The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1920-11-25
WATERWAYS TO RELIEVE
FREIGHT CONGESTION

st. Louis, No, November a.
Recognition Of the plan Of the Mis-
sissippi Valley Association to en-
phasize upon Congress more effect
lively the necessity of completing the
development of inland waterways as
a means of relieving freight congest-
ion, through the coordination of
waterway advocates represented In
the membership Of the Mississippi
Valley river organizations, is evil
deneed in a resolution passed by the
members Of the Ohio Valley I'm
provement Association during a con
vcntion Of this association held at
Padueah November II.
The Ohio Valley Improvement AS
ISOLATION is representative of the in
telests seeking the development Of
the Ohio river. The resolution
passed by this body provides for the
appointment of a committee of five
TO cooperate with the Mississippi
Valley Association in its efforts to
secure the completion of the approx
ed waterway projects of the Ohio,
Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois
rivers. This committee, according to
], B. Morrow, managing director Of
the Mississippi Valley Association,
will lend active support to this asso-
cations demand to be made of Con-
gress at it's next session. to provide
for sum of S500,000,000 to COM
plete the waterway development on
the trunk line rivers.
The resolution adopted by the Ohio
Valley Improvement Association is
rs follows:
"The Mississippi Valley Associa-
ton is endeayoring to secure the
speedy completion Of the SURVEYED
and approved waterways in the Mis-
sissippi valley.
Therefore. the president of the
Ohio VALLEY Improvement Associa-
ton is hereby authorized to anpoint
committee Of five members to CO.
operate with the Mississippi Valley
Association so that harmonious net
ion may be assured and the Ohio
river program NAV be consistently
supported bv the Mississippi Valley
Association"
In commenting on the present
status of the Ohio river development
and the necessity for its immediate
completion as an economic measure,
Morrow says: "Sixty-five per cent.
of the work of canalizing the Ohio
river from Pittsburg to Cairo, at a
minimum depth of nine feet, has been
completed. The small practical value
of the completed part makes entire
completion within the least possible
time imperative. Congress is to be
asked to put the whole work under
the continuing contract system, or by
some equally effective medium, to
give assurance of its completion
within a reasonably certain time.
ut would be the very essence of
economy to finish the work as rapid
" as men and money can do it, while
on the other hand, it would be the
very height of wastefulness to tenn
porize with work of completion, cit
ing as a need for immediate action
for the completion Of the Ohio river
project, the enormous Indebtedness
accumulated during the war and the
consequent necessity of the most vig-
orous and discriminating economy in
the expenditure Of public money. 1t
also retards the location of industries
along the river front and discourages
the building Of public and private
docks and terminals"
The appointment Of committee of
business interests along the Missouri
river, between st. Louis and Kansas
City was authorized by the Kansas
City Chamber of Commerce at a.
recent meeting of waterway advo-
Gates held in that citv. This repre-
sents the second definite action to be
taken by Valley interests to co-ordi-
nate waterway forces, Morrow says.
The recent merger Of the Mississippi