The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-09
SUGGESTIONS
To Be Made By Local Delegates To

To Be Made By Local Delegates To
Coming Convention of 0hio Valley
Improvement Association.
The call for the ninth annual
convention of the Ohio Valley I'm
provement Association to be held
in Evansville in the middle of o.
tober, has again aroused interest
among the local people in the
scheme of i improving the Ohio
River. In conversation with
several who are CLOSELY identified
with the movement, and who have
made the matter one of careful
study, it was cleaned yesterday
that Cincinnati expects and intends
to send a compact delegation to
the convention, with a number of
points to advocate firmly,
Now that this city is having o
structed that harbor for which it
fought so many years, the bust
ness people intend to continue the
struggle until the Ohio is improv-
ed from its source to its mouth.
Support of the project is now vi
tally necessary, and it is understood
that the local business orgsniza-
tions will call a mass meeting some
-
time before the convention to ap-
point a strong delegation for at
tendance at the SESSIONS.
The Cincinnati delegation in
tends to advise the survey of the
lower part of the river, that which
has as yet not been surveyed, for
the purpose of removing all doubt
as to the feasibility and moderate
cost of the entire improvement.
1t will also urge the definite
provision for dams at Louisville
and Evansville, which will insure
those cities harbors equally as
good as the ones provided for Pitts
burg, Wheeling, Marietta, Steu-
benville and Cincinnati. The
local contingent feels that the rela-
tons of trade with these cities
make it necessary that they too,
have safe harbors.
The third and most important
recommendation which will in all
probability ccme from the local
delegates will be to provide a har-
Dor at the mouth of the Kanawha
River and to improve the river be-
tween Kanawha and Cincinnati.
This recommendation will not
mean that Cincinnati intends to
give up the project of having the
entire river improved. 1t simply
means that the local members feel
that it is much more probable that
Congress will appropriate the
money fer this improvement than
the whole sum at once. 1t is esti
mated that the proposed improve
ment from Kanawha to this city
will cost S12,000,OOO, while the
entired planned Improvement from
Pittsburg down will cost $40, 900
600 By prevailing upon Congress
and securing the appropriation of
$12,000,000 the association will
prove the great good that can and
will accure from the expenditure
of that money, SO that at a future
date it will be much more easy to
secure from Congress an appropria-
ton to carry out the entire plan
from the Ohio's source to its
mouth.
Furthermore, the provision of a
harbor at the mouth of the Kan
awha and the improvement of the
river from there down to here
will mean the opening of the vast
West Virginia coal fields for this
market, and supply a demand
which is growing each year, and
which will insure cheap fuel for
the manufacturers along this part
of the river. This source of fuel
is comparatively new. and is not
controlled by monopoly.
That the forthcoming oonven-
ton will be of great Importance in
the realization of the cause which
the members have at heart is ap.
preciated by all. Hence the deli
berations will be watched with
great interest for the bearing they
will have on Congress in settling
the appropriations for the proposed
improvement. Cincinnati En-
quirer Sept. 6.
The following invitations have