The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-07-16
Million Case Pine
Pack Now Planted
Haiku District To Produce Near
100000 Cases This Year -. De-
velopment Rapid With Good Prices
Paintings Being Extended

Although the pineapple crop in the
Haiku district is perhaps less than
half packed, the most strenuous peri
cd of the packing season is probably
passed, according to w. A. Baldwin,
field manager of the Haiku Fruit &
Packing Co. From now on the fruit
will be coming in more slowly as the
ripening progresses with the altitude.
Most of the fruit grown on the lower
levels is already in the cans.
During the past week or 10 days
there has been marked falling off
of the deliveries at the cannery with
result that everybody in the district
is getting a chance relax bit.
Large areas of fruit on the higher
lands of Makawao, Kaupakalua and
Peahi are still green, nd when it does
ripen will come in more gradually than
the first.
New cannery To Start
1t is reported that the new cannery
of the Pauwela Pineapple Co., at Kuia-
ha, will be in shape to begin packing
fruit next week. Its delay in COM
pletion, however, has lost 1t a con-
siderable part of the pac. otherwise
would have had, which has been hand
led by the Haiku company
Big Development In Sight
The Haiku district pack for this
year will run somewhere between
$4,000 and 100000 cases, according
to present indications, or about 33 1-3
percent more than last year. Esti-
mates for the 1921 pack are from
100000 to 100000 cases; while in 1922
unless some unforeseen influence cur
tails production, the district may be
expected to produce over million
cases.
Even this production by no means
exhausts the possibilities or even the
probabilities for Maui within the next
few years, provided the market for
pineapple continues good. The 1872
estimate is based largely upon plant
ings already made, while thousands of
acres are being prepared for planting
that will not come in until the 1928
and later packs. In this connection
pineapples are being planted far up
on the slopes of Haleakala, and from
results secured from these higher
elevations, there is every reason to
believe that these lands will prove
we'll adapted for the purpose. Plant
ings have been made well above Ma
kawao, and considerable areas are
now growing at an elevation of be-
tween 1000 and 5000 feet in the new
Makawao homestead tract.
Most of the Peahi district, formerly
considered altogether unsuited to pine
apple culture, is now almost fully
planted as far east as Halehaku gulch;
while beyond this gulch Japanese and
others already have paintings on ku-
leanas as far east as Kailua. 1t is
almost certain that the great areas of
land in the Kailua and Huelo sections
will be called upon in a few years
more to supply the growing demand
Many Rumors
1t is reported that the Haleakala
Ranch is about to open another 100
acres or more of its corn land in the
Makawao district to pineapples, and
the indications are that the fruit will
soon be grown as far around towards
Kula as will be warranted by rainfall
cord,.,s.
Rumors have been current concern
ing new cannery projects in the Ulu-
palakua and other more remote Sec
tions of Maui, as well as upon the
island of Molokai. There is little
doubt that if pineapples will grow in
these sections that they will sooner
or later be planted in case the pres
ent demand and accompanying high
prices keep up.
Those in closest touch with the
canning business and the outlook for
the next few years, appear to feel
that pineapples will hold their own
with other classes of canned fruit, and
that for some years to come there is
not likely to be very great slump
in prices, simply for the reason that
the world shortage of foods in general
shows no signs of being relieved.