The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-30

The open lands beyond are subjec
to different wind currents from thos
under forest to the eastward.
PRIVATE RESERVE.
For the past ten years the proposed
reserve has been treated as a p-ivatt
forest reserve by the Haleakala Rancl
| Company. which at its own expense
has built and maintained fences to keel
out the cattle. The gulch itself is {
barrier part of the way but at boil
the upper and lower ends of the re
serve fences are necessary. 1t may
be said in passing that within the last
two wears the Haleakala Ranch Com
panv has also fenced in and now main
tains as a private forest reserve por.
tions of its fee simple land Of Kaia-
| linui. The official recognition of this
private forest reserve will be consid
| cred with other forest questions OF
| Maui in future report.
| Forester Hosmer reported that he ex-
| pected to go to Maui shortly at the re-
| quest of DIR. Raymond to look into the
| adyisability of a forest reserve neal
| Kula; and also to look into report
made by Mr.. Pogue that trees were
dying in the Koolau Reserve from some
kind of fungus. At the same time he
would take advantage of the opportu-
nifty to make a thorough inspection OF
the Nahiku rubber region. He reported
on the work of his division since the
| last meeting of the board as follows:
I have the honor to submit the fol-
lowing report covering the routine
| work of the Division of Forestry from
May Is, 1907, to date.
During this period my own time has
been taken up as follows: From May
IA to May 25 I was on Maui, making
a trip around the west Maui noun
tain, in company with Mr.. S. NJ. Ka-
nakanui of the Survey office, estab-
fishing points on the boundary of the
proposed reserve in that section. Mr..
Kanakanui spent the greater part Of
June and part of July in locating and
marking the points selected. AS soon
as the technical description is receiv-
ed from the surveyor a report on this
project will be submitted to the Board.
On May % and 90 in company with
Mr.. H. NJ. Won Holt and Mr.. 0. L.
Sorenson of the Survey office, 1 Wis
tied the land of honolulu on this
island to fix the points on the pro-
posed forest reserve on the Waianae
mountains where the boundary cross
ed this land. Mr. Sorenson later To-
Gated these points. The matter will
be reported on to the Board in the near
future.
During the first part of June I was
in Honolulu engaging with various
routine matters incident to the Ma
Pah-Kona (KauaD and Koolau (Maui)
forest reserves; TO the completion of
list of foreign seed exchanges; to mat
ters connected with the close of the
biennial fiscal period and with other
details connected with the regular
work of the Division.
From July Is to July I was on the
Island of Hawaii engaged: ID in an
inspection of the work of the Hawai-
ian Mahogany Lumber Company, I'M
dertaken at the request of the trustees
Of the Bishop Estate under the offer
of assistance contained in circular No.
l of this Division. This examination
had been projected for some time and
had more than once been unavoidably
postponed. (2) In an examination of
the land of Piihonua, made at the re-
quest of the Commissioner of Public
Lands.
Since my return to Honolulu / have
been engaged in the preparation of
reports on various forest reserves and
other projects and with routine and
other matters connected with the Di-
vision of Forestry.
On May q a public hearing was
held to consider the creation of the
Ma Pali-Kona forest reserve on Kauai
and the setting apart of additional
government lands on the forest re-
serves on Maui. On June IL Acting
Governor Atkinson signed proclama-
tons carrying these projects into eff
feet.
At the nursery considerable work
has been done during the last two
months toward lettering the condition
of the grounds by curbing the walks
and driveways and filling them with
coral rock to conform to grade. When
completed the grounds will be greatly
improved. The larger part of the
cost of these improvements is borne
by the Department of Public Works
from it's appropriation for public
grounds.
The regular work of the nursery
has gone on as usual; the most i'm
portant features are the distribution
of samples of Hawaiian grown seed
to over one hundred foreign botanic
gardens and similar institutions in diff
ferent parts of the world; the local
distribution of plants of the Central
American rubber (Castilla lactifua),
better known under the old name of
(Castilloa elastica); and several APP
plications for planting plans for for
est plantations.
A grass fire in Nuuanu valley on
Sunday. June 80, was extinguished by
the deputy fire warden for Nuuanu
valley, Mr.. G. H. Moore, before it did
much damage. AS a consequence of
this fire an extension telephone bell
has been put in at the nursery so that
now some one of the employees of the
Division can always be reached by
telephone, day or night. The number
Der is White 1891.
During June the various district for
esters on the several islands were
commissioned by the High Sheriff as
special territorial police officers to en-
force the new bird law (Act 104 of the
Session Laws of 1901.
CHAMBERS ON HAWAII.