Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-11

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He said the number OF tons or cane
required to produce ton OF sugar
varied from six to ten tons or more.
Asked II eight tons would be fair
average, he admitted II would.
Ashford referred TO an instance
mentioned by Paxton of a man at
Kahuku who made $500 or $500 a
year on six or seven acres of cane
Paxton said that was only one in
stance that he knew Of He thought
the man was contractor.
30 you think you have laborer
for every ten acres OF cultivated land
on your ranch?" Ashford asked.
Paxton first said: Certainty not,
because we handle diversified crops
Paxton added that they averaged a
fraction over eight acres per laborer
on the Alexander & Baldwin lands.
Ashford asked IL the experimental
station bulletins issued by the big
plantations were not secret The wit
ness replied they were not, though he
could not recall more than one or
two homesteaders who received the
benefit of the bulletins.
Attorney Olson then took up the
questioning for Governor Frear Pax
ton said rate of 81 q ton from fields
to factory for raw pineapples and an
addition SO cents for carrying the
canned fruit down and onto the ship
Is to be established by the Kahului
railway.
He stated that the character OF the
land to be transferred TO the Terri
tory by Alexander & Baldwin on Maui
is very good pineapple soil, similar to
the lands. adjoining.
Mr.. Paxton then explained in de-
tail the present harbor and wharf sit
uation at KahuluI. He said that the
superintendent Of public works has
charge Of the wharf and that the rates
are regulated by the Territory.
Mr.. Paxton was then excused, and
James d. Dole, president and manager
of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company,
was called. He was first asked about !
the early attempts at coffee culture, |
and gave q brief historical sketch OF
the experiment.
He told Of his own first purchase |
Of land, on which coffee culture had |
failed, at $50 or s63 an acre, at that
time considered high price. Later |
the discovery was made that 1t would |
grow pineapples. He engaged in the
growing. and then told of the strug-
giles Of himself and neighbors In form
ing corporation and building can
merry. They began packing in 1903.
the first pack being 1900 cases. In
1907 the pack was about 2O0, 900 cases,
In 1908 they ran into an oyerproduc-
ton and began advertising on the
mainland. Last year the canneryJ
packed 2S6 900 cases.
He told Of two canneries that we're |
opened near his by growers who were
not satisfied with the prices his COM
pany was paying them. He declared /
that now neither of those other can
neries is paying the growers as much |
10 the Hawaiian Pineapple Company |
lad paid. He admitted. however. that I
hey were paying now rs much as his
concern is paying growers.
About 125 stockholders are now in
.erested in the Hawaiian Pineapple
Co, he said, the bulk Of the stock
being taken originally by Boston and
California persons.
He told Of how the pineapple lands
we're let out to the homesteaders. He
said the amount man could take
was limited or graded according to
he number Of children he had.
IT was kind Of hard on the single
man" he said, amid a roar Of laugh
.er.
"But he could remedy that" laugh.
sBut he couldn't do 1t in week or
'wo." Dole asserted.
He continued his tale OF the tribu-
atoms Of the early settlers, and Of
low the Japanese and Chinese had an
over the white settlers be-
;ause they could live ON less and +
,heaper food.
Speaking of the Haiku homestead
ne proposition Of Alexander & Bald
vim. ne said he was convinced they
we're working in good faith and doing
What they deemed best for the home
;teaders.
He questioned whether the home
Iteaders, after trying the work for
number Of years, with various de-
,rees Of success, win not eventually /
combine and put in q frst-class over
eer to handle all their lands. Under
ne present high prices paid for pine
Ipples he thought the homesteader
night make a success, but the extra
leavy overhead charge would make
,rofit doubtful II the present high
rice standard were not maintained.
Mr. Fisher remarked that in that