The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-01-04
Sugar In Hawaii During 1915
BY JARED G. SMITH


brags about fourteen tons sugar per
acre from one field.
June 2--Raw sugar Sol. May ship.
ments were 9l,975 tons. Machine shops
glutted with orders June prices were
level, 4.s9 on the ninth; 4.95, June 49,;
1887, June %; 1905, June 80. Bag
prices scared. Shipments were 1900
tons. MeBryde paid first dividend in
its history, June 25. ...,..
July Raw sugar 400. Britain
alarmed at shortage Of supply.
July l4-Raw sugar 4.S45. Maui Ag.
rieultural finished grinding July s.
Manehnria and Tenyo Maru brought
10000 tons bags and burlap. s
July 21--Raw sugar 4.S8. Crockett
refinery invades Atlantic coast markets.
Many plantations ending their harvest.
July 28-Raw sugar 4.SS. Yields in
Hilo district have been largest in thirty
years. .r... = 80
August Raw sugar 4.64.l July ship.
ments were 1898 tons. Japanese buy
Kona Development Company. New
plantation, Kaiwiki Mill Company, or.
ganized at Hilo. ....'..
August 11--Raw sugar AT. Pioneer
will redeem all outstanding bonds Dc.
tober l. En- cargo on jute exports from
India, but planters have n year Is sup
ply. Balance Of August very dry. Price
stands at ass, August IS; and All
August 25.r Shipments during month
62,565 tons. ..- t-, ... 49,,
September 1--Rsw sugar AT. No
sugar sold at New York for one week
John ID. Spreckels comes to inspect his
plantations, in yacht venetia. Renton
Hind joins Honolulu Iron Works staff
September 8-Raw sugar ASS. Maui
gets rain. Beets entering market l1f.
der pressure to sell depress prices. On
aereages, 1916 crop basis will be $50,
900 tons. Price this date 1914 was
1927. u. .ls#. .....,.
September 15--Raw sugar 4.515
Slides close the Panama Canal.
September 22--Raw sugar $3.50
Distressed" Porto Ricans sold as low
as $50, but four Hawaiian eargoes got
in at Abs. Philippine government
contracts for new sugar mill.
September 20 - Raw sugar 3.s7
6loom. ~ - - t,,..l
October 8-Raw sugar 3!64., More
gloom. Eleven plantations grinding
Shipments total 629, 22O tons. Planter
say "prices are low, but with little su
gar to sell before 1916 it cannot hurt
Hawaii. - 's
October 7--Washington announces
'Sugar duty will stand. Treasury
needs the cash." Great activity OF
stock exchange.
October 13-Raw sugar 4O1. Wash
ington announces Hawaiian planter
have been government 8 best customer
at Panama Canal.
October 20--Raw sugar 4.243. Stock
market boons. Chemist 8 Association
meets, and Min Engineers follow, DC
tober 25.
October 27-Raw sugar 4.27. Nil
engineers inspect "best machine shop
West Of Chicago at Pearl Harbor.
November opened with heavy trad
4.705 November TO; SOC the seven
teenth; AT the twenty fourth. Tho
new Sugar FACTORS contract wa
signed, and schedule announced, via
Magellan. NOVEMBER 10, storm wrecked
Kan plantations. =. "a, -.
December l-lRaw sugar STA. Plan
tiers find that blocked canal make,
money for them. Price goes up, t.
5.3S one week later, but no one knows
why. December IL the Planters ,Asso 4
citation convened. A. w. T, Bottomley
elected president. Prices, 4.675 De Y
cenber Is; 4!s9 December %; 4.545. De
cember 30. Cuban estimates f.. from
100000 to 3, 1875, 900 long tons. Bonus
earned by plantation employees was
twenty per cent. The Waiahole tunne
is pau; and, Olaa bonds are worth par
The years average price has been
4.4934 cents per pound, or $S9.S6s PEI
ton.