^Lot 399 Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company, Limited.

Territory of Hawaii. 1920. Specimen. < than 10,000 shs, Capital Stock, San Francisco Certificate, yellow. Vignette of sugarcane fields with factory in middle. In 1898, Alexander and Baldwin purchased a controlling interest in one of its rival companies, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (HC&S). In 1926 HC&S, changed from a California corporation to a Hawaiian corporation. The following year, it completed construction of Well 7, one of the largest deep wells in the world, with a capacity of 40 million gallons of blackish water per day. By 1948, HC&S was one of the largest cane sugar producers in the world. The most significant business event of the 1960s occured in 1962, when HC&S was merged with and became a division of Alexander and Baldwin. Famous Hawaiian sugar cane plantation and growers. SBNC. XF.