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

| side to Katlua.
| Twenty miles is well nigh days jour
! ney through that wonderful wilderness.
4 hundred years or more ago some for
gotten chief was hidden by his king TO
iccnstruct road over the hills from Wal
lul.u district to Hama. Road building
me thods in those days We're primitive, for
Isteel was unknown in the Islands, but by
hook or crook the road was built, mar
row way, stretched along the slope of the
hills dipping into each gulch and climb-
ing each ridge by ways so steep that a
horse Will scarce brave them. And strange
TO say. and thereby also lies the greatest
pililiia, the road is paved, paved with
trough COblle stones. once upon a time
this pavement may have been smooth but
now the stones are SO worn and displaced
by time and a 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 lia-
leakala greet the traveller at every turn,
and the forest Is n 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 ,hicls
and deep, n glance mountainwards shows
n glstening 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 an 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
n hundred.
A GREAT RESERVOIR.
But the very beauty of the region makes
the task of gathering up its waters the
more difficult and the way by which the
two feeder bitches are brought through
that rough region leads the average he
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, reser-
voir with capacity of leO,000,p0O 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 mammoth undertaking In
itself this reservoir 1t is built on the
high hillside looking off TO the sea nearly
n thousand feet below. great bank
OF earth and stone has been stretched
,aoross a narrow valley and there the wa
ter has been imprisoned. n body of water
500 feet long and 600 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 II by an underground
way the water may be drawn OF into Ma
hilihaele gulch where there Is catch
water dam and so into Kailua gulch where
the heads OF the canals are Numerous
are the devices to prevent the lossiof one
single precious drop, and henceforth AL
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 or the Lowrie
canal at the boundary OF the Klhei PLAN