The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-26
For the Good of the Community
N7HAT beautiful day it was! Wha
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mingham on the anniversary of it's feast of harvest and thanksgiving.
 The retrospect is golden How about the prospect? Has the chain of good things coming this way parted, or do the links stand firm bringing on a succession of other good things during the next cycle? Let's see:
 The Alabama Power company will be busy from now on building the 120,000 horsepower dam on the Coosa. In twelve-month 1t will be half toward com pletion
 Wilson dam is assuming shape. En- gineers confidently predict it's completion about the same time as that of the Ala bama Power company dam. 1t will bring to Alabamians 100000 more of hydro electric horsepower.
 With the installation of these two great power forces Alabama will have 535, ,000 hydroelectrlc horsepower in her service compared with the present 90,000 When one pauses to consider the service which is being performed for i, 100000 people by the present water power energy he may conceive faint impression of what six times that amount means
 Were nothing else ahead this develop ment of the power of our streams were enough to render us satisfied with the way ahead.
 But besides this water power we have Just added to our electric energy the 90,- 900 horsepower steam plant of the gov ernment at Sheffield. When waters are low we shall have that plant and the one like it on the Warrior to keep the maxi mum load supplied.
 We are making progress in the connec- tion of the hydroelectric horsepower of Alabama with that of Georgia, which, in turn is connected with that of Tennessee and the Carolinas. That will be com pleted before the year is old. Then the water power of five southern states will be elastically capable of serving each ac- cordlng to it's needs through transmission lines. Peak loads will be shunted to places where peak loads are needed and industries requiring the maximum of power will automatically receive it.
 A Wondrous thing to have the electric energy of five great states so blended as to serve each and all according to their necessities.
 The large nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals IS ready to perform it's mission. There is to be a change of administration at Washington, but no change with re- spect to making this plant serve the peo- pie of the country through the manufac- ture of low-priced fertilizers. Alabam- ians may confidently look forward to the early operation of this plant for the bene- fit of the farmers of this and other south ern states.
 What this increment of electric energy holds out to the state of Alabama it is diff ficult to imagine. For one thing, it means the introduction of steel-making pro- cesses of the highest form that are de- pendent on an abundant supply of cleo tricity It presages another new era in the expansion and development of high grade manufacture in this state.
 The coming year holds forth the con- tinuation or the building of ocean freight CTS at the Mobile yards of the Chickasaw Shipbnilding and Car company. Bir- nlngham steel shall go regularly to Mo- bile for their construction and they shall regularly take Birmingham steel to far away lands on their maiden voyages.
 The same company will present to Bir- mingham before Easter it's pressed steel car plant now building at Fairfield It is within the grasp of the most rntachnica1