The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-04-28
One Hundred and Twenty-Five
Homesteaders At Laupahoe-
hoe Form Hui
SIX TH0USAND-ToN MILL
is ORDERED IN HONOLULU
Fifteen Hundred Acres of Land
To Be Opened BY Commits
sioner Rlvenburgh

One hundred and twenty-five home
steaders, owning cane lands in the vic
Unity Of LauPHhoehoe, have signed
cooperative agreement for the organi.
cation of q new cooperative sugar mill
and sugar plantation, the first in the
Islands.
A. l.. Moses, of Laupahoehoe, who
yesterday fled with Land Commissioner
Rivenburgh, application for the throw.
ing open of approximately fifteen hun
bred acres of cane land in addition TO
the land already under homestead cul-
tivation, Is in Honolulu perfecting his
plans for the enterprise, and TO place
an order for a new 6OO0-ton sugar mill,
% he built probably by the Honolulu
Iron Works. tJst 80
Apple alton Favored
Fifty would be homesteaders have
oined Mr.. Moses in his application for
ne opening of the Laupahoehoe home
stead lan,ls, now under cultivation by
he Laupahoehoe plantation company.
These lands are under lease and can
70 opened, said Mr.. Rivenburgh yester-
lay, subject to the growing crop, or
probably in 1917. This means that IL
he plans go through the homesteads
will be yielding in time for the mill
in 1919. g. .rss
Mr.. Moses stated yesterday that the
homesteaders have been working to-
gether on this proposition for q good
many months and that they have finally
oerfectel arrangements for financing
| The company. II is to be an absolutely
Cooperative organization, the share
holders being all small land owners and
! ,ane growers, the company differing in
his important particular from the
isual limited liability companies.
No Outside Investors s.
| No stock Is to be issued or sold to
| outside investors. A law making in
corporations Of this character possible
vas enacted by the legislature Of 1915,
| md this is the first enterprise Of note
| 10 be started under the provisions Of
the new law. If the enterprise is sue
,essful all of the profits on sugar grown,
manufactured and sold will go to the
armers who have produced it. "
| The mill Is to start as a 6000-ton
proposition and will be increased to
10000 tons capacity later on IL the sue
ess of the plantation warrants its en-
argement. A mill site has been pur-
,hased on the clap" below Lap
town" in the bottom Of the gulch and
within easy distance of the landing
The homesteaders control $500 acres
# cane land in their present holdings.
Governor Pinkham has approved the
withdrawal for homestearling purposes
If an additional 1900 acres of cane land
now controlled by the LaupahOehoe Sng-
AZ Company and when the entry Of this
has been perfected the 200 or more
mesteaders forming the new company
will have 1000 acres of cane land rs a
FEEDER to their mill.
m Line, with Progress
This 1900 acres which is to be opened
FOR closer settlement was leased 10 the
plantation under the usual conditional
,lause now incorporated in all govern
ment leases, permitting the Withdraw
al of public lands for demonstrating
purposes. The LaupahOehOe copperat.
i've plantation Is the first Of its KIND
o be formed in these Islands, and Mr.
Noses predicts that many homestead
ars are bound to follow the pathway
he and his associates are blazing,
, The homesteader shareholders are
financing themselves to considerable
'xtent, but, as stated above, arrange
ments have finally been completed for
securing the balance of the working
capital required TO build aud operate
the mill, which is really the erucia
| point In the enterprise, While soma
7 Of the lands were formerly part Of
: IN existing plantation the major por
ton Of the new plantation is TO be
composed of lands not previously &c
operated. Hence the new plantation
will add new wealth to the Islands ant
the sugar grown and maaufaetnred
would not have been produced had Y
not been for the cooperation Of thin
group Of small farmers.