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

| SUmWcnOIHI NOICS
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
81 900, 600 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.
r. H. Trent advocates the exploit
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 30.027 tons Of SUI
gar. This is owing to impure juices
and low suerose content of the cane.
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 a means of
Frightening the lives of the laborers
and their families. r.
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.
DIR. E. V. Wilcox, special agent in
charge of the federal experiment sta
ton, 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
go by 10 feet. -:
The Cliff Hotel OF 13 stories in San
Francisco, which will be opened the
first Of next year, iE being erected by
the estate of the same name from the
proceeds of investments In the Ha'
waiian sugar industry.
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. LIB
]. 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 caaneries to take care
of all the crop offered to them.
+ Statements of Frank C. Lowry, sales
agent of the Federal Sugar Refinery
&C. A. Spreckels'), to the effect that
the consumer of sugar has received
cheaper sugar owing to the new tariff,
have been refuted by Sugar, Chicago
magazine. 1872
Plantations are making heavy de-
mands 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. 81
Since 1904 the growth of the Mu-
tual Building and Loan Society. Homo
lulu, shows as follows. Capital paid
in from s10,S47 to, 1857 ,045; loans.
from $685. TO s1s7,117: gross earn
ings, from s415 to $14,369: interest
to members. from a per cent to s
per cent; reserve and undivided pro-
fits, from size to S4533. ..s... 49,.
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 If
found desirable after public hear
ing. One is the KauDo and Kipahulu
reserve on Maui and the other the
Olaa Forest Park reserve on Hawaii
Besides its original uses of drying
algaroba beans for fodder and cane
bagasse for sugar mill fuel. the steam
dryer invented by G. F. Winter, en-
gineer of Lihue plantation, has proved
just the thing for treating alfalfa pre-
paratory to grinding it into meal for
stock. The product is said to be much
superior to the coast article, as 1t in
cludes the leaves with the stems of
the plant. ~. 49,.