The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-08-28
THE DISTRICT OF KoHALA. HAWAII.

This IS ono Of tho garden spots Of the Islands
Perhaps we should say that with q reservation.
The southern end Of the district, in which ka-
waihae and Mahukona are situated. is indeed
very barren and sun-scorched and the plans Of
Waimea, though well watered, have been tor
years skinned bare by cattle and sheep. But
the northern part Of the district, formed b. the
slope OF the kohala mountains, a tract Of some
twenty miles in length by Eve OF six in breadth,
well deserves the name Of \ garden spot. The
soil is deep and rich and running streams.are
abundant and never failing, finding their springs
IN the hills, which are designated as mountains,
that rise some three TO FIVE thousand feet above
the sen level, and running east and west divide
this rart of the district from the Waimea plains.
The formation Of these hills iSeyidently very old,
and the country resembles in this respect some
parts of kau, and West Maui. SwamIs are
found among the hills, and quagmires, from
which flow perpetual rills towards the sea on one
hand and down on to the Waihca plains on the
other. The trade-winds blow constantly diago-
nally across the whole district, excepting Ka-
waihae and its immediate vicinity rendering the
climate cool and healthy.
North kohala Is the seat of three thriving
sugar plantations, and there is room for more.
The principal one is known as the Kohala
Plantation, owned by a Company, the members
of which mostly reside in Honolulu. Belonging
to this estate are some 5000 acres of land, a
large portion of which however is grazing and
wood land Under the efficient care of Mr.. G.
C. Williams, the resident manager, Kohala Plan
tation appears to be one Of the most prosperous
and well-conductcd sugar estates in the Kingdom.
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with of course some necessary exceptions) and
it speaks volumes for the management when we
cay that both employer and employees appeared
to be satisfied and content, each with the other.
Some year or so ago, the idea was set forth in
q Honolulu paper that the sugar growing business
in these islands must ere long be abandoned, for
the reason that the soil would become exhausted
from successive couplings of cane. At Kohala
we saw how, with j%udicious management, any
fears of such a result may be avoided. a planter
has, we will say, n thousand acres of cane land.
This he devides into fields of 200 acres each, and
he so times his planting that he has always one
field ready to grind, another under cultivation,
another in process Of planting, and two lying
fallow. By the time the latter are required for
planting they have recuperated, and are equal in
fertility ~ uCW ldiLu- DuIIuS 1T pdSb euSdI-
making season at the Kohala Plantation, 900
tons were obtained from 4 field of 200 acres,
being an average OF over Al tons to the acre.
They expect to make l 900 tons the present year.
4 few miles TO the southwark of this plantation
is that of Mr.. Kinds, the mill and buildings OF
which were burned some months since, but sub
sequently rebuilt. Everything about this estate,
though on q omewhat smaller scale than its
neighbor,-is evidently in fourishing condition.
The estimated yield for the present year is 400
tons. In the immediate neighborhood Of Kinds,
Mr.. D.. r. Vida and others are cultiyating several
hundred acres of fine looking cane.
Adjoining the Kohala Plantation on the North
is that of DR.. Wight, the mill of which is run
by water-power, while those of the other two
estates are by steam. The next crop of this
plantation is set down at $50 tons.
Beyond the plantations, TO the northeast,
until the deep indentation of Waimanu is reached,
the country is cut up into gulches, well-watered,
with fertile reaches of land between, which in
time may become the seat OF sewers. thriving
plantations. AT present. it is in and about these
gulches that the most of the native population Of
North Kohala reside. They have the appearance
of an Industrious and generally thriving people,
az compared with those of other parts of the
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