The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-08-27
Inter Island Company Closes
Contract With New York Firm
and Plant Is To Be Begun
When Dredging Is Finished
D0WSETT LAND SITE
FOR MAMMOTH TOWERS
Expected To Be In Operation BY
July | Of Next Year and Able
To Accommodate Any Vessel
That Can Enter Into Harbor

n COALING plant ten times the
a size Of the present one will be
erected by the Inter Island Steam Navi-
CATION Company on the DOwsett land
on the Kalihi side Of the harbor. When
completed the investment will be
$1O0O,OOO or more.
A report to this effect was carried to
officials of the navigation company yes
terday and confirmed. 1t was said that
they had just closed contract for con.
struction of the plant with the C. w,
Hunt Company Of New York City.
This is the secret back of the pur-
chase for $s50OoO by the InterIsland
Gonppany of-thei iDowsstt Laird 4raesntly
and the dredging for a slip which is
now underway. .@ %HE.. p
Ready In Year ~.
With the closing of the contract yes,
terday and the ordering of the material,
the construction will be allowed to pro-
ceed rapidly. BY the time the dred-
ging has been finished the plant mater,
ial will have arrived and the towers
may be erected simultaneously with the
dock. 1t is planned to have the plant
completed and in operation by July l
of next year.
The new coaling station will have nc
equal on the Pacific, it is said, cx.
elusive of the Panama canal. 1t has
been planned to meet the navigation
needs of Honolulu for twenty five
years, but 80 designed that should traf
fic grow beyond expectations it could
be doubled in size and capacity.
An Immense Plant
The new station will have lG5,OOC
tons storage capacity. The capacity
of the present plant is $4,000 tons. The
station will consist Of two unloading
towers, each with a capacity of 2OC
tons per hour. There will be n travel
ing bridge with a span of 100 feet, car
rying coal recla inning machinery with
a capacity of $50 tons an hour.
There will be installed a coal reload
ing equipment TO coal vesesIs of any
si2" alongside the d"cS. The coaIinI
berths will accommodate seven vessels
alongside the pier. Six may be coaleC
at the same time. Any vessel that ear
enter the harbor can be accommodate ed
Most Mocern Construction
At the end of the pier will be large
elevated storage in bunkers for imme
date delivery to vessels at the dock
The coal as it passes into vessels vii
be weighed by a registering apparatus
The entire system will be electrically
operated, including the coal transfe
system with its ears. The wharf will
be of the most modern and permanen
type. The material in it will be rein
forced concrete.
The. cost of the Improvement is ap
portioned in the following manner
Land, $S50,00O; dredging work, 5000,
600; wharf, $l5O,OOO or $2OO,0OO; plan
100000 or $250,O0O.
J. f. sheedy, general superintendent
and chief engineer of the Inter-IsIan'
company, gave out the details Of con
struction when confirmation of the re
port of the new plant was asked,
Planning Well Ahead
In building such large coaling sta
tiOn, one that will be adequate for prob
ably twenty-five years, the Inter Is
land company, it was said, was actual
ed by its experience in constructing tn
present plant. When the present sta
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