The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-09-13
RAYMOND Ranch Will Be
Incorporated; Greater
Expansion Is Designed
Vast Holdings on Haleakala to Go to Company,
With Majority Of Stock Remaining in Present
Owners-Dr. Raymond Will Enter Business in
Honolulu.

hay, cotton seed meal and corn, the
bean hay and corn grown on the
ranch, and will enable an increase in
the herds by 200 head.
In connection with the cattle raising
and marketing of beef the ranch has
its own slaughter houses and two
cold storage plants, one at the ranch
and one at the wharf and it's own
transportation in a steamer, these val
ued at more than 100000 There is
a meat market in Lahaina, a concrete
building with refrigerating plant
owned by the ranch and much of the
beef goes to Honolulu where it is
handled by the Territorial Marketing
Division which is now putting in a
new $4,000 cold storage plant to
handle such meats. Market facilities
and marketing of the meat is assured
and larger output can readily be hand
led.
Beans Increase Profits
In addition to the cattle raising feat
ures of the property there is much
valuable agricultural land which was
included in the old Makee Sugar Com
pany holdings. At present 500 acres
are planted in California red kidney
beans now being shipped to the coast
Relative to a shipment received Aug
ust 25, J. 7. Sweetland, formerly man.
ager OF the California Packing Cor
poration and now head of ]. T. Sweet
land Co., wrote:
The Wilhelmina arrived yesterday
with 290 bags of kidneys. We sam
pied them as soon as they were un-
loaded and they surely are as beauti-
full a lot of beans as we ever have
seen. In fact, if you can get the rest
of your beans in as good condition as
these two shipments it will not be
long before we are getting a premium
on Honolulu for we have nothing in
California that can equal this quail
ity."
1t is planned to increase the acreage
planted to beans to 1900 acres. This
branch of industry is economically
handled by leases to Japanese who
plant and cultivate the lands, the
leases being for 20 year periods and
the rental being 25 per cent of the
gross crops. Such crops average about
10 sacks of 100 pounds to an acre,
sometimes running as high as II
sacks, and sell from to 10 cents a
pound making an average yield of $40
an acre or better.
Ranch Supplies Equipment
Such cultivation is not by any
means by hand for the ranch rents to
| the lessees its splendid farm equip
ment, caterpillar tractors, plOws, cut
| ters, harvesterS, ETC., and has cable
system that takes the beans to the
| houses and from houses to warehouses
| for shipment. The lessees pay for
such assistance in beans from their
crop in addition to the 25 percent
| gross. An average of 10 sacks an
acre on the 1900 acres would yield
| $1O5,00 at only 7 cents a pound and
would make then rental therefrom
more than $4,000 at such minimum
| figures on that area.
| DR.. Raymond says the matter of in
corporation is in the hands of D. H.
Case and Frank Thompson of Thomp-
son, Cathcart and Lewis. He expects
to see subscription lists opened by
the first of the month and stock deli
vered to purchasers by the first of the
new year, AS yet the par value of the
shares has not been determined.
| Were | a few years younger, |
should not think of carrying out my
present plan" he said. But there
should be new blood and new depart
ment heads and thoroughly ener-
getic policy to make the property
what it can be, should be and will be
made