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owner of the Kealia Plantation. The others are government 

 lands now under lease to the Makee Sugar Company. On all 

 three of the lands the present leases are within two years of ex- 

 piration, the dates on which they run out being as follows : 



Kamalomaloo, March 29, 1907; Anahola and Kapaa, ]\[ay i, 

 1907. Anahola and Kamalomaloo adjoin one another and lie to 

 the north of Kealia, which separates them from Kapaa. Under 

 the former land classification Anahola and Kapaa were "crown" 

 lands, Kamalomaloo a "government" land. 



The area within the forest reserve boundary described below is 

 for the several lands, as follows : 



^"^'"'^"'^ , ] 505r acres. 



Kamalomaloo 3 



Kealia 2550 



Kapaa 2334 " 



Total 9935 acres. 



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PURPOSE OF THE RESERVE. 



The forest problem in the north end of the Puna District on 

 Kauai is to so protect the natural forest covering the watershed 

 that the \vater in the streams draining the area may be made to 

 do its full duty through irrigation, in the development of the 

 fertile agricultural land below. 



At present use is made of the greater part of the w^ater that 

 can be got out of the streams at an elevation sufficient to permit 

 the irrigation of the cane fields. The water that develops below 

 the water heads, from springs or seepage, with that in the streams, 

 is used on the rice fields and taro lands at the lower levels.- 

 Owing to the fact that the several lands mentioned above vary in 

 elevation, it often happens that the water from a given stream 

 can be used to better advantage on other lands than on those 

 naturally tributary to that stream. For example, under the 

 present arrangement the Anahola water is in part used for irri- 

 gating Kealia fields, which part of the Kealia water goes to 

 Anahola. 



Experience has shown the best paying crops that can be got 

 from the lower lands on the east side of Kauai, to be sugar cane 

 and rice. Up to now the sugar lands have been handled by a 

 single corporation. In future their disposition may be dift'erent, 

 but whatever may be the outcome of the present plans for settle- 



