The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08
COOSA ABANDONED
 DEVELOPMENT IS
 ID BE ELSEWHERE
Red Tape Tangle In Wash ington Delays Opening of Hundreds of Miles to
 Navigation

The Alabama Power Com
 pany will forthwith take steps
 to revamp it's power develop
 ment plans with view to tie
 use of some site other than
 those on the Coosa river.
 The reason for the change of plan is
 the failure of the President to sign the
 water power bill before Congress ad-
 journed. The bill died with the pas-
 sage of the Congress and must go through the entire process all over
 again in the next session.
 When passage of the water power bill was announced, the Alabama Power Company declared its purpose of imme- diately duplicating its hydroelectric ca rs city under that bill. The bill would have enabled the building of power dams on the Coosa river, a navigable stream, the dams to be accompanied by locks for the passage of water craft. The bill was referred by the President to two of the depart ments of government in order for these departments could go over it md see how they would be affected. The bill had not been returned to the President when Congress ad- fjOurned.
 Failure to sign the bill is not regard ed as showing any antagonism to 1t, but is held to be due to the short time eiapsing between it's passage and the
 adlournment of Congress.
 The bill had been fought over for ten years, but finally passed the House by large majority and, the Senate by two-to-one vote. Hence it is not be- lieved there will be much trouble in passing it again in the December ses- sion with Senator Underwood on the joba again.
 Other sites of the Alabama company are on noprnavigable streams, and hence do not come under provisions att terding the exploitation of the naviga- ble streams. Just where the Alabama Fewer Company now meditates it's next hydroelectric expansion is not stated If the President had signed the water power bill, the first development would, in all probability, have been at Dun- cans Piffle.
 Work has begun on the transmission | line connecting the Alabama Power sys- tenn with that or the GeOrgla RalI- way, Light and Power company, which, in turn is connected with the power system of Tennessee and the Carolinas. The transmission line will run from Gadsden to Linsdale, Ga.
 By this line the hydroelectric power of the five states will become transfer able from state to state and points within the states according to require r:cnts and the stage of the rivers in the five states
 At times one class of industry will require peak load, while another class may not require so much. The peak load may be shifted as need be. There is pressing need for more hydroelectric power in Alabama. The Alabama Power Company has customers for it's average production and the de- niand is growing all the time. The con net ction with the power of other states l will help tide things over pending ad- dtional development in Alabama Failure of the President to sign the water power bill was great disap- pcintment to the Alabama Power Com pany and to the Alabama-Coosa River Improvement Association. The latter had worked consistently for this de- velopment for more than fifteen years. When the water power bill was passed Coosa river enthusiasts visualized the Coosa rapids converted into navigable water and the Coosa navigable it's en- tire $50 miles, besides supplying through additional power dams, three times the present supply of electrical energy,