The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-01
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ing undertaken under the direction Of
our great President, to fit areas of this
land for cultivation and for homes and
hOmesteads.
owe in these Islands, - continued the
Governor, "should be appreciative Of
this work for we must know that Of
all our industries the sugar industry
is the principal one and of our sugar
crop half of it is raised on arid lands
that have been reclaimed at great cost,
$15,00O,0O0.
'EThe United States Reclamation ser
vice is under the Department of the In
terror at the head of which is Secre-
tary Garfield When Mr.. Garfield was
here he was so impressed with what
appeared to him the possibilities OF re-
clamation here that he asked Mr..
Newell to come here and go over the
ground. Both Secretary Garfield and
Mr.. Newell have long desired that this
work should be extended to this Terri
tory. and they will do all that they can
to secure favorable action by Congress.
IL this is secured and there seems little
doubt that it can be, it will mean that
millions of dollars will be spent here in
retaining land and making it fit for
diversified industries and homes.
81 have very great pleasure in in
PRODUCING to you Mr.. Newell who is
at the head of this service and who will
tell you something of the work that has
been done.
sEIt is a pleasure to me" began Mr..
Newell, s.to tell something of the great
work which is being done. came here
at the request of Secretary Garfield to
study conditions and accomplishments
here. For while the end is the same and
the principles underlying all such en-
terprises are much the same, means and
methods are different, and we might
well expect to get sidelights from what
is being done here on what we are do
ing there.
cit is just twenty years ago this
month that Congress passed an act
authorizing an investigation as to just
what extent the arid region might be
reclaimed. Twenty years is long
time in the life-work of man, but
it is only the beginning of this great
work which will be the life-work of
many men for many years to come.
ut is just twenty years since l receiv-
sd my appointment as an engineer IN
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with it practically ever since.
81 have been enjoying your islands
for the past several weeks. You know
we on the mainland have such broad
area to attract our attention that when
any of us happens to realize that there
are parts of our country outside of
the continental boundaries we take all
the pride of original discovery in
them. | have been interested in the
problems of reclamation that have been
presented to you to solve and in the
way you have solved them, But the
principles underlying them are the same
as those we have had to deal with.
1t was in 1901 that President Roose-
welt recommended to Congress that the
proceeds from the sale of the public
domain be set aside for the purpose
of retaining other portions OF the
public domain. The purpose of this
reclamation is to make homes for citi-
zens. 1t is not merely to put this
much additional land under productive
cultivation. 1t isn't to enable men
to get rich or even engage In produc-
tive industry. But the only real and
satisfying reason why the government
should take up these reclamation proJ-
ecss IS to enable citizens to create
hcrles. For it has dawned on us that
the safety of Democratic institutions,
or of Republican institutions, call them
what you will, depends on those who
are living on the land and cultivating
with an interest in it, and producing
4 the raw material to be worked up IN
The factories in the East. The safety
of our institutions depends on these
very much more than it does on the
people who live in fats and tenement
put it, no man ever yet took up his
musket in defence of his boarding
house; and shouldering a musket in de-
Tense of them is one of the ways q
man may be called on to prove his
devotion.
Mr.. Newell said that in the pic
lures he would present he should at
tempt to show conditions as they were
before anything was done, the progress
of the work done, and the results where
projects had been completed and re-
suits achieved A number of pictures
were shown of land before irrigation
and cultivation and afterwards and OF
crops of melons, alfalfa and other
products.
A map of the western portion of the