The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-10
Opening OF TRACT
Will AID GROWTH
:. Of CITY! Oh. H!L0
Deal Is Closed WithSBishop Es-
tate Trustees For
a. Large Area -,
EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS
PLANNED By COMPANY
Section of Thirteen Acres To Be
Sub-Divided Into
Twenty Lots

Hil0's growth TOOK long strloe Ior-
ward last week when the final steps
were taken for throwing open thirteen
acres of the most desirable residence
property on the outskirts Of the city,
says the Hilo Post Herald Of Monday.
The deal was closed Friday by the Sc
eurity Trust Company with the trustees
of the Bishop Estate whereby tbs sec.
ton lying between the Pukihae and,
the Kalalau streams passed into the
possession of the trust company which
is planning to subdivide the land into
large residence plots The tract az
just beyond the G. G. Kennedy and
II. V. Patten residences. ( -,tsssst
In all the deal involves, II is I'm
derstood, approximately $50, 900 and the
trust company's engineers plan to ex-
pend approximately $4,000 in carrying
through many Improvements on the
tract.
Fine Roadway Planned
Among these win be a fine asphalt
macadam roadway. This road will be
twenty feet wide and sweep in a wide
curve from the Wainaku road down to
the sea at the tip Of the long tongue
of land that comprises the tract. Con
crete walks concrete cutters, water
mains, sewer mains and gas mains will
be laid, and the company has arranged
with the Electric Light company to in
stall the electric light wires in such
| a way that they will enter the houses
| from the rear so that there will be no
| disfiguring poles in front OF the res
| licences on the tract.
The road will split the tract down
the center and will be run in such
Al. -
| view Of the magnificent sweep Of Hilo
Bay and the glittering blue of the
ocean beyond. The slope Of the land
facilitates this plan.
Twenty Lots
In all there will be twenty lots
| in the subdivision which totals Is acres,
so that each lot win average slightly
more than half an acre. The lots will
be sold with front bound restrictions
which will forbid the construction of
any buildings save residences or pri-
vate garages on the pail. The restric-
tons will not apply to the bottom land
which will constitute part Of zach
sire, may construct servants cottages
| The price of the lots has not yet
been fixed by the Trust Company but
the underlying idea back Of the plan
is to preserve the area as the finest
the price will be such as to encourage
| immediate building t,iet - - S.'C.
At the same time it will be less
than the figure decided upon by the
trustees of the Bishop estate prior to
pany, when that estate planned cutting
| bo snk raasIanoa LOTT nd T,lo nt,lfY
it on the market,
The estate management had the tract,
which is regarded as the most desirable
in the vicinity Of Hilo and had even
gone to the length of preparing blue
prints and maps when il was decided
to accept the proposition of the Sc
curity company. It is understood that
large number of applicants have al
ready expressed themselves as being
DESTROYS Of buying a lot in this dis
trict and the Bishop Estate has turned
over to the Trust Company the entire
company give it as much consideration
as possible in awarding the lots.
This it is understood the officials Of
the Trust Company intend to do. They
are also determined to follow as close.
~ as possible the OTlBlhhl PidhS VI
the Bishop Estate engineers and sur
vcyors all though there may be one or
two slight changes when A. J. William
son, into whose hands the trust com
pany has placed the preliminary work
of preparing the tract, completes his
. plans. He will lay out the road and
the paths, as well as the sidewalks and
cutters. He will also construct the
proposed concrete bridge over the rail
road cutting which runs through a por-
ton of the property. This bridge will
, be fifteen or twenty feet to the north
Of the present structure and will fol
low the plan proposed by the Bishop
Estate in the original scheme for the
5 development of the tract.