Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-08-01

Har> fbou IT. P.opfs, a. Plantations aud
Vs Prospects DHomsr to Hakaioa

/ a, We crossed the picturesque Waikiki
outeati bound, Sooner gratefully reminiscent
Of Mr. Amod's cats aud quite as apprecj.
lively mindful Of Mr Anolds coffee and
muifns We paused long enough for long
/ 'iok up to the hoary head of Mauns Kea,
another look seawafd and quiet inspection OF
the long stretch Of half placid, half restless
water beneath the bridge. To one whose boy
hood had been passed in region Of trout
streams the FIRST view Of Hawaiian streams is
one Of keen delight. Better brooks for trout.
| ing barring the absence Of trout were never
rain funowed OF meadow bordered OF grass
| irinerd Or forest shaded. The lack of trout
/ in Hawaiian streams has been primarily per
hap, the fault Of the Hawaiian Undine. But
| | cannot understand why the absence Of trout
has been so long tolerated by Americans. I
| said as much to some one-Ned Macfatlane
| think as we were were riding in Wailuku
| Valley on Maui " The water Is too warm -
he answered. said as much to another
" The torrents rise too suddenly and are too
swift. " he replied. | could make myself agree
with either. So, when ! said as much to Mr..
Arnold, it was exceedingly gratifying TO hear
him say at isn't too swift for em here. There
are trout in the Wailuku now" 1t was al.
most too good to believe but Mr.. Arnold
explicitness left no room for doubt. II his
experiment prove successflh--the fish are now
about rs months old; il remember rightly
every stream from Waiakea in liilo to the
Halawa in Kohaa may be stocked with trout,
from the Wailuku, or directly from California
need not tell trout fishermen what that would
mean. | fairly iingled as looked down into
the stream and wished might whip /, with
leader Of gray hackles.
The Waikiki bridge reminded me that the
two liilo bridges had met thus fat were well
built. There have been built in the district,
since August, 1884, IA bridges under contract
with the Pacific Bridge Company, at an ag.
gregate cost OF StS, 600. They are built over
the following streams Waallca, 1870 feet
span WaiIuku, Us feet; Puueo, 40 feet ;
Honolii, Iss feet ; Pahoehoe. S. feet; Papai-
kou, 65 feet /; Honomu, ITO feet Umauma,
ITO feet; Opea, IS feet; Nunui, IS feet; Wal
komalu, 6S feet; Pohakupuka. 80 feet. All
or nearly all these bridges are built according
TO the Fink -Goirill truss patent or plan. so tai
as my observation goes they are all well built,
and at such height above the streams they
span that they seem perfectly safe. Road Super
visor Arnold has been responsible for ,heii
location, and his judgement has been confirmed
by the action OF every ireshet since they were
built so far as have learned. When rod,
from Hilo to Waipio the approaches TO some
of the above mentioned bridges had not beer
, completed, and the residents Of the two dis
: tticts. Hamakua and llp, were growing nc
. end about it-Mr Castle aad echolng theiI
disgruntlirg. But since we crossed them ouI
precious minister OF the interior has gathered
, his wandering wits sufficiently to authorize
| their building
Onomea was not my first stopping place Oh
my outward trip, but as it is the next planta
,iou beyond Papaikou. | shall tell what know
of it in its order. In some respects it is ,h'
mos, interesting of the plantations visited
Its mill and centrifugals are run by waite
$ power, and steam is used only i'll boiling
y Onomea's reputation for hospitality is like tina
4 Of Ulupalakua, Maui. For twenty years
has been sugar plantation. But beior
it became that it was beautiful hoRe
y Their name is legion who have ,arred un'\e
]! its reposeful roof Artists, poets, idlers, pr4c
a tical men and beautiful women; two va
tions OF hosts and two Of guests, have nd
4. the place vocal with delighted gaiety. = 1t
picturesqueness is scarcely less than its hospi
r, talty. land when have said that, hav
u unconsciously paid tribute to half handre
20 spots on the island Of Hawaii.) Some OF MI
il Furneaux's happiest painting, some OF Mi
, Williams most graphic photography, hav
been done at Onomea. There are few spot
J better worth remembering in black and whit
i than the crossing at the Onomea landing am
u the view Of and from the old mill. When
It was there Mr.. Herber, c. Austin was mana
!, ging the plantation, assisted by his brother
Frank H. and C.. j., the former in charge {
cultivation and the latter of the sugar boiling
10 Capt. !. l.. Robertson was engineer and NJ
IS b. H. Grant-since dead of consumption
IF poor ellow--was book.keeper. Every on
!. who has visited the plantation recognizes at
4; gance-though no one realizes the fact bette
than the presen; managemen,-'hat the s'gf
'' of Onomea was i'll chosen. 1t is 4I9 I.a4th fec
x above the seattle manager charged me
1t "be sure and get in the half inch and
Ye ought have been built just high enough to b
out q the reach of the waves. The up'hi
hauling OF cane and the down-grads uanspo
- ton of sugar is expensive at the best. But II
u expensiveness Of the first has been lessened b
'e the ingenuity Of Mr.. Frank Austin--a your
gentleman who uniics the versatility oi bo,
inventor with the huency Of born conyers
OF ,ionalis,. Readers OF the Press know somcthir
,y of his cane cullivat or, and will know some.h'r
is OF his weed satherer His hydraulic rai'"s
is quite as clever in execution as the iorme
and as clever in conception as either. IN
'' problem, in brief, was as follows; There vi
le a field Of SO acres Of good cane land who
Id upper limit was touched by the lowest po.at
4. which cane nigh, be ttumed TO mill. !. WI
g, Of course possible to convey cane by carts
wagons 10 the ilune. But il would have bee
- an expensive aud vesatious task because Il
10 "hqui6ed sunshine" Of Hilo has such softe
We ing and mellowing effect upon the ii''o ea'
nc fields that waggoning over them Is Off
3 practically impossible. To put steam engin
and stationery railway tracks upon the hei
=" would have been an expense unjus,ihed by q
III out look. Fortunately also, the mill had
so extra oversize, wheel. The manager boug
IS. some cable wire, and some portable Iamw
ne apd. by means Of the wheel, run by the val
in single fiume, hauled the cane from all pa
- OF the field at cost Of ~, 50 an acre or
ST. per ton OF sugar. Hauling by teams vou