The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-20
NEED NOT
MOVE OUT
Smiths Pilikia is
Ended Upon a
Hearing.
IMPROPER SURVEY
CAUSES TROUBLE
Agricultural Department Will Find
No Fault With Quarry and
Punchbowl Park.

The Territorial Government will not
ask Jared Smith to move his house on
the Tantalus agricultural experiment
station tract That there was an error
in the lines of the quarry reservation
appears from the fact that these lines
run through the site of the buildings of
the agent, whereas the boundaries We're
first agreed upon by a party consisting
of Mr.. Smith, Surveyor General Wall,
Superintendent of Public Works Boyd
and Assistant superintendent Camp
bell. The running of the lines fell to
the task of a subordinate, who taking
the general dimensions, 1000 feet by
300 feet, and the makai corners, ran
the lines without regard to the estab-
lished boundaries.
That there was an error was thus due
to the Survey Department. and there
would have been no reason for the con-
troversy if there had been any notice
given to the heads of departments at
once, but the agent made his publica-
ton first and the officials of the Terri
nate through the public prints. Imme-
diately the lines were set right, so that
there exists no grounds for disagree
ment between the local and national
Governments. The reservation as to
the quarry site was agreed upon be-
tween the Acting Governor and Mr..
Smith some time ago, and the bounda-
ries arranged The quarry is the only
th ,rrhic tha
eminent has access The result is that
the ten acres which are reserved from
the agricultural station acreage is
worth about 5000 900 to the Territory, by
reason of the short haul.
AS to the reservation of the fifty-two
acres above the Punchbowl road, which
will be excluded from the Agricultural
Departments land, that is part of the
park site which was chosen and laid out
by King Kalakaua himself Often the
King would walk up the slopes and even
in person set out some of the trees
which are now growing there. He al
ways showed the greatest interest in
the preservation Of the entire Punch
bowl Park, and was anxious to have 1t
improved. So the Government lately
has been doing all that could be done
to make the park beautiful, though
there is little expense which could be
incurred. The great care which had to
be put upon the trees to make them
grow indicates that the land is useless
for agricultural purposes, and as a re-
suit there will be no objection on the
part of the Government to it's exclusion
from the reservation.
Acting upon his first knowledge that
there had been lines run through the
building site which he had chosen, Mr..
Smith wrote to the Department of Ag-
riculture and put the case before the
Secretary, with the result that there
was necessary a new statement of the
case when the facts of the cause of the
discrepancy became fully known. The
last letters went on the steamer yester-
day and will reach Washington before
the facts which were first submitted are
passed upon by the Department
When the matters at issue between
the Territorial Government and the
agent were fully explained Mr.. Smith
was perfectly agreeable to the action
of the Acting Governor. This will take
concrete form when-the new lines have
shape of a new proclamation, which
Will take the place of that of June 10th.
This will definitely settle the entire
matter Mr. Smith is entirely agree
able to the solution which has been
agreed upon. and if is understood viii
recommend that his Department accept
the amended site. as soon as the proc
lamation is issued