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islands.  We  have  water  ways  already  made  for  us.  Our 
population  is  mostly  along  the  shores  and  we  can  have  water 
transportation  by  sea.  We  need  harbors,  however,  but  here 
again  we  need  trouble  ourselves  but  little,  except  to  present 
our  needs  to  Congress.  Congress  is  developing  our  harbors 
for  us  at  a rapid  rate.  The  intention  is  to  have  at  least  one 
good  harbor  on  each  of  the  islands.  Work  is  already  well 
under  way  for  Honolulu  harbor  and  Hilo  harbor.  Congress 
is  now  appropriating  for  a harbor  on  the  island  of  Maui  and 
one  on  the  island  of  Kauai,  and  it  is  planned  in  the  near  future 
to  take  action  in  regard  to  another  harbor  on  the  island  of  Ha- 
waii, on  the  Kona  side,  and  a harbor  on  the  island  of  Molokai. 
Our  natural  resources  are  chiefly  those  of  the  soil  and  of  the 
forests  and  of  the  sea.  The  resources  of  the  sea  have  so  far 
received  but  little  attention.  We  have  a great  variety  of  the 
finest  quality  of  fish,  but  there  are  not  enough  of  them.  A bill 
is  pending  now  in  Congress  for  establishing  a fish  hatchery  for 
Hawaii  with  a view  to  increasing  the  quantity  of  fish  in  the 
sea,  to  supply  the  wants  of  all.  It  may  be  that  we  shall  need 
to  do  something  in  that  respect  ourselves.  Congress  in  general 
believes  in  helping  States  and  Territories  that  help  themselves. 
It  is  now  helping  us  in  many  ways.  It  is  beginning  to  help  us 
in  the  matter  of  forests  which  is  one  of  our  most  important 
natural  resuorces,  not  merely  for  the  purpose  of  the  timber, 
but  mainly  for  the  purpose  of  conserving  the  water,  for  pur- 
poses of  irrigation  and  power  and  domestic  use.  We  need  to 
experiment  with  a view  to  obtaining  new  varieties  of  trees 
which  will  be  good  for  timber  and  which  will  grow  at  our 
high  elevations,  particularly  where  now  scarcely  anything  will 
grow.  Mr.  Hosmer  probably  will  tell  you  more  about  this;  but 
the  Federal  Government  has  just  begun  making  contributions 
to  the  Territorial  Government  for  this  purpose. 
Our  main  natural  resource  is  the  soil,  the  land.  You  know 
as  well  as  I that  we  have  very  little  public  land  and  that  very 
little  of  that  is  suitable  for  purposes  of  settlement.  A great 
deal  of  it  which  is  suitable  can  be  opened  for  settlement  only 
at  great  cost  by  the  construction  of  roads.  We  shall  have  to 
construct  roads  ourselves  and  probably  out  of  the  proceeds  of 
the  sales  of  public  lands  which  are  opened  for  settlement. 
Provision  is  already  on  our  statutes  for  that  purpose  and  a bill 
is  pending  now  in  the  legislature  for  increasing  the  means  for 
constructing  roads.  But  there  are  other  ways  in  which  we 
may  obtain  more  land  for  the  purposes  of  settlement.  We 
have  great  stretches  of  arid  land,  the  most  valuable  of  all  land 
provided  we  can  get  water  on  to  it.  We  need  to  bring  water 
on  to  this  arid  land  and  make  it  suitable  for  settlement  pur- 
poses. There  are  perhaps  100,000  acres  that  can  be  brought 
under  cultivation  in  this  way.  You  know  what  the  planters 
