The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-10-28

the Worlds Press Congress this week
on their visit to hat plantation. Mr..
Bishop had his subject well in hand
and was able to make clear to his
hearers what actual conditions are
here, how they differ from those to
which the visitors have been accus-
toned, and how vital an adequate
supply of labor is to the chief indus
dustry of the Islands.
Mr.. Bishops presentation of the
situation was an able and might be
called the planters message to the
Islands visitors. Its text follows in
full:
This is a plantation. 1t was in
evitable, when o started on your
long pilgrimage to Hawaii, that you
would see a plantation, because in
Hawaii the industrial atmosphere is
plantation. Here within range of your
vision is a concrete example and
demonstration that Hawaii's life is
fundamentally, if not entirely, agri-
cultural. We have no great manufac-
turing institutions except those that
are sustained by the plantation in
dustry; we have no mines, we have
no numbering industry, and we went
out of the whaling business half a
century ago. True, we have a tour
list crop that is an asset, BIT. it comes
from without, and you are here to
see and learn of what we have with
In our insular territory.
when the Hawaiian Sugar Plant
ers' association undertook a days en-
tertainment for the Press Congress
-
appropriate and proper to bring you
down here on the ground where you
will see the cane growing, the wheels
going around and the horny handed
son of toll in action.
$50 it happens that you are out
here this morning, observing what
the hand of man has done, and is do
ing, to carry on the game of life in
cidental to human existence In Ha-
wall. While journeying amongst the
islands, this past week, you no doubt
were transported through miles of
growing cane, and perhaps have in
spected factories here and there
along the line, but here this morning
we are making special effort to show
you the processes from start to finish
of this particular place-the Oahu
Sugar Co.-whose history is not a
long one, running back rs years or
less.
81 recall, and I do not admit yet
that l am an old man, when these
great areas of growing crops hat you
see about you, from ocean shore to
forest line, were an arid, whitening
waste, or something approximating it,
upon which a selfrespecting bullock
had a difficult time eking out an *
istence during most of the year-the
rainfall being negligible in this region
There was no agriculture, except here
and there in marshy spots along the
shore-a little rice, and some banana
patches. What happened? The deve-
lopment of the artesian basin below
us started a group of enterprising
men thinking, and the result is be-
fore you.
"This particular plantation-you
will please bear in mind that there
are three others of similar magni-
tude adjacent to it-has drilled string
upon string of artesian wells, has in
stalled pumping machinery of the
aggregate capacity of 75,0 900 gal
Ions of water per day-about double
the amount required to supply the
city of San Francisco-which is lift
ed to a maximum heights above sea
level of $50 feet, n keeps in grow
ing condition crops covering IN area
of 10000 acres. These pumps are
operated by steam generated from oil
fuel and according to the figures of
last years report, the fuel bill
amounts to about $1,000 per day. The
artesian water supply is augmented
by a gravity supply of 10000, 900 gal
Ions per day from the other side of
the island, through a tunnel piercing
the mountain range two and three
quarter miles in length. with ten
miles of side tunnels and conduits
leading into the main tunnel, the
this plantation approximating $4,500,-
900.
1.-THE maximum milling capacity of
the factory is 2400 IONS of cane per
day, which yields from $50 to 300
tons of raw sugar, according to the
richness of the juice in the cane. This
year the average daily work at the
mill has been 1140 tons of cane per
day-about half the capacity of the
plant.
you have observed a part at least
of the plant organization-4S miles of
permanent railway track with the
necessary rolling stocks, consisting
of seven locomotives and 67S fiat cars
steam and tractor blowing equipment
hundreds of dwellings for laborers,
hospitals, stores and sanitary equip
ment necessary to comfortably pro-
vide for the $500 people required to
operate this estate.
Cost of Fertilization
I'm comparison with agricultural
operations in continental United
States, ours are entirely different.
Aside from the irrigation plant neces-
stiles already referred to. our volcan-
ic soil calls for an intensive fertili-
cation based on soil analysis; and
this plantation expended in fertilizer
and the cost of applying same in 1920
1856, 900. This item, O will note,
averages $1,000 per day. To put it
in other termc tha cost of fartilizar