Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 505, 24 Ianuali 1902 — FOWLER AND BEET SUGAR [ARTICLE]

FOWLER AND BEET SUGAR

STEAM PLOW DEALER INTERESTED MAKES AN EXTENSIVE TOUR OF LARGE ESTATES ON MAINLAND. Invests Some Money In Beet Concerns on the Ccast and May Become Heavily Interested Later If Steam Cultivation Succeeds Places Number of Steam Plows Mr. Fowler of London, the well known plow manufacturer, has recently begun to invest in beet sugar estates in California While Mr. Fow-’ ler has invested in cane sugar property in these islands and during his last slay here made what, in his estimation, was a liberal offer for a large I block of Honolulu Sugar Company I stock, which, however, was not ac--1 cepted, he. together with his partner Mr. Turner and Colonel Georg* Macfarlane. made quite an extensive tour j over the beet sugar estates in California. Steam Plows for Beets. . ! His principal aim was to ascertain whether the beet sugar lands of that i state were adapted to steam plow cultivation and if steam plows would be us d extensively should this prove to I be the case. If he finds that steam plow cultivation will be used extensively he intends to invest considerably in the ben sugar estates just as he did here in Hawaii many years ago when he first introduced the I steam plow cultivation here. There are now 6*l to 70 sets of steam plows | on the islands, valued at about $1,500.I 000. which have been introduced here by Mr. Fowler’s firm. Visits Beet Sugar Lands. While Mr. Fowler was in California i he succeeded in placing five sets of steam plows at different beet sugar estates in that state. Two sets were placed at the Spreckels sugar estate, one set on the Lowenthal estate and one at the Santa Maria estate in Southern California, which is better i known under the name of the Union Sugar Company. The last and most i successful set was placed in the Oxnard sugar estate, in Ventura county. Southern California. ?.Ir. Fowler returned to England later. On his way East he visited several beet sugar estates at other places outside of California, and also saw something of the cane lands in the southern states.