but
also the adjustment of some of the
most vital political and economic issues
, of the day. Nothing worse than re-
organization can be expected concern
ing the industrlals. The Supreme Court
can not and will not destroy actual
property, and should the decisions prove
entirely adverse, it is safe TO say that
the country viii quickly recover from
the shock and 90 on as placidly as
before
"The speculative situation shows de
cided improvement. While there are nc
verv brilliant elements in the situation
still all known drawbacks have beer
well discounted, and the general out
look is not without its encouraging feN
lures. In fact there is an undertons
of confidence not at all discernible {
month ago. Local bankers show a de
eided changed of front and are muel
more confident. II is quite within tn,
power Of present market leaders e
force still higher prices, and towards
thc close this was evidently their in
tention."
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-17

Financial reports from the east indi.
cate waiting mrrkct, and this in
spite Of financial elasticity with easy
money, yet with dealings In securities
slow. Throughout the country general
", and especially on the Pacific Coast,
the spring trade outlook. both Wholesale
and retail, in staple goods, Is not as
heavy as was expected, but collections
are reported excellent under the cir.
cumstances. In Honolulu and, In fact
throughout the islands, the prosperous
condition Of the banks and the conser.
vative policy followed by these fnan-
oial institutions all make for stability
financially.
There is still a pessimistic feeling
along certain lines in the sugar indus
Try, due TO the expected lower price Of
sugar but in many quarters this is be-
ing discounted by the prospects Of an
excellent crop from the great majority
Of districts.
This week and next will see the an
nual meetings of most of 1.-THE great
sugar companies here, at which the an
nual reports of the managers of the
various plantations will be made. So
great has been the increase in acreage
IN many districts, that the question OF
water has more than ever become Of
primary Importance and many of the
plantations are cutting down profits by
expenditures to conserve the natural
water supplies at their disposal, all of
which means more assured prosperity in
the future at the sacrifice of some pres
emit dividends.
A feature of the stock market for
the week in Honolulu is the sudden
drop in Oahu Sugar, due to the report
Of Manager T.. K. Bull in regard to
the crop prospects. This stock steadily
fell from $3.50 on Thursday, to 25 fiat
yesterday, at which a. small lot of five
shares was disposed of on the Honolulu
exchange. Altogether, however, the
market was very satisfactory as reflect.
ing the state Of the industry, with an
optimistic note running through all
transactions. resulting in advances in
many instances, mostly fractional. AL
together the transactions for the week
on the Honolulu Stock and Bond Elk
change totaled sales of 1903 shares,
bringing $72, 65075.
Following were the transactions on
the Honolulu Stock and Bond Exchange
for the week. by days:
Monday, 335 shares, $12,06s.75.
Tuesday, 52s shares, $14,554.50.
Wednesday. s45 shares, $40, 1875.
Thursday. 535 shares, $7S15.
Friday 315 shares, $4,000.
Saturday, 1876 shares, $5393.75.
The transactions on the exchange
yesterday between boards included:
Hon. B. & NJ. Co, 10 at 90; 40 at 90
10 at 90.
Session sales:
Waia1ua Agric. Co., 10 at 81.
Pioneer Mill Co.. 10 at 1880.
Eva Plan. Co., 35 at 2S.
oahu Sug. Co., at $3.50; at 1925
8 at 25.
Bond sales:
waialna 5s, $1,000 at 500; $500 al
100.
o. R. & L. 5s, $1,000 at 1OO.25.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-17

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Entered % Record Fob. IS. 1911.
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Johann 2 Haekfeld ........CM
Agnes 7 Won Maasenbaeh 20
II Haekfeid Co Ltd. .......PA
Malaka Kahakauiia (w) TO Wong
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Walter II Bradley and VT 70 Napeia
N Matthias 80 ............s..... y
Kukuli Kauai and hsb to Yong Wal. D
II waterhoase TT Co Ltd n to Mary
A Short ............. Rel
A II Dondero ct al to Trent Trust
Co Ltd TT Trn
Mnleka K Hailele and hsb to L l.
McCandless. ......D
Elsie NJ Wundenberg by atty to Fan
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Edwin s McGrew and WI to Grace D
Sedgwick M
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-17
PUTS Responsibility
ON ATTORNEY GENERAL

