The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-19

has continued. Crops have been large
and prices good. The exports and i'm
ports for the year amounted to SOL
946,4S4, exclusive of specie. This was
! only slightly under the amount for the
preceding year, which was by far the
largest up to that time. The increase
| in imports from the mainland of the
United States exceeded those of the
previous year by $2,088,081. There has
been a steady increase in such imports
during the last FIVE years from $11,
703,519 to $17,391 ,406. The customs
receipts, which go into the federal
treasury, amounted to 1896, 1891.
The assessed value of real and personal
property is $138, 910,820. Further
progress has been made in the diver
sifcation of industries, and particularly
in the multiplication and growth of in
.dustries suitable for small proprietors.
Two new industries, tobacco and cotton,
have been established, with good pros
poets. There has been a marked in
crease in tourist and other passenger
travel to and through Hawaii, besides
arrivals Of detachments of military and
naval forces and others connected
Herewith.
Better Transportation.
Transportation facilities have been
increased, and steps have been begun /
for still further increasing them by
additional steamers and railroad extern !
sion as well as improvement of harbors. !
Conservation and immigration.
Much valuable scientific work has |
been done for the benefit of agriculture. |
Interest in questions of conservation |
of natural resources has deepened and |
spread, and the legislature has made |
generous provision, by an additional |
income tax. for promoting this object, i
especially through the work of the ter
1itorial board of agriculture and for |
estry, photographic survey, and aid |
to the federal experiment station. A |
territorial conservation commission has |
heen appointed. -Four forest reserves
were proclaimed, aggregating 101, ola |
acres.
Much attention has been given to the /
subject of immigration and labor. Pro- |
vision, by means of special tax which |
Will yield several hundred thousand |
dollars year, was made by the legis-
lature for the Introduction of laborers |
of desirable classes who will be likely
TO become citizens and home owners. 4
strike, involving about 1000 japanese
laborers and lasting three months, oc-
CURED on number of the sugar plan
tations of the Island of Oahu, but re-
suited in failure. It was brought
about by agitators and not bv any
general feeling of dissatisfaction on
the part of the laborers. It did not
check the operations of the plantations
concerned. There was remarkable alb
senee of violence.
No Epidemics.
The public health has been good. No
epiaemics have occurred. There have
been no eases of plague or cholera In
furtherance of the radical change
planned for the treatment of leprosy
the legislature enacted a very salts
factory law upon that subject 1t is
hoped that decided advance may now :
he made in overcoming that disease.
The federal leprosarium, at the leper
settlement, has been completed. The
legislature also provided for the inaugu-
ration of a campaign against tubercu-
losis, the number of deaths from which
have increased greatly during the last
decade.
Public improvements.
Public improvements have been made
by the Territory to the amount of about !
1925 900 in the construction of public
buildings, schoolhouses, teachers cot
tages, roads, bridges, wharves, landings, .
and water and sewer and other works
besides much that has been done by |
the county governments, particularly {
in roads. II
There has been an increase of 1444 in !
the number of pupils enrolled in the
schools :
The courts have in the main kept up :
to date in their work, excepting the Y
United States district court, and for
that an additional judge has been pro- |
vided for by congress and has been APP L
pointed.
The national guard has been increas-i
I'd and steps have been taken for rails