The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-02-28
LANAI 70 Be ORGANIZED KAP|O'
CAPITALIZATION TO BE PLACED
AT $1,OOO,OOO.
"Maunalei' Thoroughly Exported and
1t is Believed Can be Made a Ten
Thousand Ton Plantation.

The Lanai plantation is an accom-
plished fact. Messrs. Gear and Lans-
ing will incorporate 1t at once, at
81 100000, a portion of the stock being
put upon this market. Work will be
pushed along as rapidly as possible,
the contracts for wells be let and the
plowing commenced, so that according
to Manager Lowrie's suggestion, 1000
acres will have begun to be planted in
June.
Messrs. Gear and Lansing have re-
turned from their personal inspection
of the proposed Lanai plantation and
state that the representations made to
them are exceeded by the facts. The
land is dark and mellow and from cuts
made varies from 10 feet to 40 feet in
depth. The sugar land extends for
seven miles along the sea front facing
Lahaina. There proves to be an abun-
dance of water, seeping into the sea
by underground currents. Two ten
inch artesian wells five miles apart
have already been sank. One of them
was tried with a six inch centrifugal
pump and under test showed 1000, 900
gallens per twenty-four hours. After
several hours pumping there was abso-
lutely no variation in the supply.
At the request of Messrs. Gear and
Lansing, w. j. Lowrie, late manager
of Eva, and now manager of Spreck-
elsville plantation, visited the land
and made a careful examination. He
wrote the following report:
"At your request have visited the Is
land of Lanai and examined he lands
of the proposed new plantation, the
water supply and also the seed cane
growing on a portion of the same.
was told by F. H. Hayselden that
according to surveys made by H. Ed
redge of Wailuku, Maui, there are be-
low the 400 feet elevation 5000 acres of
cane lands; of this amount about 1000
acres are on the flats and are not over
so feet elevation, and between the 400
and 900 feet elevation about 800 acres.
These lands, consider, are very good,
and more especially those on the flats.
They, 1 am sure, compare most favor
ably with the flats at Kaunakakai,
Molokai and Waimanalo and Eva
plantations, which to my mind are
among the best lands in this country.
In this whole stretch, I did not find a
single salty patch. The lands between
the 80 feet and the 400 feet elevation
have considerable rock scattered
among them, but they appear to be
mostly surface stone The soil is very
good, mellow, and will raise equally as
goodtcane as the side hills at Lahaiua
plantation. The water supply from all
appearances is all right and judging
lIOIIl TIE lIlHleIlSe IlOWlnR
into the ocean,. as we'll as the quantity
and quality that is being pumped by
the centrifugal pump for irrigation of
the seed cane, there need be no fear
but you can develop all the water re-
quired
THE fifty (50) acres of seed cane now
growing on these lands are in my
opinion equal to any young cane of the
same age in this country, and the man
ner in which it has been planted and
irrigated reflects great credit on young
Walter Hayselden.
THE fact tnat you have so acres of
Lahaina seed cane growing (about
three-fourths of same we'll advanced)
puts your company in a first class po-
sition to begin planting by June 18th,
and will furnish you all the seed cane
necessary to plant 1000 acres of. cane
and is matter of no small concern to
a new company. The place can easily
be developed into a ten thousand ton
place if properly handled.
(Signed) "W. ]. LOWRIE."
The new plantation will be named
Maunalei, the mountain with the
wreath" from a valley which runs into
the mountain backbone of the Island.
This valley of Maunalei is very beau
tiful and contains the only dropping
spring" on the Islands.