The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-23

40 Cot dozen There is system or
aigb4 smaller reservoirs for the storage
Of wafer from the bitches and pumps
with capacity of 60,o0o0oO gallons
THE DAM A BUSY SCENE.
The construction work of the opaeula
svstern-tunneis, bitches and oaiil-is
being done under contract by Mr.. A a
Wilson. under the supervision OF MI
Tanaatt. of course. Gangs or men nave
been strung along the tunheis u
difcbes. working day and Night III
shifts. with the result that the Two
rivers will probably be ready for use
as soon as the dam is completed. W heh
7 visited the dam il presented pusy
scene. with many teams ana
scrape cuttih g down hill IN the psa9ii
of the reservoir, and packing ana roiiinS
down the dirt on top of the dam, Wnich
will have a height of seventy odo Iee''
and a base of about 325 feet nneiy
constructed cement tunnel, carrying
buoa steel pine. connected inside the
reservoir with valve stano-plpe ina
looks like a mill smoke-stack, is the
outlet bridge will be built from the
dam TO the stand-pipe, where the water
tender can go, and, by means OF the
valves. regulate the volume of water
that is discharged on it's way to the
cane fields.
IMPORTANCE OF THE wAHIAWA
SYSTEM.
The Wahiawa system is of more i'm
nortance than the Opaeula. The en-
sineers who have been engaged upon
the work have already been mentioned;
Mr.. L. G. kellogg is in charge of the
DEVELOPMENT work for the Waialua
Agricultural Company, which company
has furnished all the money for the
work. and is entitled to much credit
for carrying on a work of such magnl-
tude.
One ditch from the upper part of the
Kaukonahua stream, delivering 5O.O00,-
600 gallons of water every twenty-four
hours has already been completed. The
magnitude of this undertaking can be
realized, in a measure, when it is known
that the capacity of the projected res
ervoir is $500, 600 gallons. 1t is said
that when this reservoir is filed 1T will
be possible to take launch ride OF
seven miles upon it-three and one-half
miles down the backed-up water of one
fork of Kaukonahua and three and one
half miles up the backed-up water of
the other fork. A power plant of 400
horsepower is projected, to furnish |
electric power wherever needed on the
the pumps, in the mill, or |
elsewhere. The Wahiawa streams are
subject to great floods, and the proposed !
dam is TO impound the flood or storm /
waters for use on the lower lands. But |
the Wahiawa system will furnish a
material in itself for a future /
descriptive article.
OPAEULA NO BAKE OVEN.
In passing let me suggest as many
other writer's have, that it is not nee
essary for people to go to the Coast
to get into bracing air. The air at
Opaeula is bracing, and I suppose it
also is UP in the hills on any island of
The group When I got out of bed about
5 o'clock the first morning at Opaeula,
the thermometer registered so degrees,
and at $50 o'clock it had crawled up
wards only four degrees. L have seen
much colder weather, but 1 assure you
0paeula between sun and sun is no bake
oven. The air up there in the early
has snap enough in it to
keep you dancing about briskly to keep
warm; and in the evening you will find
yourself monopolizing place nearly on
top of the cook stove.
NATIVE CABINET WOODS.
A thing that interested me some, and
interests the men who live up in the
hills back of Waialua great deal, is
The large variety of beautiful cabinet
woods found there. They find twenty
i'd different varieties, showing as many
Inherent colors-white, black, red, yell
ow, with shades and variegations.
Some of the men are putting in their
evening hours, which otherwise might
become insufferably lonesome fashion
ng these woods into articles of use and
ornament, and polishing them. Quite a
little skill is being shown: and some
lay, who can tell, Waialua inlaid wood
work may have name and demand
among Hawaiian curio seekers.
LEVERETT H. MESICK. !