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land now under cultivation, and so far as I could learn, with 

 the exception of a few kuleanas now owned by the plantation, 

 the only use to which the land had for many years been put, 

 was i^^razing. 



On the u'pper South side of the valley, next to the Kawaopuu 

 ridge, the land rises more gradually than elsewhere and could 

 perhaps be used for some crop, but here comes in the question 

 of a water supply for, if this section were so used, water 

 would have to be diverted from use on much better land be- 

 low, the wisdom of which is at least questionable. Further- 

 more as the elevation of this moderately sloping land is greater 

 than Llie elevation of the power house, the divertion of water 

 would also interfere with that use, while for the land lower 

 down tlie ^•alley the water that has already turned the power 

 wheels can be used for irrigation. 



Almost c.ll of the land within the area proposed to be re- 

 served is rocky and on the Northwestern side of the valley 

 most of it is in addition covered with a heavy growth of cactus. 

 The cactus belt extends all the way from the pumping station 

 along the base of the ridge, up the valley to Puu Kolealiilii, 

 coming down to the cane fields or to the road. At the upper 

 end stone walls liave been built within the last few years to 

 keep the cattle out of the cactus. These walls could well be 

 utilized as the actual forest reserve boundary, although to pro- 

 vide for a time when some use may be found for this easily 

 accessible though rocky and now cactus covered land, the offi- 

 cial line should run from Puu Kolealiilii to the most Northerly 

 point of the cane fields. One of the stone walls runs from Puu 

 Kolealiilii to an enclosure known as the "Bullock Pen" on the 

 main road up the valley, v/here it meets another wall enclosing 

 the cane fields lower down. 



Lower down the valley the land above the proposed forest 

 line is too rocky to be used for any economic purpose, while 

 that further mauka should, it is believed, for the reasons al- 

 ready poinred out, be kept as forest. 



In the upjjer part of the W'aianae Valley is the old cofifec 

 plantation established by the late Judge H. A. Widemann. As 

 a profitable ^'enture coffee growing has not proved a success, 

 although large sums have been expended in attempts to make 

 it so. The plantation has now been practically abandoned 



