The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-18

would naturally large take the follow
ing FORMS which portions above mentioned mot
be devoted.
SETTLEMENT or raNns This should involve much more
pIJBT1c than has hitherto been deemed be
within the scope of the public
land Office. 1t should not merely in the survey
ing and the exchanging selling and leasing of public
and other incidental matters should include the large
questions OF Immigration industries transportation marketing,
water supply and power the best utilization private
public lands and the working out OF schemes for by the
Government or private owners singy in cooperation.
PHOTOGRAPHIC AND A bill is pending in Congress
TopoeRApHIc SURVEYS for the OF the reclama-
ton service to Hawaii topo-
graphic and photographic survey is preliminary 10 re-
canation work and should be undertaken at the earliest
possible date in order advance the time when reclama-
ton work be begun That the conversion
of perhaps of arid land into homesteads prob
ably the only feasible method by which homesteadng
compshed large scale Such surveys urgently needed
for other purposes also An appropriation OF
year should be made for this purpose and authority
should be given for its expenditure under the direction the
appropriate Federal officers who will gladly cooperate not only in
service but as far as possible with funds.
Scarcely any for the benefit of the small
AND roREsTp farmer the divercation of industries is of
greater Importance than that within the func-
tons of the board of agriculture and forestry and the experiment
station Under existing conditions the acquisition and appa
ton OF scientific knowledge essential There need
OF additional money not only for the extension and protection of
forests but for the promotion and protection of livestock and
agricultural industries both large and small.
nxApuprra There widespread belief that the Govern
rAoTI1TIEs should assist the small producer
. coming one OF his greatest difficulties that OF
mercy of others and in which there is need of cooperation which
The work could be conducted without materially interfering with
private business and the end would doubtless prove benefit
private business engaged similar lines Of work The service
could be kept in touch with transportation companies with view
to securing reasonable freight and making such and
various accommodations object the companies by of
increased production and shipments and packing Market
ing could be studied buyers and sellers could be brought together
and information obtanabe desired products facilities
for transporting them could be furnished
There should be systematic continuous
collection. classification and distribution of in
formation bearing the foregoing and other subjects There
the most part scattered form, relating all lines of govern
mental and private activity This should be collected added
classified and made available for all needs.
sprcr1c portion of the fund be expended for speci
pRoJEcTs c irrigation road and other projects we'll for
the foregoing and other general purposes
PUBLIC LANDS AND SURVEY.
offices should adon be combined for and economy
This may be feasible when the judiciary building
modelled
The increased appropriations enabled these departments
do large of work during the period Their
ce tor the last two calendar years almost entirely through the
land department. amounted $4o7e6I7o while their expend
the larger portion through the survey department amounted
re $8o,II2oI.
There questions of general than
that Of the public lands It of extreme difficulty Thu
total area is small little arabic great
tons in temperature rainfall and SOILS pests abundant the
knowledge of tropical agriculture the of the
country broken road building expensive development
COSTLY transportation facilities inadequate the worlds
and the of different diverse There
great inducements speculate, little to homestead
During present period much study has been given the
subject commission appointed which has investigated and
reported bill pending Congress carry out its
dations remedy other difficulties considered by
Meanwhile the difficulties being best may be under the
present laws
The disposal of land settlement associations has been dscon
ned the right of purchase lease and cash freehold
has been displaced in large by new form of special
the object of which to prevent the purchase OF pub
lie speculation investment and facilitate its home
seadng mainly by increasing the requirements of residence and
cultivation and making easier the conditions which the bona hde
homesteader usually finds difficult comply with Sales
of large of country land and exchanges of such lands for
city property have in the main been discontinued Congress-
extending the period for which agricultural land be
leased has provided that such land when leased may be taken
for purposes of homeeadng other public purposes
This provision although widely misunderstood wise for
both the capitalist and the intending homesteader There being
prepared complete history and statement of the present cond
of homestead that has been sold under the present laws
for the light that shed the operation of the laws
planned prepare in convenient form maps and de-
scrons of all lands opened but taken for homestead pur
posesfor the information of hoeseeers likewise record OF
public land which may be entered for the future
use of the department all information from time to time
ored IN regard to complete table of all patents and awards