The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-12-26
ON HIt OhARBOR
PROPOSE NOTIFICATIONS
Major WOotCn, Corps OF Engineers, Finishes his
Resurvsy and Cites Commerce Figures
Showing Ports importance

lNON. .......4... llGQOO -
iai0...,.....l5S $4,000
lel1....A....19 10000 %
"Sugar produced within tho territory
adjacent TO Hilo (all Of which would
be shipped via HilO IL there were n
wharf for large, deep water vessels at
Hilo) during 1911, up to September 30,
/ $4,000 tons.
''Of the above 14s,OOO tons there
were shipped abroad via Hilo harbor,
/ 9g,dd0 tons, aud win Honolulu, $4,000
| tons.
"Of the $4,000 tons now shipped via
/ Honolulu, there are under contract to
4 be shipped via Hilo, as soon as the
/ railroad extension reaches the planta-
tions Cat some date between July L,
1912, and February 1879, $4,000 tons.
20 As soon as rail connection reaches
the remaining plantations they viii in
all probability also ship via Hilo,
Method Of Handling,
"By lighter, direct from planta,
tiohs, $4,000 tons,
\ g BY cable over the bluffs, to Inter
Island steamers, thence direct to ships
lying In Hilo harbor, 45,4O0 tons.
4 By rail- to Hilo, thence by lighters
TO ships in harbor, $4,000 tons.
"All of the $4,000 tons of sugar
4 which is shipped via Honolulu comes
out by cable over the bluffs, into
coasting steamers. All of this will
Z probably, be shipped direct from Hilc
as soon as railroad and harbor facili
ties are provided.
Merchandise Imports.
''In the absence of definite stats
tics, the rule, as shown by statistics
on the Oahu and Hilo railroads, is, that
for each ton of sugar which comes out
of plantation district, there are up
proximately two tons of merchandise
supplies going in. Applying this rule
would give merchandise going into
, TERRITORY adjacent to Hilo during 1911
: to September 80, approximately 296,
600 tons, or a total of exports and i'm
ports to that date, of 444,0 900 tons.
n Railroad Extension.
! q. ASSURANCES were given the board
of engineers and the river and harbol
committee, when the project was frs
/ tunder consideration, that If the break
D pwater were built, assuring a protect
= ed -harbor, the Hilo Railroad would b
! Eextended to adjacent districts. Thi
assurance has been made good by thu
! building, and contracting for building
: of thirty-nine miles of standard gaugt
+ trick, yiz.t seven miles south of Hill
a and thirty-two miles north of Hilo. o
Z this. mile twenty miles is completed
hnd the Remainder under construction
= to be completed February, 1913.
1.-THE actual cash cost of these OK
. tensions is estimated at approximate,
= ltQ mn mn A Aolt, A1Rnn mn
:. OF. this has been spent.
4 Important Work.
eli ssThe reefs. at the entrance of Kuhi
!: Bay are composed of dead coral an,
n sand. To dredge material of this elias
e viii probably cost so cents per yard
n The estimated cost of the improvement
y is therefore:
n g Dredging $4,000 yards at
o go cents ...........r 100000
Il Superintendent and con-
d = tingencies .......,.. 10000
y Iotal. .'........ SfoJOUU.U
-"It is recommended that the In
o proved project be modified so as to il
!, cllide dredging to a depth of thirty.fv
d feet at the entrance of Kuhio Ba
l. within the shaded limits shown on tn
~ map, ana JnaI Jne DreakWdJer De cor
D. tinued along the approved lines as ia
4 as can be done without increasing tn
a original limit of cost of the work.
% Inasmuch as Kuhio Bay lies close
e under the lee of the breakwater tina
N the part of the harbor at which it wa
70 originally contemplated that wharvC
le would be built, it is believed that tn
So protection afforded by building tn
n breakwater to the point { G, which
I. the point to which it can probably i
If carried if this modification is adoptet
a. viii be ample.
n Neither the establishment of te
IS minal facilities, the development an
ID utilization Of water power for indu
trial and commercial purposes, nor an
other subjects not considered herein a
so related to the project for improv
y ment of navigation at this loealit
- herein recommended as to be eOordi
~ ated in a logical and proper mann
y with the project to lessen the co
~ thereof. and to compensate the Cover
y ment for expenditures made in the i
oi tefest Of navigation.
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