The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-11-24

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B. +. Dillingham;, president of the
Oahu Railway and Land Company,
stated last evening that final surveys
had been made in the last few days
from Puuloa station to the Pearl Har
Dor naval reservation entrance for an
extension of the company's main line,
and that within thirty days the track
and rails could be laid to the reserva-
tion boundary.
Rails are already en- route to Homo.
lulu for the Leilehua branch lines from
the main Wahiawa track to connect up
the great cavalry and artillery canton
ment, and this new track to the mill
tary post will be laid as soon as the
War Department representative here
announces that rail transportation
there will be needed. The railway com
pany was planning to build spurs out
from the main Wahiawa line into the
new pineapple fields being developed
and from which crops will be taken off
next season, and the spur to the mill
tary cantonment will fall in evenly
with these plans.
eve expect to have terminal facili-
ties in Honolulu to meet the require
ments of the military and naval devel.
opment," said Mr.. Dillingham; last
evening. "That is one reason why we
have moved that 400xl60-foot double
sugar warehouse from it's present site
adjoining the American Hawaiian
steamship freight shed back so feet. That
leaves a large space between which
will be utilized for building a new
freight shed connecting the old one
with the sugar warehouses. That will
give about three acres of freight space,
so that the vast cargoes of the Ameri-
canHawaiian freighters may be han
died quickly, great deal more quickly
than before, and allow the freight to
be piled so that consignees may get at
it more easily.
'tThere was story out that we were
going to build 100000 wharf to meet
new requirements for freight handling,
but we DOM need to do that when by
simply moving our sugar warehouses
back and doubling the freight shed ca
pacity we accomplish the same results.
If, in future, it becomes necessary to
build new wharf, we have the room
to do so. That will assist our terminal
facilities here greatly.
"With the building of the new track
from Puuloa to the naval reservation,
our freight can be delivered directly
on tracks which the Navy Department
will build within the reservation. They
will have their own locomotive to do
the hauling to the sidings and from the
siding to any point they desire within
the reservation. Our passenger trains
will be run through the reservation on
the navy 5 tracks.
"With fast train service the en-
| ployes of the naval station can reside
in town. 1t may be desirable in many
ways for them to live uptown, when
| they get train service that will put
them in the naval station in quick time.
That will be an advantage to trade in
town. Business will be greatly stimt
lated by this influx of new people, and
have no doubt that when the devel-
opment of the military and naval works
is we'll on that business will be in
creased SO to 60 per cent. 1t is easy
to see that many new avenues of trade
will be opened up.
"That Leilehua was to be utilized
some time for military encampment
came to me a few years ago when Gen
eral Mckenzie of the Engineer Corps
was here making observations. AT that
time he wanted to know if we would
build to Leilehua. We told him that
whenever the War Department decided
to establish post up there we would
certainly build the road. But the build
ing of road to the Leilehua country
came sooner than anticipated, for we
had to meet the pineapple development,
and now we will have only to put in
two or three miles of track to reach
the post site.
"If the War Department establishes
camp there with about 1000 men,
quite town will spring up at Wahi'
ava and vicinity"
Mr.. Dillingham; is optimistic over the
future of the Islands. The making OF
Oahu into Pacific Gibraltar will make
the Islands better known throughout
the world, and he believes that with
the influx of additional white popula-
tion that it is time for the small farmer
to develop many infant industries here
to meet future requirements. The
Panama canal opening, from Mr.. Dill
lingham's standpoint, will stimulate
and make additional trade here, Where