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Show I Forty Miles of Watar Tunoala , There are sugar plantations on Kauai, Ouhu and Maul. In the Pacific, with 40 miles of tunnels and ditches to carry life-giving water, and a fa-' fa-' mous aqueduct on Oaliu taps four valleys val-leys and traverses a tunnel 14,443 feet long. One plantation uses more water than the dty of San Francisco, says Nature Magiulne. Thousunrts of artesian arte-sian wells dot the' countryside. In 1926, about 776,000 tons of sugar worth $05,000,000 were raised oa the 6,449 square miles that comprise this dsub of water-surrounded, land. The pineapple crop brings a revenue of nearly 134,000,000 annually. . i t ',. ' |