The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-02-13
Field of m0tt1ed pine
apples foddy to be
P,cksd for Gaming.

trolled about $4,000 acres but he rightly be-
lieved the demand for canned pineapple would
in few years exceed the capacity of the indus
trys entire acreage
So he sent men into the Philippines and down
into Mexico, and investigated Fiji San Domingo,
Malaga and even Queensland, Australia, before
coming back to the Hawaiian Islands and buy
ing for $1,100,O00 Lanai, considered up to that
time a hopelessly barren island beaten ten
months in the year by northeast winds beneath
the blasts of which the scattering trees on it
were permanently bowed.
There was no harbor then no roads, no towns,
no labor, and much Of the good soil was covered
with enormous cactus. But the soil tested well,
and the climate was propitious. The altitude,
average rainfall and natural drainage were about
right Dole solved the problem of fighting the
obstinate cactus by hitching cable chain to
heavy tractors and literally dragging the dens(
growth down.
He Bet 100000
Dole was willing to bet $5,O0O.OOO that his
Judgment in buying Lanai was right, and thai
he was right is proved by the fact that the yield
of Lanai pineapples is today nearly equal to the
combined yield Of all the rest OF his plantations
But all this was not accomplished without
struggle. By cutting away the cliffs on one side,
running heavy breakwater out into the ocean
on the other, and then dredging, he created the
harbor of Kaumalapau, at cost of $75O000. He
built road for heavy trucking, seven miles back
and 1000 feet up into the island, along which
fye-ton White trucks hauling ten-ton trailers
now travel, each carrying In all net load OF
twenty-three and a half tons OF fruit At the
harbor these are hoisted in eleven and half
ton lots onto barges which are towed to Homo
lulu some fifty miles away.
And this was not all. He brought water across
the mountain range on the windward side OF the
island to the reservoir near the town OF Lanai
City which stands today model community or
its kind. It's population now consists OF 5000
orientals and thirtytwo whites, and 1t boasts its
own bank, stores, schools, hospital, Buddhist
temple, and even movies and Mayor"
There is no unemployment on the Islands OF
Lanai, and neither is there any contract labor
The pineapple picker who wants to quit his JOB
can draw his weeks wages (from $l4 up to as
much as $2S) and his transportation back TO
whence he came. The labor Is polyglot lot.
Chinese, Filipnos and Hawaiians even some
Russians and Portuguese, live TRANQUILITY in
community which is free from race problems
largely because Of thorough intermarriage.
A battery of Smelling machines known as
"ginacas," removes the pineapple's skin and
punches out its core in single swift operation;
a set of knives cuts the skinned and cored cylin-
ders into uniform Slices and in a few seconds
from the time the pineapple enters the Ginaca
machine it is skinned cored, sliced and ready for
grading and canning.
Speed is the essence Of proper pineapple can
ming. The quicker you can get this luscious fruit
out Of its jacket and into the can, the better.
Something more than food is preserved by this
celebrity 1t is the only way to preserve the
elusive flavor of the fully ripened fruit
Still Pioneer
This matter of grading is important Dole wants
the housewife to know exactly what she is buy
ing in his cans So he devised system Of stamp