The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-10
BASIN AND RIVER ASSOCIATION MEET Will Be Held in Birming-
 ham May P TO DISCUSS THE CANAL Effort Will Be Made to Enlist the Interest of the People Living
 Along the Waterways
 Affected

The Mobile Basin and Tennessee River association, whose object is the improve ment of the drainage system of Alabama, has announced that its annual meeting will convene in Birmingham on May p 10 hear the reports of the work accom- plished by the organization and to further carry the wants of the association be- fore the rivers and harbors committee during the extra session of Congress.
 Commercial clubs, mayors and busi- ness mems organizations throughout the entire state have been notified of the meeting and requested to appoint dele general sbetterment of the waterways of Alabama will be discussed
 The meeting of this association will also consider the project of connecting Birmingham and Bessemer with the port of Mobile by water route, which will give these cities an outlet to the sea, and it will be the further object of the convention to enlist the efforts of those people who live along the Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, together with any cit izens of the interior part of the state WilO llidy De lultGtSleu III the SuDJtct.
 Citizens of Mississippi living along the upper Tombigbee, and of Georgia re- siding on the Coosa, as well as citizens of Alabama on the Alabama, Tombigbee, Coosa, Warrior, Costanaula and Cahaba rivers are expected to attend the con vention of the Mobile Basin and Ten nessee River association and4 urgent re- quests have been sent to each from the headquarterS of the organization at Mo- bile.
 The officers of the association are: John Craft of Mobile, president; John W. Mat tox of Rome, Ga. first vice president Thomas w. Sims of Mobile, second vice president; J. A. VanHoose of Birming- ham, third vice president; John P. Mayo of Columbus, Miss, fourth vice presi- dent; Benjamin B. Cox of Mobile, secre- tary and treasurer, and w. c. Rayburn of Guntersville, assistant secretary.
 The local organizations will enter into the spirit of the occasion with much zest especially as regArds that phase of the convention which has to do with the Bir- mingham- Warrior canal, so much agitat- ed of late. It will be remembered that this identical proposition but recently was the cause of joint meeting of the Mo- bile Commercial club and the Birming- ham Chamber of Commerce. It was de- cided then upon the suggestion of Rep resentative G. w. Taylor of the First congressional district of Alabama to ask of Congress an appropriation with which to overhaul the Ripley survey of the cana and ascertain just exactly the most fea- sible and advisable route of construct ing canal to the Warrior river.
 In the meantime, J. A. VanHoose has made a personal investigation into the results that would bs obtained by the building of the canal both as regards the increased output of ore and mineral and the total amount per annum that would be saved by the reduction in shipping rates. His most conservative estimates show that millions of dollars can DC saved by the operation of a canal. and that it would also mean an increased output measured by millions of tons. He has also called in Prof Edgar B. Kay professor of engineering at the univer- sity to look into the proposition of canal izing Village creek, and 1t is the opinion of Professor Kay that the scheme is entirely possible at a cost of construc- ton which would be by no means ex- cessive