Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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My wife will probably have a better story than I will. But I think it was put in because it
was so muddy here, and they wanted to get to the dairy, the dairy was in here. The
wagons and trucks used to have a hard time to come up here. They were put in before I
was around.
[chuckling] When was that
[chuckling] B.C.
Because on the Hilo side we have the cobbles up there too, the same kind of pavement,
and this same road.
Above Keanakolu
It keeps going around to Hilo side. And I think that was all put in the 1930s, as I
understand it.
Not all of it.
So earlier than that
Some of it. Haneberg them put some in.
Yes, to get their wool wagons out.
That’s right. Haneberg them improved it. You can even see the records, 1891-92 like
that. And then the CCC, when we took Johnny AhSan up, he pointed out where CCC put
it in also.
Great.
You mean to tell me, in the old days, Parker Ranch was chasing wild cattle out here, and
had trees and forest
Yes! I found the remains of land shells out here.
Amazing!
So this was ‘öhi‘a and koa forest, and everything
That’s right.
Heavy duty.
So before they had the wild cattle
They also had sandalwood
It was a heavy, heavy forest.
So before they had wild cattle
And there was another one, Joe Pacheco told me that they used to pick the land shells
off the trees as they rode under, a certain tree. Ho… [thinking]
Some of these are stories.
Legends.
When I first saw this [Rally began working for Parker Ranch in 1934], there were one or
two ‘öhi‘a trees, no thick forest.
So Haneberg, where were they doing the wool thing on the mountain
At Kalai‘eha. But Spencer them had initially set it up at Keanakolu, but it was too wet, and
they moved it over to Kalai‘eha.
It’s claimed that the wild cattle trashed the forest.
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