pany with Hon. L. L. McCandless, T visited the lands, going 

 over the ground with him and examining the local conditions. 



The lands named are situated on the leeward side of Oahu, in 

 the District of Waianae, some 40 miles from Honolulu by rail- 

 way. Ohikilolo belongs in fee to Mr. McCandless. Its exact 

 area I do not know, but it is in the neighborhood of 700 acres. 

 The others are government lands. Makua is under lease to Mr, 

 McCandless, the lease expiring Feb. 12, 1910. Keaau and Ka- 

 hanahaiki are not under lease. The areas of these three lands 

 as given in the Land Offtce list, are respectively 2,628, 2,431 and 

 690 acres.* 



The lands lie in two roughly semi-circular basins, between 

 two and three miles deep by from one to two miles across, run- 

 ning back from the sea to the ridge, making the backbone of the 

 Waianae Range and framed in by the lateral knife-edge ridges 

 that form their other boundaries. One of these lateral ridges 

 separates Makua from Ohikilolo and Keaau, while a smaller one 

 sets ofif Kahanahaiki from the larger valley of Makua. 



The floor of each valley rises gradually from the sea to an 

 elevation of 1,000 feet or more, perhaps two-thirds of the way 

 to the head of the land. Above this the slopes grow rapidly 

 steeper until they become precipitous. 



The lower portions of the valleys, near the shore, contain land 

 valuable for agriculture, including the raising of sugar cane ; 

 higher up the chief value of the land seems to be for grazing, 

 while the sides of the steep ridges are unfit for any economic use. 



Being on the leeward side of the island there is scant rainfall 

 and as the catchment area is small the water supply is limited. 

 One spring in each valley vv^as visited, which is said to be the 

 only water that is developed naturally. Wind-mills near the 

 beach give the local domestic supply. The spring on Makua is 

 on a kuleana not shown on the map and is piped down to a water- 

 ing trough, located on another kuleana, both owned by Mr. Mc- 

 Candless. Some tunneling has been done to increase the flow of 

 the spring, with beneficial results. On Keaau the spring is well 

 up in the valley on the side of one of the minor gulches. From 

 each spring it :s estimated that a minimum flow sufficient to fill 

 a half-inch pipe could be depended on. 



* The new land list, issued during January. 1906, gives different areas 

 for these lands; respectively 2544, 2420 and 1360. 



