Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-06
DEVELOPMENT OF HAWAII
REPORT OF THE GOVERNOR, SAN
FORD b. DOLE.
Increase in POpulatiOn-GrOwth Of
Sugar ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF
Education.

Governor Sanford B. Dole has submitted
an interesting report of the progress and
development of Hawaii covering the period
from July Z, $685. the date of the approval
of the Joint resolution to provide for an
nexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United
States" up to April 30, 1900. the date Of
the approval of the "act to provide gov
eminent for the territory of Hawaii" and
thereafter.
The last Hawaiian census. taken in the
year 1876. gives total population of 1o9.-
O2O. Of which 81 .019 were native Hawaiians.
The number of Americans reported was
S4s5. The results Of the federal census
taken this year show the islands to have
total population of 154,OO1, an increase over
that reported in 1896 of 1881, or 41.2 per
cent. The total land surface of the Ha-
waiian Islands is approximately $40 square
miles; the average number of persons TO
the square mile at the last three censuses
being as follows: For $780, 1879; 1906, 1863:
1900, DIS.
Public Lands.
The present agg, egate area Of the public
lands is approximately. 1.772.7 13 acres, val
ued at 1853, 800. During the last biennial
period the valuation Of taxable property
subject to ad va!orem assessment was as
follows 1895, real estate, $26,S2027 per-
scnalty, so6 G62 1C5: 1899. realty. sS8, 459, 370
personally $37, 7O7, 500; and in 1900, real es-
tate $45, 800 49,: personal estate, $51,s11,5 800
aggregating s97, 491, 5S4. Taxes were as
sessed on these classes of property at the
rate of / per cent ad valorem Vehicles OF
various kinds are subject to special taxes:
In 1899 there were 1920 carriages and It'll
carts and drays in the Hawaiian Islands:
The current revenue was as follows: 1888,
s., SOS. 1912; 1899. 81, 345, so; first six
months of 1900, 81. 1885, 3d. %; loan receipts
1893, $141 900; 1899, $5O8,OOO.
The Sugar Industry.
There has been marked progress In the
agricultural development Of the ISLANDS.
The sugar industry has been greatly slim
ulated by annexation. In the year 1873
there were fifty-eight plantations. hfty-fve
of which had their own reducing plants.
There was also one mill which reduced the
cane produced on neighbor1ng PLANTATIONS
Nine of these plantations may DE creuiteu
to the stimulus to the sugar industry
caused by annexation, and two are large
developments of small plantations due TO
the same cause. Several OF these new en-
terprises have been given up or suspended
for time for various causes among Whlch
uncertainty of water supply for irrigation
and stringency of the money market may
be regarded as the most influential. Inc
value of sugar exported for 1913 ls39' ana
the first six months of 1900 has been fol-
lows: 1895 $16.614 6.2 81; 1899 S2l 1913 l9O97;
first half of 1900, $14, 10, 546. IS. Sugar es-
tates have paid taxes for 1893 and 1899 as
follows 1898, $237 ,527. 80; 1899, 1896, SS1.73
Education.
Education In Hawaii is making favorable
progress In Honolulu two large school
houses have recently been erected at cost
of sd IT'S and S2O3i9 respectively. The de-
partmcnt of education is under the manage
mcnt of superintendent of public instruc-
ton, assisted by six commissioners of pub
lie Instruction. two of whom are ladies'.
The tenure of Office Of the commissioners Is
six years. the term OF two of them expiring
each year. They serve without pay. The
system is the same as that existing under
the republic of Hawaii In the biennial
period ending December II there We're 141
public and torty-eight private schools in the
Hawaiian Islands: ;i44 teachers in the pub
lie schools. of whom H.: were men and i
were women, and 200 teachers in the private
schools. of whom seVenty-nine We're men
and 12l We're women. In the same period
there 11.4.;6 pupils in the public
SchC OILS. of whom $3.50 were boys and 5,041
re girls. ana 4,O54 pupils in the private
nools, of whom 2,2:,6 were boys ana l, 79S
We're girls. This gives total of 1880
pupils. of whom SOL We're boys and 8, S:}3
were girls.