The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-19
THE LAND
WENT HIGH
HILO BIDDING FOR HAKALAU
HoMEsTEADs GOES FAR ABOVE
UPSET PRICE.

A wireless from Hilo announcing
that the Hakalau land sale yesterday
had resulted in about $4,000 more
than the upset price being obtained
for the lands offered, showed a lively
competition for the twenty-one home
steads offered and was highly salts.
factory to land Commissioner Pratt
The lands offered were twenty-one
lots at Hakalau, averaging about 30
acres each and averaging in price
about $500. When the upset price
was fixed at such figure there was
quite a kick among the applicants for
the land, but the bidding at the sale
sent the price up about third higher.
The lands were formerly under lease
to the Hakalau plantation.
The sale ends a long fight by a
| Hilo settlement association to get the
lands, during which there were many
disputes between the Hiloites and the
lands Office over prices All the lots
were sold Under homestead laws, the
terms exacted by the government be
ing substantially as follows:
Payment of the balance of the pur-
chase price in equal installments, in
one,. two and three years respectfully,
from the date of the freehold agree
ment with interest annually at the
rat of six per centum, provided that
the freeholder may pay such INSTALL
ment before it is due, and thereby stop
the corresponding interest;
Cultivation of not less than twenty
five per centum of the area of the said
premises, and the planting and care
of not less than the average of ten
timber shade or fruit trees per acre, if
agricultural land, at any one time be-
fore the end of the third year, or
fencing in the same if pastoral Land
within such time; provided that if the
premises are classed as pastoral-agri-
cultural land, the foregoing alternative
conditions shall apply respectively 10
the two kinds of land;
Maintenance by the freebooter OF
his home on such premises from the
end of the first to the end of the third
year;
He shall not assign or sublet, condi-
tionally or otherwise, his interest OF
any part thereof, under the freehold
agreement, without the written con.
sent of the commissioner of public
lands Endorsed on such agreement; anC
further provided, that freeholders hav
ing the whole Interest in a Freehold
agreement may at any time when al
the conditions thereof to be performed
by the freebooter up to such time shall
have been substantially performed, sur
render to the government such in
terest by delivery of the freehold agree
ment to the subagent with the inten
ton to surrender the same clearly in
dorsed thereon, and signed by then
and duly attested. Such surrender shall
release the freeholders from all further
duty or performance of the conditions
of the instrument surrendered. But NJ
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any such freeholders are under the
age Of eighteen years unless such
minors are represented by statutory
guardians; and further provided, thai
any freeholder over the age of eighteen
may assign his interests to his cote
nants.
Conditions for the prevention OF
waste, the planting of trees or the
protection of trees growing or to be
planted on such premises, or for the
destruction of vegetable pests that may
be on such premises or the prevention
of the future introduction of such pests
thereon;
He shall allow the agents of the
government at all times to enter and
examine the premises;
Payment Of all taxes that may be
due on account of the said premises. >