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

Males
A large area of this property is suit
able, according to locality, for Sugar,
Rice, Vineyards, Fruit Orchards, and
small Homesteads, the remainder being
fine mountain side grazing ground.
Under the proposed arrangements
Of the Company 70 be formed an ex-
ceptional opportunity is offered for
acquiring homesteads, by system Of
deferred or gradual payment as may be
agreed upon the whole being within
easy reach of Honolulu, the capital
city and principal port, with steadily
growing market.
CLIMATE.
The climate is pre-eminently healthy,
the North. east trades sweeping across
the island for the greater part of the
year.
While there are no available registers
barometer, thermometer or rainfall for
this particular district, there is no rea-
son to question their strict analogy
with that Of the Nuuanu Valley, in the
same island, and in which Honolulu
and its suburbs are situated, where the
rainfall amounts to 33.2S inches per
annum from a minimum of o.o4 in
March to maximum of 3.43 in Dec
ember but these figures relating only
to the lower levels in and about Homo
lulu do not by any means represent the
rainfall on the Waianae Mountains,
which is very much heavier.
Thus the temperature may be said
to range from 68 to IS Fahr., varied Of
course by situation, elevation above the
sea, accessibility to trade winds, &c.
HONOLULU RANCH.
Containing 4,325o acres in fee SIM
pie. This land is favorably situated,
having direct communication with
Honolulu by water, distance 10 miles,
or by land by good road. distance IT
miles, the latter offering singular facili-
for an inexpensive railway track.
The water route to Honolulu is
from Honolulu harpor skirting the reef
to Pearl harbor, magnificent inlet of
the Ocean protected by reef or bar
from 40 fathoms to ) fathoInnss' fthns'es oe ranalh1 aEllh
locked, protected anchorage, fit for all
classes of coasters and yachts. On
the west arm Of this harbor Honouliuli
has frontage of no less than five
miles, all steep-too, with from three to
twenty fathoms in front of it. The
whole fishing rights of this west arm
are part of the property.
honolulu Ranch is bounded by
the sea and Pearl river on two sides,
and extends in westerly direction to
the divide of the Waianae mountains
which form a natural boundary so well
defined and so difficult to pass as to
render fencing orfthis line unnecessary.
But where Honouliul adjoins the
neighbouring properties, it is securely
fenced. There are twenty miles of
five wire fence with redwood post, and
ten miles batten fence, all in good
order and erected within the last seven
years
Stretching from Pearl harbor and
skirting the base OF Waianae mountains
southwark and eastward is a plain of
about 1000 acres Of rich alluvial soil,
eminently suitable--the upper portions
for sugar and the lower for rice lands,
Of these latter, from 5000 to 1900
acres may be irrigated by artesian wells,
the elevation above high water mark
being between IL and IS feet. One
we'll sunk in this district in 1881, to
dept Of 1856 feet, has yielded unceas-
ingly a,4oo gallons per hour since com
pletion.
On the eastern slopes, among the
foot hills of the Waianae mountains are
over 10000 acres Of land, suitable for
small farms, vineyards, orchards, &c !;
several perennial spring, flow through
these valleys and ravines, and the ex-
tensive traces of taro culture show that
in the hands of The old natives there
was no lack of water.
Wells have been sunk at elevations
from 400 to 100 feet above the sea
level. Water was found at from 80 to 60
feet below the surface. One is a flowing
we'll on the other a windmill sufices
to raise drinking water for surrounding
herds.
The ravines Of the Waianae slope
are narrow and readily lend themselves
to favoring the construction of storage
dams for purposes Of irrigation.
The Waianae mountains attract or
precipitate sufficient rainfall in ordi-
nary seasons for the maintenance of the
present heavily-grassed condition OF
their slopes, and due attention to the
forestry will enable them to carry more
numerous herds Of cattle than those
which now fatten hock-deep on the Ma
nienie or Bermuda grass.
The lower and more open slopes ore
suitable for dairy, poultry or fruit
raising They are within easy reach of
the main road to Honolulu, and when
peopled must soon invite the construc-
tion Of railway to the capital.
The Sugar cane and Rice land of this
property is valued at from $Ioo to
$aoo an acre, and may be taken up
in large or small tracts at these figures ;
the grazing, farm and fruit lands are
valued at from SIo to $50 per arce. II