, 1874-05-27
PROGRESS OF THE DRY EARTH
SYSTEM.

SYSTEM.
Extract of a Letter from Basseterre, st.
kits, to the Manager of the st. Croix Sanitary
and FertiIizing Company.
please send me all the copies of the
avis in which this matter is ventilated, es-
specially the one which contains the Discus
si0ns of the Colonial Council about the subsidy
to the Company, and such other papers as may
be of value for the furtherance of the scheme.
Send the receipt for deodOrizing privy
vaults, and [ have no doubt | will put some
money in your hands as agent for the Ameri-
can Dry Earth Closet Company in a short time.
You must understand that Basseterre, st. kits,
is quite a different place to Bassend St. Croix.
Here in St. Kits they have made a good crop
and there is plenty of rain and plenty of money.
Thousands of dollars worth of manure are i'm
ported every year, and planters give here so
cts. per barrel for the raw stuff. This being
the state OF things, you understand they readi-
ly agree to my proposals for the establishment
of a company to carry on the business here in
due form. There is not the least doubt Of the
success of the thing here....A meeting will be
called for the purpose on the 25th and
you must let me have all the necessary papers
and information by the mail Steamer on the
22nd...."
St. Thomas too is up and at it. The Tiden-
de contains q very sensible oommunioa-
ton on the subject, upon which it makes the
following remarks
"WHEN we drew attention to the benefits to
arise to our community by the adoption of the
Dry Earth Company's System, and entered
into the details of the principle of that system,
so far as our own personal knowledge went, We
were not aware that any person here possessed
SO practical and elaborate a knowledge of the
Dry Earth System, as GA Well-Wisher of St.
Thomas" does, and whose Communication we
publish with pleasure to day, not only because
from his own experience he endorses our state
ments, but also for the very lucid and addition
al light he throws on the subject. From what
we know of the writer, all we can say is. that
be is a gentleman worthy of esteem and re-
spect, and that implicit reliance is to be put in
every word be has written, as ne has done so
from q conscientiousRess based upon his ex-
p%erience,
AS we intimated before, a Share List lies
open at our Office for Subscribers, and a few
Shares have already been taken and we doubt
not, that if the object of the Company were
properly understood, the List would have been
full already, therefore as many have asked the
question, chow is the investment to pay if
every one in the town procures an Earth
Closet? ~ we answer, that if every one in the
town were to procure an Earth Closet, the
Company would yield the largest dividends of
any Company in st. Thomas, for the simple
reason, that each time the closet is emptied, the
contents accumulate and are sold by the Com
pany as fertilizing matter, the same as guano,
and it is principally from the sale of this new
manure the profits are to accrue.
The purchaser Of an Earth Closet, need not
be a SHAREHOLDERS in the Company, but a Share
holder in the Company is supplied with one'
in working order free of charge and if we re-
feet on the great sanitary reform promised by
this new system, we cannot but state, that We
fully concur with a Well Wisher of st.
Thomas" that the Company now proposed
should as a matter of course be supported