The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-06

James t. Taylor and c. III. Kluegel,
delegates to the Irrigation Congress
at Sacramento in a report to Governor
Frear state that the Federal reclama-
ton service will be extended to Ha-
wall. NJ 0. Leighton, u. S. hydrogra-
pher, will visit the islands as soon
as the appropriations for the service
being included in the estimate for the
work of 1908.
A cablegram from Washington says
the INSTRUMENTATION Steamship Co.
has accepted the offer of the Navy. of
eight dollars a ton for carrying coal
from the Atlantic to the Pacific for the
use of the fleet.
Oscar S. Straus, Secretary of Com
merce and Labor, in an interview given
in Chicago on his way home from Ha-r
wall, said: .'Well-to-do American Ia
borers, 1 think, would find it to their
advantage to GO there dhe Hawaiian
Islands), as the Territorial Govern
ment is DESTROYS of giving them every
facility to establish themselves, espa-
cially those who follow agricultural
pursuits
Land Commissioner Pratt has re-
ceived a communication from HutrA
Crimson plantation on behalf of twelve
Spanish iaborers on the plantation,
asking to be domiciled on government
land.
The Waialua Agricultural Company
has applied for the purchase of about
400 acres of remnants of land in the
Kaukonahua guich.
President Pinkham of the Board OF
Health, on returning from his trip to
Waimea. Hawaii, to look for site for
a boys industrial farm, reports a crop
of corn in that district promising a
yield per acre far above that obtained
on the U. S. mainland. The SOIL In
that vicinity is very rich and finely
and is very easily cultivat"
ed, Mr.. Pinkham said. 1t is adapted
to the use of the latest and most
agricultural machinery. The
of the Parker Ranch, A. w.
Carter. has ordered a complete outfit
of such machinery and purposes next
season to plant approximately 800
acres of corn.
For supplying $50 school desks A. B.
Arleigh & Co. bid s2495 and 7. G.
Thrum s255S.S0, the types of desk be-
ing different.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Among lately-recorded instruments
are the following: Deed from john
Kelly to Harry A. Transon, lot at
Kalihi. s1400; deed from Mary HAM
,nd- Graeme (widow) to Caroline e.
Harnond- Graeme, property at queen |
and Kaahumanu streets, corporation
ponds and 81; bill of sale from X. K.
bedford to executors of Kikumatsu
DIDO. leasehold with buildings, etc.
Hotel street. S2759.4 As; deed from Lew
ars &, Cooke. Ltd, to Charles M.
Cooke. Ltd, lot at College Hills, $425o;
aasa from Oma T.. Holland to @. Fl.
" G. Hermann Hugo, lot with build
ngs. etc. Kaniahku, Puma, HAWAII
iftv years at $50 year; deed from
ym. r. Castle, trustee, to Frank Ala
media. land at Makapala, kohala, Ha-
vaii S1100: extension of lease from
lane wight ct al. to Kohala Ditch Co,
wo reservoir sites, right of way for
itch. etc, Puakea ranch lands. Ko-
ala 81 years from July 1, 1880, at 81 a
ear; deed from Wong In and husband
n Pang Vow, quarter interest in Ke- II
aulike street property, $1,000; deed
rom Mary Moragne and husband q.
IL to Andrew Chalmers, homestead
If 20 acres at Kahuku, North Hiio, i
1000: deet from A. r. de souza Jr. and I
rife ct al. to Manoel r. Mendez ct {
l.. two pieces land at w. Kaupakalua, /