Nuhou, Volume II, Number 10, 15 August 1873 — What we Might Do. [ARTICLE]

What we Might Do.

| , We are well vvritu-jp about; an i i Luvo ueen I erally either over or uxiJer estlmated. Oui At ; i|>elago has I>een sp-jk<pn of a ~{ Pamdi-e in . ! Paclfic," and tlien as a of barren t\"' ! be T?orth " one di>llar am.l a quarter per l»»:: ! after two or three d7H|īods of year«."" These ee estimates formed in aceordance \vith observatl;: - from our llotel haieonie*, or our eteamer*s i Now we who have iived here twelve years \sW to say; that though t|ns Arehipelago bas a gr? deal of uaavailable and appareutly barreu face ; it has also some| area of land tliat eaniioi' . ec[ualled for fertllitj aujwliere in the vallejs / the Missisßippi or the Nile. W e baje 130 } 00 ; . atres of sugar land } tfiat eoukl be made to p:.~ duee as mueh as one million of acreī? of the beland of Louieiana. 4nd this ean be prov.en tiiid day; at Lineoinville on Maui, , r .\ cowpany organized by Capt. Makee are at woik a|id aro now eutting eane, that yields sis tons . - r sugar to the aere ; ana on the same «oil a= m,u:' a& seven fcons of sugar to an acre has beea j;.:. dueed, This is a strepgth of soil, that is not 5/.: and possibly i? not cquailed in any otlu. piirfc of the world. And it is easy to ealculate what possibilities there are m such a eoil, if und':~ tfye iuost favorable qonditions of an abundau: 6ifpply of labor jmd j capital, easy facilities «:: transportation, and a )free market. ,Now we are sure tljiat we ean poini out aeres, or where either cotton, "tobacco ean to as great advantage in parts of the wo;rld, best adapted to tlies: stiiples. The possibilities of production of tlil? Aircliipelago are very great, notwithstanding i;; large apparent barren| area. TTe say apparoci bepu6e of the surfaee,that appears bare and iu.j prp<luetive, there is m|ieh that is very rich sū:l. an,d eapahle under treatment of a prpduction. The etraijiger in going to windwara. and at this dry season, will obsorvc iu sailipg u A the Maui ehannel, nearly all the visible sur&|cc. ofl Lanai, arid Maui quite browu bare, and to all appearaDees an utter desen if he wouldgo a§hore, and aseend eome' . . these brown elopea he might fiud a native hut wi;. a email potatoe and £(juash patch attaehed, h©j would be astonishejd at the greeuue&s >of spot in thc midst of a|dry bumt surfaee uUerly deftitute of a blaie ojf vegetation. lle woul6u;>pose that the nativtf had eome means of irr,galion for his patch; ]but it is aot so he mcirely cultivated deejply with his 00, and ereating a mellow, opep eondition of soil # pervlous to air, he has prese|:ved eome humidity, whk\. has entirely from the eurrouudiug iiard eoil whieh ia iuto presseut eoml.j tion by the of uuherded siock Take any part of those,browu slopes of Esamine the rieh darjk } ehoeolate eolored soil» and you will feel satis£pd, that if sueh soil eouli only reeeive water» it qiust produee wouderfuny as you listen to tlje grumble of eome u\:\ people whoj have ft\iled . au4 who wimt everylKfdy eke to fiud t you w;U ooipe to the couelufcioa that euough of raiu uevc: tg assuix you of a erop, aud if it does u;l. | thc grubss will eat up all your hope of harvest, j we will suppo&| that you ;\re obliged ;. iplalui yourself ou this apparem dosen, wh;;.. !oojbs as uninviting, the rich sage pkiu* u j Coloradv\ Uiah» and X«pvada. You are a farme:. , aUv f h&vc meajUs t aud some iadustry aai j porseveraua\ Wiai 44£proied iight draugi;

agricultaral implementß, you cauld break up; with :a span of mules a ficld of this plain ? that has bccn ti*odden out so bare and brown. You break it up deep and mellow, and by and by, the rains do eome. Now if you plant corn, pota- j toes or grains wifch the first an*ivals of the rains, ifc is likely that you will have to contend with grubs early in the spring, but if you run your harrow over your lield, and keep it elean till about April, then you may hope to produee a fine crop of any kind of cereal 01* eseulent, You will find that if you work as well as you do at home, you oan produce crops of grain, esculents } and vegetables of all kinds more readily than in auy part of New England, and equal to the most fruitful part§ of Amei'iea. And besides you ean have' your fat pigs and poultry 5 andeverything thatbe-; longs to a flourishing farm ; but, situated as you are in the middle of the Pacific 5 with only about one thousand decent living foreigners arpund you, rherc is little, or no markct for whatyou produce, imless it is a staple suited for a foreign market. But you are satiefied, if you are a man who has hārd ; aud who has perhaps had some hard luek at home ; as for instance his stock frozen to death by a hard winter in the narthwest; or been drowned out by a flood, or crevasee in the southwest; or has lost a crop by a hail storm in the south ; or has worn his harids hard and bony, and his facc tiun by grubbing *among the stones of the east; we say that such a one will be satislied, that if he will work he ean aiways get a very abundant living; aud he -will also be satisthat if : Hawaiian statesmanship ever increases aM cheapens capital, mu!tiplies the supp]y oī labor, aud gams free access to many foreign markets, that he may hope to sec this Arehipelago | made to surpass in valuable productions area fbr area, the best parts of the continent of America. We ean offer inducements to thousands of hard worked, and impoverished toilers, as well as to the invalids of the continent.