The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-01-20
SUGARCR0PTO
EQUAL THE
RECORD
Yield This Season will Be About
as Large as ANY the Islands
Have Yet Produced, According
to Authoritative Estimate -
storm Damage Not as. Much as
z Feared.


al believe that the Hawaiian crop as
whole, taking all the islands and all
the plantations into consideration, is
going 10 be about as large this year as
any that we have ever produced, , said
r. Taxon Bishop, president Of Q, Brew
or and Company, TO The Advertiser
yesterday. "The depressing factor of
the-situatiOn just at present is that we
will have to sell the earlier portion of
the crop at a lower average price than
we have received for fourteen or ff-
teen years. The price may even 60 low
err between now and March first. My
own individual opinion is that it will, I"
he said.
He stated that all Of the Brewer
plantations are grinding except Pau
hau and Hakalau, which will probably
both begin work about the first Of
February. The cane all through the
Hflo and Hamakua districts is at
about its usual standard, and is look
ing fne. On the Maui plantations, the
quality Of the juice is better than it
was in 1918.
Storm General.
The recent storm seems to have been
general throughout the Islands, but so
far as has been reported no particular
damage has been done except to the
plantations in the Kau district Here
the wind velocity reached its highest
point. Ripening cane was blown down
IN the fields. Fumes were over turn
cd, roofs blown OF laborers' quarters
and many minor mishaps caused in the
camps. st
Sucked UP Moisture.
The most serious effects OF the storm
are the remarkable drying action of
the high winds On the soils and the
growing cane usually storms are ae.
companfed by heavy precipitation, but
in Kau the storm WINS a straight blow
with very little rain. In all of the
other districts there was considerable
rain with the wind, so that damage TO
the cane was only the inconseduential
,opnne ~ the breaking or Sitting Of the
leaves GsisS
Entirely satisfactory.
J. ". Hackfeld, president Of IT Hack
field and Company, said that the cane
on all of their properties is
entirely satisfactory.
Oahu Sugar Company is grinding,
and work is pboReeding in an orderly
manner. Up TO this date 5000 tors of
sugar on account Of 1914 crop have
been produced.
Water Tunnel Work.
The Waiahole Water Company's re.
port showed 4170 feet Of the long tun,
mel completed on December 81, 1913,
and nine thousand feet of lateral feed
ers and branch tunnels. The work is
going along at a very rapid pace.
Pioneer Yield Good.
The Pioneer Mill Company has
ground 5000 tons 60 date. The juice is
good this year, and the outlook is that
the estimated yields will be obtained. ,
The new Honokahau ditch and tunnel
have been finished and is now deliver.
ing 7S,000,000 gallons of water per
lay to the nlantation The new ditch
IS cement lined throughout its entire
ength. New reservoirs have been in,
stalled. some of tho old ones enlarged
and refined and other now ones are TO
DC constructed, so that the plantation
Will have u larger and more uniform
supply of water than ever before. =
Ne Damage In Hamakua.
Francis M. Swanzy, president Of
rheo II. Davies and Company, said
hat there IL no important change in
he cane situation on any.Of the Da,
fies plantations. 1.-The weather on Ha-
vail has been cold and wet and the
'ane is not growing much, but no dam
zee was done to any of the plantations
IN the windwarl coast, by the recent
torn, = Mr.. Swanzy said Il. ..tf.a