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THE MAUI NEWS-
SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1909
Our Desert
Public Lands
Their Classification and Re
clamation.
According ! ieorge this Smith,
director of the 1. S. ( tcological Sur
vey, t!ie necessity for classifying the
j)iil)lic is not ii recent dis
covery. The earliest land legWa
tion in tins country lotli contem
plated difYcivnccs in tin- quality :iml
character of tlie puhlic lands and
liliinned for descriptions hnsel on
Held examination. Yet even the
honest administration of the land
laws hiis ever lieen siihjeet to cri
ticism arising from the fact that no
adequate provision was made for
land classilication. '
A perioil of national awakening
to the worth of the puhlic domain
followed the close of the Civil War
nnd another epoch of realization hy
the nation of the true source of its
wealth and prosperity has just open
ed while hoth the legislative and
executive liranchcs of the Federal
government are awake to the fact
that exact knowledge is essential to
ihe proper utilization of our coun
try's great resource of land. The
earlier propaganda lore fruit in the
creation of a scientific hureau,
among whose functions was the
classilication of. the puhlic land, hut
this specific duty was suliordinated
to the more general task of deter
mining the natural resources of the
puhlic domain. The duty of classi
fying the remaining unentered puh
lic lands is now definitely accepted
hy the I'nited States ( ii'ologjj-al Sur
vey, and the opportunity earlier
neglected has for several years heen
vigorously improved. The Survey
is heartily cooperating with the
General Land Ollice to the end that
the host disposition of the land may
lie secured, and it should he noted
that no small part of the data utiliz
ed in this work represents the fruit
age of the Survey's earlier general
investigations.
Utilization is the keynote of the
' present puhlic land policy, and hy
utilization is meant not that kind of
local development that is promoted
hy the "land-skinner," hut rathe
a development whose plan weighs
national needs and calculates futun
demands and whose accomplish
ments will serve our country's de
velopment in tlie next century as
well as in the present decade. Utili
zation is optxised to lioth nouusc
and waste.
A notahle example of land classi
fication in aid of promised legisla
tion is afforded hy the Acts of March
and Octoher, 1XXS, wherein Con
gress directed that an irrigation sur
vey shouid he made hy the (ieolo
gical Survey ami that tlie reservoir
sites ami irrigahle lands designate
as a result should he reserved pond
ing further legislation. The legisla
tion of 1XX.8 whs itself the logica
outcome if Major Powell's 1ST! re
port on the arid lands and his sul
sequent work as Director of the (Sen-
logical Survey, and the law that
eventually resulted from the work
thus authorized in 1XXX was the lit
clamation Act of VMY2, through tin
operation of which the West is com
ing into its own as the garden of tin
nation.
Ilydrographie and topngrapliii
surveys which are now in progn
under instructions of the Secretary
of the Interior, have as their pur
pose the collection of information
that may he presented to Congress
in aid of legislation looking toward
the ln-st utilization of the water
powers on the puhlic domain. He
ports on the mineral or nonmincral
character of coal, oil and phosphate
lands, of which the Survey has made
actual field examination, are now
Wing transmitted to the (ienoral
Laud OHicc. Another lino of ac
tivity is the segregation of noiiirrig
ahlc lands under the terms of the
"enlarged homestead act" of the
present year, The existence of Sur
vey data, wheroliy, within the few
months since the passage of this
iw, the Secretary of the Interior
has I icon ahle to designate l(i2,XM,-
(HK) acres, is, in itself, a forceful
argument for an adequate land
lassilicalioii.
The classi Heat ion and valuation
f coal land is -a special phase of
puhlic land work to which the (ieo
logieal Survey is giving increased
itteiition. The geologic investiga
tions of the last three field seasons
have no1 only furnished a knowledge
f the quantity and quality of the
oal on tlie pnh'iie domain, hut have
clidelcd lHXsihle the present policy
f ohtaining coal prices for coal
nrices for coal lands. The (ienoral
i lid Ollice now depend on the
ieoliigical Survey to furnish detail-,
d. valuations for every 10-aere tract
if coal land that is placed on the
market. In the two and -a half
months following the adoption of
the revised scheme of valuation the
ports to the ( ienoral Land Ollice
eleasoii to agricultural entry ap
proximately. "J, "O0, 000 acres in Colo
rado, Wyoming, ami Montana, and
laced selling prices on nearly 100,-
0O0 acres of coal land with an aggre
gate valuation of over sl.-, 000,000.
