The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-18
CHANNEL ACROSS BAR
EARNEST EFFORT TO, SECURE AP-
 PROPRIATION.
e250,eo0 is the Sum Asked For, ana Unifed Action Will Be Taken Be
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Advartiser Bureau,

Advertiser Bureau. Mobile, Nov. lT. The Mobile outer bar deep water con vention was organized s is'e room en of the Bay Shore Hotel at Alabama roi~ twenty -five miles south of here. The purpose of the convention is nc" c secure an appropriation or sIov,Uoy, se, from Congress to deepen the cnannei through the bar at the mouth or Mqpins In,,. Bay between Fort Morgan ana FoT 1 Gaines. E. M Allen of Birmingnam was elected President and George Sage of Mobile Secretary In accordance with resolution adopted, President Allen will meet rep resentatives of various industrial as sociations of the State at the ConInet cfal Club tomorrow at noon ana hdmc committee of ten to go before the Rivers and Harbors Committee aS soon as Congress convenes and urge Ihe wIs dom and justice of the approprlatlon In the convention were representatives of industrial interests of Birmingnap. Gadsden, Tuscaloosa and other cities The selection of officers, the provis- ions for the committees, the tenor ed o5 the speeches that were made, showed that the enterprise was not local Tn
 Tt is not a Mobile bar" said Judge H. Austiil, the moving spirit It is State bar It is as much Montgomery s, as much Selma's. as 1t Is Mobiles. IL will do but little good to have the channels of the rivers of Alabama deep ened when the commerce of the. states only port is limited and must, neces- sarily, remain limited as long as the large. vessels cannot come up m the bay
 The situation was put in a stronger way by J. H. Parsons. of Birmingham. who, after Investigating conditions. de. clared every other proposed internal improvement in Alabama Is secondary to this enterprise. A channel must be cut through the outer baE The appro,, priation needed is not large one and the entire State should unite to secure
 over the bar now there is 27 feet of water. It Is proposed to cut channel through the bar to give depth of S6 feet. The channel is to be 800 feet wide and to be the entire width of the bar, about threerquarters of a mile.
 The convention was held under the Mobile. It was directly,tn charge of a committee composed of Judge H. Aus i'll, Erwin craighead and Judge Jules
 The members of the convention with some ladies. a party. numbering sixty in all, enjoyed a delightful trip down the pay to be given an opportunity of personally examining. the situation. The trip was made in the revenue cut ter. "Winonap commanded by Captain Chayor and which was put at the dis- posai of the convention by the gov ernment officers
 The "Winona" steamed past Fort Morgan and over the bar where the improvements are to be made. She then put into Alabama Port, ten miles further up the bay. The party was put ashore and a delightful dinner, princi- paliy of sea food, was served.
 At the conclusion of the dinner, the ec0nvention was organized and officers were elected. Addresses were made by B. NJ Allen, Judge Austill, l.. G. Blair, of Tuscaloosa, and Congressman Tom Heflin and J. H. Bankhead. Mir. lief lin said that the project was some- eed of its need and it's advantages 'to Alabama and that he would do all in his power to secure the appropriation Congressman Bankhead gave the con- vention his pledge that as a member of the rivers and harbors committee he would use his every effort to have the necessary appropriation made by congress.
 T have been asked in the past few days again and again if I thought at tAis present. time of sectional feeling a Republican congress would make ap- proriati0ns for International improve ments in the Democratic South," said Mir Bankhead, "To that question, in an- swer emphatically and, again, yes, the Northern capital is largely invested in the South and we will be given fully as generous appropriations as come to us in the past.H
 The party returned to Mobile on a special train over the Bay Shore road, reaching here at 7;SO p. m.