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from springs on the sides of the abrupt canyon in which it flows. 

 . . . T conchide that the stream can be rehed on for 3.250.000 

 gallons per 24 hours from November 1 to June 1. for 1,000.000 

 gallons during Jime and July and for at least 100.000 gallons 

 from AugT-ist 1 to November 1." When water is as badly needed 

 and as valuable as it is on Molokai. it is not good policy to use 

 such an important catchment area as this for grazing. On a good 

 portion of upper Kahanui the native forest would probably come 

 back naturally if cattle were excluded. Lower down artificial 

 planting would be necessary. On the lower portion of Kahanui 

 mauka. but still within the line of the proposed reserve, are 

 "Meyer's Lake" and one or two other possible reservoir sites. 



Theoretically, the proper thing would be for the Territorial 

 Government to take over this land, at a fair valuation, but prac- 

 tically there is no fund available for making such purchases. 

 Owing to complications resulting from the fact that the ^leyers' 

 lands are parts of the undivided estate of the late R. W. Meyer, 

 under the terms of a will which provides that the estate cannot be 

 finally settled during a term that has yet many years to run. it 

 would not be easy to eflfect a transfer of title. But. possibly, in 

 time, were a ^lolokai water company formed, it might be possible 

 through a long lease to control the lands for a sufficient time to 

 make it pay to get a new forest started. In the meantime the fact 

 that a forest reserve line has been drawn across it on the map ai 

 a guide for future action, does not afifect the Meyer Brothers in 

 practice if they see fit to continue to use their lands for grazing. 



At present Kahanui is separated from the ^^lolokai Ranch Com - 

 pany's lands by well kept fences. Should some plan of full reser- 

 vation not previously have been effected, provision for the main- 

 tenance of this fence should be made when the present lease of 

 the adjoining Government land of Kalamaula expires, in 1918. 

 Similar provisions of fence up-keep should be included in the 

 leases of all the other Government lands that run into the Molokai 

 Forest Reserve. 



Protection of the Forest. 



In the matter of protecting and extending the forest on the 

 Molokai mountain considerable interest has already been shown. 

 Chief among those who are alive to the advantages of such action 

 is the American Sugar Company, locally known at the present 

 time as the Molokai Ranch, which for a dozen years now has 

 maintained a forest fence across the upper lands, including both 

 those held in fee simple and those held under lease from the Gov 

 emment. This fence, which is approximately 8 miles in length, 

 was built in 1898 and 1899. voluntarily by the ranch company. 

 Since that time cattle have been kept off the mountain, except 

 for one paddock. And within the last two years that, too, has 

 been given up. 



That the lands at the east end of the island may get the full 



