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The entire eastern part of the proposed reserve, containing 

 about half of the total area, was voluntarily set apart and has 

 been treated as a private forest reserve for the last ten years by 

 the Hawaiian Agricultural Company, the lessees of the govern- 

 ment forest lands. At the suggestion of Mr. George H. Robert- 

 son, manager of C. Brewer & Company, a forest fence was built 

 extending from Puu Enuhe, on the western boundary of the 

 Bishop Estate land of Punaluu, up through the forest to the 

 boundary of Kahuku, thence following the Kahuku line to the 

 eastward, although not always on the exact boundary, to the 

 land of Kapapala; thence out into Kapapala between two and 

 three miles and makai to a point near the lower edge of the for- 

 est, nearly straight northwest from the "Half Way House," 

 thence along, but a little within, the lower edge of the forest to a 

 point near the Kapapala boundary where it connects with the 

 cane field fences of the Pahala Plantation, which extend to the 

 initial point. The fence was begun in August, 1894, and com- 

 pleted in February, 1896. The length of the fence as originally 

 constructed was 35 miles ; the total cost of construction was 

 $12,000, which figure does not include the cost of repairs made a 

 few years ago, nor the amount now annually expended for regu- 

 lar maintenance. 



As first built the fence on Kapapala was about a mile to the 

 eastward of its present location, a portion of the reserved area 

 having been cut out as a paddock some five years ago by the 

 erection of a new fence up and dowh the mountain. This makes 

 the present eastern boundary of the reserve. This fence is the 

 one above described as cornering at a point back of the "Half 

 Way House." 



With the completion in 1905 of the fence built by the Hutchin- 

 son Sugar Plantation Company, along the Kahuku boundary to 

 meet the Hawaiian Agricultural Company's fence, the necessity 

 for the fence running up the mountain through the forest from 

 Puu Enuhe ceased. The wire was accordingly removed and this 

 stretch of fence discontinued. The total length of forest fence 

 now maintained by the Hawaiian Agricultural Company is there- 

 fore about twenty-six miles. 



The credit of carrying the plan into operation and of build- 

 ing this forest fence belongs to Mr. Julian Monsarrat, manager 

 of the Ranch Department of the Hawaiian Agricultural Com- 

 pany, to whom has also been entrusted the care of the reserve 



