Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-28
me MANAGER
HONOKAA AND
PACIFIC Mill

Il o.
Ma Suf Company and Pacific Mill
oOulpal will come under one man
akeiheh'the manager TO be Alexander
MOI iIsoiPt present manager of Homo
nd Ausst Ahrens, manager of Pa.
CHIC MhHCo.'s plantation, rendered
his reslsnfon some time ago, TO take
eileet on Arch !. and the companies,
at lheir anna Injecting this week, de-
cldeu 70 cofentrate the management
OF Doth IN @ head. This will effect
consiuel aDies economy for these adj
Report OF Hookaa
we nave sst passed through a
year OF e1cepepal drought Manager
Morrisoh saysp opening his report
OF Honohaa 70 the year 1912. I'm
] TACT tne ralhla iexceeded that of the
year 1871, meyear of the great
drougnt, ohiy DyA60 inches. The rain
fall for the yeawas 5477 inches,
Wnien zen oii lSi lys, being month
by average os 45tnchesn
] Inc crop ieil SIT of the managers
estimate by 741.31tons of sugar
Wnicn ne says was ltirely due to the
yieIu lIoIn the upE lands being so
very poor that an ecurate attemnt
at an estimate wasbnossible Tho
juice was also xerybor from, those
lands, and it took a lpe quantity of
cane to make toni sugar The
icrop was S258.690 I'd snpar from
t3141 acres.
For the crop of 1880 acroaoe 10
o3Vo acres anu tue estate is $500
tons OF sugar The croft 1914 viii
be from 1887 acres, a the miami
cane of 14N acres is ,kinp fine /
although the same cannGa enid of
the rattoons. There will A0,9 .cres
for the crop of 1915. Hsrrina tn
this years crop the mahr save.
l"Our system of planting d fprrow.
ling. which was installed San, tho
writer came to Holokaa, iooroino /
up we'll and If the rattoons 4 boon
pianleu " lIe SAINT i,ietnou nokaa
Ireeord, even though we haJl oono
Through such dry spell. The ioons
are poor owing to the wide Ioys
land not sufficient seed havinIoen
fused when planted, and will cd no
to be SO until we get the old Ids i
lployed and replanted.
Operating expenses for the "
were s541. 039.26. and the man..
lcalls special attention to the it
tof STA ,055.04 for Fertilizer, 1924
for water and $6663.66 for camp sJ
Itation. Improvements came to 81
1880 Irrigation of plants cane h
to be. acrried on continuously. b
there was not water for the ration
From January ] to February Is Il
Hamakua upper ditch was practical
dry ;. -. 49,
AT the present time all labor see
Ito be satisfied and we have suffice
flor on rneeds," the manager sal
loving to a noutbreak of plague
the Hamakua district a rat cal
Ipaign had TO be instituted, resulting
tn catching of 6e-3 rats, 3,427 mi
| and 65S mongoose, total OF EOS
animals. Around 3 the camps al
4 dwelling .-ouses," says tn report,
lis very seldom that rats are caught
any number, but in the fields al
igulches the ydo not seem to dimini
lin any number"
The plantation is declared to be
good condition, an dno heavy expen,
iture outside of working expenses
the coming year is anticipated.
Tn enet profit on the crop was So
l960.76. and tn ebalance to profit al
loss $37,471.22. Assets are $2,S6
t639.5S; capital stock, S2.000.0t
. Among the liabilities are $1,000
ibonds and $212,36S.4O due the agen
F. A. Schaefer & Co, Ltd
Officers and directors of HONOR
| for this year are F. A. Schaefer, pr,
ident; w. H. Baird, vice-presider
r. p. Rithet, San Francisco, I'd vi,
president; j. w. Waldron, secretar
James Greig. San Francisco. assists
secretary; w. LAM. treasurer; Au,
company of Hawaii, auditor; F.
Schaefer, w H. Baird. w. LAM,
NV. Waldron, H. Focke, Georg Rodi
and E. H. Wodehouse, directors.
Report Of p. NJ. Co.
Manager Ahrens of the Pacific N
Co., has the same report of unfrient
elements to make, saying at the sta
j The weather during the year /
4 been mort unfavorable in every
lspect." Still the yield of sugar ca
2 up to the estimate. this being Y
!. tons from 68.339 tons of cane. VIII
the actual yield was 67,S04.227 tc
cane and 1000 tons sugar. The al
was 1865 acres. For 1913 his estimt
was 1851 tons cane, growing on q
acres, from which he expects vi
/ of 5541 tons sugar. There will be q
kacres for the 1914 crop and 1929 ae
for the 1913 crop.
, Operating expenses for 1912 W,
1855, 543.47 exclusive of interest,
probation, planters association
sessment and income tax, which
cluded would bring the amount up
s497 ,451.79
Referring TO the expense of CONT
] ing plague in Eamakua,' the mana;
SAYS: Naturally all orders of
board Of health will. and have bt
. lcarried out regardless of cost, and
, hope that the pest will be wiped
|. entirely. 1t must not be lost sight
that We have spent in little over
years nearly 10 per cent of diyidel
on the capital stock"
: Bad Labor Situation. >.- g..