The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-15

ond-class pastoral lands. or 40 acres of
northumberland lands.
Cash freeholds, under which quail
ned applicants could purchase at public
auction the same areas which could be
acquired. under the right-of-purchase
lease system above described.
Regarding public land surveys the re-
port says. after comments on the lands
in Porto Rico and the Philippines:
In Hawaii q better system of SURVEYS
appears TO have been followed. From the
data received at this Office from Homo
lulu the following facts are gathered:
The original crown tracts there were
scattered, and varied in size from
quarter section to lands embracing sew
eral townships. In the Island of Maui.
points Of triangulat.ons have been estab-
lished at intervals of a few miles and
the island divided into thirteen districts
iTregularly shaped and unequal in ex-
Tent each having a name. such as Kula,
and each having sea front These dis
tr1cts are divided into subdivisions with
native designations, the subdistricts each
I'm nearly every case) having also a sea
front, and the boundary lines of which
are mostly at right angles to the shore
Line Subdistricts are mapped as
grants, awards" government"
crown" etc, side by side throughout
the island. Portions OF these districts
are taken embracing Is or 20 subdlstricts,
such as shown on the map of Nahiku
coffee lands, and resubdivision lines are
run cutting up the lands into tracts av-
eraging 200 acres each, by lines at right
angles to the sea, extending toward the
interior as far as a highway road and
the resulting lots cut into two lots, each
averaging 100 acres, marked consecutive
", the one fronting upon the sea, the
other upon the road, so that each lot
VIII have either road or the sea as one
OF its boundary lines. The side lines In
all these lettings follow the trend of the
nils, and embrace the full length OF the
streams in the Subdistrict divisions. For
the purpose of disposals such resubd.-
visions are suitable and proper, and, IN
the absence of rectangles built upon me-
ridianal lines, serve TO provide available
tracts for coffee plantations or other
purposes. They could, however, have
been formed into rectangles, as in our
own system, and the tracts made equal
~ available.
in the case CT the Island of Hawaii
the plan seems to have been to take an
arabic tract wherever lands are called
for and divide the same into lots of
square or rectangular form of 80 acres
each.
IN the district or province of Puma.
in this island. a subdistrict reserva
ton named Olaa was divided into such
blocks. corresponding to our 40-acre
tracts. There was first a broad h ghway
laid out through the tract Gin this case
1t was the road from Hilo to the vol
canos of Kilauea), and this road was
crossed by other roads at right angles
at certain intervals, so that It resulted
in each lot having an outlet on a road.
There were 400 lots in this subdivision,
to which was added later 400 more on
the same plan.
ION the Island of MolokaI subdivisions
nj
acres $50 divided for purposes of leas-
ng), each tract having a sea front.
ION the Island of Oahu the same con- |
iitions prevail as Maui and other |
Stands.
THE rectangular system primarily in
ended to be adopted for our extensive (
western domain is we'll adapted to all !
lreaS of land embracing more than 1000 !
.cres, but its adaptabnIty to the lands /
acquired from Spain would appear to de- |
lend upon information about the Islands |
'btainable only the result of patient |
nd laborious investigation by competent /
md reliable experts"
ERNEST G. WALKER.