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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-02-22

The Makee Sugar Company has
been cultivating and has had under
its control six strips-that Is not the
official name but what It looks like
on the map-of land. These strips
extend from the mountains to the
sea in more or less parallel areas, in
the following order, as viewed by the
appraisers:
Anahola--on the north comes
first This is public land on which
the lease has expired.
kamamaloo comes next. This is
also public land.
kealia-Thls is the fee simple
land of the Makee Sugar Company
and includes the mill and general
plantation headquarters.
Kapaa-This is public land on
which the lease has expired.
Waipouli--This is fee simple land
of the Makee Sugar Company.
Olehena, north This is public
land.
olehena, south-This is fee simple
land owned by the Widemann estate
and others.
II will thus be seen that the fee
simple land and the public lands are
sandwiched. Therefore when the
Territorial Government refused 10
,enew leases. the sugar plantation
found itself betwixt and between
straddling everything. &c. 90
These various strips Of land were
laid out in the old days--before we
had business-like methods of the best
governments on earth-with the Gu
rious but very real result that one
| section has the water and another
the reservoir sites. This didn't mat
ter in the old days. 1t is everything
in the present, when good water
runs to waste for want of proper
place to store 1t.
Anahola, for instance, has a nat
ural four-million-gallon water sup
ply, IF 1t were possible to go to the
| higher elevation and carry the water
to the higher reservoirs of Kealia
Under present conditions, using the
reservoirs of Anahola and Kamama'
10 only two million gallons OF water
is available. The other two millions
go to waste. Are there no reservoir
sites on the higher lands of Anahola
il the natural question of the man
who thinks the sugar plantation Ii
trying to hog everything. II there
are any such. they have not been dis
covered by the plantation surveyors
or the Territorial.
Just in passing: When you come
10 go over these boundaries you are
bound to wonder on what principle
they were ever laid down. The mar
who says they took pig to tbs
mountains and let him run to the
ael gives the only lucid explanation
1t may have been that the first sur
veyor had been brought up amid thu
angularity and irregularity of Boa
ton alleys.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-02-22

Well, 1t would have been just one
hundred per cent. better for the peo-
ple had they obtained the benefit of
that field under cultivation than with
1t running to weeds. That forty
acres has brought forth bountifully.
No ones neck would have been brok-
en- and the Government would have
still lived IL the additional sixty had
been cultivated while the fight was
going on about what to do with 1t.
Kealia is, OF course, fee simple and
did not interest appraisers except to
establish relative values of land and
water possibilities.
1t should be noted that Manager
Fairchild is as free with his statistics
of fee simple lands as with lands
that have been under lease. The
books are open to appraisers and Ter
ritorial officials on every part Of the
plantation.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-02-22

4 NAHoLA fields and Anahola wa
"A ter sources were the first mat
n tiers to which the appraisers
gave their attention. This Sec
ton has an exposure that causes It's
cane fields to be designated as the
"wind-swept" lands. They get a
cold north wind. They are fairly
fertile and much better in warm
years than under the cold and wet
of an ordinary winter. There are
100 acres under cultivation, 700 OF
which are below the ditch carrying
the water OF the Anahola stream. The
area In cane above this has to trust
to luck. Above the cane lands and
before reaching the forest line Is 4
narrow area used for pasturage. The
cattle don't prove It to be first-class
pasturage, and there is nothing but
the beauty of scenery to make II at
tractive as a homesteading PROPOSE
ton.
The second days travels OF the APP
praisers took in the Anahola land
ing. This landing business is not
up to the appraisers, but that's a
whole story in itself.
Across the lower Anahola gulch
and on the north side of the landing
is plateau with some $40 acres OF
public land. A hundred or more
acres of this might be put in cane. II
1t were possible to take the Anahola
water from a higher level. 1t in
wolves an expensive syphon scheme
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-02-22
I'm HIS proposition grows on you
W the more you see OF it,
This was the remark OF

