The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-08-23
WILL TAKE ALL
OUR OHIA TIES
Sante Fe Railway Would Buy
More If They Were in
the Market.

HGLo, August he. o. Faulkner
and Meredith Jones, both Of the Atchi.
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, ar.
rived in Hilo on Tuesday evening. Mr..
Jones is tie inspector and belongs to
the roads forestry branch. Mr.. Faulk.
nor was here nearly three years ago
and signed the original contract with
the Hawaii Mahogany and Lumber
Company whereby the Santa Fe agreed
to buy 100000 ohia ties.
Mr.. Faulkner, whose headquarters
are at Los Angeles, arrived in Honolulu
on the last trip of the Sierra, coming
on to Hawaii few hours later by the
Mauna Loa with Mr.. James b. Castle.
He has spent much of his time since in
Kona and Kau, especially inspecting
forest lands there in which the Hawaii
Development Company is interested,
also noting tho small farm development
of that section of the Territory. Then
he went on TO Puma, making a brief
visit at the Pahoa lumber camp and 60
ing into the Cant and Bolte lumber
mill There, through third party, he
has made an agreement to purchase
their output of ohia ties, they having
many thousand stacked ready for ship
ment as soon as the railroad extension
is completed, about September l. A
vessel has been chartered to take them
to California and is now on the way to
llilo. Mr.. Faulkner says that the Santa
Fe needs all the ohia ties it can get
and would buy more il they were in
the market. Speaking of the ties from
Pahoa, that are now in use, Mr.. Faux
ner said:
'The ohia ties give excellent salts
faction. We are using them in the
mountains of Ar iona and New Mexico,
principally on rves. Our heavy en-
gines and cars led good track and
good stuff to m Ike it with. Engines
formerly used in this service weighed
100000 pounds, but now they weigh
100000 pounds, requiring a better road
bed to make travel safer. We use four
million ties year, mostly in Texas,
New Mexico and away back in the .
mountains of new Arizona. We get
our ties mostly from northern Califor-
mia, Hawaii, Japan, Mexico and even
rs far away as the Island of Tasmania.
These are shipped from Hobart, of the
stringy bark variety
Grinding that the eucalyptus tree
furnishes good ties we have seventeen
hundred acres of land planted with GU
calyptus in southern California. We
have done this in order to be in a posi-
ton to supply ourselves with ties when
the natural forest resources of the
United States are exhausted. Our re-
quirements must be filed and, to GER
tain extent, we can thus be injepend-
ent.n
On Wednesday morning Mr.. Faulkner.
and Mr.. Jones accompanied General,
Manager L. A. Thurston, of the Hilo
railroad, over that company's new ex-
tension as far as Honomu. He saws
that he has learned more of the real.
nature of Hawaii and its agriculture
from this trip, than in any other way
OF the railroad work he said that it
showed great engineering skill and pos
sessed some exceedingly interesting
features. On Wednesday afternoon the
party went to Pahoa to be the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam johnson till Mon
day when they leave for Honolulu by
the Claudine.
Owing to Mr. Faulkner's interest and
long stay on the Kona and Kan side n
has been intimated that he NAV become
associated with Mr.. w. u. Wall who
has secured a franchise from congress-
for the construction of a railroad ON
this island. After Mr.. Faulkner's last
visit to Hawaii it was rumored that
the Santa Fe might possibly become in
terested in new lumber mill TO be
erected in the Kona forests, an idea
that may yet become n concrete fact
as the Santa Fe, Mr.. Faulkner saws.
wants all the ohia ties it can get. He
sees great improvements in Hiio since
his former visit.