The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-07-13
ACROSS THE
LAVA BEDS
Bv Sol. N. Sheridan.

From the House of ChockhOo, Hawai-
haze, Hawaii. June 30.-Since ! have
seen it, the wonder has grown upon me
that more has not been made of the
Kona country. What California is to
the mainland, IL seems to me thst the
Konn coast should be to these Islands.
1t is a land of unsurpassed fertility, of
rniufall enough TO insure crops, of the
most delightful climate in the world.
All nature smiles there, and anything
that grows under the sun will thrive.
Yet Kona has done little-or man
has done little with hona-and one of
the few sugar plantations that has
failed has been that of kona. WhyY
Ask the sugar men who have taken the
plantation in hand. and who are pre-
pairing now to build railroad to go
with it. They say that they will make
"A success of it-and j III warrant you
that they will. Indeed, the whole de-
velopment of Kona Is now more prom
Using than at any time in its history,
because it will be development along
modern lines. Kona is going to take
advantage of the experience of other
sections, profting by their successes
and by their failures. too.
A LAND OF RICHNESS.
But il is not in sugar alone that
Kona will thrive. The Bruner pineap-
pie cannery, at Napoopoo, has begun
work for the season, and the crop pros
poets are most promising.
al have sold the product of the can
merry three times" said Mr.. Bruner,
when asked about his prosperity.
81 do not mean that | have been
ha ba OF
to say, when the laugh went against
him. ~ mean that / have orders for
three times as many pines as 1 can put
up
That is different thing, Of course.
Also, they are making a success of va
nilla, in Kona, and of tobacco, and
there is in prospect the erection of a
great okolehao distillery, which will
manufacture the pure liquor of the Ha-
waiians and put it on the market in at
tractive shape. However, it will be
equally potent, in any shape-a drink,
thee drains whereof will make a man
rob his own trunk.
OF course our party visited Captain
Cook s monument, at Kealakekua Bay,
and then it was to horse again for the
long ride around through Kona to the
homestead of Eben Low at Puuanahula.
That was one of the most notable of all
rides that we took on the Island of
Hawaii. 1t was gallop, for the most
part, with freshened horses over the
smooth road along the heights Of Kona,
overlooking the sea, and after we had
passed the Mcguire place, and the sun
was beginning to decline, we came out
upon the old lava flow of 1901.
WONDERFUL LAVA FLOW.
Also, but on the next day, we crossed
the lava flow of 1859, by macadamized
road and that is an entirely different
thing from crossing it by trail that
seems to lead out into the unknown.
1t was before we came to this that we
rode across the lava flow that in 1901
came from the small mountain of Hua-
lalai. That is one of the most remark
able flows on this island, if not the
most remarkable. To begin with, it
broke out from two places on the noun
tain. Just below the Mcguire place, to-
ward the sea, there is a great hill of
rough lava piled up in the plain, and a
little above this thick group of trees
is pointed out where the lava came
boiling out of the ground unexpectedly,
and ran down in a food to the ocean
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