The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-10-31
PROSPECTUS OF the OAHU COLOMBIA
TON COMPANY.
DESCRIPTION OF ESTATE.

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DESCRIPTION OF ESTATE.
63,250 acres in fee simple and
$4,000 acres held under lease, at
present carrying between 10000
and $4,000 head of cattle and 260
horses and mules.
A large area of this property is
suitable, according to locality, for
sugar, rice, vineyards, fruit orchards
and small homesteads, the remain
der being fine mountain side grazing
ground.
Under the proposed arrangements
of the company to be formed an ex-
ceptional opportunity is offered for
acquiring homesteads, by a system
of deferred or gradual payment as
may he agreed upon; the whole be-
ing within easy reach of Honolulu,
the capital city and principal port,
with a steadily growing market
CLIMATE.
The climate is pre-eminently
healthy, the northeast trades sweep
ing across the island for the greater
part of the year.
While there are no available re-
gisters of barometer, thermometer or
rainfall for this particular district,
there is no reason to question their
strict analogy with that of the Nuu-
anu Valley, in the same island, and
in which Honolulu and its suburbs
are situated, where the rainfall
amounts to 1928 inches per annum
from minimum of 0.94 in March
to maximum of 3.43 in December;
but these figures relating only to the
lower levels in and about Honolulu
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 GO to 80 Fair,
varied of course by situation, eleva.
ton above the sea, accessibility to
trade winds, &c.
HONOLULU RANCH
Containing 43, 250 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 II miles, the latter offering
singular facilities for an Inexpensive
railway track.
The water route to Honolulu is
from Honolulu harbor skirting the
reef to Pearl harbor, magnificent
inlet of the ocean protected by a
reef or bar with II to IL feet, but
inside with from 20 fathoms to 3
fathoms of land-locked, protected
anchorage, fit for all classes of
coasters and yachts. On the west
arm of this harbor honolulu has q
frontage of no less than five miles,
all steep-to, 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 Waia-
nae mountains which form natural
boundary so well defined and Sc
difficult to pass as to render fencing
on this line unnecessary. But where
honolulu adjoins the neighboring
properties, it is securely fenced.
There are twenty miles of tive-wire
fence with redwood posts, and ten
miles batten fence, all in good order
and erected within the last sever
years.
Stretching from Pearl halbor ant
skirting the base of Waianae noun
tains southwark and eastward is {
plain of about 1000 acres of ricf
alluvial soil, eminently suitable-tht
upper portions for sugar and the
lower for rice lands. Of these
latter, from 5000 to 4 900 acres may
be irrigated by artesian wells, thu
elevation above high water marx
being between IL and 35 feet. One
well sunk in this district in 1881, tt
depth of 1856 feet, has yielded un
ceasingly 2,400 gallons per houl
since completion.
On the eastern slopes, among the
foot hills of the Waianae mountains
are over 10000 acres of land, suit
able for small farms, vineyards
orchards, &c. Several perennial
springs flow through these valleys
and ravines, and the extensive traces
of taro culture show that in thu
hands of the old natives there wa,
no lack of water.
Wells have been sunk at elevation
from 400 to 700 feet above the SCI
level. Water was found at from 81
to 60 feet below the surface. On
is a flowing well; on the other
windmill sufiices to raise drinking
water for surrounding herds.