The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-30
For the Good of
 the Community

HAVING accomplished that for which
 It was originally organized. the Warrior river development committee now contemplates enlarging the scope of It's activities so as to take in all the water ways of Alabama.
 The committee came into beino abo,t two years ago when the fight for comner- clal navigation on the Warrior river ane parently hung in the balance. The gov ernment had but recently taken over the control and operation of the railway svs- tems of the country, and such waterways as were deemed of any value to the gov- ernment in preparing for and prosecuting the war.
 Eventually the Warrior river was in- cluded among the water courses taken over by the government with view to operating them. Then the Port of Bir- mngham Corporation was formed.
 The Warrior river is now an admitted success as commercial artery. It has shown profits from the very beginning of it's operations.
 The Warrior river perhaps is the most important stream in the state because of the wealth of mineral resources along it's upper reaches and the great industrial de- velopment in the Birmingham district.
 The Alabama, the Mobile, the Tom blgbee, the Coosa, the Tallapoosa, the Tennessee and the Chattahoochee also are important. The Alabama, the Coosa the Mobile, the Tombigbee, the Tennes- see and the Chattahoochee have been navlgable for part or all of their lengths tor many years, but the advantage of the cheaper rates offered by them has not al- ways been utilized by shippers.
 The Warrior river development com mlttee now contemplates reorganization into a statewide body with representa- tlves in all the cities of the state. Mobile. with her river and her harbor. has been asked to join in the new movement. So :. has Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and several river cities
 The invitation will be extended to De- mopolis,, Jackson, Selma, Wetumpka. Talladega, Anniston, Huntsville, Gun tersvllle, Bridgeport, Decatur, Albany, Sheffield, Tuscumbia, Florence, Eufaula, Girard and Phenix, and Columbus and Rome Ga, and Chattanooga, Tenn.
 Anniston is only about fourteen miles
  distance from the Coosa and Talladega is mile or two nearer All the other cities mentioned are located on the banks of a river
 The Mobile and the Alabama rivers are navi- gable their entire lengths. The Chattahoochee is navigable from below Talladega to Rome, Ga. The Tennessee is navigable through it's entire length in Alabama. The Tombigbee is navigable \. for some distance above it's juncture with the Warrior, and the Warrior is navigable to Cor dova, thirty miles northwest of Birmingham and little over 400 miles from Mobile
 About>seven locks are needed to open up the Coosa river from Rome, Ga, to Wetumpka, where 1t joins the Tallapoosa in forming the Alabama. Two of these locks will be built by private enter prise in the event the waterpower bill, now pend ing in Congress, is passed and becomes a law Four or five other dams will have to be built but they will be small compared to the two to be pri- vately built
 One more dam will be built in the Warrior, thus opening up another stretch of about fifty miles and penetrating one of the richest coal fields in the state.
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