Representative Makekau is RESPONSE
BILE for a bill in the house relieving tho
board of prison inspectors of a great
deal of the work which it now has 4
meet and by the same token transfer
1t to the attorney general.
One section of the bill states that
the Governor may parole prisoners upoI
the recommendation of the warden
with the approval of the attorney gen
eral, the present system making thd
recommendation of the prison inspec
tors necessary.
The same change applies to seetioI
FIVE Of the present statute (Chapter a
Of the laws of 1900, and If the bill
should pass the warden will report oil
the behavior Of a paFoled prisoner ID
the attorney-gen instead Of thd
prison inspectors
Section Of the present law proyidI
ing that the judge before whom o pris'
oner is convicted must furnish tn
prison inspectors with as many detail
OF the prisoner 8 past career as possible
IS repealed BY the bill Just introduced
should itPass.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-17
SUGAR REVIEW.


The last week Of rain and wind has
possibly done some slight damage in
washouts and blowing down Of cane,
but the reports 50 far az hand indicate
that Il Is comparatively slight. II has.
however, delayed work IN the feldo
somewhat, but with the fine weather
which began yesterday, which IL likely
to continue, the work win DO caught
up with before long. As IL is the mills
are grinding in good quantity for this
season.
The bark Nuuanu sailed from Kama
pail, Kauai, last Tuesday, for New
York via Cape Horn, with 1879 tons
of sugar. This week the ship E. M.
Phelps will sail from this port to Phil
adclphia direct. via Cape Horn, with
800 tons of sugar.
The s. s. Alaskan, of the American
Hawaiian line, reached port yesterday
and will take on a cargo for Salina
Cruz Of $4,000 tons, for New York, via
Tehuantcpec.
The price of sugar has risen slightly
at New York for 90 degrees eentri-
fugals. The London market records 0
shillings pence for s9 analysis beets.
In both cases this is an advance over
last week and it is now prophesied that
the price will be still higher before
the end of the month. Reports from
Cuba indicate a very much shorter crop
than the early estimates.
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oRoP prvERsrTroATroN.

In some of the recent sales of large
acEeage of our Teche lands, says The
Louisiana Planter, through the H. D.
Payne Investment Company, it was
stipulated with reference to about two
Thousand acres of such lands imme-
diately around the site of central
sugar factory, that the purchasers
should Obligate themselves to devote
about one-third of the lands thus ac-
quired to cane culture.
In the devotion of such lands to cane
cropping under the most advantageous
conditions never more than two-thirds
of this area at time should be devOt.
ed to cane cultivation. More cane or
a greater tonnage per acre can be made
through diversifeaton Of crops, grow
ing the restorative legumes in triennial
rotation, so that the cane paintings may
be done on rested and renovated lands
every season, than where an attempt is
made to run a tract of land solidly in
cane every year for series Of years.
In this era of costly food products
generally, and of cheap sugar, probably
the correctness of this theory of diver
sifcation and growing at home the ar
J ticles most essential to home support
will be so impressed on cane farmers
and planters as to lead them to its prae-
teal and successful demonstration.
This article assumes that it is neees-
sary to leave out one-third of the land
annually devoted to cane cultivation to
get the full benefit of rotation, crop
diversifcation and consequent home
support, Under the terms of the Payne
farming investors, the new farmers
have the privilege Chat is those tribut-
voting two-thirds of their acreage (of
80 to $50 acres) to the cultivation of
other crops.
While they have the privilege of ex-
tending the proportionate acreage of
cane at pleasure, it is possible or even
! probable, that if they limit it to one
third Of the area farmed, they may
make as much cane, measured by tom
mage, on the lands that they control
and work as was made totally in the
same districts or sections, under the
unreliable and very unsatisfactory gem
eral labor system which Immediately
preceded their occupation of the lands
under discussion.
| An intelligent, industrious American
| farmer, who is working his lands for
the benefit of himself and his family,
prompted by the ambition to advance
as fast and as far as he can on the
road toward financial independence, is
more than likely to do double as much
! work and to do it twice as we'll, as the
shiftless, irresponsible and utterly in.
! different laborer who works for hire
loafs when he pleases, and must work
under compulsory supervision, if his
moneys worth is to be gotten ont OF
him, and without that necessary super
vision mostly makes a shameless pre-
tense Of performing the toll he is paid
for.
The progressive, up-to-date white
farmer who cultivates the SURPRISINGLY
fertile lands in our Louisiana sugar
region possesses the mental capacity to
comprehend their resoureefulness, and
to bring that resoureefulness to its full
development through his knowledge OF
the principles of farming and his prac
teal experience in being governed by
that knowledge.
In the opinion of the writer, the
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-17
CHEMICAL FAcToRY p1ANNEp.

