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mendation against lumbering tlie tract mentioned. The reasons 

 set out in tlie report appear to your Committee to be sound, and 

 should be followed by this Uoard. 



After a careful consideration of the matter your Committee 

 recommends that the report be adopted. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Alfred W. Carter, 



c. s. holloway, 

 Committee on Forestry. 



REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTRY. 



Honolulu, Hawaii, July i8, 1907. 



Committee on Forestry, 



Board of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : I have the honor to submit the following report 

 on the question of permitting lumbering on the land of Piihonua, 

 District of Hilo, Island of Hawaii : 



This report is made in reply to a request received from the 

 Commissioner of Public Lands on June 18, 1907. It is based: (i) 

 on an examination of the land made at the end of June, 1907, 

 during which I saw as much of Piihonua as can be seen without 

 the cutting of a considerable number of trails through heavy un- 

 dergrowth and across swamps; (2) on all the other evidence in 

 regard to the character of the land that I could obtain, and I 

 believe I have practically all that is available. I have given the 

 matter most careful consideration from every point of view and 

 I conscientiously believe that I am acting for the best interests of 

 the Territory in making the recommendations that follow. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Piihonua is a government land, under a crown lease to the 

 Hon. John T. Baker of Hilo. The lease (No. 531) expires on 

 March 21, 192 1. The upper part of the tract is sublet to Mr. 

 W. H. Shipman and constitutes the Puu Oo Ranch. The lower 

 line of Mr. Shipman's lease extends almost due north across the 

 tract from the point on the 1855 lava flow, knov/n as Reed's Is- 

 land, at an elevation of approximately 5,000 feet. The lower por- 

 tion of the tract is covered by the fields of the Hawaii Mill Com- 

 pany's sugar plantation. The cane lands reach up to an elevation 

 of about 2,000 feet. 



