Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

KL: Through the ‘60s, then they were pau. That’s when the military started making roads
here, roads there, roads going down to Hilo, pau, everything went. Then they had old
freight trucks come, take something to Parker Ranch and take to Hilo for Parker Ranch.
Everything went down, dead.
Discusses ranch stations around Mauna Kea:
KM: Yes. So each of these camps, Waiki‘i was a big one. Like Humu‘ula, Kalai‘eha, big one
KL: Yes. Waiki‘i and Humu‘ula was the big ones. The rest was all small.
KM: Smaller, couple men like that
KL: Yes, five, six men in one station.
KM: All the way around
KL: Yes, right through the mountain.
KM: I guess you go Kalai‘eha, you get Laumai‘a
KL: Laumai‘a and [thinking]
KM: Get Keanakolu
KL: Keanakolu House.
KM: Keanakolu, Kuka‘iau
KL: Kuka‘iau, yeah.
KM: Hänaipoe
KL: Hänaipoe and [thinking] …we get some more yet. I forget.
KM: Makahälau had something or was just
KL: Makahälau, yeah, we had one more on top Makahälau, an old one up high. That’s where
we keep all the pipi laho.
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‘Ae. You were sharing earlier, that in the ‘40s, you folks still I guess, did you drive pipi
from Waimea out to Kalai‘eha side too
Yes, yes, we drive ‘um.
And you folks were still working Kahuku
Yes.
Tell me, you were starting to describe a little bit, how you would drive the pipi out to
Kahuku
From Humu‘ula. That’s the shortest way we get. They know all that old trail. Kahuku was
on the Parker Ranch, those olden days.
Yes.
The Trustee.
Yes. Was Martinson still around
Yes. Then from there, we always take young bulls or young heifers, they need something
for fatten up, or they take young steers; not calves or what, kind of too hard for them
travel.
Yes.
Got to take something kind of light, it would take us a day and a half.
You would go from Kalai‘eha, Humu‘ula
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