Evening bulletin. [volume], March 25, 1909, Evening Bulletin Industrial Edition, Page 24, Image 24

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canu cars ami thence curried by mil to this
mill.
Theie arc Illteen miles of permanent
trucsuge, live mlies ut which la double trucK
four miles of iiortalile track, two large Unld
win locomotives, 400 cuuu cars with a capac
ity ol 2V4 tons eacli anil sixteen sugur earn.
The pliititutlun emplojs 1100 skilled anil
unskilled laborers, must of the work being
carried on b) day labor, with thu exception
of canu cutting and loading, which Is done
uuder the contract sjsteni. The laborers
lu addition to their wages receive house
room, fuel, water and medical attendance.
Thu plantation does not maintain a hospital
of its own, but contributes to thu support
of the Walmcit hospital, of which thu various
plantation managers of thu district aru
trustees. Thu Company also supports the
foreign church of Walmca.
A nuw Japanese school house has been
built on plantation land ami Is free to thu
children of Japanese laborers.
None of thu land being held In feu simple
and all mailable land being planted In canu
no erfort has been made to secure home
steaders. Also thu climate at Kckaha Is the
hottest on the Islands.
The nine inller mill conststB of three 3
roller mills made by the Honolulu Iron
Works n few ears ago. The rollers are
32xG0. The cane Is fed through a Krajcwskl
crusher The hydraulic pressure iion each
3-rollcr mill Is as follows varjlng somewhat
according to the flbiu of the canu, etc.: No
1 mill, 250 tons; No. 2 mill, 275 tons; and
No. 3 mill, 30 Ions. Formerly the mill was
operated seventeen hours a day during
which lime from forty to forty-five tons of
sugar were turned out. In consequence of
man) new and elllclent Improvements mailo
from lime to time thu mill can run night
and day. and during a continuous run to
twenty-two hours make from 75 to 80 tons
of sugar.
The principal mill apparatus consists of
two quadruple effects, six filter presses, one
Honolulu Iron Works, one German vacuum
pan, and a pan that was Installed by Mr. Uir
euz with a totol striking power of eighteen
tons, twenty-one centrifugals and the nec
essary pumps and other appliances.
The plantation has had in operation during
the last four crops a central conden
sation sjslem put In by Consulting
Unglneer Uirenz. This system consists of
one central and one vacuum pump, to which
two qundiiiple effects and tbreo vacuum
pans are connected. This condenser and
pump does the work formerly done by five
vacuum pumps. Tho new vacuum pan con
tains u number or 1 '.4-Inch straight tubes
tho boiling being ilnno by exhaust steam
only.
Tho condenser, ninong other favorublo
qualities. Is u fuel saver and has been nil
Immense success In every particular. It ap
parently Is a valuable adjunct to the mill
nnd has materially Increased the sugar out
put. The mill Is driven by a large Hamilton
Corliss engine, steam being generated by the
burning of bagasso or canu trash and molas
ses. Water for condensation purposes is
obtained from artesian wells on the place.
The, Company owns their own lime kiln
tho lime being used for clarification and
building purposes, etc.
Adjoining tho mill building are the ma
chine fliiipx. electric light plunt and general
olllces of tho Company In addition, the
Company maintains Its own telephone s
tern, using portable Instruments. Only one
grade of sugar Is manufactured, known as
the "A" grade, all the low-grade sugars and
molasses being worked over.
Thu sugar product when ready for ship
incut Is coneed from thu mill to thu land
lug at Walmca by rail, whence It Is shipped
to Honolulu by steamer nnd loaded theie
direct Into vessels for the ruclflc Coast and
thu Kust.
II. 1. Fn)e Is inunnger of the plantation
and has been actively Identified with thu
sugar Industry for the last twenty-eight
years and at this plantation 25 years.
.Mr. Faye has tho following stuff to assist
him: Head Oxerseer, 0. Hansen and Win.
Uuiiruiil; Chief Mill engineer, K. W. Ilarron;
llookkiepi-r, A. O. lllme; Assistant Hook
keeper and Timekeeper. F. II. Aaser; rump
i:uglneer, A. M. I).i Vlro; Sugar Holler, F
Kulilmiiiiii and A. Fu)o; Chemist, Alex
lirodle; Steam Plow Engineer, C. Jacobseii
und F, IMchen; I'liyslchm, Dr. II. F. San
dow.
