The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-05-19

streams that more soberiy melndered through
the plains below. As We gazed upon tic sylvan
scere Of enciantment, some one quoted the lines
OF O. ". Holmes:
Joy smiles in the fountain, health hoEs in the rils,
And the nBands Of silver unwind from The hills
They breathe not the mist Of The bacehanals dreams,
Bat the Hles Of innoeeuee Goat on their streams"
Whereupon a more practical minded member
of the party, with a taste for figures, upset all
the romance in q jily, by remarking that it had
been estimated that the average discharge OF
water by this particular stream was two gallons
a secondhand how much was that per diem?
We leave our readers, who are so inclined, to
make the calculation for themselves.
1t was also stated that the quantity of strictly
cane land in Kappa was $500 acres, and in Kea-
La 1900 acres-a total of 4300-which viii make
a very pretty plantation. Allowing one-third to
be in crop all the time, with an average yield of
three tons OF sugar to the acre-wbich is by no
means an oyerestimate for virgin land with irri-
gation-and we have an annual product of 1900
tons of sugar. Here is another opportunity for
making figures, which will show that We were
not far astray in declaring that " there's mil
lions in it,''-as Colonel Sellers would say.
Leaving Kapaa, we rode across the dividing
gulch to Kealia and visited the late proprietor,
Mr.. f. Krull, at his very pieturesquely situated
residence. Here we were Hospitality entertained
Mt lunch, for which our long morning ride had
given US keen appetites. The beef cattle belong3V
ing to the estate number some $500 head, mostly
of superior breeds, which have been sold with
the land, together with a boiling house, and all
the necessary apparatus for reducing the carcasses
of the animals IN tallow The land of Real1
available for the cultivation Of cane is of some
what less extent than that of Kapaa, but is of the
same quality of deep, rich soil, and equally
well situated for irrigation. On the lower part
is large rice plantation, held under lease by
Messrs. Chulan & Co., of Honolulu. whose broad
fields of waving rice made a very handsome ap-
pearance.
The only requisite lacking to make the new
plantation u great success, is n good harbor in
which vessels may lay in safety to take off pro-
duee. AnahOla, the nearest anchorage for coas-
tiers, is not considered safe at all times. There
is boat landing at Kappa, but the trade winds
blow right on shore all along the coast. 1t Is
thought however that by blasting some rocks at
the mouth of the Wailua river, schooners may be
enabled to enter there, and once inside. the depth
VI UoNSA Va x GkhL Up tdS
is sufficient to allow the lading of a vessel of sixty
or seventy tons burthen. A tramway from the
mill to the river for the quick transport of pro-
duce would then be all that could be needed to
make this the leading sugar plantation of the
islands. And there would be no engineering
difficulties in laying a tramway from Kapaa quite
in to the bay of Nawiliwili.
We learn that the company have already con-
tracted with one party to prepare 200 acres of
land ready for planting with cane, and that a
number of others are in treaty to take up land
for the purpose of cultivating on shares,-the
cooperative system being much favored by the
company. The lumber for houses, fencing, agri-
implements, and a number of laborers
will be sent to the plantation by the first oppOr
tunity; SO it is very apparent that the company
6 means business"
When expressing our surprise and qualification
at finding such large and splendid lands for agri-
cultural purposes yet to be developed on this
island, we were told that there were still others
equally large and fine, now unoccupied, but which
may ere long be brought under cultivation. The
district of Mana was particularly mentioned, on |
the opposite side of the island from Nawiliwili,
where at least 10000 acres of land are to be
found of just such character as that OF Kappa.
But there are no running streams on the land,
and a range of mountains intervenes between it
and the Waimea river. There is no question
however that a handsome profit would be the
result of the necessary outlay required to bring
the water of this stream on to the land of Mana,
by means of a ditch. The cost of such a work
has been estimated at about $50 900, but the
cane it would be the means of cultivating would
a product of at least $500. 900 per
lnnum. With such magnificent resources lying
to be developed, should we not hide our
reads in shame if we continue idly to dawdle and
in Difference to the timid conservatism of
Our return to Nawiliwili, and back to Homo
ulu by the Kilauea, where we arrived at 8 a. M,
IN Sunday, presented no incident worthy of
pecial note. We were absent from town but
hirty-nine hours,-travelled about forty miles
N horseback got enlarged views of the re-
ources of Kauai-and enjoyed the trip exceed
ngly.