The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-13
WANT LAND
IN HAWAII
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knows little more about conditions
here still shows that the writer is
willing TO take chance to get home.
This letter is addressed directly to
the Commissioner of Lands, the writer
being resident of Chicago, and it fol
lows:
'"Sir: have desire to immigrate
to Honolulu this fall. Can you give me
an idea as to the opportunities for me
to secure land there, say ten acres or
fifteen acres or five acres or twenty
acres, near Honolulu or elsewhere, suit
able for cocoanut or fruit raising?
i Are cocoanuts' grown for market in
your country9 Are they proftable2 1
know they require ten years to bear.
If you have tracts open under right of
purchase leases, what are the costs, etc.2
/ would be glad to receive any infOrma-
ton as to how [ could acquire land
there, and the price. -
SUGGESTION FOR PROMOTION.
the Kohala ditch, but all the others do,
and they come from places as widely
separated as Chicago, North Dakota
, and the state of Washington. There
are three from different places in Wash
ington. In answering them, Land Com
missioner Pratt has given detailed in
formation upon all the heads asked for,
and has enclosed with each answer
copy of Jared Smith s pamphlet, " Ha-
wall; It's Agricultural Possibilities,
prepared and circulated by the Promo
ton Committee.
! AS matter of fact, there would
j seem to be a suggestion in this that
could be most proftably followed up by
the committee. Those who are familiar
with conditions on the mainland know
that there is in the breasts of many
Americans, having pioneer blood, a
great and abiding land hunger, and
great desire to try new scenes. That
land hunger and the pioneer blood have
made the Western States of America.
PLENTY OF LANDS.
conditions here know that there is
available lands in the Islands for the
production of marketable things not
grown on the mainland. and those of us
who face the real condition know, too,
that white men can work in the fields
here as comfortably as anywhere in the
world. 1t is only necessary to give
them the fields, and stop trying to put
them down to the Asiatic coolie level.
These white men viii make the Islands
really American.
A little promotion work among home
seekers would do very much to carry
out President Roosevelt S idea as to
the future of Hawaii. How little would
be needed is shown by the letters drawn
as a result merely of reading the cabled
stories of the opening of the Kohala |
ditch. The home-seekers are beginning |
to look this way of their own accord |
They will not need much urging.
LANDS OF KOHALA.
AS to Kohala, there are about $500
acres of government land there in the
ditch region. Of this about 500 acres
cannot be served with water, either be-
cause it is above the ditch or because it
is not arabic in character. Of the re-
naming $500 acres, all of which is ara
BILE and under the ditch, two thousand
acres is held on leases which expire Iii
1907 or 1908, and the balance is on a
lease under the terms of which it viii
revert to the government in 1913.
There would seem to be good
therefore, for American farmers
TO get homes under the kohala ditch
within the next few years. The lands,
of course, are cane lands, leased to the
and the government would
doubtless require that they be kept in
the same high state of productiveness
as now, to the end that revenue from
them should continue to fall in; but
otherwise there would be no objection
20 turning them over to American
farmers who would work them, make
heir homes on them. and raise up fami
les of Americans to the future prosper I
ty of this Territory. The Kohala
is as rich and productive as any .
n the Islands, and circumstances might
9e created which would make that re-
ZION most attractive to the best class
# home-seekers.
SELF CTTRE NO FTCTTONI