The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-08

That the new homestead law : a very
popular measure and that the landIess
are ready to avail themselves of its
.lileral provisions are quite apparent, to
judge 10y the fcverish eageruess with
which the country people are making
applications and sending in petitions
for demonstrating on public lands, re
ports the Maui News. Each applicant
wants as much OF an eightv.acre farm
carved out Of the public domains as he
can lay hands on.
People in Kanaio want 4 "ranch
homestead, - whatever that may be, and
according to tueir ideas the proper size
Of one should lie two hundred acres.
uawaiiaus who have kuleanas Of their
own rarely have one over ten acres III
area, and it is easy to see, under the
eightv-acre limit, hat almost every one
Of them i eligible to make an entry on
the public land under the new law.
They know it, and are anxious to GET
land before the favorable law i again
altered to the detriment of the landIess
oucs The homestead bug Is abroad,
aud it Il sluggish man who has not
iclt its bite.
Longing eyes are turned on every
acle Of good public lands. and lest
lit of good land might be passed in the
rush, almost every known tract of gov
eminent land is being applied for by
name, and good or waste land look all
alike on paper.
The other day number of people
got togetLer at Maizena, with the idea
Of asking that all of the public lands
in the district of Honuaula be opened
M for homesteads, and in drawing up
the petition all the lands in Honualua
were enumerated, including a tract Of
1900 acres known as the ahupuaa u
Papaanui and located on the floor Of
the great crater of Haleakala.
When reminded that the tract WAS
unfit for homesteading purposes, one OF
the petitioners remarked that said trdct
was included on the list so as not to
miss any good land that may be lying
about under that name.
Residents Of Kanaio, who are also
applving for homesteads on the govern
ment tract there, have been advised to
take up h0mcsteads IN the fertile corn
lands of the Waiohuli and keokea
tracts in Kula. but they seem to pre-
fer homestead among the rOck-rlbbed
hillsides of Kanaio, where giant powder
has to he used in digging holes. They
are perfectly willing to let the golden
opportunity Of getting fertile eighty
acre farms in the Kula corn lands 80
/ to Others. even though residents OF IA
| naio often find it necessary to migrate
elsewhere now and again in order to
| find the wherewithal for making ends
meet in the course of year. 1t Is SAID
| the reason why residents of kanalo
prefer their little rock-ribbed kuleanas
| is because of the abundance of fish at
| the seaside, where any man with
scoop net can dip out a bagful OF fish
whenever a mess of fish is wanted.
Within a short time every inch OF
| the public domain on the Island of
| Maui will be in the hands of home
steaders, excepting, perhaps, the waste
| lands The lands of Waiohnh and REQ
| kea now under lease to the CornW"H
Estate are being applied for. There Is
to be rush for the government land
| now planted in cane by the Waluku
Sugar Company located at Walhee. The
petitions and applications for this cholce
piece Of land are being gotten up for
| the anxious homesteaders.