Young folks' story of our country; a thrilling and accurate history of America, told in the simple language of childhood (1898) (14597230698)

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Title: Young folks' story of our country; a thrilling and accurate history of America, told in the simple language of childhood ..
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Hanson, John Wesley, Jr. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, W. B. Conkey co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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, however,Oahu ranks first, containing more than a third of all the inhabitants of thekingdom. The city of Hon-o-lu-lu is on this island. The climate of theislands is simply perfection; the heat is not excessive and frost neveroccurs. The rainfall on the east side of the islands is plentiful, but on theother side irrigation is necessary for purposes of agriculture. The aggre-gate amount of exports from the kingdom for the year of 1890 was about$13,000,000, of which more than $12,000,000 was in sugar, 130,000 tons,and more than $500,000 in rice. All of the exports of the country went tothe U-ni-ted States except five tons of sugar and one hundred pounds ofcoffee. This illustrates in a striking manner how closely their businessand industrial interests have been allied to us. The largest sugar plantation of the island is at Sprecklesville on theisland of Maui, the Ha-wai-i-an Com-mer-cial Com-pa-ny, otherwise ClausSpreckles, proprietor. It is located on an arable plain at the foot of the
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THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 265 mountain slopes, close to the sea, and was formerly an arid waste. Thecapital stock of the company is $10,000,000, and the outlay of enormoussums of money in irrigation and of energy and labor has brought it intogreat fertility. Twenty-five thousand acres of it is suitable for cane, and onecan travel for fifteen miles in one direction through the sweet growingcrop and yet not exceed the limits of the plantation. The mill on thepremises is capable of producing one hundred tons of sugar per day.There are thirty-eight incorporated companies and thirty other companiesengaged in sugar production in the islands, with an aggregate capital of$32,000,000, of which $26,000,000 are American. The labor of theplantation is Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese. The Sandwich islands have been more noted for their volcanoes than foranything else. And they to-day possess the largest of the active volcanoesof the world—the crater of Kilauea on the island of Hawaii; on the sameis