Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-30


10 hotel Of any kind nearer than Wal
luku, q miles away. II is next to
la possible for the stranger to see this
country. The tourist in Honolulu
ifrars Of Maui'S beauties. and reads
;.bout them in promotion committee
literature, He makes inquiries about
them only to find that il will be next
to impossible for him TO see them.
The Promotion Committee will con
firm the statement that 4 large ma
jnrity OF the visitors TO the territory
nave a desire TO see Maui. and al
though given every legitimate encour-
agement. they back out when they
find that they can see only a part of
the island. and practically none with
out the expenditure of much energy
time and money.
No Roads, No Tourists.
Maui will not get these tourists I'M
til she has roads. But are they worth
getting? Oahu is now very certain
that they are. Hilo is also awakened
to the truth also. And with the open
ing of the Panama Canal within a.
year. with the advertising of the ISL
ands at the 1915 exposition at San
Francisco, with the everincreasing
| competition of the railroads aud
steamship lines for the business of
bringing the tourists here, and with
the cumulative advertising derived
from those who have been here, one
cannot escape the conviction that
these islands are destined very soon
TO be one of the greatest tourist CEN
tiers in the world The tourist crop
Is the best dividend-payer in the
world.
With good wharf at Lahaina, an
adequate landing at Hama. and a road
, between the two points, ii is practical
! ly certain that a large part of the
tourist travel between Honolulu and
the volcano could be diverted through
Maui. The Inter-Island Steam Navi.I
| CATION Company would of necessity
lie obliged to establish service De
tween Hama and the Big Island-theI
lack of which at the present time
causes no small business loss and in.
convenience.
, Start Made on Belt Road.
A start has already been made to-
wards closing the gap in the Mani
belt read. but it will take the united
efforts of the people of Maui to com:
plete the job in any reasonable time.
The Maui Loan Fund Commission,
which has the handling of Maui's
share of the territorial loan authorized
two years ago by the legislature, has
met with some severe criticism on
account of it's efforts to extend the
hoI int
Keanae valley. Contractor J. II. Viii
son will, within few weeks, complete
about four miles CT road from the
present Nahiku road westward. The
, road will then end in the middle Of a.
deep gulch just below the line of the
East Maui Irrigation Company's big
ditch. 1t will be practically of, no
value as it stands because there is no
population whatever that it can serve:
. 1t is a splendid piece Of work. how
ever, and penetTates for short dis
lance from the Hama side into the
scenic region of the East Maui noun
tairs. Its grade is very light, and its
surface is of volcanic cinder rolled
down upon bed of broken rock. The,
cost of this section will be about $685.
900. -
The next instalment of the bonds,
should Governor Pinkham decide to
authorize it's flotation, will provide the
$4,000 additional needed to carry
the road to Keanae, to which program
the loan fund commissioners are def
nitely committed. This will be an i'm
portant thing to all the Hama district,
and especially to the Keanae valley,
but it will still leave a stretch of some
IL miles or more between Keanae and
Huelo still dependent upon the horse
trails. 1t is estimated that this last
link will cost between 100000 and
/ $500 900. Chairman W. F. Pogue, Of
the commission, believes it could be-
built for less than 100000 under GER
tain conditions. While the job is a
big one, the grade of the road is prac-
tically established by that of the very
excellent horse trail built in 1903 over
this section. The trail is approximate
ly six feet wide and has grade max
imum of only about 6 percent. 1t
comes up out of lower Keanae valley.
skirting the sea cliffs, and crosses
the great Honomuu valley near its
of this gorge may be gained from the
fact that the trail is nearly two and a
half miles long from the top of one
side to the top of the other. Widened
into a road, this VIII be one of the
most awe-inspiring drives in the ter
ritCry. Inasmuch as the excavation
of the trail shows practically no hard
rock. the greater part of the work
might be done by steam shOvels to ad-
vantage.
The loan fund commissioners took
che step anticipating the building of
this part of the road, when it re-
placed some half dozen bridges on the
trail with reinforced concrete struc-I
lures, ~ feet wide, and calculated to
form a part of the road when it is
finally built.
How to Raise the Money.
1t will be up to the people of Maui
to decide how the money is to be rails
ed for finishing this work. 1t might
be done by bonding the county as