The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-04-24
PRICE RAISED BY
QUARRY OWNERS
Action Of Lyman Estate May De
lay the Completion Of
Hilo Brealxwator.
(Mail Special to The Advertiser

mail Special to The Advertiser.)
HILO, April 20.---More trouble is in
sight which will further complicate the
Hilo breakwater situation. A serious
disagreement has arisen between the
Lyman estate and the engineering firm
Of Lord Young, and the present indi.
cations are that a settlement cannot be
arrived at and that the trouble will be
fought out in court.
The Lyman estate owns about 10000
acres Of land at Kapoho, Puma, and this
tract Is believed 70 contain the only
rock suitable for the breakwater con-
structlon, which is available at cost
which is not prohibitive.
Lord a Young expect TO get sub
contract whereby they viii complete the
present breakwater contract. q
Some time ago the firm agreed with
the First Trust Company of Hilo that
II would pay bonus OF 5000 and two
and oDe-half cents ton for rock from
the Lyman estate land, Of which tIc
trust company Is the trustee.
According to the Lord & Young side
Of the story the contractors, relying
on this understanding, spent many thou
sands Of dollars developing a quarry,
west Of the railroad track, where it
swings into Kapoho. Then recently
they were informed by the trust com
pany that It's price Tor rock would be
twenty-five cents ton, or ten times as
much as the price stated in the con
tract.
The Lord & Young people had no reg.
ular contract with the trust company,
but they hold letter wherein the trust
company stated that the terms mention
ed we're satisfactory to 1t. Both Attor-
ney Frank Thompson and Attorney
Breckons who represent the contrac-
tors, claim that the letter is in fact a
valid contract and as such binding.
eve have not been able to come to
an understanding, said Breckons yes
terday before he left for Honolulu
1--WE offered to raise the bonus to $3.50,
but we could not come to terms. We
believe that we have valid contract
in the letter accepting these terms, and
we shall bring a suit for specific per-
Torrance against the Lyman estate We
had intended TO bring the suit in Hilo
last saturday, and the papers were
ready for filing, but we decided to bring
it, in Honolulu instead. We are sorry
that this thing must be brought into
the courts, as 1t will delay the con.
struction Of the breakwater, but we
cannot help 1t.
1--WE are perfectly willing to stand
by our original contract, y said Attor.
ney Carlsmith, the attorney for the
trust company, yesterday afternoon.
" However, the Lord q Young people
want us TO give them control of our
entire forty thousand acres at that
price, and that we will mot Jet them
have. We will let them take all the
stone they want at $500 bonus and two
and one-haIfs cents a ton from the so,
called quarry site where they now
have their plant, but we will not let
them have the right to keep all others
from taking rock from our land. As a
matter Of fact, our land is the only
place whence stone for the breakwater
can be taken practically, and we do not
propose to give them that monopoly,
which will put them in position to 60
to Washington and dictate their own
terms. We have told them that IL they
want that, they must pay us twenty
five cents ton. We have not agreed
20 furnish them any such monopoly in
the original contract, and we will not
do so unless they agree to our new
price. However, | do not anticipate
that the matter win get into court,