Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

RG: No. You know where the white house is in Waimea
KM: Yes, yes.
RG: Carter’s place
KM: Carter’s.
RG: In Waimea. The wagon in there.
KM: Yes.
RG: Those were the wagons that they used.
KM: Okay. Two horses to a wagon.
RG: And two men to the wagon. They go and pick corn and bring it in here.
KM: So, all of this field that we see now, like Heather’s house, Cole, Agorastos sister them.
RG: Uh-hmm.
KM: This area around here, all in corn
RG: All in corn. Well, no, I take that back. There’s one big pasture in here, another pasture
here.
KM: The line of eucalyptus.
RG: Yes. There’s another pasture. One year they plant here. If it looked like there was a good
market of corn, they planted there and maybe planted here. The following year they’d
move, maybe down there.
KM: So this would rest
RG: That’s right.
KM: Okay.
RG: And we get terrific grasses, the oats and rye, and clover, real good fattening paddocks.
KM: And all of this, natural water, yeah
RG: That’s right.
KM: There was enough rain to support the corn and then to bring seasonally To bring these
good grasses for fattening the cattle back up
RG: Yes.
KM: Wow!
Mämane trees cut for fence posts in area around Pu‘u Lä‘au:
RG: And then the fence posts, they’d cut mämane way up on the mountain up there.
KM: Above Pu‘u Lä‘au section
RG: No, not way down there.
KM: Lower
RG: Because Pu‘u Lä‘au going over, that would be outside the boundary.
KM: That’s right, it would become forestry already.
RG: Yes. They’d cut the mämane posts up there and bring ‘em down here. And they’d have
four or six horses to the wagon, those big wagons.
KM: Oh, wow!
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A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:78