The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-16

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railway with Pearl Harbor and Homo
lulu.
In the adjacent district of so square
miles of moist, cool and fertile upland,
lying at from 500 to 1900 feet attitude,
is room for 1900 white families to en-
gage prosperously in farming. That
land is now unoccupied except for pas
turage of cattle. 1t is too dry for sugar
cane, which requires abundant mois-
ture throughout the year. Pineapples
would prosper on that land, and album
dant winter and spring crops of pro-
duce would be proftably cultivated
Farmers in that district would enjoy
an immediate prospect of a profits ole
sale OF ordinary produce by cheap
transportation to Honolulu, but more
especially to the large town which is
certain in a short time to grow up at
Pearl Harbor, half way between them
and Honolulu. I am figuring on the
certainty of an enormous development
of steam traffic consequent on the open
ing of the Panama Canal, as well as
earlier from the Tehuantepec railroad.
This will speedily render Honolulu har-
Dor inadequate for the increased ship
ping and compel a rapid growth at the
neighboring port.
Other favorable localities for Amer
lean farmers abound on this island and
on Maui and Hawaii. / have no doubt
that within ten years satisfactory loca-
lions could be secured for the occu-
pancy of five thousand enterprising
American families in cool and healthy
upland districts. Many products have
already been proved to be profitable
for expectation. Besides pineapples
and bananas, which are somewhat per-
lshable, the canning of pineapples is
proftably carried on; there is a sue
eessful production of sisal fiber of the
highest grade, for binding Irvine; there
is very superior quality of coffee, and
there is tobacco Of common farm
produce, it is enough to say that the
larger part of our pigs and poultry
are imported, as well as of our butter,
although these can be produced here
nearly as cheaply as in California,
were the skilled and Industrious farm
ers here to do it. The citrus culture is
wholly undeveloped in Hawaii, and
there is large import of oranges
and lemons from California, although
oranges and lines are among the easiest
of fruits to produce here. Hawaii ought
to supply all the citrus fruits needed
from Oregon to Alaska, and will ul-
timately do so. Our difficulty has been
that Sugar is King" and has usurp-
ed all our agricultural energies.
Here should be emphatically pre-
sented the fact that our Hawaiian
climate is exceptionally adapted to the
outdoor labor of white men. Although
within the tropics, Hawaii knows
nothing of the continual sweltering
heats of the rest of the torrid zone
While we have no frost, our climate
is much cooler than the summer climate
of New England. In Honolulu, during
summer, the mercury ranges between
70 degrees and IS degrees, and in win
ter between 81 degrees and IS degrees
OF the usual torrid heats of from 90
degrees to 100 degrees we know moth
ing, although common in American
harvest days.
The cause of our exceptional climate
is our unvaryingly cold ocean, which,
unlike all other tropical seas, steadily
maintains a temperature at from 80
degrees in winter to 20 degrees in
summer. This temperature is unvary-
ingly produced by copious and uni
form cold current from the California
and Oregon coasts, where throughout
all the summer afternoons the citizens
of San Francisco have to wear over
coats to fend off the chill draft from
the sea. Hawaii shares something from
that Pacific coast climate of America. |
and thereby is cooled unlike any 9th
er tropical latitude on this globe. 1t |
is this exceptionally dry and cool