Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-08

states. and, like the vegetables. we can
have them fresh the year round. 1 have
3 young orchard of plum. cherry peach
ana apple trees growing. and there is no
reason why these fruits may not do well
up here. Bananas will flourish where cof-
lee grows. But. as great quantities of
them are grown for export on lower slopes
ana IN the valleys. We may not give them
much attention, or oranges, lemons lines
the guava and mango fiourishing lower
ooWn. f1neapples are exported in great
quantities, and the time is coming when
other products will be more than sufficient
lor nome market / believe in this conn
Try, ITS resources and its future and T
pehcve IN the people They are kindly.
generous ana mighty good to strangers /
am IN FAVOR of annexation. The present
government Is good enough for me. IL il
progressive and honest But If IL cannot
SAND alone, let us have annexation From
business point of view, annexation would
TTsneiop THESE Islands as nothing else could.
iney would be valuable to the United
prosperous
Marvellous Climate and Soil.
one may well believe all that is said of
'his marvellous climate and soil There
are MY thousand acres of land along the
lower slopes of Mauna Loa and Mauna
hea' the two world famous volcano noun
talns on the Island of Hawaii 1t is COW
cred with heavy tropical forest of hard
ana sort woods, gigantic tree ferns ten to
Hiteen 1eet in circumference and often
twenty feet high, interviewer with a net
Wcrk OF vines. the whole forming a Jungle
OF ideal density, beauty and grandeur The
SOIL on the surface is black vegetable
mold, the product of centuries of forest de-
cay, varying in depth from six to eighteen
inches. Below this is stratum of de-
cayed lava rock, containing the most val
uaple elements OF plant food. and reach hing
10 depth or eight to twenty feet. In
doubtedly coffee will flourish Oh all the
other islands, but just now these govern
ment lands are the point of interest; and
the coffee industry is no sudden or specula-
i've Doom, but the outgrowth of a progress
slVe policy for the permanent and sub
stantial development of the resources of
the country.
For Individual Investment.
AS already stated, the special object of
the Hawiian government in opening its
lands is their settlement and cultivation by
individual investment OF moderate capitah
Therefore the amount of land that may be
| acquired by individual lease or purchase is
limited. thus benefiting the many, rather
than enriching the few by large holdings
and boom speculations. The single excep-
ton is the settlement Association" when
SIX or more persons may acquire holdings
III one DOCK OF laNd. Individual ACQUIRE
ment of government lands is limited TO one
hundred acres of frst-class agricultural
land for cultivation of perennial crops, and
TWO hundred acres of second-class for cul-
tivation of annual crops, under the system
of purchase lease for twenty-one years,
with the privilege of purchase at the end of
three years, on fulfillment of special condi-
lions.
Generosity to the Natives.
There are also the homestead lease and
1
afford easy and liberal terms. To the ma
tive Hawaiian the government goes fur
Their, and gives him a homestead lease for
500 years, if he will build a house and
maintain a home on it from and after the
end OF two years from date of certificate,
and before the end of six years have ~
Per cent under cultivation. He may take
his choice of eight acres of frst-class land
Tor coffee or sixteen acres second class for
annual crop. Reserving two acres of coffee
land for house, garden and fruit, leaves
SIX acres for the cultivation of at leas,
o'oo" coffee trees-a nice little plantation,
which, II well managed, would soon bring
a comfortable, easy and independent living
ior himself and family. The mortgage has
been the bane of the native Hawaiian who
on the smallest provocation would mort
gage his land, II only a taro patch and
seldom or never find himself able to redeem
II, though in some instances il falling into
the hands of friends he has been allowed +,
retain ms nome for nominal return of
rent or labor. But now wise provision of
the government protects him and his fam
lily, ana he cannot mortgage his homestead
nor is 1t subject to attachment levy On.
SAFE; on any process from the courts;
neither can he by devise or bequest will il
away from his widow or children or o,ber
relations in the order of kin. There are al
feauy number of homestead Plantations
Gn 'ne New volcano Road" owned by ma
1--WE Hawaiians. They have pretty cot
iages, welt-kept lawns, flowers and yege
lapie gardens and are as attractive and
mourn shing little coffee plantations as ONE
moulu WISH 10 see Our driver, a young
hawaiian, intelligent and well Informed
pointed them out with the direct comment:
Ihat shows what the natives can do
When they are willing to work.
III. nisn III reply 10 an inquiry, he continued:
ne government gives them liberal adj
Vantagcs up here to get homes easv md 10
Independent. But too many of hem want
~ stay ahout town. work at odd Jobs have
d sood time and never get a dollar ahead.
lHey nave as fair chance for work as
white men in Hilo, and better as tean,sters
LOT all natives know how to handle horses
hliSnty well. Hilo is growing and there is
plenty OF teaming. and driving on this road
Is increasing all the time. NV company
has several hundred men, leaning i'm iown
ana drlvlng up this way, au1 some Of the
drivers have been with them a long time
natives and white men. I've been driving
eight years myself for the same con,panv
and I'm only twenty-two."
He was bright. well -mannered Young
fellow. with the characteristic reticerce of
his race never obtrusive, but ready aid re-
sponsive to all inquiries for information
Which he gave with a claarness Of under
standing, showing his knowledge of every
day affairs. He handled The ribbons like
an expert, without the whip, and with only
a quiet word now and then. but keeping a
perfect control over the four horses that
would have put to shame the highly CIV
ilized guide driver" of the United States
Perhaps the native Hawaiians would
brace up under annexation" 1 said
Most of the thinking natives are now In
favor OF annexation, and have no further
use for the monarchy. The others cont
know what is good for the:n."
On the New Volcano Road
Four years ago the government built the
New Volcano road" along the line of the
old bride path from Hio to the volcano.
1t is a drive of thirty miles through a
tropical forest that is a revelation of color
and magnificent vegetation, in strange and
beautiful trees, riotous vines and gorgeous
pioSsomS-over macadamized road al
most as smooth as floor, with scarcely a
curve, and a grade gradual that at the
end it is impossible to realize you are 1000
feet above the sea 1t is a pleasure drive
when the eye does not weary nor interest