The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-17
PROCRESSAT KIHEI.
First Vessel in Port Since
the Days Of 49,"
MAGNIFICENT PROSPECT IN SIGHT
Supplies Being Landed-Cane Has
Been Pianted-The Water
Supply Certain.
MAGNIFICENT PROSPECT IN SIGHT

KIHEI, Maui, April 15.-Kinei IN
habitants are being treated to the un-
usual spectacle of a foreign vessel at
anchor in the roadsJead. The three
masted schooner Ida Mckay came IN
last Tuesday, direct from Gray's In
let, and is discharging a cargo
of lumber for the plantation.
She entered at and will clear from
Kahului. She q III probably complete
unloading on Wednesday or Thursday
next and will take in ballast and sail
direct for San Francisco.
This arrival is notable in that no
foreign vessel has landed at this point
since the days of 40" when "a fleet
of vessels used to supply the Califor-
MIA market with wheat and potatoes
raised in Kula and 'Makawao.
a second lumber ship is due from
Gray's Inlet at Kihei, as is also the
Defender from San Francisco. The
latter is loaded with fence posts, red
wood lumber and nearly two miles of
20-inch cast iron pipe, the first In
stalment of the large order placed las;
fall. with which to irrigate the first
main crop of cane. The laying of this
pipe will be proceeded with immed-
lately
The plantation is prepared to h sie 6
this pipe and all other heavy freight
in the most approved fashion.
The Honolulu Iron Works has con-
structed heavy iron buoys which, with
anchors and chains capable of hold
ing the largest vessels, will enable
ships to haul in within a few hundred
feet of the wharf.
Sorrenson & Lyle have constructed
two large lighters, which were put IN
to use dast week
A heavy hosting derrick has been
built on the end of the wharf and a
steam hosting engine, capable of
hosting II tons, placed in position.
The plantation railroad track runs
out onto the wharf and from thence
will run to all parts of the plantation.
About three-quarters of a mile is al
ready completed, extending to the
warehouse, stables, and to each of the
three pumping stations. Civil Engi-
neer HauXhurst has laid out a COM
prehensive railroad plan for the whole
plantation, and grading is now in
progress.
The steam plows have arrived, via
Kahului, where they We're set up and
brought overland by the veteran
steam plow engineer, John Winter,
who brought to the country the first
steam plows, which We're used at
Spreckelsville. MIR. Winter has been
permanently engaged at Kihei. He
moved into his new home on Friday
last, with his wife and three children.
The makai lands now being planted
are so light that they do not need
plowing, furrowing merely being suf-
ficient. One of the traction engines
is engaged in running a developing
pump at one Of the wells and the
other is hauling rock for foundations.
About $50 acres of cane are already
planted and planting will continue
steadily Three hundred laborers are
now at work.
Three dug wells are now being de-
veloped at distances of 200 and 400
feet apart. They are all about half a
mile from the sea. The water in them
ries from 3 feet inches to 4 feet
above sea level, those inland rising
highest. They will all be connected by
underground tunnel, through which
the water will all be conducted to a
central pumping station.
The development of these wells is
progressing steadily, an increase Of
water marking each foot of advance.
On Friday last experimental drill
holes were sunk to a depth of 9 feet
by a 21a in. steam drill at the bottom
of the shaft of we'll number 3, result
ing in three miniature artesian wells,
which spouted water to a height OF
Is inches. The water Is as clear as
crystal and so sweet that the saline
tinge is barely perceptible.