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

consider a fair profit Paxton was
not prepared to answer offhand.
He said the number OF toms or cane
required 10 produce a ton OF sugar
varied from six TO ten tons or more.
| Asked II eight tons would be q fair
average, he admitted IL would.
Ashford referred 70 an instance
mentioned by Paxton of a man at
Kahuku who made 800 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
DO you think you have a laborer
for every ten acres of cultivated land
on your ranch?" Ashford asked.
Paxton first said. Certainly 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 a 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 brief historical sketch of
the experiment
2 He told OF his own first purchase
Of land, on which coffee culture had
failed, at $50 or $50 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
inc q corporation and building cam
merry. They began packing in 1908,
the first pack being 1900 cases. In.
1907 the pack was about 100000 cases.
in 1908 they ran into an overproduc-
ton. and began advertising on the
mainland. Last year the cannery
packed $4,000 cases.
He. told Of two c1nneries that were
opened near his by growers who we're
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
as the Hawaiian Pineapple Company
had paid. He admitted, however. that
they. were paying now rs much as his
concern is paying growers.
About 125 stockholders are now in
ferested In the Hawaiian Pineapple
Co., he said, the bulk Of the stock
hs,,,v t.ten .originallv hS.Hostnn and
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DE- to 81, - nav ,,s,.v the ninaannle lands
us .re 1T 49,. ant n the homert s. ers He
said the amount q man could take
ths n,,rnhsr ~ children he ha6.
80 III was kind 81 hard on the singles
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Ter 80
sRns ~ conld ranadv that laueh-
81 Fishsy :. 80 s.
ss13,,s - co,,lf,n,t do Il In . week or
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IL ccs,tir,,ss hisr tala NJ the trim.
1ations ~ the aarlv settlers and of
now i,S.,,,,. tha Iananese and Chinese had an
aSv.rfsga over the white setf,ers he
cs,,se f9ev could i've. on lens and
~ sorsr fecd
snesking of the HAHN homestead.
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