The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-09
GROWTH IN
THE FUTURE
Progress Will Be
the Rule in
Hawaii.
GREAT AREAS TO
BE CULTIVATED
Riches of Philippines Have NotYet
Been Told-Gold Enough
to Pay War Debt.

/ Mr. Joseph Vance, who as the repre-
sentative of Miller, Sloss & Scott of san
Francisco, has been spending the past
month touring the islands, will leave in
the Sonoma with a greater idea of the
future of the group than he had when
he came, though he has been a careful
observer of island movements for many
years. In the opinion of Mr.. Vance
there will be greater development in
the future and the line of progress will
be so varied that there will be no ques-
ton as to the stability of the prosper
ity which will come. II travelled over
the islands of Hawaii and Maui said
Mr.. Vance yesterday, and 1 was more
than pleased with what 1 saw. The
fertility of the SOIL the advancement of
the science of cane growing, the areas
which yet be drawn unde. cultivation.
all combine to give a tourist a great
idea of the future of the islands. The
growing of sugar cane has reached its
highest development and it is a matter
of establishment that there can be such
great acreage brought under irriga-
ton with the pumping plant. The only
way in which this is possible is thar
the pumps are of the highest type.
The islands have not reached their
Wherever I went 1 saw large areas
where yet water will be found and the
cultivation of the acres made possible.
The lands are capable of producing ev-
cry kind of product and certainly will
not be permitted to long lie barren. The
lands whereveUI have seen them are IS
fertile as any areas I have seen in the
States, not excepting California. and
when the limit of cultivation has been
reached the islands will be extremely
prosperous.
San Francisco houses will see that
the new trade of the Pacific passes
through that city. There can BE- no di-
version of the bulk OF the trade from
that city and the business people are
alive to the situation. While there has
been some loss experienced because of
the strike the people are going ahead
and will more than retrieve any lost
ground"
Another San Franciscan, who has had
much to do with the development of the
central portion Of the State, was re-
cent visitor to Honolulu, leaving IN the
last ship. Mr.. c. II. King and his son,
Joseph King, were on their way- nome
after a trip through the Philippines,
whittier they went on a prOspectins
tour, representing party of Eastern
The senior Mr.. King it was
who sold the site of the big watson
VILE beet sugar mill to Claus Spreckels,
and who was one of the pioneers of the
Salinas valley. Mr.. KL'eA amassed
fortune in the redwoods OF Humboldt
later and it was as a timber expert that
he went to the Philippines. The investl-
cations of the Messrs King were car
ried on Systematically. They went up
the streams as far as they could in
boats and then took to the w0 rs IN
foot. In this way they surveyed as far
as they could the forests of Luzon,
Cebu and Mindanao. In conversation
with a friend here, who repeated the
to the Advertiser, Mr.
King said:
THE metropolis of the Philippines is
entirely out of place. Manila = III the
typhoon belt, is unhealthy and low anu
as it is so far away from the southern
islands, in my opinion the capital oil
the archipelago will be removed IL time
"a point 1uFIneI SOuNll' -Nt -
places where the harbors are deep ana
safe and which offer excellent sites for
a safe, healthy city. Perhaps I."t'o VIII
be the future metropolis OF the group
THE wealth of the Philippines has
not been fully estimated. L -ound IN
one tract of twenty miles long by forty
miles broad, gold measures when ore
exceedingly valuable. There is enough
gold there to pay all the war expenses
of the United States. We passed over
valleys which surpassed anything 1 had
ever seen before. They VIII prove the
most fertile of any country in t2ie world
in my opinion.
las to timbers, the forests are very
rich. The hardwoods predOminate- In
many places 1 found virgin StcWths II
a variety of mahogany, the trees ID
4 feet in diameter and a clear l23 feet
Up 10 the first bough. The timber "a
be exported TO the United states 711
will be of great value to the United
States"