The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-11

rough cobble stones. Once upon time
this pavement may have been smooth but
now the stones are so worn and displaced
by time and century of traffic that to
proceed over them is a risk of life and
limb at every foot advanced
But the trouble and wear of nerves of
the journey is well repaid. Glorious views
of the ocean and the higher slopes of Ia
leakala greet the traveller at every turn,
and the forest is constant delight to the
eye. Little stormlets, gusts of rain and
wind, sweep down from above every
minute, and then are gone and the sun
comes blinking forth, shakes the rain
drops from his eyes and smiles down on
the landscape where every leaf and every
blade of grass sparkles and shines with
jewels of new fallen moisture. Descend
ing into dark glens, on whose slopes the
tree ferns and the bamboos grow thick
and deep, glance mountainwards shows
a glistening waterfall, dancing in the sun
light as it springs from a ledge of rock
to fall, wreathed in mist into the canyon.
Now and then in some particularly fav-
ored glen there is ancient grass house
where the traveller may stop and resi-.
And so the journey goes, one not to be
forgotten though the traveller live to he
a hundred
\ GREAT RESERVOIR
But the very beauty Of the region makes
the task of gathering up its waters tee
more difficult and the way by which the
two feeder bitches are brought through
that rough region leads the average be-
holder to have a largely increased respect
for the engineers who accomplished the
work. But by devious ways, around the
sharp ridges and through them the water
Is taken at last to where the land grows
more level. and here at Papaaea, great
reservoir has been constructed. a reser-
yoir with capacity of 10 600, 900 gallons
and more, for the storage of the water
when the rills and brooks on the hillside
begin TO run low and the fields below
are parching under the heat of the burn
ing sun. 1t is a mammoth undertaking in
itself, this reservoir. It is built on the
high hillside, looking off to the sea nearly
a thousand feet below great bank
OF earth and stone has been stretched
across q narrow valley and there the wa
ter has been imprisoned, a body Of water
500 feet long and 500 feet wide, running
far back into the hills, shining and glist-
ening in the sunlight, a landmark for all
! the region higher up on the sides Of the
me untain. From 1t by an underground
way the water may he drawn off into Ma
| hilihaele gulch where there Is n catch
water dam and so into kailua gulch where
the heads of the canals are Numerous
are the devices TO prevent the loss of one
i Single precious drop. anu ntTttlpitii tit
must follow the bitches to be at last alb
sorbed into the thirsty soil of the distant
plantation for the nourishment Of the
sprouting cane.
| SOME OF THE FIGURES.
From Kailua. to the end of the Lowrie
canal at the boundary of the Kihei plan
taton the distance is 21.? miles To give
some idea of the vastness OF the under
taking it may be stated that its cost TO
the company will be close to a quarter OF
a million dollars. The original estimate
was 500. 600 but it will cost somewhat less
than this sum, about s235,0o0, in all likel1-
hood There are in the length of the
lcanal seventy-four tunnels with total
length of 20s50 feet or nearly four miles;
There are nineteen fumes whose total
length reaches 1865 feet and twelve pipe
lines or siphons, with a total length OF
AGO feet. of excavations there is a total
length Of S5.957 feet. These figures are for
lI,owrie canal only and take no account of
feeder canals ard the many small adj
iiuncts which have been built at various
lpIaces along the lire of the canal to catch
ANY water that might by chance go else
where than into the canal. If these were
added to the length of the canal ii would
reach figures at least half as large again
las those quoted.
| Mr. Lowrie himself il one of the most
enthusiastic believers in the possibilities
of the new canal when we get that
water running on that stretch of bare