Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-24
A. D. Cooper Tells of 0bserva.
tons ON Recent Trip
- to Islands

dealt with San Carlos Milling Com
pany.)
While in Manila last MAY, wait
ing for steamer to San Carlos, / had
the pleasure of visiting Calamba Sugar
Estates property, as the guest of Mr.
Loewenstein, the head of the Pacific
Commercial Company, who are agents
and large owners of Calamba. and
are entrusted with the general admin
istration OF the place. The plantation
lies 80 or 35 miles in a southerly di
rection from Manila The main line
of the Philippine Railway Company
passes through it. providing good con.
nections with Manila and also with a
large area of cane producing country
owned in little plantations by numer.
GUS small farmers The company s
property consists of upwards of 12,09O
acres suitable for cane, and they have
planted somewhat less than half of
this amount. -
"0n my homeward trip while wait
ing last month for the much delayed
Persia to arrive at Manila, made two
more visits to Calamba, spending four
or five days there as the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Campion, whose name will
sound familiar to Hawaiian sugar peo-
pie. Mr.. Campion went out there from
of their factory. He made good job
of it. They have a fine looking mill.
1t was, like the only two other fac
tories of any size in the Philippines,
built by the Honolulu Iron Works Com
pany.
6arkhausen Is Manager.
When Mr.. Barkhausen, formerly of
Lahaina, resigned his position as man.
ager OF Calamba, which he held during
the construction period, Mr., Campion
was promoted and is now full-fledged
manager. He is running the place Ha-
waiian style with such notifications
as he believes necessary owing to the
differences in the growing conditions
prevailing in the two countries, and
says that he is using some Of Mr.. Rem
tons ideas that made Eva famous.
AT Calamba their one great problem
is to either develop an adequate wa
ter supply or to devise satisfactory
cultural methods for growing cane
with rainfall which in some years is
poorly distributed and insufficient
when judged by the requirements OF
cane grown in the usual ways. They
are making efforts in both directions
at the same time. The work is being
carried ON with enthusiasm and scien-
tific precision, and those directing it
seem confident of success. / was not
there long enough to form any very
definite ideas of my own, but hope
they will be successful both for their
own sake and because we have trou-
bles of the same nature at San Carlos,
only in lesser degree, and any eco
nomically successful solution that they
may find in methods of cultivation will
be in all probability applicable in our
case as well.
"The planters of San Carlos are con-
filming their efforts in this direction en-
tirely to the development of water SUP
ply and irrigation systems and with
good prospects of success. Expert
menting is of course comparatively
slow work even under suspicious con-
ditions and factory cannot be kept
waiting in the meantime without in
curing enormous financial losses, At
San Carlos we have met the demand
for the equivalent of an immediate So
luton by extending our railroad and
making so great an area tributary to-
the mill that we are now sure OF a.
fair crop at all times except in the
case of an absolute and prolonged
drought, such as occurs only once In
a great while, though droughts of less
severity are not SO infrequent.
Extension Was Painful.
This extending of our railroad was
a painful process, financially speaking,
but it was the only thing that could
be done, and is all over with now.
Calamba is meeting the demand for
more cane than their own fields can
at present supply by making cane pur'
chases from the surrounding country
as far away as up to so or go miles.
1t is brought to their factory over
the lines of the Philippine Railway
They buy it from the plant.
ers at a price which gives the plant
ers more than they could net with
their own mills and at the, same time
provides a profit to Calamba, thus
awaiting themselves of the main prin,
ciple on which central mill ID
... ....:.--.
AT Calamba ! also met Mr.. and
Mrs. Greenfield, likewise formerly or
Eva. Mr.. Greenfield is now super
intendent of the Calamba factory,
Their laboratory reports for their first
season shows that they did very good
factory work and the schedules show
ing their operating crew and costs are
that it was financially effl-
cient as well, especially for first
season. Fl *=.
William Fassoth was another emil |
grant from Hawaii whom | met there |
they call him a division capitaz,
which translated means section luna:
He is looking we'll and doing fine.
had the pleasure of riding over his
section with him and Mr.. Campion.
Near to Calamba is the estate own
ed by the Philippine Sugar Develop.
nent Company. They have small
modern mill, but different in great
MANY ways to what we are accustom.
ed to. From what little saw of this
place, l Judge that it has good posi-
Dilities. but to date not great deal