The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-07-19
Continued from Third bdge.)

it has been endowed with all the posi- |
bilities of a great city. 1t is health !
fully situated on a natural slope, while |
the climate is delightful and invigor-
ating. Irrigation is not carried on, as
the rainfall, though not excessive, is
ample. The drainage is good, and
maarial marshes, such as exist in the
vicinity Of Honolulu and Pearl Harbor,
are here unknown. The environments
are exceedingly picturesque and vege
tatlon thrives with a luXuriance unsur
passed elsewhere.
Immediately at its back and within
easy distance, awaiting only the open
ing wedge of the pioneer with capital
and energy, and good roads to make
them accessible, are great tracts of land
capable of the highest development.
These lands, ranging in altitude from
sea level to four and six thousand feet
elevation, placing side by side, as it
were, the tropical with the temperate
zone, render possible the raising of all
shades and varieties of agricultural pro.
ducts An unbroken belt of forests,
stretching back for fourteen miles, con
tanning the varieties of hard and cabinet
woods SO highly priced in manufactures,
an immense volume OF water now run
ming to waste from the many streams in
the vicinity properly utilized could
make Of Hllo a great industrial and
manufacturing center, Sugar, coffee,
cocoa, tropical fruits of all kinds, ramie
and other fbers used in the textile arts
can be and are raised with little
trouble.
The output of sugar from the Island
of Hawaii amounts to about one half of
the crop of the whole group, and in
figures approXimates over sixty thou
sand tons Nearly the whole of this
amount finds it way to San Francisco
by way of Honolulu. This arrange
ment is unnatural and artificial the
cost is doubled, the loss is great. Hilo
should be the natural entrepot. The
construction of a railroad sklrting the
coast for sixty miles would not alone
gather in at least two-thirds of this ton
mage, which should be shipped direct
to the Coast, but assist in opening up
further extensive areas of Government
land, and it must not be forgotten that
under annexation these tracts will or
should become public lands, open to
settlers.
Soundings undertaken at various
times in behalf of different Govern
ments have demonstrated that the
terminal point for cable from the
Coast to the Islands should touch at
Hilo, and in view of the fact that the
trend Of the group is from south east
to northwest Hilo, by its location, is
undoubtedly the nearest to the Coast.
1t is the direct pathway to that
greatest of natures wonders, the crater
and volcano of Kiauea, over a road
replete with gorgeous beauty of tropical
verdure. 1t lies on the threshold and
shuts in, as it were, the adjoining dis.
trict of Puma, as yet terra WCOgRita,
whose stupendous natural wonders and
exhibits, its lava trees and warm springs,
its deep assures, lava pits and miles OF
underground caves, its groves of cocoa
nuts and dense tropical jungle, side by
side with barren, desolate waste of lava
piled in all shapes of picturesque con
fusion, all forming an ever shifting
panorama of grandeur and beauty at
which the tourist will gaze with admira-
ton and delight
But the limitations of space forbid a
more than hasty summary 1t is clear
that HilO possesses to a marked degree
the elements that constitute great
shipping and commercial center, and it
halls annexation as the harbinger OF
power and prosperity,
1t welcomes the dawn Of the new
era and rejoices that the political help
lessness and disgrace Of the past few
years are never to be recalled. 1t re-
joices that a contemplate monarchy
for which they may have been an
apology at its initiation into the con.
federation of nations no longer exists.
Whatever blame may exist for its de-
cline and final overthrow must be laid
to the band of unprincipled and un-
sCrupulous advisers who were ever
seeking to undermine the constitution
al limitations set against the vile and
dissolute despotism. 1t is because of
the insdious attempts made by the
kingly prerogative to again work its
way to the fore after it had been
checked and partly broken in the
struggle of 1887 for the peoples rights,
that the different streams of tendency
which for years have been converging
towards annexation finally burst their
barriers and overwhelmed all OBJ
staCles. A. B. l..
A WAR TIMES PANIC.