The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-07-28
THE ANSWER TO
SEEKERS FOR LAND
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the cost of preparing this portion for
cultivation would be nil The I'M
cultivated lands are overgrown, to
certain extent, with lantana brush, and
the cost of clearing would average
about So er acre,
"The Ditch Co. sell water i'm this dis
trict at rate of $500 per million gallons
per day, per annum.
Sugar cane is the principal crop
grown i'm the Kohala district and each
acre of cane would require about one
and one half millions gallons of water
per annum, this making the cost of
water about $40 per acre per annum.
"The land appears to be well adapt
ed to pineapple culture, and in case
pines are planted, much less water
would be required, say about one third
of amount needed for cane
81 enclose pamphlet, written by
Honorable j. G. Smith, Special Agent i'm
charge of U. S. Experiment station,
which will furnish information regard
ing principal fruits and vegetables and
all other products of country.
Regarding general prospects for the
settler III Hawaii 1 will state that the
public lands of this Territory consists
of all characters or classes of land and
some of it is very good.
1.-THE enclosed digest of Land Act 1895
will inform you regarding methods of
| taking up lands, necessary qualifica-
lions of applicants and manner of ar
irving at value of land and price to
settler. You will note that the lands
| r. hNv al
eminent under Territorial Land Law
and not under the Federal Land Law.
| The price of land ranges from 81 to $40
per acre, the higher prices being for
highly productive sugar cane land al
ready under cultivation. The settler
gets the land for about one-fifth Q-5)
of its actual cash value.
Il also enclose a couple of pamphlets
explaining two most favored ways of
taking up land.
Hawaii offers many chances to the
settler who desires to take up good land
and is willing to hustle and help the
land to produce. Our chief products,
Mt present, are sugar cane, bananas
and pineapple though the growing of
-sisal for its fore and rubber trees for
their gum is making some Roadway.
Coffee is also grown in some dis
tricts Stock raising is also consider
ed profitable In order to go into
any business a certain amount of ready
money is necessary. OF the above men,
toned industries, cane and pine
apples are looked upon with the most
favor and with both cane and pine
apples it it necessary that one should
be able to support ones self for from
eighteen months to two years, while
the crop is planted and is growing tC
maturity OF course a man can ge;
along with a very small capital if he
takes up a small piece of land and
mortgages his crop in advance, but
!, that puts the balance on the wrong
side to start with for the interest will
eat large hole in the profits. To make
a success of settling on our public lands
the settlers should came in colonies OF
ten or more families and come expect
ing to work hard, for a time at least
To those who come with assurance that
they want to adopt our country as theil
future permanent homes we offer oul
best lands at a nominal figure and eX.
tend every hope of success; to those
who simply drift in as spectators we
offer no announcement.
Before a colony or large number Of
people decide to try for their fortunes
in Hawaii they should first send one
or two reliable persons ahead to in
, vestigate and report on the prospect
This is only a precautiOn for safety
sake. We believe that we can satisfy
any reasonable person that to the earn
est settler we can offer all that could
J be expected. I would be pleased Il
furnish you with any further specia
information desired.
VERY truly yours,
u. w. PRATT,
commissioner of Public Lands"