The price nf government coal land
is now determined on the hasis of
stiinated tonnage, the unit rate
varying with the quality of the coal
from one-half cent to three cents a
on foi al deposits within fifteen
miles of a railroad. Those prices
iverage less than one-tenth the
usual royalty paid in the West. Yet
this this conservative valuation will
more than dotihlc the average price
if puhlic coal lands. In exceptional
ases the price ha sod on tonnage re
presents a liftoeufold increase over
the old minimum price. It is eon-
ded that this policy of hasing the
price on the quantity and quality of
the article sol J will not encourage
purchase hy speculators, hut it is
maintained that the government
valuation will not impede the dis
position of the coal deposits for pur
poses of utilization. The real de
velopment of the West will he pro
moted, not retarded. The increased
valuation of the millions of acres of
puhlic coal land must result in in
creased contrihutions to the reclama
tion fund and greater possihilies for
local utilization of the agricultural
lands through irrigation.
A principle that is winning in
creased recognition in land legisla
tion is that of relative worth. The
present coal land law expresses this
principle hy giving gold, silver and
copper deposits priority over tin
coal, and the coal, in turn, pre
ference over agricultural values,
These distinctions necessitate land
lassilication ha sod on adequate field
examination. herover the different
values can lie separated, that separa
tion, hy appropriate legislation, is
at once the easiest and host solution
of the prohlem, ami the first step in
this direction was taken in March of
this year in the passage of the Mini
dell Act, whorehy the hoincscokoi'
may secure all for which he mak
entry all that he swears he is gett
ing while the coal heneath hi
tillahle land is reserved to the na
tion for future disposal.
1 lie ideal land classilication is
that hascd on field examination
scientific and detailed enough to in
elude every natural resource; tin
ideal laud legislation is that which
f nil v recoirnizes the lirincinle of re
lative worth; and the ideal land ad
ministration is that which will as
sure the reservation or the disposi
tion of the land for its highest use
' A PHOliLKM.
Teacher-"Johnny Jones, you will
stay after school one lumr and study
your lesson."
Johnny Jones "Are you going to
stay with mo?"
"Yes."
"Then I'd like to know if you are
punishing mo or I am punishing
you."
Professor of Sociologj If this
alarming increase in the divorce rate
continues, twenty years from now
the institution of the homo will no
longer exist in America. Practical
Student How is that, professor?
Thev all marry again, don't they?-Puek.
Will Build
Skyscraper
Colonel Spalding Investing
In Portland Oregon.
Portland (Oregon) Spootatoi The
loan recently closed hy Colonel ..
S. Spalding from the Northwestern
Mutual Life Insurance Coinany.
for ."IKI, 000, at ") per cent, interest,
is, perhaps, the largest ever made in
Portland for huilding purposes. The
money is to he used hy Colonel
paining in the erection oi his new
kyscraicr at the northwest corner
f Third and Washington sti ts,
which is to' he twelve-story steel-
frame class A huilding. This loan
was negotiated directly with the
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Company, through W. L. llojse, the
local attqriicy, and shows tminis
takahly the faith of hoth Colonel
palding and the Northwestern Mu
tual Life Insurance Company in
Portland real estate.
And, hy the way, Colonel Spald
ing's investments in Portland fire
rather noteworthy. In IX'.IO he made
to the late H. S. Perkins a loan of
l.-)0,000 on the old Perkins Hotel
Hid other real estate. In 1X!)7, he-
ause of the panic, he had to. fore
lose his mortgage, and hid in the
property covered thereliy, although
he did not want it, at almiit ?-20.",-
000. In fact, he was quite distress
ed that no one else, would hid on the
property the amount due him. In
still practically owns all the property
ovored hy his original mortgage; it
has paid him large interest since he
icqiiircd it, and is well worth f soo,
000. Having heen at first force-1 to
hoeonie an owner of Portland real
estate, on a recent visit he was so
well pleased with the result that he
leoided to acquire more of it. lie
therefore purchased the old Ladd
ornor at Third and Washington
treets, and when he has finished
his skyscraper thereon, it will re
present an additional investment of
nearly a million dollars.
