The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-17
LOCAL MONEY FOR
THE PHILIPPINES
Manila and IlOIlO Dispatches Tell
Of Honolulu Capital for San
Carlos Sugar.

MANILA, January 14.-That faulty
title to sugar lands ia the chief barrier
in the path Of ultimate industrial inde-
pendence among the sugar planters Of
the south il the opinion Of II. G. Bos.
well Of Honolulu, who has just return.
ed from long stay in NegrOs.
Mr.. Boswell was in the sugar eoun.
try in the interests of Honolulu capital
which is trying to establish a central
sugar mill at San Carlos, Occidental
Negros, in many respects the finest
sugar country on the island.
The syndicate which he represents
proposes to erect a sugar mill, capi-
talizing the company at 81 ,OOO, 900.
The planters are to retain their lands
obligating themselves only to furnish
cane. The product Of the mill is to be
divided, sixty per cent. to the planter
and the remainder to the mill com
pany
Most of the planters, Mr.. Boswell
reports, were willing to enter into the
contract but their lands are in such
condition that it is doubtful if the
Honolulu capitalists win be willing to
accept the contracts.
Their lands are involved in rival
claims and most of them are without
Tofrens titles, defect that will take
much time to remedy. This matter
win, however, be submitted by Mr..
Boswell to Honolulu and upon the deci-
sion there will depend the building Of
the new central.
By the terms of the contract the
mill company will take over the entire
management of the mill, installing
modern machinery, constructing a suit
able wharf and building thirty miles
of railroad for transportation of cane
to the mill and the wharf.
A number of other sites have been
considered by the Hawaiian syndicate,
but that at San Carlos finds the most
favor.
| Commenting upon his syndicate Is
plans, Mr.. Boswell said this morning:
"The only salvation of the sugar
planters Of the Philippines lies in their
adoption of modern economic measures
and their patronage of a sugar central.
philippine sugar as milled today
can hardly find market in the United
States. A modern central means an
increase in output and a great better.
! ment in the quality of the sugar pro,
duced.i'
1loilo Sanguine.
ILoILo, January I4.-The negotia,
tions which have been going on FOR
some time relative to the establishment
of a sugar central between the plant
ers of San Carlos district and Homo
lulu capitalists has been practically
settled. Mr.. Boswell, the representa-
nolulu where he will have the contracts
signed and returned to Ioilo for the
signature of the planters.
At a meeting held in the Office of
W. II. Lambert Thursday evening, the
provisions of the contract were care
fully gone over and a few minor ad-
justments made with the result that
as the contract now stands it is en-
tirely satisfactory to the planters In
reaching this agreement the sugar
lent Judgment, as at the present time
according to the exhaustive report of
Mr.. Walker the bureau of science ex-
pert who spent the larger part of last
season making hundreds of mill tests
and analyzing almost every crop of
cane grown in the San Carlos district,
it is shown that the planters are now
losing forty-four per cent of their
sugar, or in other words they are burn
ing it up in their furnaces.
There are now twenty small mills
in operation in the San Carlos district,
while with large central mill operat.
ed in the district the economical adj
vantages are too real not to be readily
acknowledged, as for example:
Crop Prospects.
One of the best sugar experts in the
Philippine Islands has recently com
pleted his estimate for this year 3
sugar crop which he places at 10000
piculs. Under the present system of
many small mills the loss to the plant
ers averages forty per cent, whereas
II that forty per cent. was saved to
the planters the crop would be equiva.
lent TO $4,000 pieuls of No. / sugar
against present possibility of 10000
pieuls of inferior grade sugar.
The planters Of San Carlos are an
enterprising and prosperous community
and 1t is owing to their enterprise and
thrift that this opportunity for sugar
central has been offered to them. And
it is the hope that nothing will occur
to preyent the closing of the deal be.
tween the planters and the Honolulu
capitalists Mr.. Lambert is the mau
to whom IloilO and the Yisayas owes
a debt Of gratitude for making the
erection Of sugar central possible and
thereby increasing the wealth 10 be
derived from the principal resource by
nearly fifty per cent, Mr.. Lambert
has spent the last four months OF bls
time and several thousand pesos OF
money In going 10 Honolulu 10 secure
the capital needed for the eonstrue.
tion. That be succeeded IN tho faev
Of a falling sugar market, with Hawal.
Ian plantation stocks declining, toeoth.
or with adverse reports OF the Phillp.
pines, speaks well for the energy ana
peraeryerance be has dlsplGyed ana AZ
NJ. Lambert nayli nff eyeFy man
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