The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-08-25
THE NITRATE PLANT
At MUSCLE SHOALS
TO RtvIvIFY SOUTH
ACTION TO BE TAKEN BY BOARD
OF TRADE IN ACTIVE COOPER
ALTON FOR LOCATION.
RESOLUTION II BE- ADOPTED
Letter Received Setting Forth Benefits
That viii Accrue TO This Section
Government Armor Plate Plant to
Follow Nitrate Plant.


ment nitrate plant at Muscle Shoal
will be followed by the location OF II
government armor plate plant at the
same place. is the information that
has come to the Columbia Board OF
Trade. These two plants will mean
the expenditure Of s31.000,000 in the
South, and, in the opinion Of those
most interested in the development OF
the South, will cause the new birth
OF this section and cheap supply OF
electrical power for the phosphate
fields.
The Board Of Trade is making plans
to heartily engage in the fight for the
location Of the plant, and to offer active
cooperation to the other Southern
cities which have already adopted res
olutions urging the President to locate
the plant at Muscle Shoals. President
Sloan said this morning that he could
imagine nothing that he would rather
zee go through than the location OF
fhis plant within hundred miles OF
Columbia. He stated that within a
short time a meeting Of the Board Of
Trade would be called to take definite
action urging the President to look
favorably upon the petition urging the
ioaction of the plant at Muscle Shoals.
President Sloan has received the
following letter from Will R. Manner,
Secretary OF the Muscle Shoals Asso-
citation:
Nashville Tenn. Aug. IS, 1916.
AFR. ]. A. Slean, Pres,
BOARD of Trade.
Columbia, Tenn.
Dear SIR
you are no doubt familiar with the
movement that has been started to
locate the Government Nitrate Plant
at Muscle Shoals, Ala The South has
never had presented TO it an oppor-
tHnity equal to this and can only hope
to secure this great enterprise through
the united efforts Of her people.
while the initial investment is no
inconsiderahe sum-s20. 900, 00o-it
but represents In a small way the final
investment that will be made. II this
plant is located at Muscle Shoals,
there will automatically follow, the
location of an armor plate plant, al
ready authorized by Congress and for
which an appropriation of 100000
has been made.
'Tt will make the southern section
Of the United States the center Of IN
steel and iron industry; il viii give
market for the product Of our fields
and the output Of our mines; II Wi
keep at home annually from $4,000,
600 to s20.000,O0O that has heretofore
gone to a foreign trust TO pay for
nitrates that are used in commercial
fertilizers. This will. consequently,
mean a reduction in the price Of fer
filters OF somewhere near 80 1856
followed by an increased use OF them
and necessarily larger production Of
our agricultural products
will you not present this matter
% an early meeting of your body and
have them pass resolutions endorsing
the location Of the nitrate plant at
Muscle Shoals and forward copy to
me so it can be filed with the brief
rat We are preparing and which we
vii present to the President in the
near future:
I'VE are enclosing copy of resolu-
lions, giving form that you can
follow, but would much prefer that
The resolutions you adopt be in your
own language. Il
yours truly,
WILL R. MANNER. Secretary,
Muscle Shoals Association"