The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-20

plars and noxious animals, birds, etc,
into the Territory.
FORESTRY.
IN November %. 1903, the Board ap-
> tinted Ralph S. Hosmer as Superin-
endent of Forestry, on the recon-
mendation of Federal officials. Mr..
Hosmer is a graduate of Harvard and
of the Yale Forest School, holding the
degrees of Bachelor of Agricultural
Science from Harvard and of Master
of Forestry from Yale. He has also
been an instructor in the Yale Forest
School, Since 1896 he has been con-
nected with the U. S. Department of
Agriculture. serving at Washington, D.
c.. and in Maine, New York and Cali
fornia. Mr.. Hosmer arrived in Homo
lulu on January IS, 1904, and began
work Immediately.
District foresters, serving without
salary, have been appointed on all the
islands, viz:
Kauai-A. s. Wilcox, Andrew Moore,
G. H. Fairchild. F. Weber, ]. NJ. Lyd-
gate, Francis Gay.
Oahu-P. r. Isenberg, w. F. Dilling-
ham, A. NJ. NOVEL;, Andrew Adams, L.
L. McCandless, c. Bolte, John Herd.
Molokai-G. C. Munro.
Maui Barkhausen, H. P. Baldwin,
c. B. Wells. H. A. Baldwin, L. Won
Tempsky, DR.. ]. H. Raymond.
Hawaii-E E. Gliding. F. w. Carter,
d. Forbes, Geo. Ross, John Watt, Juli-
an Monsarrat, G. c. Hewitt, Franz
Buchholtz, w. r. Castle, ]. d. Paris,
John Mcguire.
A large part of Mr. Hosmer's time
at the outset was required to enable
him to become acquainted with the
Territory. Yet, up to the date of the
report. two forest reserves had been
established-one the land of Kaipapa,
Oahu. containing 913 acres, and the
other an area of 1900 acres in North
Hamakua, Hawaii, lying between Wal
pic valley and Kohala district. Several
other reserves, on the four principal
islands. were being surveyed.
For want of funds no forest rangers
had been appointed and the. only care
the reserves We're getting was that
given them by friendly disposed private
parties living in the vicinity.
"Many of the Hawaiian forests are
in such inaccessible locations" the re-
port mentions. that no return other
than the effect on climate and the wat
err which they conserve can be expect
ed from them; but in other localities
there is no reason why, in the early
future. a considerable revenue should
not be obtained from forest products"
No fencing had been done by the
Board for want of an appropriation,
but more than 200 miles of wire fencing
has been constructed by private own
ers, to keep live stock out of forests.
Reforesting has been conducted at
Tantalus and Nuuanu valley, Oahu,
though at the latter place tree plant
ing was discontinued in 1904, the winds
being too fierce there for forest growth.
After some of the surviving trees are
large enough to act as a windbreak, it
is suggested, planting may be resumed
there The forest al Tantalus is doing
well. 1t is seeding freely and thus fur
nishing seed for planting elsewhere on
the islands. Private tree planting is
going on at many places. G.. n. Will
cox and a number of planting and
ranching companies are named as tree
planters on a large scale.
Mention is made of the discontinue
ance in 1904 of the system of free dis
tribution of trees and plants at the
government nursery, and the substitu-
ton therefor of a system of importing
and locally collecting seeds and plants
to be sold at cost price.
A collection of specimens of island
woods has been secured. containing "A
varieties, which are cut so as to show
both a segment and a longitudinal sec
ton of the logs. One-half of each cut
surface is polished and half left I'M
polished.