I'm HIS proposition grows on you
W the more you see OF it,.
This was the remark OF
one OF the latest appraisers
of the Kapaa land proposition after
his first days work in going over the
fringe of the property involved. Lat
est is used advisedly. If there is any
other land proposition in the Terri
tory that has been more frequently
appraised, or Investigated by great
or number of administration officers,
II has yet to be heard from.
After going over all the land lis
tening to the questions of the APP
praisers. and recalling the record OF
the dickering and the pickering the
observer experiences a feeling of sur
prise that there is any sugar planta-
ton left. 1t is well to note that
when the sugar plantation passes
from Kealia and Kappa there will be
mighty little doing in that part OF
the Hawaiian Islands for good
huIHDti VI sttNlo W IOlilts
Kealia, Kappa, Anahola, Waipouli
North Olehena and South Olehena
combine to make beautiful stretch
of country. There is room enough
for the sugar plantation man and the
homesteaier. There is land enough
for each to keep his corner, or for
,p,pa 40 dor and nlonto tipn man tf
work together. Yet the whole prop.
osition is held up, and has been held
up for three years or more, with
financial loss to all concerned. The
only tangible thing on the record is
the mark of hard words and a variety
oil unofficial crimmages-always eX'
pensive and in this instance not q
good investment.
No one can thoroughly understand
the Kapaa land controversy until hi
goes over the ground. Territorial
Surveyor Harvey is authority for this
statement that no official and nc
Board of Appraisers has ever gone
over all the land involved so thor
oughly as the Board appointed by
Governor Frear, consisting of w. l.
Hopper, George f. Renton and J. II
Moragne. This board went through
the cane fields by railway and OF
horseback. Every field was viewed
every reservoir was visited, ever,
ditch line observed. The fields wer'
crossed and recrossedN and the land
Of the homesteaders were not forgot
ten. When the carriage roads wou!C
allow no further progress the part!
took to horses and went over gulche
to the forest line and water sources
Manager Fairchild was with them Il
give the record of the field yields, thu
water flow, and Surveyor Harvey wa
ever ready with further funds of sta
tistical information. Private SeCretar,
Mcbride took the stanographic notes
III
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-02-22

out and It's taxpaying power reduced,
while an alleged homesteading prop
csition was being developed.
The Federal or the Territorial
government, through the proper de-
partment, could well afford to have
used some OF the time wasted in es-
tablishing an experiment station OF
several acres to prove whether pine
apples will be a profitable crop in
this section.
Do you say, let the homesteaders
do their own prospecting?
That's all right. But three years
have elapsed and there are no appl'-
cations for homestead lots and no
prospecting has been done.
Manager Fairchild says that Col.
Spalding has said he would put up
cannery for growers OF pines II
enough were guaranteed to keep the
cannery going.
Opportunity is not lacking Some
other excuse must be found
The Waipouli strip is the fee sim
pie land next to Kappa and has many
of the same characteristics, with this
notable difference: Kapaa has the
water and Waipouli has the reser-
voir sites.
The upper lands of Waipouli are
even more attractive than those of
Kapaa. The boundary Is purely ar
tificial. The plateau of thousand
to fifteen hundred acres is cut up
by the usual gulches not as deep and
apparently more fertile than at Wa
hiawa. Waipouli has three million
gallons OF water and Kappa ten mil
lions.
The two olehenas are of the same
general physical character. Their
natural water supply is the Waialua
river toward Lihue and there Ii
about five hundred acres OF cane land
under cultivation now watered by
the Kappa and Waipouli supply.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-02-22

