Statement Submitted to the U.S. Senate Committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, on Behalf of Bernice P. Bishop Estate and the Bernice P. Bishop Mu - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1903 Excerpt: ... jected to serious damage, partly by the obstruction of surface water before it reaches their land, and partly by the drying up of the springs which now exist on their property. 9.--The ownership by the Bishop interests of the gulches bounding to a high elevation on the East and West, the richest portion of the water bearing territory for which a franchise is asked.by the Hawaii Ditch Co., and the lack of power of a private corporation to condemn land, necessitates that a ditch, flume, or pipe line can only be brought across this portion of the public lands at such a great elevation as to pass the head of these gulches, where the only water supplies that exist are those tributary to the lands of these private interests. Even if the Hawaii Ditch Co. possessed the power to condemn private land, the depth of these gulches belonging to the Bishop Estate and to the Bishop Museum, and of other intervening gulches on the government land, is so great as to practically prohibit crossing them with any known or used method of conveying water. 10.--The mountain water supply on the public lands at the elevation where the Hawaii Ditch Co. would construct their works, has been measured and found to be so small in volume during the dry season when irrigation is needed, as to prevent any possibility of success in developing a supply of appreciable magnitude. The quantity of water that may be developed for useful purposes on the lands of the Bishop interests in the valleys, is much larger owing to the cropping out of large, steady springs in the gulches, which springs maintain the volume during seasons of drought. A supply of water cannot be profitably developed on the Bishop lands in the valleys, if the Hawaii Ditch Co. project is carried out, for the reason that there would...

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