The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-14

Diversified Agriculture Through
kipahuIa and Nahiku
Districts.
(Stan correspondence

KAENA. March 9.-At Hama was tht
first chance to find out what the people
of Maui are talking about the most
Rubber seems to be the leading topic
just now.
Aiona, the hotel-keeper, is one of the
brightest Chinese on the islands. He
is also a practical humorist. Catching
on to the prevailing talk of visitors he
planted rubber grove in front of his
inn, explaining to inquirers as to why
he selected that tree for ornamental
purposes thus:
people all time want see rubber
grow. Now l show them and they sat
isfed; then they stop my place long
time.
There are owners of small homesteads
who are planting rubber to the limit
of their holdings. For instance, few
miles out of Hama, on the edge of the
Nahiku district, Deputy Sheriff Witt
rock has four thousand rubber trees
planted and they are in fine condition
We passed by there on our way out
from Hama this morning.
Pineapples hold their own in the mat
ter of new industries on this island, al
though they came in for cultivation on
commercial scale before rubber. On
the lanai of Manager Chalmers resi-
dence Saturday night, where the news
paper men were invited to pass the
evening with the Governor s party, a
great deal of the conversation was on
pineapples and oranges.
1t was learned that the doctors on
Maui had successfully used pineapple
juice as specific for .diphtheria when
that disease had occasionally appeared
in their districts. Further, it had been
that the curative principle
of the juice was retained in the waste
from canning, and one of the doctors
was engaged or about to engage in
putting the medicine up in bottles.
This would seem to be very impor-
tant discovery both for the good of
humanity and for the pockets of those
in our pineapple industry.
has been one of the worst
of scourges on the mainland, as well as
one of the most intractable. If Ha-
waiian pineapple growers tcan supply in
4 by-produet of the industry, healing
fluid to afflicted communities, at the
average price of patent medicines, a
very considerable addition to the profits
Of the main industry may be marked
up, especially as the benefit of the REM
sdy is not confined to diphtheria but ex-
tends to throat troubles in general, and
IN all probability, to some forms of
digestive trouble.
Maui raises as fine oranges as are pro-
duced anywhere. On this trip some
have been sampled which leave the
California article distanced. Growers
readily obtain three dollars a hundred
for the fruit in the chief island towns.
Oranges are growing wild in the woods,
in sight of roads and trails.
Clarence White, son of the White of
sewing machine and automobile fame,
has five acres of orange grove planted
in the Makawao district.
On Sunday afternoon the Governor .
party, accompanied by the District
Manager Chalmers and two
policemen, rode out seven or eight miles
to Wailua, the jaunt ending in a pre-
cipitous gulch. This is as far as the
wagon road toward Kipahulu reaches.
The completion of this gap is one of the
chief needs of Maui for roads, together
with the further extension of the road
beyond Kipahulu.
Rain was falling in torrents when the
ride began, but after little it let up
and the slickers were shed. They have /
not since been required although many
miles have been ridden today over /
mountain pals reeking with moisture |
from greater heights.
Some Kaeleku cane was passed on
the road and beyond were the lands
Of the defunct Hamoa plantation.
Some of these are in pasture, with
here and there cultivated plots. The
soil would undoubtedly be good for
pineapples or rubber and it is a pity
to see SO much of it idle. Further
along are many homes of natives, the
tree growths around which testify to
long occupation. All the old species
familiar in and about Honolulu are
seen. The people are a nice-looking
lot, cleanly and appareled neatly. They
came out in groups here and there
to greet the Governor, but nothing
would do, after paying their respects
to him, save a shake of everybody's
hand all along the line. 1t was re-
freshing to look into the kindly and
smiling faces of the old men and