The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-04-17
Total agricultural land de-
5034.l2
ss92.l2
FAITH TO BE KEPT.

This makes grand total of 546S.36
acres of agricultural lands in Anahola,
Kamal0malo, Kapaa and Olohena de-
pendent upon the waters of the two
rivers, and a total of l7,2l5.O4 acres of
land all told under the two rivers whose
waters Colonel Spalding wants to lease
at nominal rental. Out of this water,
he will supply enough for two thousand
acres, to be planted in cane.
And, speaking of this Spalding
proposition, and the Molokans, Mana
ger Fairchild of the Makee Sugar Com
pany wants popular error corrected
with reference to his position in the
Molokan matter. Mr.. Fairchild says that
he has not claimed that the Molokans
have failed, excepting as community
of laborers He is willing to admit
that some of them may make success
as laborers in the cane field.
81 do not see why they do not give
them their lots" said Acting Governor
Atkinson yesterday. 81 have sought
to make it clear, at all events, that the
government is ready to stand to the
terms of its agreement with the Molo-
kans. The government always stands
TO its agreements. And / believe that
we will make a success of that thing
yet"
LETTER FROM DEMENS.
Apropos of the Molokans, and their
troubles, the following letter received
from Captain Demens by Land Commits
sioner Pratt in Yesterday Is mails from
the Coast, is very timely. Captain
Demens, it will be remembered, acted
M the spokesman for the Molokans IN
bringing them to Hawaii:
Los Angeles Cal, April 3, 1906.
Hon. j. w. Pratt, Commissioner of Pub
lie Lands, Honolulu, 4. II.
My Dear Sir: have copies of cor
respondence between Mr.. Castle and
Mr.. Fairchild, and several letters from
Mr.. Castle and the Molokans, and ]
presume am fully posted as to the
causes and extent of the dissensions in
tho colony at Kapaa. ! do not consider
them as serious. While, of course, they
ara unpleasant and troublesome, they
are nothing more than had to be eX
pected under the circumstances.
Perhaps one or two men may have
la be sent back, but that is onl!
natural. beg you to be patient will
them, and to bear in mind that they d
not come from one village or one local
iiy, but from five distant provinces
perhaps fifteen different localities, an,
twenty or twenty-five villages 1t
not compact community, but lot o
comparative strangers thrown together
They have TO have time to cemen
themselves into "a community, to adap
and to adjust themselves to each othel
mud 20 the entirely new environment
aud requirements of the case,
MORE MoLoKANs COMING.
| have no doubt that their commune
spirit and experience will be stron
enough 10 master successfully all th
difficulties and to produce solid an
united community in the end, Fac
Russian province or locality or eve
village has Us own peeuliarities ~
usages, and these people have 10 wdr
Out the practical solution Of what
really needed under the present cirrn
stances No doubt there must be di
feTenres, and perhaps quarrels hefoI
this ~ accomplished, but these dissel
aions cannot be vital 90 the welfare
she community, and only require tin
for proper adjustment, ! soc nothin
90 far, that can he fatal, OF el'
eeTinns
DO not be nneasy as 10 the numbe
required for hapaa' The quota