The Arizona sentinel., 1896-02-29

"AOiIO'O 'S NOiIl
 MT. Wright, of the Wilder Steam ship Company, has incorporated cof- fee association with d paid-up capital of $5,OO0 for the purpose cf opening up the coffee country in Puma. The company has purchased three hundred acres of the best coffee lands in Puma. to bedivided into ten acre lots, and it IS intended to induce iudustric Us Americans of small means to emigrate to the islands anu engage in coffee growing. It is proposed to give them one plantation iu return for improv- ing one for the company. The com pany itself will have one hundred acres in coffee, fifty in cocoa, ten to twenty in citron roots, and will utilize the balance of its three hundred in fine apples and guavas for jelly.
 Kama, the rival of Puma, is about as barren and sterile country as it has ever been my lot to see. One travels over miles and miles of blackened rocks and lava flow, most of it in this portion of the Island being the rug ged flow called by the natives "aa |" On the first day we crossed the flow of 1887. This is black, but after a travel of ten hours, the color changes The flow is older, and trees are found growing on it. Occasionally the dead branches of monster ohia trees could be seen sticking up from the lava wh oh overwhelmed it in past years, the top branches white and glistening like the bones of a skeleton.
 After we had passed the black lava flow of 1887, which extends for about ten miles beyond the Kahuka Ranch, the trees became more abundant, and soon we were in forests of ferns and ohia trees. The road here is through the lava, and straight as an air line railroad. Where there are trees the TO Id is cut directly through them, and if there are no trees the road is equally as discernable by the leveling down of the lava, which is piled up in a wall on either side.
 For hours at Q time We wended our way up hill and down, the roadbed often Choked with great stones over which the tired horses could hardly step. When ever there was a smooth bit of road, the guide uttered a shout: "Wic-ke, vic ke!" and put the horses at 9 gaH5P. Thi4 was only for a short time, however, for there :s not strip. Of good roaj fifty yarls in leng;h in all Kama, after you have left the sugar plantations
 People in Hawaii seem - have mol more idea of miles than they have oi the cardinal points of the compass, and that Is nil. When we were half B days journey from a village or plan tation and I asked the distance, the answer would be: Oh, it Is too far!" If the place was only two or three miles away, the answer would be: 'Oh, it's not too far" White men seem to have succumbed to this GUS tom of the natives. ' asked a Nor wegian the distance to Hookenia, aud he answered.:
 "FOur hours"
 "Bat how many miles?" I asked.
 "I don't know" he answered. eve never reckon distance by miles, but by tue hours it takes to reach a place. It may be eight, may be twelve miles, may be six, but all tie same it will take you four hours to make it."
 Hookenia is on the coast, and back of it is great forest in which wild coffee trees are growing. These wild coffee trees are valuable, as they have been known to yield three pounds of coffee to the tree. Two miles and a 1 half from Hookenia by the Mauka road one comes upon the Morgan X plantation, which, tho it | has only forty acres in coffee, yields | twenty thousand dollars worth per lnnum.
 The young coffee trees are planted n the stone. A crOwbar or drill Is | lsed instead of hoe, a hole male. md the young tree planted. If there ; any particle of soil, it will grow. Il nave been told that trees thrive best where there is 2 surface of lava above md rich soil beneath. The greatest kIli In growing coffee is the selection 'f land. If the land is suitable and he trees planted, they will grow whether they are cultivated or not ut they yield best Of course, under ultivation.
 JOHN R.MUsICK.
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