The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-22
HANAHANS
SEEK LANDS
AanyLeasesUnder
Homestead
Laws.
CANE LANDS MAY
BE THUS SETTLED
Increased Demand for the Small
Holdings and Tendency to
Take Up Homes.

xEoRE than $50 homestead leases
for land have been issued from
IA the Land Bureau since it was
,sgsn over by the present Commission
- This outlines the policy which will
h. followed by the office in the future
2, in the past and the success which
has followed it so far indicates that
the Hayaiians are in accord with the
methods which are being followed to
sep the lands in the possession of the
natives Of the Islands.
Commissioner E. S. Boyd, who recent
IL returned from a visit to the other
Islands, said yesterday that he was
more than pleased with the results of
the general policy OF the land office,
as the leases which had been granted
II Olaa before his taking hold OF the
sareau had been productive of great
good to the people. He continued: Il
found that many of the holders Of
these leases, most of them Portuguese,
some natives and several Americans,
had made excellent crops and had good
eturns.
Some of the homesteads have earn
d .or their holders during the past
gsar in addition to the small crops of
the necessary fruits and vegetables
400 in the value Of the cane which
a5mesteaders have had excellent ar
-angements with the Olaa plantation,
hey securing such contracts as will
give them assurance that their cane
will be miIled when the proper time
arrives, and in case this is not done the
2antation stands the loss from the de-
'sri0ratiOn. This gives the men
chance TO work their cane to the high
sst advantage
The success which has been attain
q By the men who have followed this
pan leads US to believe that there will
's similar results follow the extension
d this policy when leases upon other
a1ds come in. 1t viii be the plan to
open lands, where there is not large
7Spenditure for irrigation necessary,
'oF the taking up by homesteaders. L
ilaA try to have a law passed increas-
.lg the amount NJ Iapd rybinb NAV he
laaen up in this way from sixteen
acres to fifty acres. This will give to
=aen homesteader enough land to in
'0fs MIN a good crop and permit the
.aSihg Of food supplies upon his own
3als' In such cases, however, / shall
Use only the homestead lease, for in my
F'Alon there Is no other way in which
as lands may be held for the people.
mere IS the ordinary purchase lease
wi! snort time will elapse before the
1'fs amount Of sugar land will be in
s Aahds o. the planters. OF course
-s Plantations cannot hold this land
lee but there will be found many
.s!s 70 get around this point and men
''u an interest in the estates will be
ll ready 10 buy the lands.
ARl that the Hawaiians them
80 are ready to believe that the
IN 'I homestead lease is the best for
II We give the average native
% =. piece OF land he sells it the day
W ae secures the title. This, of
is not true of the latter-day
,aiF@as, -. for they are acute in bust
r.. and are not inclined to ALLEVIATE
"a, aus taey may hold. For this rea-
"s homestead lease is most appro-
So, 80 at this time, for if the lease is
In, .hto-for family, there Is moth
he - 'he way of the heirs surrender
hy same and the purchase lease be-
ss, -'suIu;ed. This does not mean
vaB..S ss are given only to the Ha-
nsr-- LOT all are treated alike and
ant lands '' 'aAihs up Tue
g,n...s5lng from the methods of the
10 .'oh owners at Olaa there will be
tt., Ion on the part of the mill es-
tr ~ 'hS distribution of the lands
eass VIII be the same amount of
Is lass as formerly and there will
Ton, "ouoie with the labor condi-
ans q, ,e - sugar industry is the back
eIperir,-te we country. the coffee is in an
be Sor. stage and nothing should
too,s which would jeopardize the
De an,,i.e the country. In my opinion
Nsa'ion sna Of the American system
this avs and land division would
es uuo, 1t would lead to the plant
eoa ~ -ne subdivisions of a pIanta-
men who woujd take up