Colonel Spalding has had an in
teresting career, lhiring the rehel-
lion ho was a colonel in the Union
Arniy; just after the close of the"
war he was sent hy President Lin-
coin lo iionoiuiu as a secret agent
1 i T 1 I .
if the United States to watch the
progress ol international affairs in
Hawaii for this countrv. Slmrtlv
ft or that ho was made United
States Consul to the Hawaiian Is
lands, and ln'came a very close
friend of King Kaniehameha. When
his term of office expired, the King
promised to Colonel Spalding that
they go into partnership in a sugar
plantation, which they did. After
ward the Colonel purchased tin
King's interest in the plantation,
and has since conducted it himself.
It is one of the largest in the Is
lands, employs an army of men,
and has made Colonel Spalding
multimillionaire.
As to the Northwestern Mutual
Life Insurance Company ami its
faith in Portland, I also have an
interesting story. The company
one of the largest if not the largest
mortgage loa iters in the world
Of its 82")0,HK),0(K) assets, hy far
the greater part is invested in first
mortgage loans on real estate; tin
company maintains mortgage loan
representatives in all the principal
cities of the United States. In May
of this year, when (ieorge C. Mark-
ham, president of the company, was
in Portland, lookhr; over the city
with a view to making tuture loans,
he said to his representatives that
there is no city in the United
States that he would rather make
loans in than Portland, Oregon, for
her futun- was assured; Portland
is sustained hy annual staple pro
duction, and there could not he a
I icttcr foundation uimhi which to
huild a city.
In addition to the loan to Colonel
Spalding, the Northwestern has also
agreed to make another loan on
Portland real estate for LVl.OOO,
ami many others for smaller
amounts. This company has re-
Editor Kimura Marked
For Assassin's Knife.
Honolulu, August 7 Y. Kimura,
editor of the Hawaiian Japanese
Chronicle, is the latest person mark
ed hy the lawless element among the
Japanese for assassination. Kimura
yesterday received a letter from one
who calls himself a gatnhl from
Kauai, threatening him with .'cdh
The letter follows:
"Mr. Kimura.
"I am a gam Mi r from Kan d. My
l,,,j, rt in coming to Honolulu wi
to get rid of S. Sheha. who is a
traitor. To my regret, while I was
attending to my husiiiess on tin- day
that I came hi re, I learned at 11
o'clock that S. Sheha had hei n slain.
How sorry I was that my ohjeet in
coming to Honolulu had heen taken
from me I can not cxprvss in words.
"I went into a saloon and drank
a glas5 of whisky, and there I
thought that Sheha ought to lie sat
isfied hoeause he fell at the hand of
a young hero from Maui who has a
good education, instead of a gamhlor
like myself. As Sheha is the presi
dent of a newspaiMT company, the
more Itocoinitig to him that he
should fall at the hand of Mori.
Iianzai Sheha! I'anzai resident
Japanese!
"Now this morning 1 noticed in
your paper that you condemn Mori.
Now if you dont look out and refrain
from writing such articles your life
also will he in danger. I do not
know the faces of the prominent
Japanese, unfortunately, and there
fore 1 can not accomplish my ohject.
P.ut 1 am trying to know them, and
when I do there will he another who
will follow Sheha's ex)erielloe.-
"If Sheha comes out of the s-
pital, I will at any time risk taking
lis life, wherever he may go, either
to Japan or America.
"You are his friend, and, as an
ithcr traitor, ought to let him kno.v
what i say in my letter. People
a.v that a man who threatens to kill
a man, never docs so, hut I tell you
that I am not using mere threaten
ing words. Hi-ware! ''
Prominent local Japanese have
taken up the matter and an effort
will he made to run to earth the
writer of the letter. It is not he
He veil that he conies from Kauai,
and strong suspicion points to a
local Japanese as the author of the
threatening epistle. Tliu man could
not have come in from Kauai Tucs
dav. the date that the letter was
mailed, and yet he indicates that In
had just arrived when he heard that
he had heen forestalled and that an
ithcr would he assassin had struck
Sheha down.
