The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-02-04
GREAT SUCCESS EXPERIENCED
ON MAUI.
Wailuku and Spreckelsviue Planta-
tions Exploiting lao Valey-Over
100000 Gallons Daily Secured.

WAILUKU, February 2-The Maui
News today says. 1t has long been
generally believed that a large amount
Of water could be developed for the use
of the plantations, by means of gravel
tunnelling under the beds of streams
but IL has remained for G. b. Wells
manager of the Waikiki Plantation
TO pioneer this movement.
he secured the services of Carl
WaldeNer one of the leading gravel
miners of California, and employed him
to run a tunnel in lao Valley lust
above the town of Wailuku This tun-
mel is now 700 feet i'm length and viii
be run about 100 feet further. from
which point lateral drifts will be run
at right angles with the stream, and
extending across the valley over L.
OOO 600 gallons of water i'm an unVarying
stream have been developed already,
with indications that a much larger
amount will be developed by the drifts.
w. j. LoWrie manager of the H. c.
Y 5 Co.. which also owns lands i'm lao
valley, has commenced a like enter
prise under the supervision of Mr..
Waldeyer, the contract for the work
having been let 10 the six California
gravel miners who recently built the
breakWater at lao bridge in Wailuku
This tunnel will be run 1900 feet up
stream, will be about 40 feet under
ground al its terminus, and will yield
several million gallons of water The
tunnel will be over five feet i'm height
and five feet wide. 1t win be timbered
with SXS timbers set four feet apart.
and Jagged with three-inch tagging
All of the timbers, tagging and wedges
will be coated with a preservative
paint which will render them practi-
Cally indestructible
Ground has been broken and work
has been commenced on this tunnel,
Just believe the lao bridge from which
point the water. when developed, will
be carried into the Waihee ditch from
which the H. c. & S. Co.. now take
water from Waihee valley. 1t will re-
quire eight or ten months to complete
the tunnel
Mr.. Waldeyer states that from his
observation, he is convinced that there
is a sufficient amount of water es-
Gaping underground to the sea which
can be developed by scientific tunnel
ing, to practically supply all the needs
of central Maui and supplant the pres
ent pumping systems so successfully
and expensively maintained on central
Maui
The advantages of successful tun-
mel system are obvious. The most inn
portant is the immense saving in coal.
The next in Importance is an unVary
ing stream which will flow by gravita-
tion from tunnels which need neither
care nor repairs. The water developed
by this system is free from any taint
of salt, and will rectify land on which
brackish water has already been used.
Tunnels have been run on some of the
other Islands, but they have been run
through side hills to tap Volanic fis
sures. Tunnelling in river beds is
much surer and more reliable source
from which to obtain water, and the
enterprise inaugurated on Maui is of
a n which hardly 10
timated Doubtless the other Islands
will profit by the example OF Mr.. Wells
and Mr.. Lowrie and TIE matter of
scientific river-bed or gravel tunnellng
will be generally lopted throughout
the Islands.