Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-03
COMM ERcIAL ITEMS.

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COMMERCIAL ITEMS.
Harvesting Of cane on Hawaii has
lately been delayed by rains.
Kalihi is reported to be leading in
suburban activity, with Kaimuki a
close second.
| Clarence II. Cooke is renOvating his
residence on Keeaumoku street at a
cost of $4,000.
Sugar shipments to the end of June
!, by the Sugar Factors CO. amounted
to 364, 900 tons.
Some Porto Rico planters are max
ing white Sugar in the plantation by
a direct process.
The Honolulu Planning Mi1l is await.
ing the structural steel for its con.
tract to erect a coaling plant for the
navy at Pearl Harbor
At his last auction sale of land, o
A.. Steven disposed of 81 lots in Kani.
olani Park addition. for $115O, and one
lot in the Perry tract, Luso street, for
$645. -,
Additions to the accommodations of
the Colonial hotel the former resi-
dence of the late James Campbell on
Emma street, are being made at a
cost of $4,000.
According to a report by l.. d. Lar
sen Of the Hawaii experiment station,
the use Ct arsenfte of soda for con-
trolling weeds, adopted last year by
Manager Eckart on Olaa plantation, is
a big practical success.
The. Honolulu Construction Co. has
completed its contract to build roads
in the Iwilei factory district for $4,000,
also that for a retaining wall Ais feet
long between Fort Armstrong and
Camp Very for the army quartermast.
er's department
Koloa Sugar Co. has executed a
trust mortgage deed " the Hawaiian
Trust Co.. covering all its real, per-
sonal and mixed property in the terri
tory. to secure the issue of $500. 900
gold 6 per cent bonds. redeemable
after 10 years and payable in 20 years
from date ,
Oahu Sugar Co. has executed
trust mortgage deed to Bishop Trust
Co. for $1,750,000, 10 secure 6 per cent !
gold bonds of that par value. redeem |
able in Is and payable in % years. It |
covers all the mortgaging company's |
real, personal and mixed property il,
the territory
Under the general management of
Elmer e. Paxton. formerly office man.
ager of Alexander & Baldwin here,
the Engels Gopher Co. is making great
development Of its holdings in Cali
fcrnia. 1t is estimated that the mine
has in sight three million dollars
worth of copper.
The McCorriston building. on the
old Criterion site. Fort street. will be
ready for its business tenantry on July
10. 1t is concrete. of two stories AMI
is being erected by the Honolulu Plan
by D. and n. McCorriston. the building
will cost $4,000.
A San Diego paper is quoted as say
ing in effect that the present years
crop of beet sugar in California, the
largest on record. will be the last for
some time Owing to the Underwood
tariff hill, this authority predicts. the
sugar beet farmers of that state will
turn, their fields to other uses.
Some scores Of thousands of dol
lars annually stand to he saved by
Hawaiian sugar planters by manufac-
turing their lutte bags at home from
imported material All Of the sacks
used by the Pacific GuanO and Fertilf-
ger Co in its business last year were
made here with considerable saving
Of money.
Being the remainder of the 1912
crop, 500 pounds of Hawaiian tobacco
valued at $4,000 was shipped nv H.
Hackfeld & Co in the steamer Sono;
ma. The better grades of the ship
ment had been sold in advance. Six
months hence. after the curing pro
cess is completed. the 1913 crop Of the
Kona Tobacco Co. will be marketed.
An imrrovemant in sugar mill rolls
called the MeSschaert groove. after |
its discoverer. P. A. G. Messchaert
chief engineer of the Oahu mill. 10 |
RAPIDLY being adopted bv factories in |
this territory and elsewhere. It. con-
sists of deep and narrow grooves Giro |
ling certain rolls of the cane-crlishine !
susfarn which allnWs the iuica to %.