The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-03-10
PLANS BIG
FARMERS
SCHEME
Edmunds to Start
Million Dollar
Corporation.

Small farming on large scale is the
plan proposed for Hawaii by II. w. s.
Edmunds, a recent arrival in Honolulu
from the Orient, where he has rromot-
munds proposes to organize a million
dollar corporation which will take over
some large tract of land and induce
American farmers to settle upon 1t, the
company to finance the small farms
until they are productive, the land then
to be turned over in fee simple to the
settler. Negotiations. Mr.. Edmunds
says, are already under way which may
result in the conversion of TIE 1000
acre plantation of the Eamalo Sugar
Co into a series of small farms
My plan is simply this said Mr..
Edmunds yesterday. THE idea is TO
get possession of large tract of land
which can be divided up into a number
ct small farms, a centra, corporation
to own the land and sell it on small
payments to white farmers who wish
to make a start for themselves. The
company is to furnish the land, seed
tools, etc, and the land to be cultivated
by the farmers on shares. the company
furnishing the capital until the land is
made profit bearing.
Several local men are interested in
the scheme and we expect to organize
a company with million dollars capt.
tai. Negotiations are under way for
the acquisition of Kamalo plan, alton,
and IL that land can not be obtained
we will try to get some other similar
tract just as large. There are eleven
thousand acres in the kamalo tracr.
Its acquisition as also the acquisition
of any other land will depend entirely
upon its suitability for our purposes.
We are told there is an abundance of
water available and of course this is a
sine qua non. The products for the cul-
tivation of which plantations would be
established by us for parties desiring
same would be all long crops, such as
tea, coffee. cocoa, vanilla, sisal hemp,
bowstrng hemp, Mauritius hemp, rub
ber cocoanuts, dates, pineapples, lines,
etc, according to suitability of the land
This proposition is essentially for
the white man, though in this country
other nationalities will have to be en-
ployed in bringing the land under Gull
tivation. The scheme should bring
and for all such the proposition is that
the company will give them land for
their own as long as they fulfill the
conditions upon which it Is granted
them. They must begin work on the
land as soon as they are placed in pos
session by the company and must re-
main upon and work it in cultivation
of crops or in superintendent.
rhn yx-t11 mi, OF
tiers with rations at a certain fixed
rate to be paid when the crops are
taken off, also tea and tobacco and the
services of a barber when needed. The
company will also provide seed, young
plants and trees and whatever animals
and implements are required in the cul-
tivation of the land. The company is
also to direct the manner of cultiva-
ton, provide water, drainage, fertilizer
and such other things as the colonist
may require.
1.-THE colonists are required to devote
three days each week to labor on the
lands of the company, the remainder
of the week to be devoted to their own
farms, or this may be changed so that
instead half the number of colonists
may devote all their time to the COM
colony can care exclusively for their
own land. One-half of the gross pro-
ceeds of the crops raised by the colon
lists on the land granted them shall be-
long to the company, the other half be-
longing to the colonists, after deducting
the cost of rations, seed, implements
etc, and proportion of the cost OF
harvesting and marketing the crop.
THE advantage of this plan is that
man say after five years work be-
comes the owner in fee simple of his
land, and has as well farm which is
paying him a good profit. The crops
which the laborers will cultivate in
their own land will be one or more Of
the following as the company may di-
rect. viz: Rice, taro. carrot. sweet po-
tato. yam. squash. pumpkin, artichoke
these serve as foodstuffs for pigs as
we'll as for EXPORT, peanut, cassava or
mandioca, ginger arrow-root, tobacco,
Jute, hemp, cotton. ramie. flax, poppy
dor oil or opium, sesame, castor oil
plant sunnower, banana. water melon,
cantaloupe guaya, tomato. sorghum,
alfalfa, Johnson grass or Guinea grass.
III this plan can be successfully car
ried II should induce a large number ~
settlers 10 come here from the Pacific
coast or elsewhere In the States for II
VIII give everyone chance 20 become
independent WITHIN a few years, Tropi-
cav crops always paS best ana in a few
yrars under my plan Hawaii should
have a big export trade
There Il srrlui IT0I nsiti0n Tor ih0
man Who by the payment ~ "A rrrtiin
nE'd sum monthly can become tho own.
~ ~ small planiaiion 0r orchard.
tbs would hr planet io his order Ip
t"AI runrri rHrHit vanilla. tiuuaiF. %.
f'rhl hemp haurll.us hfmp rubber
rnfnanuiH. dairs, hhres nr sIlros ana
nhohs no opportunity e. ans Amer-
can r.ils.n Nhn NlshHt a. obtain a plan.
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