Treasary.
I think
the
Member
should
amend
his resolution.
'
2ad
Member
for
Chnristiansted
Town
(Canegata):
Mr.
Chairman
lam
per-
faatly willing
to
amend
the
resoiution.
Bit the letter
which
I referrad
tc in
my
previous remark
was read
in
the
Muaici-
pal Committee
and
the
member
got the
information
there.
Despatehiny
Scaeratary
(Bi-rett)
re-
marked:
Me. Chairman.
‘The
oceasion
for the
letter
from
His
Execellency
the
Governor
statinz
that all
accounts
must
b+ elosad
and
the books
balaaced
by July
21,
1924,
is
due
primarily
to
the
recent
visit of the
two m2n
from
the Crmptroi-
ler
General
Office
in Washington.
I'he
Governor
has
been
informed
by thosetwo
gentlemen
that
they
are
going to
recom-
men:] that all unexpeened
balanees
from
money
approp.iated
by the Federal
Gov-
ernment
for the Virgin Islands remaining
over
at
the end
of the fiseal year
go back
into the Treasury.
The
Governor
is try-
ing to avoid this.
If
the
resolution
in-
troduced
by
the
Honorable
2nd
Member
far Chiistiansted
Town
can
be made
to
produce
the
same
effect
as
the law
now
prevailing
in
the
United
States
which
provides that
all amounts
not
spent
at
th2 end
of the fiseal
year
must revert
to
tne Treasuvy
he
will
be
establishing
a
precedent
for which
Goverr ment
will be
thankful.
I believe that if this
project of
build-
ing a cistern
was given
oat
to
a contrac-
tor it would be bindi
.g, but
as it is being
built by the Public
Works
Officer I doubt
very much
that it
will be
con:idered
as
binding.
This question
was
brought
so
the attention
of the
two gentiemen
and
they
said
we
will hear
from
them.
I
doubt
that
the
Governor
wili
approve
this
resolution
inasmuch
as
he
has
al-
ready requested
that
the
work be
com-
pleted
by June 30.
To be concluded.
L
ee
LOCAL
The
s.
s.
Parima
from
New York is
due
at
Fuederlksted_
at
1
o’clock
this
afiernoon ani will sail at 4 o’clock
p.
m.
for the islands.
Rev.
Allen
of the
Friedenstal
Mora.
vian Church
will §speak
in the
Lutteran
Church
this
evening-
All
are
cordially
invited.
OFFICIAL NOTES.
The President
has signed
the Revenue
Act
of
1924
(inecome
Tax
Law)
which
provides
for a reduetion
in the 1923 taxes
of individuals and
trust
estates
amcunt-
ing to
twenty-five
per
cent
of
the
tax
correctly computed.
Where
the
1923 tax
was
paid
in
entirely
on
March
155,
a
refund
0;
twenty-five
per
cen:
in all be
made
before
June
30,
1924,
Applica-
tion for ihis
refund
need
not be made.
ST 101
& Vi
Where
one-fourth
of
the
1923
tax
was
p'id
on
Mareh
15:h,
the
reduction
will
be
made
as
foilows:
Only
one-half
of
the
installment
due
June
15th
will
be
payable
on
that
date:
one-fourth
of tne
~installment
due
September
isth
will be
deducted
and one fourth
of
the
instali-
ment
due December
15:h
will be deduct
-
ed.
Application for
this
deductior
need
-
not
be made.
.
REPORT
AND
ESTIMATE
ON
IRRI-
'
GATION POSSIBILITIES
ON
ISLAND
OF
ST
CRUIX.
VIRGIN
ISLANDS,
1
.8
A
;
By C.
C.
FISHER,
Engineer,
i
Department
of Interior,
Bureau
of
Re-
g
clumation.
(Continued
from
y- sterday’s
Avis.)
|
26.
Regarding
the question
of ground
i
water
supply,
Dr.
Vaughan
states
that
.
the
newer formation
is rather
porous
and
.
will absorb
water,
there
is
no overlaying
impervious
strata
that
coald
serve
asa
!
retaining
layer,
and
that artesian
water
.
supplies are therefore
not
to be
expec.ed
on
the Island.
On
this question
Proses-
.
Kemp
states
‘we lack,
so
far as
my
ob-
|
servations
go.
good
porous,
permeuable
.
b-ds.
1
would not
theiefore
look
for
a
.
eopius flow, even if water
were
struck
in
'
in
the
Kinghill Series.
Pumping
wells
suitable
for
waterine
stock
seem
to be
the ones
which,
were
water
encounter-
.
ed,
would
be
the most probable
expeeta-
I
tion.
leann>t
brirg
myseif
to
believe
.
that
auy supply
abun
lant
enough
tor ir-
t
rigation would
be
encountered’’.
