Year: 1878

We find the following article published in
the San Francisco Commercial Herald and
Market Review" of October 10th, which we
republish as another evidence of the progress
and prospective prosperity OF the Hawaiian
Group. The Hawaiian Commercial Company
is composed of the right kind of material to
carry out the extensive and sagacious i'm
provements, contemplated by the Company to
develop a region of cane lands heretofore
lying idle, from which large amount of
sugar will be brought into market. Col. Spreck-
les with the enterprising men he has associated
with him, will make the Hawaiian CONNER
cial Company a live institution. The plans of
the Company have been well considered and
matured by wise business heads, which, with
the large capital at their command, must bring
about in short time corresponding infu-
ence upon the commercial relations of these
Islands. With an aggregation of brains, bust
ness enterprise, experience and capital, this
new Company will infuse new life and health
into the great sugar industries of Hawaii,
augmenting her Importance and adding to her
prosperity in direct ratio with the fertility
of the Islands, and the admirable adaptabilify
of the soil for the production of her great
staple.


The benefits of Hawaiian reciprocity are just now
beginning to develop themselves in q manner CON-
mensurate with their intrinsic Importance. It is very
gratifying to know, that in this heated term of head
long stock gambling, when the uuderpnning Of pru-
denee and discretion carried away by whirlWind
Of excitement, some Of our more prominent business
riding calmly above the storm, and are pro-
jecting enterprises of large and substantial char
acter. The Hawaiian Commercial Company is com
posed Of gentlemen possessing more than ordinary
share Of brain power and Of great mercantile expe-
rienee, backed by adequate to give it effect.
Its Directors Claus Spreekles, F. F. Low, F. w.
BAbcock, Herman Schusler. and Herman Bendell,
and its capital stock is placed at 600. The
object is to construct and maintain irrgatiDg bitches
and aqueiuets IN the various islands of the Sandwich
group, in order to improve and increase the Of
sugar cane cultivation, and manufacture sugar.
There many thousand acres in those Islands that
rich in soil, and have every other facility for
raising sugar in great quantities beyond what
now produced, except bountIful supply of
water, without which the not flourish and


the plantations already under cultivation frequently
yield only very short crops when the rainy season
fails to give the requisite supply Of moisture. But
in those same Islands there very large number
of mountain streams, some of them running in copi


Gus volume during the rainy season, and if their
several contributions can be united and stored in
reservoirs of suitable size and location immense
area of naturally rich, but now unproductive lands
can be added to the sugar wealth of the Islands,
while those under cultivation will be made to yield
steadily remunerative crops every year. Clans
Spreekes President ofthe California Sugar Refinery,
has intimate personal knowledge of the Islands and
their capacity for the production of sugar in vast
quantities, under the influence of artificial nurture.
z. 2. Low, is xGorernor Of Californis, Minister
to China. and is now the co-Nsnager of the Anglo
Californian Bank in this city. W. F. BAbcock is one
of our most prominent and successful business
BE was formerly, and for many years, President Of
the Spring Valley Water Works, which were lifted
from indigence to success mainly By reason of his
superior administrative ability and unconpromising
integrity. Herman Sehusler has long occupied the
position of Chief Engineer ofthe Spring Valley Water
Works, and is widely known q of energy and
marked capacity in bis profession Herman Beudell
Is ct associate for his cO-Directors. Judging from
the wall established reputation of these gentlemen,
and from their minute knowledge Of the Sandwich
Islands, and what Is needed to render them wonder
fully productive Of sugar it Is morally certain that
the Hawaiian Commercial Company Is based upon q
solid foundation Engineer Sehusler has just
ed from making long and thorough survey Of the
water supplies in the Islands, from which il may be
logically inferred that the Company Is acting with its