The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-05
ROAD INTO
The VALLEYS
Electric Route to
Touch Swamp
Lands.
PROJECTED AS A
FILLING IN LINE
May Be Expanded Into a Passen-
ger Line if Traffic Appears
to Be There.

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nLANS for the filling of the swamp
il lands along the sea front from
South street to Waikiki, from the
valleys have been proposed in number.
but only one has gone so far as to have
money subscribed for it's carrying out.
This is the Manoa and Paiolo Railway
and Land company.
The plan of this company is to build
a line of railroad and use it first for the
bringing of filing to the low lands
which border the sea front of the city
from Kewalo to Waikiki. The capital
stock is placed at 100000 and there will
be issued bonds to the amount Of $780,.
900. OF this amount there has been
subscribed stock amounting to $3.50. 600.
There has been purchased for the
company the B. F. Dillingham; property
at the head of Manoa valley, the former
site of the dairy farm, and from this
will be taken most of the earth propos-
ed to be used in filling low lands. The
amount of soil which can be taken from
this tract is estimated at about 1000, 900
cubic yards. In addition there Is plan
to run a branch road from the main
line at the mouth of Manoa, into Pa
lolo valley. In the latter there is as
much earth and rock available as may
be wanted for filling purposes.
The line of road from the mouth of
Manoa will run directly toward the sea
to point on a line with Queen street
If extended. There will be such ex-
tensions made as may be necessary TO
reach the various portions OF low lands
as may be contracted for by the COM
pany. Down the proposed line of King
street the road will be run to South
street, so that there will be at that
point connection with the lines of the
Hawaiian Electric Company, which it
Is expected will furnish the power for
the new company.
Such a line of main road, with an
extension to Waikiki, would reach not
less than 500 acres of lands which may
be ordered filled at any time by the
Board of Health, or which may have TO
be prepared for building purposes. Into
these lands 1t Is estimated that there
would be poured $500, 900 cubic yards of
filling. In addition to this there would
be something like twenty per cent as
much earth used in top dressing along
the route of the road. 1t is estimated
that the earnings of the road in filling
alone would approach gross close to a
million of dollars. In addition to this
it is claimed by the men interested that
there would be profit in carrying freight
between the downtown district and the
valleys.
Captain Norman w. ,Griswold Is at
the head of the promotion OF this com
pany and it is understood that Col.
George w. Stone, of California, one of
the heavy contractors in San Francisco.
has stock and viii furnish machinery.
The plan would be to construct the line
with light rails, and later, in the event
that it was desired to make other use
of it, to lay a heavier line of track
Rights of way have been secured for
much of the way. and there is e. belief
the road would pay, If the contracts al
ready offered are finally taken. The
plan is to have the excavation made by
steam shovel, and the land which would
be cleared would be a valuable asset
when levelled and ready for cultivation.
In case the road is built 1t is under
stood that it will be used only for
freight, that Is filing material. If 1t Is
a success, It is thought likely that the
next legislature will be asked for
right to operate as a passenger line and
the road will then be made an independ-
ent traffic route. It is expected that
the money will be raised within the
next month. -