If the writer of the letter can ht
apprehended, the suhstantial men in
the local Japanese colony will unit
in prosecuting him.
JUST SO.
Little Will'n Say pa, what is a
synonym?
Pa A synonym, my son, is a
won I that can he used in place of
another when you don't know how
to sjk 11 the other.
Taper -I should like a two weeks
ahsence to attend the wedding of a
very dear friend. Mr. (iingham It
must he a very dear friend, indeed,
to make you want that much time.
Who is it? Tape! Well, sir, after
the ceremony she will he my wife.
Yoglle.
Mrs. (iramercy Do you exercise
any siqiervision over your daughter's
reading? Mrs. Park - Certainly,
my dear! It, is quite necessary at
the present day. I never let her
read a hook written ly a woman
until I've looked it over carefully.
Puck.
"You seem to have a great deal
of faith in doctors, ' said a friend of
the sick man. "1 have," was tin
reply; "a doctor would he foolish to
let a good customer like me die "
lloston Home Journal.
gularly lieen lending money in Port
land since li(.l, has never had to
foreclose a mortgage, and has never
had a default in intcrcM, although
its loans have aggregated millions of
dollars.
Your
Disposition
will lie sweetened h.V getting illlo a
these COL LEG ft P. road toe, lias
The quality of these shoes haei.i d ayaitist
anything made and sold at Jivl.OO ; nd we
m an ev ry word of it. We 11 them at
S t.OO and the man 0. I n. s tin in cits
more than he ordinarily expiets.
We have them in hoth hirh and low. in
Tan, Russia and lMack Yiei.
Add 2-1 cents for Freight.
MANUFACTURER'S SHOE COMPANY, Ltd.
1051 FORT STHKKT, :- : HONOLULU.
KAHULUI HARNESS SHOP
Maker of Saddles and
High-Class Harness
Satisfaction Guaranteed on all work
KAHULUI, MAUI
NO. 101. TERRITORY OF HAWAII.
COl'RT OF LAND REGISTRATION.
Territory nf Hawaii to THE HAWAIIAN
COMMERCIAL AND SFOAR COM
PANY; M HORITA; I. SIIIRA
TORI; YOSIIIMA; M. ANEMOTO;
FL'KUYA; ANTONIO P. SARDI
NIA; HAIKl' Sl'OAR COMPANY;
KALAKAl'A; NISIIIMIRA; AN
TONIA PAYAO, MIOt'AL PAYAO,
FRANK PAYAO, GLORIA PAYAO,
MINNIE l'AYAO, JOIINIK PAYAO ,
MRS. MARY M ERA DA, MRS.
EMILY FRANK, MRS. ALICE
Ill'RANS, heirs of Mhiiir-I Pavao;
THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII,
by Charles R. Hemenway, as Attor
ney General; COI NTY OF MAl'I,
liy W. F. Pogue, as Chairman of the
Ikninl of Supervisors; HEIRS OF
JAMES P. WILKIN'S; HEIRS OF
Ll'AHINE WILKIN'S, and to ALL
whom it may concern:.
WHEREAS, a jH-tition has been pre
senteil to said Court hy CLARENCE G.
WHITE" to register anil confirm his title
in the following-described land:
Portions of Grant 121 to Richard Arm
strong and Grant 220 to W. L. Lee, in
Haiku and Pauwela, Maui.
Itegiuuing t a stone marked with a
cross at end of fence on the west edge of
the Pauwela gulch, the c -ordinati-s, of
said stone referred to the Haiku Triangu
lation Station being 702 6 feet South and
5055.0 feet East, and running by true
a.imulhs;
1. 59 23', 1462 feet, along fence along
land of Haiku Sugar Co.
