Kipahulu Sugar Company Creditable Showing Amid Cane Growth
Kipahulu Sugar Company, among many sugar interests, shows a creditable performance. Total cultivated area is 600 acres for Lahaina variety, with 400 feet minimum elevation and 1 foot of altitude. rainfall and irrigation noted. Plowing uses machinery and mules. 250 men employed including day laborers and company staff. Water is sourced from mountain streams to two reservoirs. five miles of ditches move cane to mill by mule carts. Average plant cane yield is five tons per acre. mill yield averages three tons. The mill capacity is twenty tons per hour. production is shipped by steamer to a mainland market. Officers listed: H. A. Isenberg president, C. Phugor vice president, F. Klebahn treasurer, F. Klamp secretary, W. Protenhaner auditor. Hackfeld & Co. agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acre
Wey
Sonolula
Meron
Rome
Kipatutu Siekar Company
H. A. Isenberg
Maul Sugar Company Developments and Plant Details
A mill complex plans two reservoirs with 2 500 000 gallon capacity linked by 1196 feet of pipe to supply the mill and operate water motors powering centrifugals and a potential electric system. A dam at Olawn gulch will store water to be pumped to an upper reservoir for mill use. The plantation landing hosts a 14 ton steam crane for sugar loading. The Maul Sugar Company, capitalized at 250 000 with room to rise to 300 000, lists 800 to 40 stockholders and names W. S. Akan as General Manager, T. Akane as Head Overseer, Chuck Lee as Bookkeeper, Wong Kwai as Agent, Honolulu.
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Olawn Gulch
Maul Sugar Company
W. 8. Akan
T. Akane
Chuck Lee
Wong Kwai
Honolulu
Sugar Cane Dominion of Hawaii Island Surges in Trade
The inland of Hawaii, the largest Hawaiian Island, centers sugar as its main industry with 30 plantations and mills. production ranges from 1510 to 12,000 tons per year. Exports in 1897 reached 15,800,422.18 in sugar with total island exports at 10,21,776.19, while railroads, new harbors, and a growing fleet under Spreckels and Matson expand commerce from Hilo and Kahoola to San Francisco. The island’s wealth grows as sugar dominates, labor expands, and infrastructure improves.
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Hawaii
Pacific Ocean
Hafi
Department of Agriculture
United States
Hilo
Intercat-payness
Udewater
Vision Company
A. B. Spreckels
William Matson
San Francisco
Annie Johnson
Hilo Bay
Harmak
Santiago
Nederick Chu
Marion Chil Fott
Clyde
Ain Oye
Hawaii Mill Company operates near Hilo with 21 year lease
The Hawaii Mill Company holds a twenty one year lease for 51 000 acres in the Pilhonua district near Hilo. About 700 acres are in cane this year with 600 more to be planted. The plantation, begun in 1896 by a Portuguese company and acquired by H Hackfeld & Co in 1899, uses a V shaped flume to deliver cane to a six roller mill with vacuum pans and five centrifugals powered by steam, processing up to twenty tons of raw sugar in twelve hours.
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Hilo Portuguese Sugar Mill Company
Limod
Hilo
Hawaii Mill Company
Pilhomua
H. Hackfeld & Co
Pilhonua
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Kipahulu Sugar Co
Mong the Many Sugar Yey
Toland
Maul
Ontathulu Sugar Company
Island of
Hawaiian Islands
Mawahan
Hawaii Railroad Company
Hind, Rolph & Co
Swaii
Kohala
Puuieo
Phineas Peck
Milo
Mauka
Hilo Harbor
Hoto
Honolulu Photo Supply Co
Hawaii Mill Co
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