The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-08-19
ELEVATIONS OF THE HIGHEST
CANE-FIELDS. HILO DISTRICT,
HAWAII.
Approximate

lsduIdnoenOe ....... ....loUU
Hakalau .................... .'loVo
Honomu .....................l iUV
Pepeekeo ......,.............l6O O
Onomea ......................l5 OO
Hilo' Sugar Company
Fee lands ..................15O 1900
Homestead lands 1900
Hawaiian Mill Company 1000
LIMITS OF CANE CULTIVATION.
The elevation at which the highest
cane now stands practically marks in
each case the limit of profitable cultiva-
ton under present prices and condi-
tions. Some of the managers express
the opinion that with a higher price for
sugar is will pay to go farther up. while
others felt that the full limit had, for
them. already been reached. Most of
the managers however wanted a strip
left above their present fields, on their
fee land, so that if later it We're found
advisable to extend the cane further
mauka, there would be room to do so.
Seventeen hundred and fifty feet was
considered by all of them as being suf-
ficently high, and this elevation was
agreed to by practically all as the best
line for the permanent forest boundary.
The other main factor in the case is
the demand for land for settlement and
homestead purposes which will inevita-
bly, follow the development of the Is
land of Hawaii, through the building
of the projected kohala-Hlo railroad
and the improvement of Hilo Harbor-
both of which must eventually come.
Indeed, because of its location and nat
ural advantages, there are already APP
plicants for all the land now available
in the Hilo District.
COMBINATIONS BY FOREST
Err ROSS.
| As a basis on which to work in de-
termining the location of the line. the
report to Ex-Governor Dole, made by
Mr.. George Ross, consulting forester for
the North Hilo District, was used. In
this report. which embodied the con-
census of opinion of the managers of
the various plantations in the district,
| ii is recommended that the lower bOun-
Diary of the reserve be drawn approx
mately on the seventeen hundred and
fifty foot contour line. In this recon-
lmendation ] am ready, on the whole,
to concur. because | believe that a line
so drawn would sufficiently protect the
forest and safeguard the water supply
of the district, while at the same time
making available all the land which it
can reasonably be expected will be
utilized within a considerable period
of years.
RESERVE LINE RECOMMENDED.
In the absence of a good topographic
map, it is difficult to discuss the loca-
| FL, in, oar
way. For this reason the seventeen
hundred and fifty foot contour has
been adopted, although the line as ac-
tually laid out will vary more or less
from il. At either end of the district,
owing TO the fact that the iand has
already been cleared, or partitioned off
into homestead tracts, it will be nee
essary to go somewhat higher When
the time comes. for running the line
out on the ground it should be drawn
between prominent points-such as
hills, functions of ridges or ravines, pro-
nounced angles in streams, etc.-and
such points should be permanently
marked.
Based upon the topographic data now
in hand, 4 therefore recommend as the
lower boundary OF the proposed forest
reserve in the Hilo District, the fol-
lowing line: Starting at the Laupa-
hoehoe Guch at the mauka Hamakua
corner of the Laupahoehoe homestead
tract. and following the upper boun-
dairy of the same to its eastern mauka
corner, thence across TO, and along the
upper boundary Of the Maulua home
stead tract, thence 10 the top of the
Kamaee tract, thence across the lands
of Hakalau ana KaiWiki To- the upper
line of the proposed llonomu homestead
tracts, as recommended In my report
upon that iaudi thence through the MAJ
uka corners OF nv lands of NaWaiuui
and pumoi 90 the upper corner of the
land of kikala, con- tho boundary uf tho
KaiWiki homesieads, thence from The
eastern boundary of This tract, 40 about
the SAME elevation, tho unr should or1ss
a. lhe ANrhl stream, above lhr ranr
nrlds M tho lilo sugar Company ana
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