The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-07-10

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have been finally worked out by Gov.
ernor Frear and Land Commissioner
Pratt, in consultation with Attorney
General Hemenway and Secretary Mott
Smith. The conditions are not altered
in many respects from the old forms
of agreements, but in the changes
that have been made a large number
of suggestions have been considered,
and some of the changes are based on
results and experience in public land
dealings in the United States, of which
information was given by Secretary
Garfield when he was here.
TYPICAL LANDS.
"The form of agreement we have
drafted,' said Governor Frear, "will
be the one used for what may be called
typical lands, that is lands suitable for
the raising of recognized crops, and
upon which an Industrious man may
be expected to go and be successful.
For other lands other conditions may
be required For instance, there are
lands near Waianae upon which no
ordinary crop can be raised, because
there is no water on the lands nor
sufficient rain, and the soil is princi-
pally sand. At the same time there is
now heavy growth of algaroba trees
on the land and it may be that it will
make good cocoanut land. For such,
other conditions than those we have
now formulated must be framed. The
agreement we have now framed is
therefore for typical lands.
FOR BONA FIDE SETTLERS.
"The object of the conditions are to
make it as easy as possible for bona
fide settler to secure land for settle,
ment and cultivation, and as hard as
possible for the mere speculator to get
it. We have therefore heightened the
time that must elapse before title
can be secured. This will make it less
and less tempting for the mere specu-
lator, or the man who simply wants
to get the land to sell to someone else.
We have reduced ithe percentage of
arabic land that must be in cultivation
in the early years to an amount that
any bona fide settler would naturally
be expected to bring under cultivation.
Instead of requiring a house to cost a
certain amount to be built on the land,
| during the first year he can live in any
kind of house he chooses, a grass
house if he wants to, and devote more
of his available resources to cultivat.
| ing the land and to bringing it into
state where it will support the set.
tier.
"Under the form of agreement that
has been in use the settler must have
| fifteen per cent. of the arabic land un.
der cultivation at the end of the second
year, and fifteen per cent. additional
at the end of each subsequent year un-
til the end of the sixth when he must
have seventy five per cent. of the arabic
land under cultivation. Under the new
form ten per cent only is required to
be under cultivation at the end of the
second year and fifty per cent. at the
end of the sixth.
"Instead of three and half years
residence during the first six years, five
years residence during the first ter
years is required, thus giving the set
tier more leeway at the time he need.
it most.
MODELLED AFTER MAINLAND Elk
PERIENCE.
"These conditions are largely model
ed after those imposed by the United
States on the land within its the recla
nation projects, with which our lane
is analogous, rather than with the ordi
nary prairie land of the states. Ii
these reclamation districts at first fort,
acres were given. But it was foun,
that this was too much, that it coul'
not be cultivated unless the settler wa
a man of capital who could hire larg
numbers of laborers; and that wa
something entirely out of the scop
and purpose of the project. Intensiv
, cultivation is required in these recla
nation regions, and the area given t
any one man was first cut down t
twenty acres and then to ten.
h AMOUNT TO BE GIVEN.
o "The amount to be given under thes
special agreements will vary accordin
t to the land. The effort will be mad
It to give enough so that man can hay
p full opportunity to exert his industr
to the best advantage. OF pineapp
s. land there will be twenty or perhal
A. twenty-five acres. But to give ms
v a hundred acres of pineapple land f.
lie instance is to give him something th
lie he cannot utilize unless he is mi
T. of capital and can employ large nuI
is ber of laborers.
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