The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-10-07
KAPM Discussed
BY LAND BOARD
KnOtty Problem Is Tackled, but
Much Talk Results in
No Action.
tFrom Thursday's Advertlsef.l

CFrom Thursdays AdvertIsef)
Kapaa was the subject that Devil
dered the land board at its meeting yes
terday afternoon. This bugaboo Of the
board. which none Of the members has
been at all anxious to tackle, was dis.
cussed at long length and from various
standpoints, but no conclusion was ar.
rived at, and at the end of the meet.
ing the commissioners said that they
did not feel that they knew enough
about the matter to be able to vote
intelligently. Which is not to be won
dered at in view Of the fact that
Kappa has for some eight years en-
gagged the attention, thought and en-
deavors of some of the shrewdest bust.
ness men, lawyers and executive Off
GERS of the Territory.
The discussion yesterday was chiefly
along the line of search for lnfornn-
tion. The commissioners wanted to
know what it was all about, what the
land is like, what the production pos
sibilities are. where the water is to
come from, how much there is Of it
and under what conditions it is pro-
DOStu " lGdot bObu Aduu anu MdiNlt
or land and water separately
Commissioner Trent. who said that
he had been the goat long enough. was
the only one who expressed himself as
ready to vote on the proposition of
leasing the 1890 acres of Kappa land.
He didn It say how he intended to vote,
nor would he make any motion, but
, he said that if someone else would
| ka an
Nobody else would. however, so the
golden opportunity slipped by.
Aside from the discussion of the pro-
posed Kapaa lease, very little work
was done by the board only few
minor matters being touched upon.
Sale Approved.
NJ. F. Prosser appeared in the in
terests of Philip Comrades, an appli-
cant for the purchase of some small
pieces of land in Kappa, the remainders
of some kuleanas already owned by
him. Not more than a quarter of an
S acre, the land commissioner stated
was involved in the proposed trans
action Comrades offered 800 for the
e land and the board voted to accept,
wahiawa's Park Land.
Before taking up the Kappa matter,
! for the consideration of which the
board had come together, Secretary
> Brown read a letter from the trustees
of the Wahiawa colony protesting
against the sale of a small piece of
gulch land at Wahiawa. The colonists
wrote that they wanted the gulch land
reserved for park purposes. The board
a therefore, voted to reject the appliea
4 tion of Hugh Galbraith to purchase
the land.
n Kappa Question Tackled.
e Kappa came next Brown said hi
J, was looking for information more thar
e anything else. Land Commissioner
o Campbell produced the report of tho
e appraisers.
The first application discussed was
|. for 1890 acres of land. with 100000
gallons of water, for which $1,000 Q
y year rental is offered by the MakeC
!. Sugar Company.
|, Brown thought that the board ought
= to ascertain the respective areas Of
!. good, bad and indifferent land in the
. 1890 acres.
Campbell said the appraisers hal
averaged the land as worth about $4.4;
an acre per year with all the water Of
Kapaa.
Brown said there are so many tracts
of land around the country leased fol
So without water that an appraisement
of Kappa at $445 with water woul(
suggest it must be pretty poor land.
Kapaa Land Poor.
In reply to a question, Campbell
stated that it would take about 5000,
900 gallons of water to irrigate tn
, 1890 acres of land He thought an.
person would be able to make success
of Kappa as a sugar plantation on tina
amount of water. Andrade thought tn
leesee would need a large reservoir
Campbell stated that there are two goo
reservoirs already on the land.
Campbell, replying to question, sal
he considered the Kappa lands only oil
binary sugar lands, by no means con
parable to the sugar lands of Oahr
The average yield is but a fractio
over three tons to the acre. The sol
he said, is too heavy.
Need More water.
Andrade thought that instead of lin
: iting the lease to 100000 gallons o
water, the land should be leased wit
all the water necessary to irrigate i
so that if part of the land were will
drawn for homesteaders there would
no trouble about the amount or Wate
TO be withdrawn with it. Otherwis,
he said, there would be the danger @
much litigation.
Campbell didn't ree,with him. TIL
\ United States laws, he said, clearly d,
fine the duty Of water. Andrade
scheme, he thought, would be MOI
liable to cause litigation. Campbe
also stated that an acre of Kappa Ian
needs 100000 gallons of water pr
year. Referring to the leasing of bot
land and water together, he said thi
the clause in the license requiring IL
> constructing of a $4,000 reserve
\ would enable the government TO g
paid for the freshet waters for while
/, otherwise it would get nothing.
Trent, who had been doing some 81
> uring, announced that the land woul
! need 2,l9O,O00, 900 gallons of water eaC
:. year.
> Andrade still objected to limiting Il
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