The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-24
To. LEASE: KAPPA
GRAZING LANDS
But Applicants Will Have to Pay
a Good Price to Get
Them.

The land board at its meeting yester
day afternoon voted to approve the ap-
plication for the lease of the Wal
pouli, Nerthxand South Olehena and
Kappa grazing lands, for ten years,
upset rental to be fifteen cents an
acre per annum. This, however, was
a compromise which does not agree very
well with the terms asked and offered
by the Makee Sugar Company and
Charles Rice, the applicants for the
leasing of the land. The applicants
asked for a twenty-one year lease and
offered to pay an upset rental of about
ten cents an acre.
Trent would not stand for this. He
thought fifty cents an acre would be
little enough and five year lease long
| enough-at least, that is what he said.
The other members of the board were
inclined to think that, since there are
two applicants for the land and a prob
ability of sharp bidding, the govern
ment would get all that was coming to
it by putting the land up at an upset
of ten cents an acre, but Trent would
not listen to this. So after long discus
sion the compromise was agreed upon.
No other business of great import
ance was transacted though a number
| of small matters were disposed of. The
details Of the meeting are as follows:
Kauai Lands Again.
The board took up as It's first business
a resumption of the discussion of the
70 bo Of no ":
| pouli. North and South Olehena and
Kapaa grazing lands, comprising 3679
acres, upset price $50 a wear.
Less than ten cents an acre. com
mented Trent. who had been busily fig
uring on his blotter '.That's five per
cent on $4,000 That fixes price of
10000 on that land.''
! '.You can fix the upset price at any
| thing you please said Campbell
'There are two bitter bidders for that
| land, and | expect to get $500 or $1,000
IA year out of it.
How do YOU know there won't be
collision between them9'' asked Trent.
/ I'm guarantee to get a great deal
more than $500 year, replied Camp
| bell
Tim willing to vote for it at about
! HIIN Genus dH acre, Sdiu iItut-
| Campbell stated that he would re-
| quire the lessee to fence the entire
| tract. which would cost about $4,000.
| Brown agreed that the fencing would
cost $4,000 or $4,000.
Campbell said the main object is to
get the land fenced, so as to protect the
! forests above.
Trent's Plan.
Trent said he would move for FIVE
! years lease at fifteen cents, ten-vear
lease at twenty cents, or ffteen-yea
, lease at twenty-five cents an acre.
"No that s entirely too high said
Andrade = understand that land will
run only about five hundred head OF
cattle
Lets try it five years at fifteen
cents said Trent. off it doesn't 60
! at that we can try again.
1.-The lease viii have to he adver-
! tised for sixty days said Campbell
"and IN in very peculiar position
with two applicants. I've got to take
sides against one of them
Its only breeding land" said
Andrade: 1T 5 not a fattening land. -
Andrade said he would vote for a
ifteen-vear lease at fifteen cents an
| acre.
IT move said Trent. ''that we give
our consent to a ffteen-vear lease at
| twenty cents an acre.
on acre said Andrade.