~ HE reader now naturally asks
what is planned to do in these
various sandwiched strips of fee
simple and public lands on
which the lease HIS expired.
The scheme as at present under
stood is to bring about an exchange
by which the fee simple land shall
be punched. consolidated. This, OF
course, would consolidate the public
land. any portion or all OF which the
plantation is willing to lease with
the understanding common to all
leases that at any time the Territory
wants II for homesteading II shall be
available.
The exchange would make Ana
hola (now public land) and Kama
malo (now public land) and Kealia
(now fee simple) the fee simple
lands OF the plantation. Kappa
(now public lGnd, Waipouli tnow
fee simple land) and the 0lehenas
(now part fee simple and part pub
lie land) would then become the
public land consolidation, and these
lands would adjoin the public land
areas Of the Lihue plantation on
which the leases expire some twelve
years hence.
So far as homesteading Is con.
cerned, the Territory by securing the
upper lands OF Waipouli would have
lands far better for homesteading
purposes than anything Anahola and
Kamamalo offer, assuming. of course
that the land is as good as II looks
The necessity for this assumption
shows where the Territory would
show good sense by arranging for
experimental plots on this land
Thronas. ten miles distant, is exper.
imenting on lands similar to the low.
er Anahola lands. But his results
will be of little value for the future
settler of upper Kappa and Waipouli
The only thing in common is trans,
portation and market, or lack OF II
The conditions are different
That's an old story, but 1t is so
BILLY Kent, the Chicago reformer
says that whatever is is So"
The exchange scheme also involv IS
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-02-22
aeEXT TO KEALIA comes Kappa.
M Kappa has been the name
~ under which the Molokans

RsEXT TO KEALIA comes Kappa.
nj Kappa has been the name
IL under which the Molokans
marched up the hill and down
again. Kappa is name to conjure
with. Kapaa is a beautiful stretch
of country. There Is room enough
on Kappa for the sugar-man and the
homesteader. There is water for all.
The unsolved problems are why
this public land has been allowed to
languish, and, what under the sun
the Territory has laid out town lots
on the beach fifty by hundred feet
for. There Is no harm in II II there
Is money In the treasury that ought
to be spent. But the people would
profit more by the time and energy
being devoted TO promoting agricul-
tural development.
Kapaa, remember, is one of those
strips" of land belonging to the
Territory, on which the lease has ex-
pired.
AS you ride through the cane fields
and come upon the higher lands, the
natural place for the homesteaders,
you don't wonder that the old
iholokan priests broke forth into one
of their peans of JOY and talked
about the promised land. The sur
roundings are attractive enough tc
arouse the most phlegmatic moujil
that Russia ever produced, and II
would seem that even Connecticut
wooden nutmeg should become in
spired and grow amid these balmy
breezes and fertile soil, Then, too
you realize what miserable failure
the Molokans were Here was Op
portunity spelled with a big o II eve
| 1t were. And 1t was thrown away
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-02-22

n VERSION OF water and putting
II in the hands of corpora
~ ton does not sound good to
the fellow who thinks OF what
the small man, the homesteader, may
want in future years. II the Bulle-
tin man had his way. every stream of
water would be developed by the Gov
eminent and the water controlled by
the Government.
But what are you going to do?
Is IL proper to arrest development
until the people can be aroused TO
the value of conducting great wa
ter enterprise themselves? Is 1t bet
ter to license the corporation under
a franchise in which the small man
IL protected? Is II better to let the
development wait till years to come.
or start in now, when the work will
30 ahead and the money be expended
and hundreds of men employed with
in ten days after the franchise is
granted?
The waiting policy means arrested
development. Consequently II Is
very hard to not conclude that the
properly drawn franchise Is the best
way out OF II.
Perhaps 1t is all wrong, but the
American OF today prefers the mis-
takes of action and is more ready to
excuse them than the errors OF lack
adaisical do-nothinglsm.
The disgusting feature OF this
whole Kapaa-Kealia land business of
the present day is the amount OF
time and money that has been wasted
by inactiOn, hesitating. backing and
filling. The plantation has had It's
producing power reduced and there
lore It's purchasing power Is less.
The homesteader may be nearer his
home, but he is no nearer than he
would have been had the plantation
been allowed to plant the fields adj
mittedly cane lands
II is interesting TO take note OF
| some OF the losses that have been in
NOlNeu III lHlS ldHu iTaCds.
First. the uncertainty regarding
/ the future OF the leased lands has
thrown the plantation upon its fee
simple lands alone. and this reduces
the plantation from an S,000-ton
property to a I3,50O-ton property.
Figure the selling price OF sugar at
the current price and you get your
answer.
The plantation when running ut
its usual land capacity bought at
least 100000. OF merchandise in
Island markets. This is reduced to
100000
The taxes formerly $4,000. are
reduced to $1,000.
The plantation made a proposition
OF renting the lands at $4,000. That
was three years ago. and, while you
may say $4,000. was too low, II Is
exactly $4,000. more than the Terri
tory realized, and the Organic Act
| does not allow leases to run over five
years.
The mill property at Kealia rep
resents an investment OF 1915, 900.
to 100000. This Is an equipment
Tor an s,000-ton plantation. Equip
ment for 3,500-ton plantation
would represent an investment of
about 100000. Half the invest
ment is therefore rendered idle; 1t is
useless and lost, to say nothing OF
the reduction in the force OF labor.
What does the Territory have to
put on the credit side of its ledger
as the result OF a policy that has
brought about these losses? II has
expended upwards OF $4,000. In
surveys and re-surveys.
Continued on Page 10Y
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-02-22
Development Of Water Is A
Very Important
Feature