Following Is the list of officers und direct
ors of thu Kekilhu Sugur Company:
(1. N. Wilcox, President.
11. I'. I'uje. First Vice-President.
D. P. It. Isenberg, Second Vice-President
Win. I'foteiiliiiuer, Treasurer.
F. Kliinip, Sccietury
A Huneberg, Auditor
A. H. Wilcox, Dlieetor.
U. Kruse, Dlieetor
H. Huckfeld At Co., Ltd, Agents, Honolulu
Hawaii is represented in Congress by a
Territorial Delegate, elected every two
years, His status in Congress is identical
with that of the Delegates from the main
land Territories,
EVENING BULLETIN INDUSTRIAL EDITION: HONOLULU, T. H., 1809.
MAKEE SUGAR CO.
Plantation That Builds Breakwater To Assist Transportation.
LOCATKI) at Keallo, on the Island of
Kauai, are the largo plantation hold
ings of tho Mnkce Sugar Company,
comprising an nrca of 9465 acres lu fee
simple.
Capt. James Makec first planted canu up
on the present site of the holdings of the
Mukec Sugar Co. In 1877, but soon sold out
to Col Z. S. Spalding, who really developed
the plantation.
At the present writing the compnny tins
under cultivation only 3000 acres. For the
1908 crop tliero was plant cane 1218 ncres,
long rnttoons 913 acres, short ralloons 380
acres, making a total of 2511 acres. Tho
sugar output was 7407 tons For 1909 about
1125 ncres will bo carried over with an est!-
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mate of 3500 tons. This cutting In half of
the sugar output Is caused by thu with
drawal of tho leased lands at Kapan and
Aunhola. If these lands were nt rlcu given
out to laborers, they could plant cane now
and tho plantation would help them along
until the crop was harvested. As it Is now,
thu lauds are lying Idle and the plantation's
output is cut In half while thu laborls only
reduced 1-3 nnd thu Investment remains thu
same.
The canu grown Is mostly of the Yellow
Caledonia variety.
The general character of the soil is swamp.
ullow and lied, the Inst mentioned carrying
oxide of Iron as n base.
For plowing, two lli-horsepower sets of
Fowler's steam tacklu are In use, thu soil
being turned over to u depth of from four
teen to sixteen Inches. For ordinnry plow
ing for long rnttoons, mulu-ixiwer Is used
breaking thu soil up, putting fertilizer In
and "hilling" up. In fertilizing, from GOO to
1000 pounds to thu acie of a variety of
high-grade fertilizers are used, varying, of
course, according to the soil and season.
The cane matures lu from sixteen to eight
een months. Cane planted from Juno to
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Landing Showing Steamer Lying Nearer Wharf Than It Ucual. Except in
Honolulu all cugar has to be transferred from wharf to iteamer In small
boats oi lighten.
October tassels tho following October.
The average annual rainfall In this sec
tion of Kauai is thirty-six Inches. Thu main
water supply far Irrigation purposes is from
mountain streams, being led off from thu
main source by a system of ditches to large
storage reservoirs constructed at stated In
tervals upon the plantation lands, from
whence the supply Is distributed to the cane
fields. At the present time these reservoirs
have n capacity for storing 200,000,000 gal
lons of wnter.
Cane Is carried to the mill by a system
of main nnd portable rallwnys. Tho aggre
gnled length of the main line Is 20 miles
with six miles of field or portable tracks.
The rolling stock consists of 300 cane cars
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HANALEI VALLEY, KAUAI.
12 double-truck flat curs for freight, 40 other
cars and three locomotives of the Haldwiu
nnd German t)pcs.
Four artesian wells located at Kealla,
with u capacity of 4,000,000 gallons of wnter
lu 24 hours, are used to supply water to n
height of 250 feet In order to Irrigate the
lands lying below this level. The artesian
well water is pumped by means of electrical
power generated by dropping thu mountain
water 400 feet, which wnter is afterwards
used in watering canu lands between the
250 nnd 500-foot level.
