The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-20
HAMA DISTRICT
HAS RESOURCES
Rice and Taro Country-Good
Rubber Land-ManiIa
Hemp Plant.
(Staff correspondence


PAIA, March 10.-Governor Frea
and party rode on horseback over tn,
ditch trail today from Keanae to w
F. Pogue s residence, in Makawao dis
trict, distance of fifteen miles. From
| thence the party had an automobile
and two hacks for seventeen miles tt
this great sugar plantation region
where the Governor, Commissioner
Pratt and Private Secretary Mcbride
were the guests of w. o. Aiken, and
Secretary Mott-Smith and Superinteud-
ent Campbell of Manager Harry Bald
win of Haiku, the pressrnen coming on
to Fernandes' hotel here.
1t was grand scenery the trail led
US over yesterday, but it was yet
grander today. Mr.. Aiken, at the head
of Honomanu gulch, proclaimed ,chal-
lenge to all other piecesS of scenery
in the Hawaiian Islands for beauty
and grandeur combined. In one sweep
ing view great valley, starting in
great valley, starting in gorge from
1000 to 1900 feet deep, stretches in
broadening dimensions for several
miles to the ocean On. both sides the
slopes and precipices are clothed with
wildly green vegetation, a large pro-
portion of this being of dense tropical
forest. Toward the head of the gulch
the trail makes horseshoe bend, the
opposite sides of which are within hail
ing distance for riders travelling along
both at the same time.
There is a succession of many gulches
in the ride, some of which surpass Ho-
nomanu in boldness Though not in SYM
metrical beauty. One of them is left
by way of a notch through summit
peak, at sharp angle, and this point
is gained along an incline of, say, thir-
ty degrees where the trail is hewn out
of a cliff of conglomerate volcanic
rock. For a few rods on the steepest
part there is no parapet and the
riders lookout horizontally is through
the vacant air for quarter mile to
the mountainside opposite, while, pass
ing so close to the verge that peb-
BILE dislodged by the animals foot
would fall into the abyss, his vision
drops almost vertically to the rocky
bottom a thousand feet below.
Mr.. Napihaa, last night IS host, saw
to it that the Governor had patriotic
sendoff this morning. A crowd of men
and women were assembled at his
place and were grouped with the party
for photograph, though the kodak
manipulation was afraid that his instru-
ment was not in condition to take a
picture that would develop. 1t tickled
the people, however, to pose in such
company. Speaking Of pictures, Mr..
Napihaa has those of former governors
among. other public men adjoining his
parlor walls, and his desire to have
one of the present executive-he "did
not care If it was not life size''-
having been communicated to Governor
Frear the old patriot was assured that
the portrait would be promptly forth
coming.
As the party rode out of the yard,
Mr.. Napihaa was at the flagstaff hal
yards, dipping the Stars and Stripes
and leading in chip, hip, hip, hoo
rays until the rear guard of two
police had disappeared.
Before striking out for the noun
tains trip was taken over trail
through the bush to a point overlook !
ing the Wailuanui homesteads. A site |
for the new schoolhouse upon govern |
ment land crossed on the way was dis |
cussed by the officials. The homesteads !
are situated in a beautiful valley of !
very fertile land close to the sea and |
there appears to be no reason why the !
as well as the kuleana hold !
ers there, should not be able TO make |
a comfortable living. There are six
teen or eighteen homesteads taken and
some few more available. The land !
is sheltered by big mountain, in a
PERCEPTIONS gulch of which a lovely |
cascade Genes down from great I
height. There is no lack of water.
Upon the plateau where the party |
takes the view there is on one hand |
a manufacturing Catholic church and |
upon an opposite slope the tomb of |
some notable Hawaiian, who once fig |
ured in the life of Hama, which looks |
like an oriental temple. i
A trail is struck across plain, !
broken with small gulches, through a
scratchy thicket of guava and other |,
bushes to the main road down which |
we rode to the village the evening be-
fore and which is now to be taken
in the opposite direction. This is all
in the Keanae valley from where high
overhead to the left is seen the last
stretch of the pail trail yesterday
travelled
There is great deal of land here
going to waste excepting for the graz
ing it affords to small herds of cattle,
but from information dropping from
the land officials on the way it would
appear to be mostly held by private
owners. Mr.. Pratt said yesterday aft
ernoon that the valley was rather wet
for general farming. From the place
where he made the remark some rice
fields were visible near the sea, and
why all of the moist lands should not
be utilized for rice and taro. two al
ways marketable staples, might need
to be told to the man from Missouri.
H. P. Baldwin is the holder of the
lease of the Iii of Paboa in the MINER