The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-07-28
Within Next Twelve Months More
Than $500 Acres of Land
.. win Be Settled
= PRELIMINARY SURVEY
Ell MoRkWELL UNDER WAY
Commissioners Rivenburgh Says
Policy Of iTerritoeyis 70 Re-
~ lease Public Domain

Within the next twelve months more
than 1900 acres of territorial lands will
be homesteaded, said B. g. Rivenburgh,
commissioner of public lands, yester.
day, in discussing the work that is be-
ing done by his department at pres.
ent. Fifteen hundred acres Of this
will be homesteaded within the period
between August and December 81,
1916, and the remaining 5000 acres viii
= be distributed MS soon as the 1917 cane
crop Is of. This he's nothing what.
ever to do with the lands Of the larger
plantations, the lenses on which are 90
ing to expire within the next year or
two. III = r@r IS
eve have about completed the pre-.
liminary survey work on the Kaahuhu
homestead tract on the island Of Ha.
waii, said Mr.. Riyenburgh.n ''Alfin
johnson, one Of the deputy surveyors,
under Surveyor Wall, has been ut work
on that tract and has reported that
the field work has been finished and
that be is now OF his way to Honolulu
to map the tract and draw up the de-
scriptions. -" a..
Lots viii Be Appraised a :
Gas soon as this Is done, / shall have
the lots appraised separately by a
board of appraisers, as required by law,
and then shall advertise for the neces-
sary sixty days before the drawing.
This means that the seven hundred
acres of this tract probably will be
drawn about the last of October or the
first Of November.
LAS soon as johnson has finished
plotting the Kaahuhu tract, am going
to ask Mr.. Wall to send him to Kauai
where there is lot of work to be
done in surveying the Kapaa tract, the
lease on which expired the first of this
month. There are six hundred acres in
this tract, some Of it very good sugar
land, and we are going TO get it to tho
homesteader just as soon as possible.
, 1.-The policy of. the land office has
been to go as fast as is consistent with
safeguarding the interests of the gov
eminent and the public, and we are liv-
ing up to the policy as nearly as posi-
BILE.
Minor Tracts Under Survey
ave have a number of minor tracts
now under survey. There is the Welo-
ka tract; near Laupahoehoe, for in.
stance. We have man there now
at work on the survey of the 100
acres in the tract, which was formerly
under lease to the Laupahoehoe Sugar
Company. This viii he withdrawn,
subject to the growing crop clause of
the lease, and is being surveyed so as
to save time later. The drawing will
be held as soon as the crop is off, |
hope. ..l.t
"There is another small piece, called
the Leopoloa-Kauniho tract, Of $50
ncres in pretty much the same state.
That we propose TO withdraw subject
TO the growing crop, and shall begin
the work of survey as soon as possible.
1.-THE work of preparing the tract in
Kalapa, where there are 400 acres
which have been under lease to the
Paauhau Sugar Company will begin
soon, in all probability. The lease ex-
pired July l, and there has been some
preliminary survey work already done.
One Drdwing Next Month
awe are now advertising the draw.
ing Of the 2I2 acres in Kilau, near
LaupahOehoe, which will be held August
IL. Already we have received more
than 100 applications for this land.
with all this demonstrating well un-
der way, and more. TO come as soon as
the leases expire, need not point out
the absurdity Of the statement that has
been made that the government is with
holding the public lands from the home.
steaders who really want them"