a lease of water rights to water
company with a franchise for thirty
or Atty years. This company would
develop the water in the mountains,
conduct 1t to the reservoirs. the
height of which would allow ample
supply for the higher lands. ami
supply the cane-grower as well rs
the homesteader.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-02-22

vBYHE cause of the whole trouble,
the real cause, is hard to 10
cate. But in general way this
Is what II Is all about:
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-02-22

however, and the Makee Sugar Com
pany has not yet considered that the
prospective revenue justified the ex-
pense at the present price or sugar.
On this 240 acres the appraisers
first came upon the possible pineap-
pie lands. Just over the border line,
Mr.. Thronas is struggling with an
experimental field of pines. His FIRST
attempt in the same section was a
failure, but he used a native pine. lie
has now planted several acres with
Wahiawa sprouts. II these turn out
ali right, you may put down good
share of the Anahola land across the
stream" as good pineapple land and
II may possibly be handled without
an expensive watering scheme.
4 FTER Anahola and Kamamalo
"A had been thoroughly covered the
|A Kealia land was next in line
This is the fee simple land. Here
also are the magnificent reservoir
sites high enough and large enough
to store water to supply all the lands
OF Kealia and Anahola. If 1t were
possible for the plantation or wa
ter company to divert the Anahola
water at the higher sources, bring II
ever to the reservoir and then send
It back again to the fertile lands
through bitches.
As these water systems cost thou
sands of dollars to construct and
keep up, the ordinary business man
can well understand why the plan
tation cannot afford to undertake
any work of this character until II
knows definitely OF the future be.
yond the five-year-lease period. The
land must be secured either in fec
simple or under long lease before
anyone could be justified in spending
the forty or fifty thousand or more
dollars to develop water. ......
"Kealia cane looks better than
Anahola," remarked one of the ap'
| praisers.
Manager Fairchild acknowledge
it. "Of course, you must recognize
the fact that during these thre'
years of suspense when we didn'
know whether we were going o.
coming, we have put our fertilizer
and press-cake on our fee simpl'
lands. We naturally could not at
ford to fertilize land that might b.
ours today and someone else's tomor
row"
1t was during this days trip tina
a field on the disputed land was en-
oountered. 1t is a hundred-acre field
A portion OF 1t had been planted un
der the assumption that the expiring
public land leases would be extende
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-02-22

vision is not made for cultivation.
The area in Kappa covered with
lantana has been cut up into forty
acre lots for prospective homestead
ors. The plantation had much OF
this land under cane at one time but
had to abandon II because II was not
profitable. i.U-.. rlyearances the
land should support pineapples, but
no one knows. There are portions
toward Lihue which would -undoubt-
eddy be good cane land II the water
could be got to 1t for irrigation. The
water is In the hills. 1t Is merely a
matter of money to bring 1t down.
Before the money is put in, the in
vestors must see their way clear to
stability of Territorial land and wa
ter policy for at least twenty-five or
thirty years. The forty-acre lots,
however, are there. all surveyed. and
there are lots free from lantana, all
surveyed, but there has been no rush
of enthusiastic settlers to make
homes and cultivate the soil.
The Molokans, by choice. planted
themselves in the midst OF the sugar
field areas. But what's the use of dis-
cussing the Molokans. When one
sees what they could have done and
what they did. II is to sympathize
with Mr.. Castle for having a splen-
di~ ideal wrecked by such a worth
less collection Of humanity.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-02-13
VERY MUCH WORRIED

