The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-12-14

an hour or for the night. Tn this
nelghborhood is some Of tho fnnst
laho on the island-a rich, dark loan
covered with dense growth Of forasi
trees, mostly ohia; or shruhberv anI
FERNS. The soil is, in some nlaces
very deep, and probably it is we'll
auapCed TO any kind of tropicaI fruit-
above the sea. ' -'00 iee'
oN THE CROWN LAND ESTATE,
A little farther on there is a fine
custer OF orange trees loaded with
ILI!I, Wnlch were tabu, as the land on
Mnlcn they grew had been taken up
iot homestead, and trespassers had
oeen cautioned not to enter the pre-
!lSes. These trees were a pretty
slght, covered, as they were, with
ranges from the size of a cherry to
the full-grown yellow fruit. It is
sald that in this region they bear all
Cne year, and certainly the appear
ance OF the trees indicated eXtraor--
binary vigor, and shows that here is
an opening for orange groves that, as
YET, nave shown no sign of blight.
Ihls region is part of the large
crown Land domain, and is now
oelng surveyed for homesteads, quite
number of which are already taken
up, cleared off, and partially improved
with houses or huts. Here again our
driver waxed eloquent over the posi-
bllIties of this region. q tell YOU
this is the best land in the kingdom,
and there's enough of it to make a
thousand homesteads. When Mr..
Curtis Somebody, the man that
looks out for the Queens land,
comes up here again, Pm going to
put in my bid for homestead of five
acres right about here. You see how
the kanakas fence in their lands, they
just cut down the ferns and pile 'em
into fence, which makes a sort of a
wall. Just as soon as I get my claim
fixed, I'll plant lot of orange trees
around the whole Of it, you see, and
then all the rest with coffee trees,
and then among the trees I'll plant
taro. All we have to do is to stick
the tarO tops in the ground; the sun
and rain does the rest, and in six
months we get crop of taro such as
you never see, about foot long and
big around as q milk can. A man
can live on the taro till the coffee be-
gins to bear, and then the shekels I'll
begin to come, and little later on,
the oranges. So you see there is a
chance for a Teller like me, who's
been a rollin' stone all my life.n
THE NEW VOLCANO ROAD.
This much talked of road was COM
menced under the Thurston admins
tration and vigorously pushed on till
the close of the biennial period end
ing March 81, 1890, when fifteen and
one-quarter miles of excellent car
riage roadway were completed, and
work was then suspended until new
appropriation might be voted by the
Legislature, which was done at it's
session in the same year, and the
sum of $4,000 appropriated to con-
tinue and finish it. Work on it was
not resumed, however, till August of
the present year, when all the avail
able prison force of Hilo lat present
So mem was set to work, and as much
additional help as could be secured
(about thirty mem for one thousand
dollars per month. These combined
forces,-prisoners and hired laborers,
have been at work presumably all
the time, and up to November 26, one
and One-quarter miles more had been
made, with a fair prospect of finish
ing to the Seventeen-mile post by
January l, 1892. This new section of
over one mile made by the present
administration, is apparently we'll
done, but the work is going on very
slowly-one and three-quarter miles
| in over four months, or less than half
a mile per month, with lightweight
| or ninety men at work. At this rate
| it will take at least twenty eight to
| thirty months more to complete the
road to the Volcano, the entire dis
lance being thirty-one miles, or pos
sibly thirty-two.
The route chosen for the road from
| the "ti swamp" through the woods is
vastly better than the old trail over
| the execrable pahoehOe plain; and,
moreover, it is through what now APP
pears to be rich cultivatable region,
which NAV in time be settled with an
industrious and desirable population.
And. then, as regards beauty, there is
no comparison between the tWO-the
new route will be one of the most
picturesque for travel to be found on
the Islands. Those at work on it
think there is plenty of good material
along the route; if so, then the work
ought to be pushed on faster, and
| completed before the close of 1892. A
quarter mile of movable railway
track has lately been provided to
expedite the work, in bringing 90
from a distance, and it is possible that
it may yet be accomplished before the
close of 1892. No administration ever
had a finer opportunity to display its
energy and secure the goodwill OF the the
entire Hawaiian people than the
present, in pushing on to completion
a work which can and must be done.
And when this section is finished, the
public highway around Hawaii must
be carried on through Kau and kona
till travel and the farmers produce
can pass readily over every mile on
wheels instead OF on the backs Oh
kanakas and donkeys as at present.
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