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funds AVAILABLE
TO DEVELOP HAITI
Vigorous Campaign To To
Be Carried On
BIG LOAN SECURED
Action Council of State Impetus
That Will Aid All Sec
tions of Islands.
Port AJT.PPINCE.

Port .AU PRINCE, December 81
Correspondence of the Associate
Press.l, As a result of the passage
of an extraordinary credit of $780,
900 by the Haitian council of state,
the department of public works will
usher in 1928 with a vigorous cam =
paign for the development 81 Haiti.
Several projects OF vital Importance
have been waiting for months Tor
the necessary funds, and all OF these
will receive a considerable impetus
through the action OF the council OF
state, body of twenty one aaitlans
representing as many sections CT
the Island. The realization of the
Haitian loan of $4,000 900 made
it possible to vote the credit, foi
the revenues of Haiti are made
quate.
Foremost among the projects that
have been planned by COMMANDER
Archibald L. Parsons, chief OF the
department of public Works, who
was detailed for that post from the
corps OF civil engineers Of the
United States navy, are road ,
streams that in the rainy season
have been impossible; detailed
studies for irrigation work in the
Artibonite, Araehaie, Cul- de- Sac
and Leogane Plains; the installa-
ton of new copper wire and gen
eral improvement of Haiti's tele-
graph and telephone systems, and
the construction of new automatic
lighthouses and harbor improve
ments.
Build Long Projected Road
The construction of the long
projected through the interior OF
Haiti to link up with the Santo
Domingo road system will open UP
Haitfs most isolated section TO
trade. The detailed studies neces-
sary to the actual irrigation of the
plains promise to make approx
mately 100000 acres of parched
lands productive areas in the mean
future. The beginning of work OF
toward furthering the economic
the ether projects will go far to"
development of this nation.
The timely action of the council
of state has also made it possible
for the ten treaty engineers, OF
whom nine are officers of the civil
engineers corps of the navey to fin
ish all preparations and carry their
work to completion before the
rainy season sets in. OF the total
credit $1,000 has been made avail
able for the purchase of tools and
material and already vessels are on
their way to Haiti with the bulk
of these supplies. Construction work
on the interior road that viii link
the two republics, with foundations
for a bridge across the 'Artibonite,
Haiti's largest river, was voted
$4,000. The sum of $4,000 was
SGT aside for detailed studies of ir-
rigation and road projects, and
$50, 900 for the rehabilitation Of the
telegraph and telephone services.
For bridge work there was voted
SIT 900, and for aids to navigation
$28. 600, including both lighthouses
and wharve construction.
The expenditure of this sum will
iUt money into circulation, III
Haiti's poorest sections give work
to thousands who are now suffer
ing from irregular employment, and
promote trade and Intercourse
Commander Parsons program for
the various rejects was worked out
months ago, and work will be IN
der way by February first