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

mere grey brown ribbon at the bottom.
The men at work below were pigmies,
tiny autamata, the men on the other side
so small that their signals could scarce be
distinguished. Strange TO say, however
communication with them was ridiculous
+ ly easy by speaking through the pipe,
for it acted a vast telephone system
and proved immensely useful in that
regard, whisper at one end being readily
audible at the other.
QUARANTINE DELAYS
/ At length the Maliko gulch 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 1t was made
and sent overland The sections at the
bottom We're made of three-eghths 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 done by Japanese laborers under the
direction of Ishikane, one of the brightest
japanese in the Islands. 1t was all done
without an accident, something most un-
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 it were 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 il flowed as prettily as could
be asked and in all the 500 feet of pipe
there was scarcely a leak worthy the
name.
From Maliko it was nearly all easy go
ine. There We're many tunnels. one very
tcklish one in particular coming away
from the big siphon, and several smaller
siphons, and fumes across lesser gulehes.
Through the canehelds of Hamakuapoko
and Paia the ditch made its way. AT
The Weir the water wes 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 valuable is water lust here on
Maui that this one-tenth Of the stream
hcwinS in the Lowrie ditch is divided into
twentieths and of this Paia is entitled 10
deven-twentieths while Haiku has nine
twentieths as its 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
De cemented throughout. and a large
siphon constructed. Thence it swept
through a field of fine cane around tbs
base of Haleakaa to the KuIa road and
II will eventually be taken out at inter
walls all through the Spreckelsvill.a or Ha-
wailan Commercial and Sugar Company
lands to water the land it was procured
to reclaim
Under the guidance of Manager Lowrie
Il member of the Advertiser staff went
over the entire line of the en- nal or
Thursday and Friday of last week From
Spreckelsvilie 1t was a drive of twenty.
I'VE 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 to supply it is not taker
frcm the kailua stream, by any means
For ten miles farther along the mountain
side, from Honomanu gulch there com,
two feeder bitches. good sized waterway,
themselves and all the intervening terri
tory is drained by them and their water.
conserved and brought to Kailua to ad,
10 the stream that is there, taken out and
led by the Lowrie canal and the Haiku
ditch to Spreckelsville.
! Kailua is at the western border of III.
: rain belt. Here all roadways cease anc
only a trail, misnamed the Government
road leads on to Hama at the eastern ex.
tremity of the island 1t Is a veritabl.
jungle that this trail leads through: G
| jungle of tree ferns, bamboo, ohia, lau