The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-25
FUTURE MOB HILL
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tCOntlnueQ from rage ID
other month the road will be finished.
macadamized and rolled for the entire
distance, and Honolulu people will
have a scenic road OF even more beau
~ than that OF the Pail, which has not
cost them a cent"
How are lots selling. Mr.. DeSky?"
Il am not selling lots yet" was the .
answer. Il have not sold a single lot .
yet, nor will | until the road is entire
~ finished and the water laid on
You can't get the Government wa I
ter up here" ventured a member OF
the party.
What do / want with the Govern |
ment water. | have my own water
works. | own nine-tenths OF that
stream of water you see running down
the Pauoa valley. a never failing sup
! ply in the driest of seasons. This
comes from a spring on my land which
have already developed into a sup
! ply sufficient for 5000 people. so my
engineers tell me. | have aleady con
structed a reservoir at the spring from
which about a mile of siX-inCh pipe
line will conduct the water to an alti-
tide of 12O feet above sea level on the
heights. There another ana larger
| reservoir Will he made to receive IT,
from which it will be pumped To the
hotel. still higher up. by means OF by
draulic rams"
What do you mean by pumping to
the hotel?" was asked
Why. | am going to- have a hotel
here. The site is already picked out
and reserved. And when | say a hotel
mean hotel. not a boarding house"
What else are you going to have?"
lr~~a- sr..
and electric street cars. for instance
This is no joke, but said in all seri-
ousness. The water from my reservoir
will furnish me all the power / need
to generate electricity for an electric
light plant and run a street car line all
iaround the property. And the beauty
OF ii is everything will be on my own
land. / don't have to bother about
franchises and such things. All these
improvements will be finished and in
Operation before / could get n fran
chise in the ordinary way of doing
business here"
But these things cost money. Mr..
Desky.''
That's true" he replied. but with
money anything can be done. Yes. IL
has cost 100000 for the property. The
roadway will cost me another SIS. 900.
light system about $4,000. and the
electric railway some $4,000 more.
You would hardly believe an electric
read could be built for that sum. would
you? But wait till you see mine in
operation, and you won't have to wait
long, either
But how are you going to get even
on all this expenditures"
We'll, that's my lookout | am In
vesting my own money. II is not cor
poration funds, and there are no stock
holders to do any kicking. The land
suitable for residence property will be
divided into lots of from one-half to
ore acre in extent, which will find
ready sale at from one to- six thousand
dollars, according to- choice. Right
here is two acres that | have been of
. fered $4,000 cash for. And | refused
it, too. Much of the lower land will
make nice lots when the rocks are
cleared off and terraces made. have
more than twice the number OF appli-
cations on file for the choice lots than
| shall be able to divide the land into. -
After an hour spent in viewing the
property, a visit was made to- the Pau
GA spring and the reservoir already
built and full. 1t is fifteen feet Ions
and twenty-five feet wide by five deep
Just above il the bed of the mountain
stream has been damned by a wall oil
Isolid masonry so constructed that any
water from sudden freshets will pass
around instead of over the reservoir
This little reservoir and dam repre-
sent an outlay of 81 500 alone.
incidentally, it may be remarked
that this latter trip up this most fer.
tile of all Oahu valleys was married by
the horrible condition of the road
which brought into very vivid contrast
the way private individual and the
Government does the same work.