The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1910-08-06
The Rush for
HOrneSteadS
Applicants Want the Floor Of
Haleakala Crater Also.

That the new homestead law is a
very popular measure and that the
londless are ready to avail them
selves of its liberal provisions are
quite apparent to judge by the few
erish eagerness with which the
country people are malling.applica-
tions and sending in petitions for
homesteading on public lands. Each
applicant wants as much OF an
eighty acre farm carved out OF the
public domains as he can lay hands
on. People in Kanaio want a
ranch homestead whatever, that
NAV be. and according to their
ideas the proper size of one should
he 200 acres. Hawaiians who have
kuleanas of their own barely have
one over ten acres in area, and 1t is
easv to see under the eighty acre
limit that almost every one OF them
is eligible to make an entry ON the
public land under the new law
They know it, and are anxious to
get in and take up a slice OF the
nublic land before the favorable law
is again altered to the detriment OF
the landless ones. The homestead
bug is abroad and it's sluggish
man who has not felt its bite.
Longing eyes are turned on every
acre of good p3lic lands, and lest
a bit of godd lahxl might be passed
in the rush, almost every known
tract of Government land is beinf
applied for by, name, and good ol
waste land look all alike ON paper
The other day q number OF peo
pie got together at Makena will
the idea of asking that all OF th'
public lands in the district of Honu
aula be opened UP for homesteads
and in drawing up the petition al
the lands in Honuaula were emu
merated, including a tract OF 45O'
acres known as the ahupuaa o
Papaanui and located on the foo
of the great crater ot Haleakala.
When reminded that the trac
was unfit for homesteading purpose
one of the petitioners remarked tina
said tract was included on the lis
80 az not to miss any good Ian
that may be lying about under thp
name,
Residents Of Kanaio, who al
also applying for homesteads on tn
Government tract there, have bee
advised to take up homesteads 4
the fertile corn lands OF the va
obuli and Keokea tract in KMs
but they seem to prefer homestea
among the rock ribbed hillsides
Kanaio, where giant powder has
be used in digging holes. Ths
are perfectly willing to LET u
golden opportunity OF getting iertl
eighty acre farms in the Kuia col
lands 90 to others, even. tApne
residents of Kanaio often Qpd
necessary to migrate elsszther
now and again in order TO ind I'll
wherewithal for making ends me
in the course of year, It'is sa
the reason why residents OF 4 kana
nrefer their little rock ribbed kul
anas is because of the abundance
fish at the seaside where any mi
with q scoop net can dip out a b
full of fish whenever a mess OF III
is wanted.
Within a short time every ln'
of the public domain on the lslai
of Maui will be in the hands
homesteaders, excepting perha
the waste lands. T he lands
Waiohuli and Keokea new und
lease to the Cornwell Estate a
being applied for. There is to be
rush for the Government land nt
planted in. cane by the Wailu
Sugar Co, located at Waihee. i
petitions and applications for Il
Choice piece of land arg being gott
up for the anxious homesteaders'