The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-31
VALUE OF PAAUHAU.

VALUE OF PAAUHAU.
Defendant denies that S124.OOO is a
very high price for said land of Pa
auhau. Samuel Parker having told de-
PENDANT that he had sold lands that
were inferior and cut up by gulches,
including such gulches, at the rate of
$1,000 per acre; and Wundenberg, Par
ker's agent, called the attention of the
defendant to the fact that cane land
in the Hilo district had recently been
valued by intending purchasers at
$4,000 per acre.
That there will be no trouble at the
proper time and place to secure $124,-
900 for said land.
PARTITION NOT INJURIOUS.
He denies that partition in kind of
the Parker Ranch will be ruinous or at
all injurious to the interests of said
minor
That the lands comprising the Par
ker Ranch have an area of 100000 acres
more or less, and not of 100000 acres
as alleged in said amended petition,
of which 136,434 acres are owned by
said minor and said Samuel Parker
in fee simple; that 1926 acres are
owned by said minor individually; that
6061 acres are owned by said Samuel
Parker individually; that about H.
600 acres are leasehold under~ several
different leases.
This defendant admits that said
Samuel Parker has raised a question
as TO whether or not said minor has
any interest in certain of said lease
holds. and has claimed at times that
he owned the same, but this defendant
is advised that such claim is without
merit
He denies that it is impossible to
divide said lands owned by said par
ties as tenants in common SO that
each can have her or his full, fair share
thereof, and contends that the ranch
is capable of being divided into two
complete ranches made up of all kinds
of lands necessary to make tho
rough-going ranch complete in every
detail; defendant denies that said
lands are very largely devoid of water
and says that there is an abundance
OF water upon the Parker Ranch to
supply the entire ranch or to supply
two ranches if the same is sub-divided
into two ranches; that this water will
have to be piped or stored, but that is
frequently the case on other ranches;
ihdI IL Sci0 Is HSlQ llldCI dS Oi1S
ranch water will still have to be piped
TO lands that have no water now, and
water has been piped for ten miles
with great profit to all concerned, and
there is much more land that should
have water piped to it. and that wheth-
er the ranch is divided or not and in
either event the water can be SO piped
profitably and successfully and is no
great undertaking.
That expert stockmen agree that
there is ample land enough to accom-
modate two ranches and that many
substantial stockmen are prepared to-
day to say that not only would the
division of said ranch not entail loss
to said minor but that it would be a
positive benefit to divide the same up
into two ranches
That there are large areas of said
lands which under intensive farming
can be made to produce very much
more in the way of supplying and
raising stock than they do now; that
1t is impracticable for this defendant
to attempt at present nor will it be
practicable for many years to come to
develop said lands upon said lines.
That said ranch if cut into two
ranches, will produce fully as much
income as said ranch now produces, and
will become more valuable; but that
it would be disadvanta geous to the
minor to have it sold as a whole.
HAMPERED BY SAM PARKER.
That this minors estate has been con-
served and developed until she on her
part is well equipped to expend large
sums of money in the further develop
ment of said ranch, but said Samuel
Parker is not so equipped with ready
money, so that said ranch has had to