The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-01-30
Announcement Made BY George
N. Rolph, After Extended Con-
ferences With Officials Of the
Sugar Factors Company Here
WORK ON ENLARGEMENT OF
~, PLANT BEGINS MONDAY
factory To Be Enlarged So As To
Turn Out An Increase Of Four
Hundred Tons Daily; Improve
ments To Cost $2,5oo,ooO

Enlargement of the California and
Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company
plant at Crockett, California, TO in.
Tease the capacity of the refinery from
line hundred to thirteen hundred tons
If raw sugar daily, at cost of approx.
mately $2,500,000 has been authorized
Dy the Sugar Factors Company, Ltd.
Construction work on the buildings
machinery and warehouses 20 be addeU
20 the present plant will begin at once.
orders to start the program of build.
ing were sent to San Francisco yester
lay by George NJ. ROlph, general man.
lger of the California and Hawaiian
company, who has been in Honolulu
inces Tuesday Comforting with the di.
tectors of the factors company on these
plans. t".+
At the same time the plans of the
directors of the factors company Merr
made public in an announcement from
he ONCE of A. NJ. Novel;, manager
Decision Announced ).
The dccisiohI OF the Sugar Factors
company 20 mike an expenditure of
~tcONyOVO W lHNItdoC lut capacity Vi
ne Crockett refnery was reached after
two lengthy .co9fefGnees Wednesday
md iTnursday with NJ Rolph, who came
rom San Francisco on, the Manoa, es.
pecially for these conferences.
Enlargement of the plant was recon
mended by Mr. Rolph who advised thai
he daily capacity be increased to tbir
teen, hundred tons of sugar per day
The present capacity of the refinery il
ine hundred tons, a figure represent
NJ steady growth and development OF
he plant since 1906, when the Crockett
'efnery was opened under the owner,
hip of Hawaiian planters. When Mr.
Rolph took charge of the refinery more
than ten years ago, the capacity of the
plant was four hundred and fifty tom
a day. e..
Ieralds Big Expansion
The announcement of plans to bring
the capacity of the Crockett refinery
up to thirteen hundred tons daily her.
aids for the Hawaiian sugar industry
he biggest single program of expan
iOn, Of series of similar progressive
moves, in many months.
IL is estimated that the improve.
neuts 70 the Crockett refinery win take
two years to complete, but when the
big job is completed the Hawaiian su.
;ar industry win stand on an even
irmer footing than ever before.
II will mean that the Sugar Factors
Company, the mutual marketing agen.
y representing some thirty-fve Ha,
yaiian plantations and handling about
fourffths of the total raw sugar out
rpt Of the Islands. will be able to mar.
ket, refine and sell approximately sixty
'er cent of the annual Hawaiian raw
ugnr productions at their own refinery
the Hawaiian" refinery at Crockett.
About half Of the raw sugar shipped
trough the Sugar Factors Company is
row handled at Crockett. With the in
'reasc In the capacity of the plant by
sorty-seven per cent, it is estimated
hat seventy.fve per cent of the fac
'ors company sugar can be refined by
he California and Hawaiian Sugar Re
lining Company, or about three-fftha
# the total Hawaiinn output. The su.
rar crop Of 1917 is estimated at about
300 non tOno 'a# 1851. ..f'tr '. ........