The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-08-07

In fact the Mauna Loa anchored cloet
in The guests climbed up long ladder:
and stood on the wharf, where they
were greeted by w. A. Kinney Of
Honolulu, pioneer in the promotion of
the McBryde plantation and the Wal.
nina power plant as WELL In a driz-
zling rain the guests walked to the
shore and the warehouse, within which
tables for breakfast awaited them.
The tables were prepared as for luau,
with their coverings of valley ferns
and ii leaves, but the most appetizing
coffee, biscuits, fish and juicy Kauai
beefsteak were served. The satisfy
| ing of the collective inner man of the
expedition was in the keeping of Mrs.
w. A. Kinney and Mrs. Alice Hastings,
assisted by several ladies. There were
also present Mrs. George Fairchild,
Mrs. Harry Macfarlane, Mrs. Henry
Jaeger, Mrs. James Robertson, Misses
Helen and Alice Macfarlane and Miss
Robertson, while Manager George
Fairchild of Kappa plantation was an
interested visitor from across the
island. Breakfast over the guests
were conveyed up the valley on horses
and on freight trans over a diminutive
railway worked with mule power. The
winding road follows the course of the
trail originally opened up by the con
! tractors.
! The power house stands on the bank
of the stream and close to the noun
tain side. In the foreground were
numerous poles and cross-arms on
which was strung an array of electric
wires, insulators and electrical devices.
From these poles three aluminium wires
pass on to single line of poles across
the valley, thence up steep ridge to
across a series of gulches and ridges
to the opposite side of the island. And
in the setting of the poles the utmost
ingenuity was displayed by the engi.
neers. One is amazed to see poles in
positions which are remarkable for
their apparent inaccessibility. Horses
and mules could not carry them up.
Machinery, ropes and pulleys had moth
ing to do with this phase of the under
taking. Strengthened japanese per-
formed the feat of conveying these
heavy poles up the ridges. From six
to ten men raised pole to their
shoulders and necks. Digging their
toes into the earth and moving slowly !
upward on their hands and knees the ;
burden-bearers finally took the poles
to the places assigned them. And all
this was done without an accident.
DITCHNs, TUNNELS, GENERATORS.
On arrival at the power-house Engi-
neer Robertson, in charge of the plant,
requested those who desired to con-
tinue on to the intake, to proceed at
once by horseback A large number in
the party availed themselves of this
opportunity despite heavy rainfall up
the valley. The commencement of the
bitches and tunnels was found inter
esting. Seven miles from the steamer
landing the series of waterways begin.
At an elevation of 795 feet the water
is led along the bed of the Wainiha
river, heavy stone spillway 100 feet
in length having been constructed in
the stream. just below this is three
foot SYNDICATE and below this are three
each three feet in width,
having a rise of 5h feet.
The ditch proper begins below the
headgates and is graduated down from
nine feet at the bottom, TO four feet,
with thirteen feet of width at the top.
The tunnels are 6x6, all having arched
tops, There is decline of ten feet to
the mile throughout the length of
bitches and tunnels, giving a rapid
flow. Thirty-three tunnels were neces-
sary to convey the water, these having
an aggregate length of 1850 feet. To
this is added the 10000 feet of ditch.
way which brings the water TO the
forebay at the end of the last tunnel
at an elevation of SIS feet above the
A pipe line runs from the forebay to