Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-10-31

at p5o an acre Tor COlOnSatlOn purposes,
for resident and improving occupants.
THE KAHUKU RANCH,
Consists of 10000 acres in fec sim
pie and 5000 acres Government lease
hold, the easehold having an unexpired
term of II years, at an ANNUAL rental of
Sass.
On the estate is level tract OF land
at an elevation of from 10 to IS feet
above sea level, extending from Waia-
mea to Laie, distance of eight miles
of sea frontage, and an average breadth
of one mile from the sea to the foot
hills. This tract is pronounced by com
petcnt Judges to be excellent Sugar
cane land. There-are already flowing
artesian wells on either side ofthis level
tract, while near the middle is an un-
failing spring in which the water rises
to within az feet of the surface, in a
column Of at least one foot in diameter,
and flows thence TO the sea. This proves
that an ample supply may be found for
irrigation.
There have been offered by Rice
growers to the present owner $4,000
year for 400 acres of this land, water
for cultivation being furnished.
A contract has been made to bore
five additional artesian wells &c comply
with this requirement.
1t may be incidentally noted here
that in no case on this island Of Oahu
has boring for artesian wells failed il
sunk from an elevation not exceeding
3a feet above sea level.
There are about $1,000 acres Of
lands suitable for fruit, small farms, or
pasture, ON the Kahuku property, esti
mated as saleable for colonization pur-
poses at from SIS to $50.
KAwAIloA AND WAIAMEA RANCHES.
Contain $4,000 acres surveyed land,
and about 20, 900 acres unsurveyed, all
held on lease having an unexpired
term of "a years, at yearly rental OF
$2,aoo. This rental is at present re-
duced to $I,7oo by sub-letting a few
acres Of faro (weD land. There are
60 miles of new S feet wire fence set
on California redwood posts 1t is fur.
ther subdivided into paddocks of from
200 acres to 1900 acres each, enabling
the proprietors TO pass their stock from
one feeding ground to another as may
be advisable.
This land is well adapted throughout
for fruit growing or pastoral purposes;
there are several wells with windmills on
them to supply water for stock. One
reservoir of this kind has been built at
the Kawailoa ranch with a retaining
wall $50 feet in length, 100 feet thick
at bottom, 5 feet at summit, capable of
storing I,Ia7,soo cubic feet Of water,
lor an outlayof $I,25o. This indicates
what may be done at the Honolulu
Ranch.
GENERAL REMARKS.
Kawailoa and Waiamea ranches adj
iaat biaaGat BfoPsF faoaaE and t2gf5pe1 oy85 se4~gs
of land. The honolulu property is
distant about twelve miles, but is con-
nected with them by an excellent road
These properties have at peesent &C
miles of good fencing. The land is
well grassed, with fair proportion OF
timber throughout. Live stock of all
kinds thrive and fatten on the pastures,
and by increasing the number of in.
closed paddocks and working the COM
bined estates Systematically the mum
Der of cattle and horses on the land
might be largely increased.
The number OF cattle, 1000 to Is,-
900 now on these estates has been al.
ready mentioned, also 26c head Of
horse-stock and mules, together valued
at $3I2,ooo. The horned cattle are
bred from Hereford" and ''shorthorn
Durham" imported for these estates,
and they thrive and fatten without any
stall feeding or housing
The horse stock is exceptionally
good, one Sire, Shenandoah having won
over $4,000 as two-year-old in the
United States. There are also three
trotting stations, two of which cost
$1,000 each and there are unbroken
colts and fillies from these sires, some
four or five years old, which may be
readily broken for saddle or harness.
These properties, if united, would
give the proposed Company controll-
ing interest in the Honolulu market,
for produce of all kinds, with a steadily
increasing demand to which the con
tracts recently entered into by the
Pacific and Oceanic Steamship Com
panies may prove valuable stimulant.
Indeed it IS possible to create trade
with San Francisco for carcases OF
beef and mutton carried in refrigerating
chambers by the Oceanics Steamships
The income from these estates at
present, including leases is, $40, 900 a
year. Moderate calculations show that
these figures might be nearly quad
rupled.
The fishing rights on Pearl harbor
pertaining to the Honolulu estate,
now leased for a short term at $I,7oo,
can be rented at $4,000 on the expIra.
ton Of the present lease.
A limestone quarry on the Honouli-
uli property at present pays small
annual rent, and royalty on the lime
produced. The entire demand for this
kingdom may be supplied from this
quarry, instead OF, as hitherto, import