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

A. the other end OF the trail there is
! 10 hotel OF any kind nearer than Wal
luku, 2 miles away. II is next to
impossible for the stranger to see this
! country. The tourist in Honolulu
, rears Of MaU:'S beauties, and reads
+ about them in promotion committee
! literature. He makes inquiries about
; them only 10 find that il will be next
+ to impossible for him to see them.
! The Promotion Committee will con.
/ tim the statement that 4 large ma
juri:y Of the visitors TO the territory
nave a desire 10 see Maui, and al
! though given every legitimate encour-
! agemeut. they lack out when they
! lind 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 viii hot 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 ever-increasing
I competition OF the railroads and
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
ters 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, it is practical.
ly certain that a large part of the
tourist travel between Honolulu and
the volcano could be diverted through
Maui. The lnter-ISland Steam Navi-
CATION Company would Of necessity
I he obliged to establish a service De-
tween Hama and the Big Island II the
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 road, 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.
share of the territorial loan authorized
two years ago by the Legislature, has
met with some severe criticism on
account of its efforts to extend the
belt road from the Hama end into
Keanae valley. Contractor ]. H. Will
son will, within a few weeks, complete
about four miles of road from the
present Nahiku road westward. The
road will then end in the middle Of a
deep gUich 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 penetrates for a short dis
lance from the Hama side into the
SCENIC region of the East Maui noun
tains 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 1885,
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 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, 600. 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 III 1903 over
this section. The trail is approximate
~ six feet wide and has a grade max
imum of only about percent. 1t
comes up out Of lower Keanae valley,
skirt;ng the sea cliffs, and crosses
the great HonOmuu valley near its
mouth Some idea of the magnitude
Ct 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 awo-inspiring drives in the ter
rltOIY. ImaSmuch as the excavation
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