On the Wharf,
'
FREDER:KSTED,
TO-NIGHT,&.IS
BY THE
Ghristiansted
Native Brass Band,
e
BRI
AN
-
PART
1
Maich.
‘‘Here They
Come’’.
... Weidt
Cparatic Medlev.
. ''Echies
From
The
Opera”....Arr.
Mackie Beyer
Waltzes.
...
"*Over The
Waves’’.
. .Rosas
S raaade.
""Wedded
Hearts’’. . Ripley
Part
1]
March....."'On
The Mall’’.... Goldman
tVocal and
Whistling ,Chorus)
Overture
...
' [he Calif
of Bagdad’’.
..
Boieldieu
One Step..
""Bones Trombone’’ . .Fillmore
"'Banddidntstrike..........Dalbey
Tango
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."'Havana’’.....
Schonberger
STAR SPANGLED BANNER
FRED.
C. JACKSON,
Bandmaster.
Mails Close
For the States
by
6.
8
Parima
at
4.00
p.
m. Thursday.
19th iust.
LOCAL
The s
8. Parima
for New
York is
du»
at Frederiksted
on Friday
morning
at 6
o’clock.
The
8.
8.
'"Martinique’’
sailed
from
New York
on Saturday
afternoon,
hav-
ing 37 tons of cargo for Frederiksted
and
99 tons for Christiansted.
PERSONAL,
Miss
Mignonette
Mclntosh,
daughter
of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
A. . Mcllntosh
re-
turned
home
from
Porto
Rico on Satur-
day.
She
has
been
attending
school
there, and bas
gained
two diplomas
one
for
satisfactory
record
of conduct
and
faithfully and
satisfactorily
completing
all the work of
the
course
of study
pre.
scribed by the
common
schools
of Porto
Rieo,
and
another
for satisfactory
com-
pletion of the stenographic
course
at the
Royal Gregg School,
San
Juan.
We
con-
gratulate
Miss Ettie and
her parents,
To the Inhabitants
of St. Croiz.
Dear Friends:
My family and I will he leaving
for the Republic
of Santo
Domingo,
the
next
fourteen
or fifteen
days
time.
I
came
here Aug.
1915, and
during
these
years
of toil, you
have
been
very
kind
and ygencrous
to us.
=T
(B ix A
B
In leaving
this
beautiful
island of S*.
Croix, [do
not
have
a word
of censure
to say against
any.
And I shall always
cherish
a good feelir
2for both
you and
the Governmert.
4
Elder D. C.
Babcock
and
bis staff will
take charge of the Mission.
Please
ren-
der him all the help that
is necessary.:
(;ood-bye.
my dear friends.
With bes:
wishes,
.
Yours
very faithfully,
4
F. BALL,
b
Elder.
Notles
By
:
E.
E. BRYAN
The "'St. Croix Tribune’’ a
newspaper
of this community
has
inseribed
among
its headlines:
*'A jowrnal forthz progress
of the people.”’
I fail to see
thz verifization of its motto
wheun itis advocating samathing
that will
not be beneficial
to the p2opie’s needs
un-
der
present
circunstances.
The
paper
aisu
licks the ethices
of journalisa.
While
Mr.
R.
de Chabert
was
Presi-
dent
of
the
St.
Croix
Labour
Uniin,
there
was
a dispute
b=tween
its
offj:ers
and members;
som: of the m2mbers
got
a coffiu made
and buriad
it in the
name
of their president;
said Mr.
Chabert
is
now
president
of
another
organizition
and editor of the St.
Tioix Tribune.
The
same
editor while dealing with an article
written
by me
recestly
in
the “Avis”’
published
ny
obituary
which
gives
me
hope, for thus
we
see that
the
same
edi-
tor once
burjed
by members
of
the
or-
ganization ke then
represented
as
presi-
dent
has risen
and striven
to such
an
ex-
tent
that by publishirg
my obituary
po-
litically gives
me hope
of reaching
my
goal also.
:
While passing
through the proeeedings
of our Legislative
Bdy
1
sce
that
the
doctor
is
fighting
for
wat°r
an”
the
planter for a place by
which
to
ship
his
product.
