Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-11
COMMERCIAL NOTES

Pepeekeo's crop will be completed
this week. making 10000 tons of sugar.
,Waimanalo plantation crop is now
estimated at $500 tons of sugar instead
OF $500 tons as originally figured.
Another attempt at organization to
build a pineapple cannery is being
made. by the homesteaders at Haiku,
Maui. ~. ...@ a.... .:. 49,.
Ready for next years grinding, Eva
mill Is to have installed battery of 90
new crystaliZers of the latest and larg.
est type. ...~ ..... -
Bishop estate trustees are going to
expend $4,000 this summer in improv-
ing the roads on Kamehameha school
grounds. :.....-. ~. .... ..
Pepeekeo Sugar Company has in
creased its monthly dividend, to take
effect on July Is, from one-half of one
per cent to one per cent.
Local contractors will be given op-
portunity to bid on the remaining five
out of the twelve industrial buildings
at Pearl Harbor naval station.
On Wednesday 500 shares of 10.
hala Ditch Company we're sold at auc.
ton at Morgan's, the buyer being
Hawi Mill Company at $40 share.
|. Speculative real estate business is
dull this year, most purchases of
town lots being for BODYBUILDING
purposes. Prices of this class of prop
erty are firm. hard times discounting
being rare. II. .~-.~. =. -.
Hawaiian Trust Co., Ltd, will occu.
Ply its quarters in its new building,
/ "Kaufkeolani," King street, the first of
August. Some of it's tenants on the
upper floors are already established
in their offices. .-.=... -.
Harry L. Rawley of Rawley's dairy
has gone to the coast to buy dairy
herd, which will be mainly of Jersey
cattle. He will be assisted in select.
ing the stock by Mr. Clark of the Col.
lege of Hawaii. s-.-e'.=
Being the second largest ever har-
vested by that concern, the sugar
crop of Maui Agricultural Company
for this season is 1850 tons, an in
crease of over 1880 tons over the man.
ayers estimate
Residence construction is fairly
active, several cottages and bunga-
lows, ranging in cost from $4,000 tol
$4,000, being under contract. There
is also a good deal of building for
rental purposes. -. --
N. s. Sachs Dry Goods Co, Ltd,
will shortly remove from the Sachs
building at Fort and Beretania streets!
to the former Palm Cafe premises,
Hotel street, which are being recon
structed for their new purpose. y
A new theater at Waikiki is pro-
jected by ]. C. Cohen and associates,
as link in chain of amusement
plans are in hand by Emory & Webb, |
architects. and it's cost is estimated
at $3.50. H.. ...>. - ..,
Exhaustive data in facts; figures |,
and diagrams are being forwarded to |
the authorities in Washington by the |
Chamber of Commerce of Honolulu to /
show the necessity of increasing the |
shipping facilities here by cutting a |
channel from Honolulu harbor to -Ka.
lihi harbor. ........ r.. .... ..-... !
II is stated by J. F. c. Hagens of |
II. Hackfeld & Co that unless the /;
tariff is made more favorable to the |
sugar industry planting will be sus-
pended on Kipahulu plantation, Maui. |
For 80 years this plantation has av- !
eraged COCO tons of sugar a year. 1t |
has 1000 acres under cane cultivation, |
unirrigated. .-.<s .>....s. --....~Gt. /
At the second annual convention OF +!
sugar mill engineers, under the aus !
pieces Of the Hawaiian Engineering As. 4
ISOLATION. to be held in the third week |
of October. there will be wider scope
of papers than that of the first years
offerings. The parent organization
promises that the social side of the
gathering will not be neglected.
A. Hecking. having bought the in
terven'ng land. will extend the three
story building structure he is erect
ing on King street to include the Nun