The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-03-26
INTER ISLAND BUYS
VALUABLE PROPERTY
Of DOWSETT ESTATE
X ta ----- "a. y
.Thirty-five Acres Of Land With
kalihi Channel Frontage
Sells For $4,000 >
NAVIGATION COMPANY
! WILL IMPROVE. TRACT
Increasing Maritime Business At
This Port Necessitates De-
r. =. veiopinent Of Piant

II ! : r
After negotiations which have ex
Etehded over period Of two years OF
more, 4 deal finally was elossd yester
day BY which the Inter Island Steam
Navigation. Compahy secures from th'
Dowsett Estate property covering ar
area Of nearly fhifty,ave acres ant
fronting for more than sixteen hun
dfed feet along the line Of the pro
posed KAlihi channel. The purchas,
price d announced a. $4,000.
Ah that nov remains TO carry thii
large realty deal 10 completion, Is The
final examination and approval Of The
title TO the property and the forma
transfer. The Initial payment, mad,
yesterday, Ia sufheiently Substantial Il
warrant the statement that the legal
kpoints have been Investigated to insur,
the transfsr going through without Q
hitch. q. l..yi y ~ ,, AZ, n
"A. y. Campbell represented the Inter
Island Company in5 the Negotiations
dealing with s, II. Dowsett for the
Dowsett Estate. Ia
An Ideal location
Z with the Kalihi channel project car
ried through to completion, rs now
seems certain within the near future
the property secured by the Inter
IIsland win become one Of immense i'm
poftanGe to the shipping interests
There Is a fraction less than thirty five
Acres IN the tract, which adioins the
holdings of the Oahn railroad west Of
i Kahololoa and EVA Of the railroad
lptopertS, between the roadway and the
i pr0petty Of the Standard OIL Company
Ian parties interested in the sale yes
tefdAy freely admitted that it had
Ib6eti closed, though the ter-Island
ohiGials were mot prepared to state IL
whit pnfposes the property will be put
The land Is not improved In any way
There ARE many uses TO which the In
Eter1sland Company scan put the prop
lertyi, II win afEofd AN ideal site 70,
fits repair shops, az well as docks, wher,
| in the event Of Congestion at the larg
er docks, the smaller vessels can bt
handled, 1T is not Improbable that tht
r6mpany will make this the base wher'
most Of is operations win be directed
This, Of course; would include a coal
ing station and the probable location
fof the hoating drydoek, now occupying
sites, which, as the harbor business in
lere6ses. viii become the center Of har
/, Dor activity. L., 5as.rF... =. .'. ".. ~
Co1pany Has No Definite Plans
Norman. Z. Gedge, secretary art
treasurer Of the InterIsland, said tina
no definite plans had been madc TO
the Improvement Of the property.
i ~ This sale has been negotiated 70
4 two years, and it has been only recent
tly that 1t has progressed far enough
\ to permit of a plans being discussed,
he said. when the company will
il formulate plans cannot be told nc
eurately, hut presume II may be with
in two or three months" ~ 3
Il Will the property be used for (
Il coal depotf' he was asked. lts,ss
set might be, -. he replied. cit J
possible, also, that we would move on
\ workshops there" AZ trat!
i "That would mean increasing thei
4 capacityf'' -. 81.
\ Probably; yes. - yE3I MI
!. els there any indication Of wha
would become. in case Of removal, 20
the present property used for you
shopsf'
'Pians have not reached such
, point at all. The property will be use
for Ihter-Island business, however. -.
1, "The floating drydOck might b
moved, alsof' p ) E|r
j sit might. 1t is probable that a
our eoaling might be done there; Blu
"a I said, no definite plans have bee
formulated. Plans will be made undo
the direction of James A. kenned,
! president of the, company, and then sui
fnitted to the board of directors. -