The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-03-25

2 anees the Legislature is making an at
; tempt to solve the question of our cit
water supply Dy the int3oductiol o
petitions and. resolutions for the pur
chase of the eo-called Pauoa springs
principally owned by c. Booth. and tn
Pahoa pumping plant. owned by Gea
and Lansing.
Before any. of the members of oui
Legislature vote on these propositions
I should individually advise them tc
thoroughly investigate them. and ascer-
tain the wishes of the people and
whether it will pay the government to
acquire them. In answer to the first,
venture to say that the people do not
favor these propositions. What is
needed and badly NEEDED is a water sup
ply from higher elevation. and far
more ample than can be obtaine9 from
the Pauoa springs. for the benefit of
higher situated homes, which are be-
coming more and more preferable in
order to escape the increasing epidemics
and diseases of the city and lower
grounds, and enjoy good views and
other advantages; and if so are not
these people entitled to some considera-
ton, are they not voters and taxpayers?
Tho r,1ai,,S "a I~,,,,e,,. ,.o,;<,,. - .,,-
almost all year around, amply and
well supplied, and in dry seasons al
ways can and are sufficiently provided
by the now operating government ar
tesian pumping plants.
The owners of the Pauoa springs
claim, according to the report of the
House Committee, a yield of 5000 600
gallons. every twenty-four hours, but
people who are posted and thoroughly
familiar with these springs assert that
one million gallons is a very high
estimate, and accurately measured is
not believed to be over 100000 gallons,
barring the rainy seasons, when it |
might be larger, and to further develop |
lAACAlA IAfS III P1ONC d QOuDllul unOGIIdh-
ing, and result in just the reverse of
what is expected.
And for these springs the owners ask
the snug little sum of $3.50, 600. besides
having the water piped, free of charge,
through their lands. which plated into |
lots for honesteads would sell at big |
figures and be a real bonanza to them
Realizing that money is scarce, and
that this point might block the sale.
the, owners are accommodating and
would, in lieu of cash. accept govern
nent bonds. we'll knowing there would
De no difficulty in finding a ready mar
xet for them at par, or even at a pre-
MUM, if they should bear the current
ate of interest; this little transaction,
f carried through, would prove a fine
'peculation, indeed.
a far better proposition for the gov
eminent would be either the Kalihi
Valley stream, where water rights
Gould be acquired cheaply. as there is
out little taro planted, or the Manoa
springs, which could be bought at
nominal figure. compared with what is
lsked by Booth ct al, and people would
AVE their water supply from a high
elevation.
AS to the purchase of the Pahoa
pumping plant, I warrant to say that
10 member of our Legislature, con-
cientious and true to his duty to his
oDSrif1apfS will SuDDorf S,,ob q ,,,o1-a
he stops to reason and figures the
ost of purchase, maintenance and run
ling expenses of that plant and the
mall income now derived and to be
eriyed from it for many years to come.
If 1 am correctly informed the price
sked for this plant is 100000 for which
he government would receive, outside
f the wells, shell building containing
he pumps and machinery, worth per-
APPS $4,000 to 100000 and a small
eaky reservoir in the wrong place.
hitch cannot be counted on, as it would
ave to be replaced by a better and
anger one
Neither is the pipe system of any
alue. it being incomplete, worn and of
lferior quality, i. E., of sheet iron, last
lg the longest couple or three years
lore, and as the plant, without the
ipe line, is useless, a new pipe system
Tould have to be installed.
Now has any one of you law-mak-
rs ever figured the cost of these pipes
nd the labor of laying them through :
n almost solid strata of rock and cor
al, as the Kaimuki and Kapahulu
ark Addition tracts present? If you
ave not, allow me to inform you, that ,
, pipe all the streets of the two above
AIMED tracts, would require no less
han twenty-five miles of pipes, for :
hitch. with the labor of placing them,
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