1904 Cover~ Honolulu Iron Works Co. to LORD & BESLER Construction Firm ~ HAWAII for Sale

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1904 Cover~ Honolulu Iron Works Co. to LORD & BESLER Construction Firm ~ HAWAII:
$29.00

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(General Contracting Firm)
City
(Honolulu to Honolulu)June 22, 1904 green cover with 2 cent USA stampfrom
Honolulu Iron Works Co.
Honolulu T.H.~ ~ ~EDMUND J. LORD
1868 - 1938 

 (1925 article) 
Mr. Lord, when only 13,
began work in the logging camps of Canada and the  United States,
and spent seven years in lumber and railroad camps.
When 20 he settled down to the business of becoming an engineer,
taking a position in the city engineer’s office of Duluth, Minn.
He had charge of a great deal of public work in Duluth,
and was given the post of foreman of public works.
For the next eleven years he was foreman and superintendent
for several engineering firms.
In 1899 he went to San Francisco,
and the following year came to Honolulu as superintendent of sewer construction
with the contracting firm of Vincent & Belser.
In 1901 he joined with the late John J. Belser
and formed the general contracting firm of Lord & Belser,
engaging in sewer, highway and dredge construction.
The firm later became Lord and Young,
and in 1918 Mr. Lord established his own business
under the name of E. J. Lord, general contractor.
During his residence in Hawaii, Mr. Lord, it is estimated,
has done more than one-half of the public work in the Territory,
including the construction of the $750,000 wharf at Pearl Harbor,
recently completed; the Waimanalo road and the belt road,
contracts amounting to $1,500,000.
A great part of the street paving in Honolulu and highway work
all over the Territory has been done by Mr. Lord,
and he also erected the Mission Memorial Hall, Judiciary Building,
Public Library, the Hawaiian Trust Building,
ammunition houses at Fort Shafter,
and Piers 2, 8, 9 and 10 on the Honolulu waterfront,
the Mala wharf, Maui, and the Hilo wharf.~ ~ ~Honolulu Steam Flouring Company
(Honolulu Iron Works Co.)
in 1852 Honolulu Steam Flouring Company began milling wheat
sent to Honolulu from the fields on Oahu and Maui.
That year, the Islands produced enough wheat to supply the home demand
for flour and left some for export to California.
In conjunction was Honolulu Iron Works;
David Weston was the machinist in charge.
In addition, at one time there was an attempt
at making hard bread from the Maui wheat,
but it was so hard and flinty that it did not find a market,
and the growth of wheat was given up.
Then, there were attempts at cleaning rice.
In 1860 the whole premises, with much adjoining property,
was swept away by fire.
The foundry, at the time owned by Thomas Hughes was soon rebuilt.
But the future of Honolulu Iron Works was not grain.
As the sugar plantations flourished,
Weston’s machines began producing hardware for the sugar mills.
In 1875, Theo H. Davies took the lead
in refinancing Honolulu Iron Works into a stock company. By the turn of the century,
the Honolulu Iron Works was making complete sugar ‘factories’
for plantations in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico,
Louisiana, Formosa and the Philippines,
as well as supplying Hawaii’s sugar planters. Honolulu Iron Works Co. has participated in the construction
of more than 200 cane sugar mills,
8 beet sugar factories, 8 refineries and 6 alcohol distilleries.

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