The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-09-14

lowered one by one on immense ladders
the sections of the huge siphon, sections
weighing nearly ton each. and section
by section the siphon was completed.
Standing at the top and looking down
along the completed work the siphon
dwlndled from great black cavern down
which q mans body would be lost to q
mere grey brown ribbon at the bottom.
The men at work below We're pigmies,
tiny autamata. the men on the other side
so small that their signals could scarce he
distinguished. Strange to say, however.
communication with them was ridiculous
ly easy hy speaking through the pipe,
for it acted as "A vast telephone system
and proved immensely useful in that
regard, a whisper at one end being readily
audible at the other.
QUARANTINE DELAYS.
At length the Maliko guich siphon was
completed, although not until after many
ard provoking delays, on account of the
quarantine of Maui, owing to the plague
and delay in receiving the pipe from Pat
ersOn. New Jersey, where it was made
and sent overland. The sections at the
bottom were made of three-eighths inch
iron, to withstand the immense pressure
of the two great columns of water and
they were set at the bottom in cement
foundations. The work of riveting and
putting the sections in place, the delicate
task of lowering each section Into position
was dene by Japanese laborers under the
dir irection of Ishikane, one of the brightest
Japanese in the Islands. 1t was all done
without an accident something most I'M
usual in a piece of engineering of the
kind
Whether the pipe would stand the pres
sure and whether the water would flow
freely through IL We're questions that
could only be answered by trial and
Thursday that trial came. the water from
above was turned and to the joy of all
concerned II flowed as prettily as could
be asked and in all the 500 feet of pipe
there was scarcely II leak worthy the
name
From Malil5o 1t was nearly all easy go
ing. There wera many tunnels, one very
tiCklish one In particular coming away
from the big s,phon, and several smaller
siphons, and fumes across lesser gulches.
Through the canetields of Hamakuapoko
and P0ia the ditch made its way. AT
THE Weir" the water was carefully
measured, divided into tenths and one
tenth turned out to be divided between
the Paia Sugar Company and the Haiku
Sugar Company, in payment of the right
of way OF the ditch across their lands.
And SO valuable is water just here on
Maui that this one-tenth of the stream
HCWlnE IN the LoWr1e ditcn Is ulNlueu INTO
twentieths and of this Paia Is entitled to
eleven-twentieths while Haiku has nine
twentieths as it's share.
BAD BIT OF LAND,
At the Paia boundary line. the line
which divides the lands of the Hawaiian
Commercial and Sugar Company from
those of Paia, there was bad bit OF land
with tunnels where the waterway had to
be cemented throughout, and large
siphon constructed, Thence II swept
through a field of fine cane around the
base OF Haleskala to the Kula road, and
IL will eventually be taken out at inter-
walls all through the Spreckelsville or Ha-
waiian Commercial and Sugar company's
lands to water tho land II was procured
to reclaim.
Under the guidance of Manager Lowrie
a member OF the Advertiser stan went
over tho entire line OF the canal on
Thursday and Friday OF last week. From
Spreckelsville II was a drive of twenty
nve miles over rough, up-hill-and-down-
dale roads to Kailua, the head OF the
canal. Here the ditch proper begins. but
all the water 10 supply It Is not taken
from the kailua stream, by any means.