The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-06-16

falls, all within service. In time
electric power will be in use on all the
coffee estates and will be turning the
wheels of many manufacturing estab-
lishments in the town of Hilo. 1t may
come to be even cheaper to the sugar
plantations than the present system of
burning trash" In the Hilo district
millions of gallons of water go to
waste daily. The use of water in
"fluming" cane is general. This same
power is used by the electric light
system of Hilo and on a small scale
in other ways. Water power for all
time" is what Mr.. Wilder says.
TRANSIT PLAN.
'aVe expect to have out of Hilo,"
continued Mr.. Wilder, electric tran
sit that will surprise all the world
and that will make large apd busy
city of our town. One line will short
en- the distance to the volcano four
miles and as | said open up 10000
more acres in Olaa, besides tapping
miles upon miles of good coffee and
farming land in Waiakea district. The
route has been surveyed. There will
be about five miles of territory be-
tween it and the present splendid
wagon road. That strip of five miles
will be cultivated to the last inch ex-
cept the branch roads and it can take
power from the electric line The
N ic ,Nf
means have an eye on it.
A BIGGER ONE.
Another plan just as certain to be-
come an accomplished fact within
few years as the volcano line and just
as strong in its appeal to capital, or
even to national encouragement, is an
electric line from Hilo through Hama
kua district to Waipio gulch The
distance is sixty miles and there are
thirteen large sugar plantations on
the line as already gone over by en-
gineers. The landings are all bad
along Hamakua and this electric line
would bring all the sugar to Hilo,
making an immense traffic. None of
the plantations extend back more
than three miles and there will be vast
areas of mauka lands suitable for cof-
fee, fruit and produce. And speaking
of fruit, if we get direct steamers out
of Hilo once we will ship foods of
pines and bananas to San Francisco.
HILo ITSELF.
Hilo wants $4,000 of wharf money
appropriated by the Legislature APP
piled at once. 1t is enough, if used
| judiciously, and we believe that with
the wharf one or more of the lines of
steamers to Honolulu from the Amer
lean coast will touch at Hilo. We may
then have the boom that many pre-
dict for next spring and that we are
trying to head off. Hilo wants no
boom, but only n steady and sure
growth, just as it is having now
when the wharf goes in near Coacoa-
nut Island home capital, now ready,
will build tram to the town and that
will improve business. Considerable
building is going on in Hilo, though
it is extremely difficult to secure
either business or residence sites.
However, some tracts are soon to be
put on the market, notably the land
known as Puueo, just across the Wal
luku river. Bruce Waring & Co., the
I enterprising real estate people of
, Honolulu, have acquired this desirable
3 tract from the Hilo Sugar Co. l have
I it on good authority that this firm
q will soon establish itself at Hilo, ant
q can assure you it will be welcome t.
the capital of Hawaii A planning
$ mill and soap factory are the lates
: enterprises of moment in Hilo, bu
+ something in the way of improvement
o is being done all the time. | hop
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