The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-13
TO PROMOTE
PUBLICITY
|G0vernmentLands
Offered on New
Plan.
WILL ATTRACT
MORE SETTLERS.
Land Commissioner Boyd Favors
DaiFyins and Chicken Rails
ing for Territory.

In the future the widest publicity is
to be given to all land offerings which
may be made in Hawaii. This was de-
cided upon at a meeting of the Execu-
tive Council held Thursday and Land
Commissioner Boyd has already pre-
pared plans to carry out this idea. 1t
is the intention to advertise broadcast
the fact when lands become available
for taking up, with the idea of obtain
ing suggestions as to what disposition
shall be MADE of them. This will give an
opportunity for prospective settlers in
the States to make application as well
as the people of the Territory, and it is
hoped by this means to induce immi-
grants to come to Hawaii in great num-
bers. Fer the present these notices
Will be confined to the local papers, but
it is hoped soon to widen the publicity
by means of advertisements in the
newspapers of the States, notably upon
the coast.
The first tract of land upon which
public opinion is solicited is located in
the Kau district and contains from 1900
tic 1000 acres. The present lease has just
expired and the land will be offered as
homesteads, on leases, or any way
which will be most acceptable to the
people interested in it's disposition.
publicity has always been my idea
said Land Commissioner Boyd yester-
day, "and now we intend to try it in
earnest. While formerly all prospective
sales were advertised before the date
Of sale, it is now the intention to notify
the public as soon as a tract of land
is about to become idle, or ready to be
taken up. Notices will be published in
wiling ideas from people who might
wish to take up the land, or who can
suggest the most feasible method of
disposing of it. BY this means, perhaps,
cur offerings of lands will come to the
States, and We may induce them to
come here and SETTLE 1 would like to
advertise the lands we intend to open
i'll the States, but the appropriation for
incidentals will not stand it at present.
The Advertisers idea of publicity is one
I heartily approve but we have not the
lands to offer as was done in Oklahoma
CT in the opening of other large tracts.
There are a number of large tracts
which, however, are not available at
the present time, as they are under long
lease. The lands here are not the same
as in the States, where generally at
least one crop may be raised during
the wet season. Then a portion of it
is made up of volcanic rock, though on
the Buchholtz place on Hawaii it seems
as if barren rock had been transformed
into the most fertile soil.
1.-The 20Oo acres ready to be offered at
Kiolokea in the Kau district on Ha-
waii will be advertised at once, and
suggestions viii be received as TO 1tS
disposition. This land could be cut up
so as to make a fine dairy farm. In my
opinion chicken and cattle raising will
succeed better in these Islands than
will small truck farming. Just think
Of the butter which every steamer
brings in and which might just as well
be produced in the Islands. There is
plenty of land for grazing and room
for any number of small dairy farms.
The immense ranches here are all max
ing immense profits and cattle raising
on small scale would succeed just as
well. Then chicken raising would also
ne profitable. for thousands of Califor-
MIA fowls are brought here on every
steamer.
"Cf course there are diseases which
hinder the raising Of chickens and the
mongoose are rather troublesome in
the Kau district, but the place could
be fenced in and soon put on a paying
basis. There is lots of gravel in the
<s.zszzezszzzzzzsz.zzszz.z.z