The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-11-27
PEARL CITY.
The Result Of Enterprise
and Pluck.
The First Pub &c Land
Sale.
Builded Upon Merit Without
a Boom"

A few years ago, when a party of
q dozen or more gentlemen made a
circuit of Oahu, and inspected the
lands proposed to be bonded and
made available for the purposes of
settlement and public use, they
were facetiously called the "coloniz-
alton party" by the wags of Homo
lulu, who stood upon the street
corners and wished the party sar-
castle goodbye. The then man
ager of the development scheme
took all jokes goodnaturedly. He
had faith in the scheme which the
public had not. His faith proves
now to have been founded in reason /;
if faith, followed by good works. as
exemplified at Pearl City and along
the line of the Oahu Railway, are TO
count for anything.
The development of this scheme,
the largest individual enterprise
ever set afoat in Hawaii, barring
Col. Spreckel's steamship lines and
mammoth plantation, has grown so
gradually but steadily amongst us
that many people as yet hardly
realize the sacrifices which have
been made and the work that has
been done by the management of
the Oahu Railway and Land enter
prises to develop the resources of
Oahu, by bringing the large Pearl
City tract into quick communication
with the Honolulu market and max
ing it available TO the better classes
of HOnolulu's business and profess
sional people, who desire to live in
the country within reach of town.
Pearl City is to be, if anything, the
"Menlo Park" to Honolulu.
The citizens with long heads are
fully awoke to the prospects and
the situation and many have al
ready slipped out to Pearl City, by
the afternoon train, and picked out
lots which they intend to bid upon
next Saturday afternoon.
AS to view and location Pearl
City is far superior to Honolulu, and
the clay of the land" at the former
place is not only much more beauti-
full, but will sustain cheap and
practical system of sewerage, such
as our metropolitan location will not
warrant, without the expenditure of
many hundred thousands of dollars.
The facts that no "boom" has been
connected with the development of
Pearl City; that it now offers, not
as speculation doomed to collapse,
but as an investment upon its intrin-
sic merits as Legitimate enterprise,
cheap and desirable building lots in
fee simple, surrounded by large
tracts of lease hold lands, which car
be had for the asking, upon long
terms; that it offers residents in
ducements in fare rates and water
privileges which are equal, if not
better, than those offered by Homo
lulu, and that the terms and condi-
tions of sale of lots are so easy as to
be within the means of the mechanic
classes as well as within those of the
wealthy, are facte not 10 be forgot
ten.
The new town lies just beyond
Remond Grove. 1t marks the be-
ginning of a suburban city within
twelve and half miles, or thirty
minutes run of Honolulu. The new
town is laid out to the best advaD-
tage and covers series of splendid
building terraces which arise from
the depot to the branch reservoir
100 feet above the sea level and
within half mile of the station.
The water works for Pearl City
alone have thus far cost an outlay
of $25, 900 to 100000, and have q
storage capacity of over two millions
of gallons, which with the new and
larger reservoir to be built jast bacl,
of the town will give future stor-
age capacity of over $4,000, 900 gal,
Ions of pure, cold mountain water
These water works are not pros
pective. They are an actual reality
and the pipes are laid Throughout
the main streets, developing at any
point fine head of water for family
use or for irCigating purposes. The
lots offered Tor sale are mostly situa
ted upon graded streets and ar,
ready for building upon. The sol
is a rich, red loan in which will
flourish either trees, or vegetables
or flowers. The main avenues OF
Pearl City are Lehua, Male ant
! Woodlawn, laid out in the orde
, named. The cross streets are mum
: bered from First TO Tenth. TIL
avenues are each eighty feet wild
) and the cross streets are sixty fee
; each,
9 Thus far some twenty-five o
, thirty lots have been disposed OF
| mostly 10 young men OF the hes
. class, who will be llawaiis futur
0 business men and milll0nalres, III
y Inducements offered, and now beln
b taken advantage OF by many Others
!, are not 10 boom" but 10 deyelo
y the resources 0f tho country III
! u 10 hepause there ~ assurance .
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