The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-12-29
Formation Of the First AsS0Cia-
ti0n of Settlers.
GOOD LAND is SELECTED
a Tract 800 Acres-Peopie Anx-
ious to Enter-Location.
Model Town.

Byron O. Clark, secretary of the
Board of Agriculture, and one of the
hardest working officers in the civil
service, is making on well with his
Settlers Association plan. The organ
| ization for the first colony is practical
ly perfected. A list well-nigh suffi-
cient has already been made and there
are further applications almost every
day. -
| For the purposes OF this Settlers As
sociation there has been secured a tract
of 1900 acres of land makai OF the
wagon road between Pearl City and
Waialua, ten miles from Pearl City and
eight miles from Waialua. The seLec-
ton is back of the pass into Waianae
from Mokuleia plains. There are two
streams Of water on the site and the
records assure an abundance of rain
fall But to guard against drought
there will be an irrigation plant.
Holdings so far selected range from
twenty to sixty acres. 1t is the 1nten-
ton to grow vegetables for Honolulu
tion will be pineapples, to be shipped
fresh and to be canned. Under the
head of oranges and LINES and some
other orchard fruit, Mr.. Clark is quite
confident. A survey is now being made
of the land and number of the men,
bers of the Association are ready to be-
gin building and the cultivation of the
soil at once The twenty-seven acres
of nursery land under lease to MIR.
Clark at Pearl City, go over to the AS
SociatiOn. The Oahu Railway people
and prominent Government officials are
doing everything possible to forward
the movement.
The settlers are to have quite viii
lage, with church and school. In the
center of the farming territory will be
the homesteads to form the model
| town. The town or building lots will
be five acres yet. So far Mr.. Clark has
interested in the plan number of city
people in addition to the CalifOrnianS
with whom he has been corresponding
for more than a year. Any number OF
people desire to come down from the
coast if they can sell their present prop
critics. Mr.. Clark is the author of the
amendment to the land act under which
these Associations may be formed.
This is the statute, from the Session
Laws of 1898:
Section IL In case six or more per-
sons who are qualified to apply for
Right of Purchase Leases and Cash
Freeholds under this Act, shall form
themselves into a Settlement ASsOcia-
ton and apply for holdings in one
| block of land, the Commissioners may,
with the approval of the Executive
| Council, cause to be surveyed lots in
one block corresponding in number to
| the number of persons forming such
association, in agricultural or pastoral
| land or both according TO the provi
| sionS of this Act.
Section y. The provisions Of this
Act relative TO Right of Purchase
| Leases and Cash Freeholds, shall be
followed in the settlement of such block
of land, and shall apply TO all matters
relating to the occupation thereof and
the rights and obligations of the Gov
ernment and Lessees and Freeholders
under such occupation, provided that
the notice by the Agent of Public Lands
declaring such land open for settlement
shall be directed to such Settlement
Association and shall be in one Ian
guage only; and further provided, that
in case of the surrender or forfeiture of
, the holding Of any member of such as
? sociation. such holding if declared open
for settlement shall be open to any ap-
plicant under the provisions of this
part of this Act.
Section 73 If any lot Of such bloch
of land shall be left for three months
after such block is declared open fol
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