LOS ANGELES The latest addition
to the rapidly increasing industrial
plants of Los Angeles is a chemical
factory, the first in the Southwest
which is to be built at once in the
Vernon district The institution will
occupy a five-aere tract between Santa
Fe and Compton avenues near Slauson
avenue. The site has already been
purchased. The plans for four build
ings have been drawn and the 100000
capital has been subscribed.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-17
Business and Finance

year 1907, % twelve and three fourthl
million In the fiscal year 1910.
Practically all tho American traffic
carried across the IFthmus Of Tehuan.
tepcc passes between the eastern and
western coast ports Of the United
States. including the Hawaiian Islands,
while about throo.fifths Of that carried
over the Panama line passes between
ports OF the United States, and about
two.ffths between domestic ports and
ports of foreign countries. OF the
forty.one million dollars worth OF
American merchandise passing west.
ward over the Tehuantepec line last
year twenty-three million dollars
worth went TO San Francisco.
HAWAIIAN EXCHANGE.
The Hawaiian Stock Exchange open.
ed up for what might be called cree
ord" business last week and kept it
up with considerable success right up
to the closing hour yesterday, the last
days of the week showing a steady in.
crease in volume Of business transacted.
A feature of the between board sales
was the disposition of 80 shares of Ca
hu sugar at a unifrom price of 25.75,
which shows a steady figure of from
one.quarter to three-quarters of point
above the price on the other exchange
where the price steadily declined to %
fiat Late yesterday brokers from both
exchanges with buying orders for Oahu
at $3.50 hustled round after hours
hunting up Oahu at that price, but
mighty little of it was for sale. 1t is
understood that one broker had buy
ing order for 1000 Oahu at $3.50, but
could not land the stock. The trading
of five shares on each transaction down
to 25 fiat on the Honolulu exchange
yesterday is felt by many Of the brok-
ers not to really set a price, especially
as bids on lots at 1925 could not be
filled five minutes after the fiat price
was recorded.
The transactions on the Hawaiian
Stock Exchange yesterday were:
Between boards:
Oahu Sug. Co., 80 at 25.75; $50 at
25.75; 100 at 25.75.
Onomea Sug. Co., 80 at 81.
The transactions on the exchange for
the week by days were as follows:
Monday, 220 shares, $7220.
Tuesday, 81 shares, $s9425.
Wednesday, So shares, $606.50.
Thursday, 2045 shares, $lS1750.
Friday, TAO shares, $19,501.25.
Saturday, $50 shares, $s745.
A total for the week of 3761 shares
for $SS,724.50.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-17
SIGNALS OF DISTRESS
Honolulu People Should Know How TO
Read and Heed Them.

Read and Heed Them.
Sick kidneys give many signals of
The secretiOns are dark, contain a
Passages are frequent, scanty, pain
Backache is constant, day and night.
quent.
help.
Don't delayl Use special kidney
Doan's Backache Kidney Pills cure
sick kidneys, backache and urinary dis
orders.
Honolulu evidence proves this state
ment.
B. t. White, Pearl City, Oahu, Homo
lulu, Hawaii, says: "I am ninety-two
years of age, and suffered from back
ache and kidney disease for eight years.
have given Doan's Backache Kidney
Pills trial and have been SO greatly
benefited that I cheerfully recommend
them to other kidney sufferers"
Doan's Backache Kidney Pills are
sold by all druggists and storekeepers
at so cents per box (six boxes $250),
or will be mailed on receipt of price
by the HOLSTER Drug Co., Honolulu,
wholesale agents for the Hawaiian Is
lands,
Remember the lame, Doan's, and
take no substitute.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-17
PAINFUL BRRATHINa.

Chamberlain Cough Remedy is q
very valuable medicine for throat ana
lung troubles, quickly relieves and cures
painful breathing and dangerously
sounding cough which indicates con
gesied lungs For sale b. Benson,
Smith 6 Company.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-17
soMR suaAR FIaURRs.

A recent bulletin of the Bureau of
Statistics states that the people con.
sumo half their OWL weight in sugar
every year, says the Daily Journal OF
Commerce. This may seem startling
statement, but II We take the quantity
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-17

It Is understood that the Southern
Pacific Railroad Is negotiating a sale d
bonds IN Paris, Bankers there nal
take s25,0O0.000 bonds, and "a obtiol
on 100000 additional.