Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-25

Both are unchanged in price. or Oahu
ITO shares were sold between boards
at 13.621s, and OF Hawaiian CONNER.
cial 80 and 10 shares between boards
and Is on the board at 25.25
COMMERCIAL NOTES
Additions are 10 be made to the
Pleasanton Hotel to cost $4,000.
The pineapple canneries on Maui
are reported to be working at full ca
pacity. "
This seasons crop of coffee in the
Kona, Hawaii, district will be worth
81 100000 if prices keep up.
Work is being rushed on the navy
hospital buildings at Pearl Harbor by
the Spalding Construction Co.
Construction work at army posts
here is awaiting the passage of the
necessary appropriations by Congress.
II.
ing of Honolulu abroad as the best all.
the-year-round residence spot on
earth. ,..-.. -. ..
Eva crop estimates have been re-
duced 1000 tons To 30.02I tons OF SUI
gar. This is owing to impure juices
and low sucrose content of the cane.
OIL.
Davenport Bush has been awarded
the contract at $2191 for erecting a
new building on the Normal School
grounds. Pupils of the school will do
the painting. ....
Many plantation managers through'
out the islands are encouraging NOV
ing picture shows as means OF
Frightening the lives of the laborers
and their families
What is regarded as one of the larg-
est shipments of canned pineapples
ever made from here is that of 49,
600 cases in the steamer Wilhelmina
on her last departure for the coast.
DR.. E. v. Wilcox, special agent in
charge of the federal experiment sta
tion, is acting as arbitrator of dis.
putes between certain plantations Of
C. Brewer & Co.'s agency and cane
planters on shares.
G. Fred Bush is having a country
dwelling in the Colonial style erected
on the mountain slope behind Aiea,
ten miles from Honolulu. 1t is of two
stories, with extreme dimensions Of
so by 20 feet.
The Cliff Hotel Of Is stories in San
Francisco, which will be opened the
first Of next year, Is being erected by
the estate of the same name from the
proceeds of investments in tile Ha,
waiian sugar industry.
Iwilei Rice Mill Company has been
incorporated at S12.500, in $50 shares
of $50 each, par value, with the privi.
lege of increase to 100000 The in
corporators are Chinese, Lam Kan
Chin being the president.
]. d. Dole. the leading pineapple
packer of Hawaii, is quoted as saying
that 5000 tons of the fruit will rot in
the ground this season, owing to the
inability of the canneries to take care
of all the crop offer ed to them. 81
Statements of Frank G. Lowry, sales
agent of the Federal Sugar Refinery
&c. A. Spreckels9, to the effect that
the consumer of sugar has received
cheaper sugar owing to the new tariff,
have been refuted by Sugar, Chicago
magazine. (....... VI. 4
Plantations are making heavy de-
rnands on the federal experiment sta.
ton. for jack bean seeds, the crop of
which will be plowed under to add fer
tility to the soil. II is said by DR..
Wilcox to be less susceptible to pests
than the, cowpea used for the same
purpose. -:
Since 1904 the growth of the Mu-
tual Building and Loan Society, Homo
lulu. shows as follows: Capital paid
in from $19.S47 to s167 ,045; loans.
from $685. to s1S7.117; gross earn
ings, from $415 to $14,369 interest
to members, from 4 per cent to 81
per cent; reserve and undivided pro
fits, from $170 to $4533.
On the recommendation of r. S.
Hosmer, superintendent of forestry,
the board of agriculture and forestry
has approved Of the creation of two
new forest reserves, which remain to
be proclaimed by the governor III
found, desirable after a public hear.
ing. One is the Kaupo and Kipahulu
reserve on Maui and the other the
Olaa Forest Park reserve on Hawaii,
Besides it's original uses of drying
algaroba beans for fodder and cane