What
is the
electrician
doing?
It would
seem
as
:f barking
dogzs
are
hirmless
ones.
REPORT
AND ESTIMATE
ON
IRRI-
GATION POSSIBILITIES
ON
ISLAND
OF
ST.
CROIX,
VIRGIN
ISLANDS,
TN
:
By C. C. FISHER,
Engineer,
Department
of Interior,
Bureau
of
Re-
clamation.
:
{(Continued from yes'erday's
Avis)
43.
Table
5 has
- been prepared from
the census
reports
of the Island
(o
show
the 'relationof cane
production
to rain-
fall. The record gives
the- area
‘‘assess-
ed”’
as
cane
land rather
thir the
zrea
harvested,
but fromn intormstion
gather-
ed it is estimated
that
th= area
harvest-
edis 707, of the area
assessed,
and
the
columu
1a this. tahle of ‘cane
production
pér acre harvested’’
is based
on this
as-
sumption.
The
same
data
is
shown
graphically
on Piate
1.
From
a stady of
this graph
it is
seen
how the
cane yizld
respon.ds
to the
rainfall; the
production
for any one year
being
the result
of the
previous year's
rain-.
12 must
be
bo-ne
in mind, bowever,
that evenin
the hest
rainfail years
there
are
very
dry montbs
that
greatly
retard
the
growth
of
the
cane,
and
that with
a little irrigation dur-
ing
these
dry
manths
the
cane
yield
would
be
materally
increased
even
in
the most favorable
years
of rainfall.
43
It
is
the
opinion
of
the
mana-
ger of the La Grange
Sugar Factory,
Mr.
George Fleminyg,
that 50inches
(400 lines)
of raintall
per annum,
it properiy
disus-
buted.
ils sutictert
tor good cane
produc-
tion; and it is the opinion
of Mr.
Folmer
Andersen,
manager
of the
West
India
Sugar Factory,
and who
is probably
the
closest stundent
of the
~ubject
on
the
Is-
land, that
60
inches
(480 lines)
per
an
rumn
18
necessary
and
is sufficient
for
good
production.
45.
I™oum
a
study
of the
above facts,
and with giving due
weight to
the opin-
-lonsof
these
men,
and
a'so keepiuyg in
mind the predominant
sac.
that it is
not
physicaliy
possible
to
very yr-atly
ine
crease
the water supply
above
the
mean
annual rainfall and at the same
time pro-
vide for an
area sufficlent
to make
irri-
gation
{easible,
it
is
the
conclusion
to
adopt
a
net duty or requirement
on the
land of 48)
lines
per
annum,
including
beneficial
rainfall
to
a maximum
of
40
lines per month,
The
water requirements
are
assumed
to
be
distributed
equally
throughout
the 12 months,
and any month
in whizh the raintall is less
than
40 lines
the deficiency
is to be supplied
by irriga-
twon.
46.
Regarding
the
question
of .the
proportion
to
be
irrigated
in any
one
season
of the total area benefitted by irri-
gation,
it is
said
by
the
planters
that
70% of the area
in cultivation is harve
-«
ed each
season
and that
this area
needs
water9 to
10 months
out
of the
year;
that 25% of the area
is planted
each
year
and that
this
willneed
irr gation during
the drier months;
and
that
the other 5%
is fallow or is occupied
by buildings,
eic.
It is estimated
that this
will be
equiva-
-I:nt to the requirement
for the
corntinu-
ous irrigation
of 8)7;
of
the area
bene-
fitted,
-
:
-
'
47.
Irrigation
wmethods,
-distribution
losses and duty at r. servove;
- In order
i
conserve
water
to the utmost
feasibility,
it is planned
to concrete
line all principal
ditehes, and
to
sdopi
the
most
efficient.
methods
of irvigation.
- As
sugar
cane
is
a "‘raw’’crop
the.''furrow’’
system
of
irrigation will
be
used,
and
‘‘head’
ditches
should be provided
atsuch fre-
quency
that
the length of *‘run’’will not
exceed
about
300
feet, and
as
large
a