"
27.
From
the
above
and
also
from
-
studies
on the ground,
it is
the conclusion
'
of the
writer that
there
is
no
possibili-
|
ty
of
ground
water
sufficient
for irriga-
{
tico
on
the
Island.
It is
believed,
how-
.
ever,
that
the prablem of stock
watercun
|
be
largely
solved
by
the
digging
cos
!
wells and
perhaps
also by
diilling wells
|
in cuitable
locations,
the
best
probable
.
loeation
being
in
the
newer
formation
overlying
the
trough
or
‘'syncline’” in
|
the older rock in
the
central
portion
of
"
the
Island
to
which
Professor
Kemp
|
calls attention.
|
SOILS AND TOPOGRAPIIY.
}
28.
The
iands
proposed
tor
Irrigation
on the Isiand,
and
1o fact
the
agriculur-
L
4l l:,;r)ds in general,
have
a
gentle
slope,
|
ranging
perhaps
from
20
to
120;
they
|
are generally fairly smooth
and
are
es-
|
pecally
well
suited
to
irrvigation.
ihe
|
scils
range
in
depth
from
135"
to 24"
g
and
are
general'y
overlying
the
recent
|
limestone
formation.
Ihey
are
general-
.
ly a rather
teuvy clay
loan
with
a
con-
~
siderable
admixture
of decom;osed
lime-
stone.
Such
soils
shouid
be
capable
of
irrigation without excessive
loss
of
wa-
ter
on
condition
th:t
the
irrigation
“runs’’ are made short encugh
to
avoid
the
percolation
of
water
through
the
goil- cover
and
into the
limestone.
No
analyses
of the soils
were
made
for
tiis
report,
though
it is elaimed
by the
loea!
planters
that
the fertility is
hiech.,
This
claim, however,
is
somewhat
guestioned
by
the
writer,
on
account
of
the
fact
that
the
land
has
been
in continuous
sy
-
ar cultivation
for
many
vears
—possib'y
200 —without rotatior
of erops
and
with
out
the
use of ferti'izor: and
alsc
bacause
of the fact that they are
now
producing
less
zucar
eane
per
acre
than
at
Porto
Rico with
a similar rainfall,
1t is
stated
that artificial
fertiiiz>¢
cannot
be
use!
without irrigation
as
it
would
burn
ow
the
crops
during
the
dry
months,
but
that it coild and
would
be
used
with
ma
terial benefit
under irrigation,
IRRIGATION
POSSIBILITIES
29.
From
the standpoint
of
a
praeti-
cal
water supply forarrigation
there
aro
no perenaial
streams
on the
Island
of =t
Croix, though
it is said
that
during
no
mal
vears
of
rainfail
there
are
severu!
small
washes—-locally
known
as
“‘guts”’
that
do not
go
entircly
dry.
The
ouls
surface
water supply
sthilicient
to
con-
der
Yor irrigation are
the
floods
of
con
siderable
magnitude
but
of
short
dura
tion
which
run
off
from
the
principal
catchment
basins
during heavy rains.
The
topographic
map of the Island (See Plate
4)
and als)
the
Island
itself
were
carc
fully
examined
tor
catchment
basius
suflicient
in area
to considerand
in which
suitable
reservoir
sites
may
be
found
where
such
floods
may
be
impounied
and
conserved
for irrigation.
Only three
such
catehment
basins
were found,
nam¢
ly,
the
Jolly
Hill
basin,
the
River
or
Manning Bay basin,
and
Salt River basin
and
in these
the effcetive drainage areas,
and therefore
the runoffs,
are
very limit-
ed
By
‘‘effactive’’ area
is
meant
the
mountainous
area,
as
the
flat
or
valley
areas
are
known
to
produce
but
liftle
if
any
runcoff
exeept
during
unusuaal
rains.
The
drainage
areas
übove
the
dam
sites
of
the
four
po-sible
projecis
(
he Manning
Bay
is an alternate
plan
to
the River projeet)
are
as
follows:
Drainage Area
Project
Mountains
Valley
Total
(sq.
mi.}
(sq
mi)
(sq.mi)
Jotly Hill
2.08
.00
2.08
River
331
0.00
3.31
Manning Bay &.70
615
9.85
Sait
River
3-00
1.62
4.62
Including feeders
from
east
and
wesi—-
(see
plate 6-)
(To be continued.)
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX
STATION.
Tokio, June 9th.—Belief
that
the peak
of
the
agitation
in
Japan
against
the
United States
enactment
of an
Immigra-
tion Law
barring
Japanese
had
passed
was
expressed
in well
informed
cireles
today.
The active phase
of the agitation
it was agreed,
cannot continue
more than
two
or
three
weeks,