The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-05-05
HAMAKUA

HAMAKUA.
and o 9o5s t4 462 s5sn Of Il Fe9 FHs ysi ts 6 cG 4e m is Sats yId SSie %s sis P Gf fI6g
springs pr g9f in St the 9aiIe ley i h%f The The falls al 9@ OF Hii lave w s"' dr re Which SG h0h is
q du Ts&aFk Of tao or to- sapplS the n 6s Shfafs' q aamak Hah,e M al p and
its people: < few acres acre Of land r adapted to cane and cGass: Ths
R Eo the on people eI5ee BY Si S9S sFs s ste tRa "A a surf Ut % eo d be . "s edi in sG getti hg
fesss F %S$' 8 a Ia5 p 59 a fair road q for PSeS anIm f m %s%aa Is bss% made
t %s sfaEsri + to e q fa RFt Of s6iP@Snt aseG, ta a %lf H to ths seaf saf ss i 99
vs. Use You'd not Be more convenient S : safe s than than a ~ boat tai at WaRio,
road to it. The landing at Honomaiinq was examined, but no i'm
weather yreat eG.t When fRe t land Ia0 of Wai fan net h nGT b be used g Pa MGaia seems be 11 Ve eG.
mirabIy adapted for a large sugar plantationi and the usual products
and WaikoeRoe have patches of good land for sugar and other
The landing of Kaihumoku was examined, but not considered,
thonghp present IF s 6e eTfT%7t" Ws s 4 PbeGe in o t Gep eefah Hb@cyr %Snf Il % @pUIhd
doubtless doubles IS b used in M g good weather eat to % light LIRE ireig ghtnu the Ella land 90 II IA IA
IN ine na a. I TINnota nGn hs fb acres Fst on na aT an adI IT a n or fr cf fine c;on rhe n
of a 6T rel k nttGEe having Z SOME I6af b Large rocks Sht laying nng,I 5 Is a ahns hn1t a pS-
we would need to be cleared md, by h blasting tin k some Peo large rocks md $ datdo
the * n1o %9pl fo be ~ veT Ee great r. tbe an n@n the ef l1 Hdbofa at H %Riab see woui L
e 6e RdaP o5ene for e a%S o tbepg fFon ailY' fr lit s9 KaSeia W Tayin 4seo %rl grHT
as aiy q 1an EHE Et but ih is . simply y a = point ntnG Of rocks adSoF F"nnii E h into stt the ef sea- fps
plantation .i%nf of Mes oEi siem s * nd Mar Sdensr o n n Thieh 10th there r is dg good
may produce produce: The + seaG GdtL& of water water for mechanical GhaIl69 PVT purposes is a
showers, does not suffer from drought, but is singularly dedcieht in
yoIrs, q BY Wells il the su1ehes like that sunk by Mr.; Kinds in ko-
should provide themselves with reservoirs, but the Commission would
d d54is1s at C GoysEn%snt szR s E s.s{ nat 3a tfS the saRp 6ss+ d6 6565%4na y may nay Ps
developing ne the district Just back of Hoaok ss Plantation Ia is s a large
ceiied j in some l way great ra sd damage Pu m1st result a@G " to the n di ifTs IS Il
landing at Honokaa is the best, s far seen in the district. The
Commission would recommend that the landing be improved by
ent derrick, which should be replaced by a substantial iron derrick
capable of raising eight tons weight, and n road of easy grade laid
can be o laid out as to furnish access to most of the lands of the
district. At this point heavy machinery can be LANDED, except at
freight can be landed at the landings heretofore mentioned when the
weather is favorable, or by a rope buoyed off from the shore. Mahiki
a large outlay for a road to it. Paauhau is doubtless one of the finest
lands in the district, presenting many advantages for one r two
with very good land till Kaholalele is reached. Some 10000 acres of
forest land belonging to Government lie between Kalopa and Kaohe,
protected from trespass. Kohalalele has some fine cane land, and
the landing offers another opportunity for the erection of a derrick,
which will e necessary, a several large gnlches intervene between
landing at Honokaa. There should be a platform of concrete laid on
the rocks some fifteen II twenty feet above the sea for the derrick,
ana a track from the. platform some hVe hundred feet to the top OF
the dug-way, on a n incline, with a hosting winch and cable.
The District of Hanakua may become a most productive district.
In commenting on lands we have spoken of them as sugar lands, as
that will doubtless be the staple product; but there is almost no land
that is not culivatable, and everywhere the fruits of the tropics and
many of the temperate zone can be raised. The land is rolling, not
so level as generally represented, and the Government road is an il
Supervisors. There are no fnsuperable obstacles to the construction
of n goo art road from Wainio to Paauhaue and it shouIJ he bniIt
most ali the finest lands back of the district re held by ~raziers.
of danger to the prosperity of Hamakua, which should at any cost he
saved from the fate of Waimea. The law under which the Commits
ments, but in a district like this it would be manifestly unjust that
the small amount of cultivated land should pay taxes while the
proprietors fail to develop them; and your Commissioners would sug-
gest that lands capable of cultivation should bear their taxation
made against industry and enterprise. Here, as elsewhere, the great
requisite is populatiOn,-people to develop the resources of the district
Where mills ae established on the factory principle of grinding for
of small tracts, every encouragement should be given and
alu EXTENDED IN TIT way oI IN improvements suggested. AS TO the
amount of land capable OF cultivation, there are doubtless many
thousands of acres, but in the absence of accurate surveys no esti-
can be made. There is doubtless sufficient cane land to raise
cane enough for ten to fifteen mills.