The infant editor of the
Wyndmere Enterprise seems
t IDLY worried over DIR.
Moody's candidancy for sheriff
and we'll be may, as there is
not a man in Richland county
who has done more favors for
farmers and poor people of the
country than Doc Moody and
if he gets the democratic nomi-
nation for sheriff the apprecia-
ton of those favors will be
keenly felt by any man who
runs against him on Nov. 1908.
Gently slumber innocent child,
you may out grow it.-Aber-
crombie Herald
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-02-13

work be given employment by
the city" to keep from starv-
ing
Buffalo, N Y.-The police
force has been trebled to cope
with the possibility of an out
break of lawlessness among
the hundreds of idle and hun
cry laborers formerly employed
in the steel mills.
A bread riot occurred Friday
night.
A grocer had announced that
he would give four hundred
loaves of bread to the poor and
a large crowd gathered. The
loaves did not come fast
enough and in the struggle
which ensued the bread was
shredded-to crumbs and de.
stroyed.
A free soup house was open.
ed yesterday.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-02-13
Shelter Them.

Any sheriff, constable, viii
lage marshal or police officer
may remove, care for and shell
ter any horse or animal found
exposed to the weather and
not properly blanketed or re-
naming two successive hours
without attendance in cold in.
clement weather and when
necessary may deliver such an
imal to another person to be
sheltered and cared for, but in
all cases the owner, if known,
chall be Immediately notified
and officer or such person hav-
ing possession of such animal
shall have a lien thereon for
it's care and keeping and the
expense of the notice, if not re-
deemed by paying the expen-
sesincurred as aforesaid, it may
be treated as an estray, and
dealt with as such.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-02-13
Don't Be A Blabber,

The following is going the
rounds of the newspapers aud
it will do no harm to read it
carefully: you'll have all you
can d" to pay for your own in.
diecretions Some day one very
near to you may fall; the pris.
on doors may open to a son;
or a scarlet letter of eternity
may blight a daughter. When
a house is mourning the best
thing you can do is to keep
your mouth shut unless you
can say something that will
come as a rift in the clouds
Then, again, you may be no
better than your neighbor; the
only difference is that your
neighbor was caught, and you
up to date have kept the sum
light away. Be charitable, for
you don't know what day or
hour the blight may appear in
your circle"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-02-13
LET THEM CONTINUE,

Az the time is drawing near
when the citizens and tax pay
ers will have to decide whether
they want to throw the city in
to a political fight or all join
together and put in the field a
citizens ticket as we have had
for the past two years. The
Times, not from a political view
of the situation but for the in.
terest of the tax payers and bet.
terment of our city government
10 willing to lay aside our poll.
tical differances and put a tick
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-02-13
FARMERS INSTITUTE.

The State Farmers institute
will be held at Wahpeton, N.
D. Tuesday. February 18. 1909.
Morning session will begin
at 10 a. m. sharp. The pro-
gramme will be made up to
meet local wants. Several
successful farmers will be in
vited to tell their farm expert
ence. The state will furnish
several speakers who will
speak of results of scientific re-
search as we'll as from field
practice. Special attention
will be given to such farming
aa will conserve the soil fertil-
ity. The services of Prof. Thos.
Shaw, the we'll known writer
and lecturer, on agricultural
topics has been secured for
this circuit: He will deliver
the first address of the meet
ing at ten o'clock a. M, on the
"The Fertility Of the Soil of
North Dakota" Prof. o. O.
Churchill, of the Agricultural
College will address the audi
ence on topics relating to field
crops and practical manage
ment of farms in North Dako.
ia. Questions pertaining to
stock raising, dairying and
horticulture will be given
prominent place on the pro-
gram.
Questions on the topic under
discussion are always in order.
| Questions often prove to be the
source of life to the Institute.
For those who hesitate to ask
questions orally the question
box can be used. Prepare
your questions at your leisure