to fence corner at road;
59 3 3'. 54 5 feet from
stone marked with cross
on line of fence;
2. ;S ' oo 576 feet, to iron pipe on
East edge of the Haiku
gulch;
31' '
344
45 , 606 feet, to point in Haiku
gulch;
10', 297 feet, to point on east
side of the Haiku gulch;
05', 15S feet, to point on the
upper edge of the Lowrie
Ditch;
i. Northeasterly along the upper edge
of the Lowrie Ditch to
west side of road, the
direct azimuth and dis
tance being 239 5 31 ',690.3
feet;
j. 320 1 22', 295 feet, along fence along
laud sold to Manuel Pavao;
i. 66 ; 30', 740 feet, along same to
east edge of Haiku gulch;
9. Southeasterly along the east edge of
the Haiku gulch to end of
fence, the direct azimuth
anil distance Ix-ing 302 :
53', 403.6 feet;
lo. 259 ' oS', 627 feet, along fence along
laud of Haiku Sugar Co
to iron pie, the co-or
muutcs 01 said iron pipe
referred to the Haiku
Triaugulatioii Station be
ing 2701 .3 feet south and
47S9.2 feet east;
II. 145
9 oS', 205 feet, along land of We
lakaili Kaoiiulu to iron
pipe;
oS', 222 feet, along same to
iron pipe on west edge of
the Pauwela gulch;
13. Northerly along the west edge of the
pair of
or Ox..
I). E. NEWMAN, Prop.
Pauwela gulch to a point
on the lower side of the
Lowrie ditcli the direct
azimuth and distance be
ing 1S7 0 34', 402.2 feet;
14. 259' 00', III feet, down the side of
the Pauwela gulch along
land of Haiku Sugar Co; .
15. igK5 40', 76 feet, along L. C. A.
6510PP, A pan a 1 to Niu to
point on east edge of
stream;
16. 115 50', 03 feet, along land of Hai
5-
lSo
ku Sugar Co.;
35', 207 feet, along same;
30', 1S9 feet, along same to
is. 237
southeast'eorner of L. C.
A. 4579, A nana 5, to I). Ii;
19. 104 40', 260 feet, along L. C. A.
4579, Apana 5, to I). Ii, to
southwest corner of same;
jo. S2 ' 30', 62 feet, to angle, in fence
on west edge of the Pau
wela gulch;
21. 70 5 45', 221 feet, along fence along
land sold lo A. P. Sardi
nha to corner post, the
co-ordinates of saiil post
referred to Haiku Triao
gulation Station being
1665.5 feet south anil 4632
.4 feet east;
22. 1S1 52', 427.4 feet, along same to
corner post;
23. 246 20', 87 feet, along same to ditch
of Haiku Sugar Co.;
24. 296 ; 60', 164 feet, along said ditch
along Sardinha to' west
edge of Pauwela gulch;
25. NortlK-rly along the west edge of the
Pauwela gulch to the ini
tial point, the direct
azimuth nnd distance be
ing 197 25.574.7 'eel
Containing an an u of 47.03 Acres, a little
more or less, excepting
and reserving there from
a burial lot described as
follows;
Beginning at nn" iron pipe on the upper
' edge of the Lowrie Ditch,
whose co-ordinates referr
ed to the Haiku Triaugu
latioii Station are 1973.8
feet south and 43S0.5 feet
east, and running by true
azimuths; -24s"
35'. 50 feet, along the upper
side of ttie Lowrie Ditch
to an iron pipe;
33s J 35 . 50 feet, to an iron pqie;
3. 6NU 35 , 50 leet, to an iron pqie;
4- '5s 5 35'. 50 feet, to the initiul point.
ami containing an area of
251x1 square feet.
You are hereby cited to appear at the
Court of Land Registration, to tie held
at the City and County of Honolulu on
the 15th day of September, A. D. 1909,
at one o'clock and thirty minutes in the
afternoon, to show cause, if any you
have, why the prayer of said petition
should not be granted. And unless you
appear at said Court at the time and place
aforesaid your default will tie recorded,
and the said petition will lie taken as
confessed, and you will lie forever barred
from contesting said petition or any de
cree entered thereon.
Witness the Honorable W.J. ROllIN
SON, Judge of said Court, this 6th day
of August, in the year nineteen hundred
and nine.
Attest with Seal of said Court:
(Seal.) M. T. SIMONTON,
Registrar,
Aug, 14, 21, JS.
