The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-05-18
The GROWN LANDS.
TO BE ADDED TO THE PUBLIC
DOMAIN.
And Thrown Open For Settlement
About 1900, 900 Acres Now Owned
by the Government.


start in the Governments new policy Of
opening up the crown lands for settle
ment. Mr. Iaukea will lease 1000
acres in the Puukapu district and then
proceed to open similar and adjacent
tracts on Hawaii
The utterances of the STAR have
been towards this consummation and it
can credit to itself somewhat Of the
popularity of the project.
In a few weeks the crown lands will
be incorporated in the public domain
and treated as such. Both government
and crown lands then being the same
category, all that is not at present
leased will be put on the market for
lease or sale.
There are oSs, 900 acres of crown
lands on all these Islands
OF this, 100000 acres are on Ha-
wall, 10000 acres on Maui, $4,000
acres on sMolokai, $4,000 acres on
Lanai, 10000 acres on Oahu and
$4,000 acres on Kauai.
All but $4,000 acres of this land
are under lease, and all of the Unbiased
land except 2,4oo acres is on Hawaii.
The intention of the Government is
to secure a surrender from the present
holders of large leases by offering such
terms as will better pay them than
what the income of their lands is at
present. For instance, practically the
whole island of Lanai is under a lease
to Fred H. Hayselden.
He pays just $3.50 per year, but he
is not allowed to sub let or assign He
holds therefore control of about 100,
900 acres. The Government could
easily afford to pay him quite a sum
and yet make big profit by securing
smaller holders of the lands.
Besides the crown lands, the lands
now owned by the Provisional Govern
ment in these Islands amount to 828,-
900 acres. OF this amount, 5SS,ooo
acres are on Hawaii, III,ooo acres on
Maui, 10000 acres on Lanai, 20, 600
acres on Molokai, 10000 acres on Ka-
hoolawe, $4,000 acres on Oahu, and
$4,000 acres on Kauai. The income
derived is SIS, 900 year. About 500,
900 acres are fit for cultivation
The tracts of land to be put on the
market in the Waimea District Of
Kohala, Hawaii, as well as that covered
by future leases, are to be let undel
very advantageous terms. They will
be divided into twenty-aCre lots, anC
for the first three years no rent will be
charged and the only expense will be
the taxes to be paid by the lessor
After this period has elapsed, one
dollar per acre per annum will be
charged, and at the end of thirty years
the land will again revert to the Gov
eminent. Special conditions must be
observed by the lessor in regard tc
planting a certain number of deciduou'
trees in order to clothe the soil anew
which has been denuded of forest
The intention is to get those certain
agricultural portions of the crown land
away from the present large holders anC
place them in a position so that small
landholders can obtain them. The
income from the crown lands, at pres
ent, does not average five cents an acre
and upon the theory that the agricul
tural portion amounts to one tenth o
the total land, there would be an in
come of $Ioo, 900 yearly at one dolla
per acre per annum, instead Of $4S, 600
the present income. There is n,
better example of the advantages of tn
demonstrating and dividing up of tn
present large tracts than what is no.
presented in the Olaa lots in Puni
Hawaii, on the Volcano road, con
mencing eleven miles from Hio an
extending to within five miles of-th
crater. The wonderful effects of tn
settling up of this tract has been e.
plotted before in the newspapers {
383 fifty-acre lots laid out year agc
$50 have been taken under least
which provides free rental for the frs
three years, and $2.oo per acre p,
annum for the rest of the 80 year
and, if bona fde resident, only 81. 5
per acre per annum.
There are a number of Portugue:
settlers who pay S. an acre in Kul
Maui, for raising corn and potatoes, an
the opening of the lands as above W
be a godsend to these people. The
is also large number of young me
who are anxious to go to farming, b
under the past conditions they cou
not find it profitable,
Now young man employed in H
nolulu can put his little savings into
homestead on Hawaii and, by raisil
coffee and pine-apples, secure to hll
self snug fortune. He need not c
cupy the land himself, but hire t
cultivation from Japanese under the c
operative plan. The vast possibilti
of the land-opening and homesteadin
which is now to be inauguratJd, ha
only been touched upon in a genel
way, but from time to time we shall q
further news as the work progresses.
New England and Hawaii,
AT a meeting of the New Engla