Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-02-18
TUNNEL Will ADD
Z. 10000 Tons TO
OAHU SUGAR CROP
Waiahole Bore Expected to Be
Ready Early in 1916, Man.
ager Bull Reports

When the Waiahole tunnel is fin
/ ished early next year 1t will increase
the annual yield of the Oahu Sugar
Company plantations to $4,000 tons a
year, according to the report present
ed by e. K Bull. manager Of the COM
pany, at the annual meeting of the
stockholders this morning. This will
be an increase Of from $4,000 to 13.060
tons year.
Mr.. bull estimates that the main
tunnel will be completed in August
and the entire project early next year.
The amount still left to be done is
about. $4,000 feet. -
For the plantation itself Mr. Bull
reports that the 4407 acres cultivated
yielded BASIS tons, an increase OF
1000 tons over the estimate. The work
dene in the mill. he says, was better
than in any previous year, the average
extraction being $3.50 per cent and
the losses in manufacture being re-
duceds to 1861 per cent in sucrose in
cane. The cost Of manufacture was
below the average for previous crops.
Drought Hits 1918 Crop. r.. - go.
IL Fol. 1915 >-43 acres are under cult
walton. .,.. .,,-, ..-
CAS- already mentioned the drought
OF last summer affected = this crop
quite seriously" he reports. %the
cane tasseIed to greater extent thsn
usual in all the fields, and any ma
terial additional growth during the Re
mainder of the season ri can hardly
therefore be expected. The crop Is es
timated at q, 500 tons sugar, but may,
with good quality of cane juices, go
higher Il H. .......... -. = !
The principal Improvement made in
the factory during last season was the
Introduction Of special grooves In thf
feed and discharge rollers of our mill,
an invention made by our mill super
intendent, Mr.. Messehaert. This sim.
pie system of roller growing has eff.
fected q much higher extraction than
was formerly obtained, and has In.
creased the capacity of the mill from
10 to As per cent, in addition to re
.ducing the moisture in the bagasse
considerably.
A labor saving system of convey
ors, with elevator, and bin for bag
ging the sugars has at very small
cost been installed in our sugar room.
This apparatus works very we'll and
saves the labor of more than six men
per day. IT,. ~.
All of our sugar bags are now sewn
in the mill from imported jute cloth;
this, we hope, will also prove say.
ing In the manufacturing cost.
WaiahoIe PRO- ect. t..:. =.
Following is the report on the Waia
hole tunnel: ~ -" ! j -
During the past year we paid an
assessment of $500, 1900, being so per
cent on the stock of the Waiahole Wa
ter Company, which with previous pay
ments covered the entire capital of
81, 000, o00 In addition to this sum
we have advanced the water company
$310,847.86, and estimate that about
$500,G0 more will be required to com
plete the project, build three large
syphone pipes, and bring the water to 1
our land. 1t will be necessary to ex.
tend our railroad system, build ditch
es, and additional reservoirs, and
camps; this with the cost OF the cul-
tiyation and care of the new areas
will REQUIRE considerable funds, but we
are assured these can be met with the
large credit of 81, 100, 240.45, in the
hands of our agents, the realization of
all or part of our investment account,
and a proportion of the profits we are
warranted in expecting under prevail:
ing conditions. Part of the new areas
should be yielding returns, which will
be available to meet expenses on
areas planted at a later date, so that
the whole burden of providing for the
new lands win not fell upon US in g
short time, but will be spread over
considerable period.
The following figures show the
progress made on the aqueduct to Jan.
uary 81 of this year:
-. ...~:> 81. Total Made to Unfin-
+. 49,. length date ished
Z: feet. feet feet,
Main tunnel ...14,434 1913 2,525
Side tunnels, Wa
iahole- Waikane. 1921 14,1SS LIB
Side tunnels, Wa
ikane-Kahana 5000 1864 1886
Side tunnels, Wa
hiawa 1921 1921 .....
Open bitches,
Waipio 1000 1853 16,037
Twenty-one thousand three hundred
and seventy-three feet of side lining,
partly of reinforced cement plaster,
and partly of stone masonry, as well
as 1927 feet OF concrete arching of
tunnels have been finished.
"In addition to the foregoing work
on the aqueduet proper, three special
tunnels for water development have
been driven on the Waiahole side. The