The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-09
MAUNTES HAVE
HOMESTEAD BUG
Some Even Want to Locate
Homes and Farms Inside
Crater Of Haleakala.

That the new homestead law is very
popular measure and that the landless
are ready to avail themselves of its
liberal provisions are quite apparent, to
Judge by the feverish eagerness with
which the country people are making
applications and sending in petitions
for homesteading on public lands, re-
ports the Maui News 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 eranch
homestead, - whatever that may he, and
according to their ideas the proper size
of one should be two hundred acres.
llawaiians who have kuleanas of their
own rarely have one over ten acres in
area, and it is easy to see, under tho
! eighty-aere limit, chat almost every ono
of them is eligible to make an entry on
the public land under the new law.
They know It, aud are anxious to get
in and take up slice of the public
land before the favorable law is again
altered to the detriment of the landless
|
aud it's a sluggish man who has not
felt its bite
Longing eyes are turned on every
ucIe of good public lands, and lest a
hit of good land might be passed in the
rush, almost every known tract of gov
o,nment land is being applied for by
name, and good or waste land look all
/ alike on paper.
Tho pthpr luv n Ouno bar NJ manila
got together Mt Makena with the idea
OF asking that all of the public lands
in the district of Honuaula be opened
Iup for homesteads, and in drawing up
the petition all the lands in Honualua
were enumerated, including tract OF
1900 acres known as the ahupuaa Of
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 tract
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
applying for homesteads on the govern
ment tract there, have been advised to
take up homesteads in the fertile corn
lands of the Waiohuh and Keokea
tracts in Kula, but they seem to pre-
fer a homestead among the rock-ribbed
hillsides of Kanaio, where giant powder
has to be used in digging holes. They
are perfectly willing to let the golden
opportunity of getting fertile eighty
acre farms in the Kula corn lands go
to others, even though residents of Ka-
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 Kanaio
prefer their little rock-ribbed kuleanas
is because of the abundance of fish at
the seaside, where any man with a
scoop net can dip out a bagful Of fish
whenever mess of fish is wanted.
Within 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 Waiohuli and KeO-
kea now under lease to the Cornwell
Estate are being applied for. There Is
to be rush for the government land
now planted in cane by the Wailuku
Sugar Company located at Waihee. The
petitions and applications for this choice
piece of land are being gotten up for
the anxious homesteaders.