Some of tho fields have been planted con
secutlvely for twenty-eight years. The av
erage number of tons of sugar produced to
thu ncre Is as fallows: Plant cane, 4.10,
long rnttoons, 3.G1, and short rnttoons, 1.78.
The Company employ about COO laborers,
tho majority of whom are unskilled hands
or field laborers, pnld nn average of $18 per
mouth of twenty-six days, A few- men are
engaged under the ccwiperntlvo sjsteni. The
laborer. In addition to his regular pay, re
ceives free water, fuel, house nnd medical
attendance.
Tho old diffusion mill nt Kealla, which
was tho first one In tho Islands, was super
ceded In 1900 by a new maceration process
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mill, which Is a good nine-roller plant, each
mill of thiee rollers being 31x72 Inches,
mnde by thu Honolulu Iron Works Com
pany, nnd having a cnpnclly for grinding Sou
tons of raw sugar. There Is a pressure of
375 tons upon No. 1 milt, loo tons upon No. 2
mill, and 450 upon No. 3. The various me
chanlcal appliances required In n sugar fac
tory have been Installed by the Kllby Man
ufacturlng Companj of Cleveland, Ohio
consisting in the main of u romplete siier
heating clarification system with continuous
coining tanks. evnporntors of Hie
Wcllner-Jellnek tpe. leu 40-lncli bell driven
centrifugals of the Weslon type, eight crys
talllzers w-ilh n capacity of thirty tons of
mnsse-ciilte nnd two Kllby pans with rupi
city to strike thirty-flic tons of sugar.
Kverythlng about the mill has been ar
ranged so as to enable the engineer and su
gor holler to hue n complete lew of the
machinery nt nil times. Operated direct!)
overhead In the mill Is n large traveling
crnne capable of moving n 25-ton weight.
The bagasse Is conveved liv cnirlers to the
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fuel room, and fed automatically to the lur
liaces by aid of "Yankee Feeders. ' Practi
cally no coal Is burned, waste molasses be
ing used as fuel. Thu mill extinction of su
close lu cane, accotdlng to condition of cuue,
is from 93 to 95 . Tho mill is supplied with
levernl filter piesses, lint mud fiom which Is
uted for fertilizer.
Adjoining the mill n large warehouse bus
been erected Willi a en pad l of li.o.oou bags
of sugar in case of emergency. Doth mill
und warehouse ale constructed of skeleton
steel with corrugated Iron loot ami walls.
Independent of the main mill-power tbeie
has been instulled supplemental power for
operating thu Ice-making plant, which has u
capaclt) of turning out tlneo tons of ice
per day. Ily this auxiliary power, when the
mill Is shut down, thu machine shops cm
be kept in operation. All electrical power Is
from the mountains.
A GOO-llght electric plant has been In
stalled with u llullock dynamo, operated by
u Hall engine.
The Company makes but one grade uf
sugar, known us tho A grade.
Upon the plantation nro 140 head of
mules und ubout U00 head of cattle, the
latter being raUcd for beef that Is ciittiely
consumed upon the plantation. The Com
pany slaughters fiom twelve to fifteen
head per month. Some 150 calves are
branded annually.
The Molokan settlement nt Kealla in liv
ed very disastrous, they showed no dlsposl.
Hon to work and tho scheme fell tluougli.
A 000 ft. hienkvvnter has been built at
Kealla at an expense of $20,000, und
sugar will ull he shipped from theie lu
filtuie Instead of at Auiihola.
The Mukeo Sugar Company have no
agent lu Honolulu.
.Mr. Fall child has been ideiilllled with the
plantation foi tvvi-iit) ,'enis fourteen us IN
manager
Manager, (leorgu II. 1'uli child.
Head Overseer, 8. N. Hundley.
llooMiecper, J. V. Neul.
8tore Manager, J. V. Neul.
Steam Plow engineer, Jiio. Itapose.
Ciilpeuter, II. J. Moigiui.
Ph)sleliiii, Dr. llnfTninii.
Ollkeia of the Company:
President It. p Spalding.
Vlce-Piesldent, (Icii. . Fiilichlld.
Tieasuier. Hpaldlug Co.. I.os Angeles
Hi-t'ittury, J. W. Neul.
Honolulu Agents, None,
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