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Hutchinson Sugar Plantation Company, with the difference in 

 this case that until recently the protection of the forest has not 

 been carried out in so systematic a way on these lands as above 

 Pahala. 



If it is legally possible, it seems to me only just that these 

 facts be considered in future dealings which the government may 

 have with these companies. 



While much has already been done toward developing water 

 in Kau it would without doubt be possible to obtain some addi- 

 tional supplies by running flumes further back into the forest 

 and by more tunnels. Just how much it is advisable to do 

 can, of course, only be told after a careful study of the whole 

 situation by competent persons. In the case of the Hutchinson 

 Sugar Plantation Compan}^ the most promising outlook seems 

 to be on the fee simple lands of Hilea, but as this matter is out- 

 side the province of this report it need not be further discussed 

 here. 



GR.\ZING. 



There is no grazing proposition in connection with the Kau 

 Forest Reserve. Owing to the fact that it is possible to profit- 

 ably cultivate cane at a higher elevation than on the windward 

 side of the island, the forest line is much of the way identical 

 with the upper edge of the cane fields, thus leaving no inter- 

 vening stretch of open grazing land as is usual elsewhere in the 

 Territory. Outside of the ranch departments maintained by 

 the two large plantations there are no cattle interests in the sec- 

 tion of Kau adjoining the proposed forest reserve, except the 

 Kahuku Ranch. And as the entire boundary line between Ka- 

 huku and the Kau Forest Reserve is already fenced this ranch 

 need not be here considered. 



The ranch department on each plantation is subordinate to the 

 main industr}^, and the cattle of each are for the most part con- 

 fined to lands outside of the forest, not suitable for raising cane. 



ELEVATIONS. 



The highest profitable limit for raising sugar cane has been 

 found to be about 2300 feet back of Naalehu. Above Pahala 

 the line of flume laid out by Mr. J. S. Emerson in 1903 is con- 

 sidered the permanent upper limit of the cane fields, although not 



