The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-15
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 in the southeast into happy and pros porous whole.
 Puts It Oyer'
 The witness put 1t oyer.- However, following adjournment, the chairman of the committee approached the press table with the remark:
 s'The testimony grows more interest ing every day. It is actually fascinat- ing" Previously he had publicly ex- pressed regret that Senator Pat liar rison was not present to hear the bril- liant prophecy involving Mississippi, whereupon Senator McNary was dis members. especially those supporting Henry Ford, were present to be dis illusioned.
 In one instance, Chairman Norris interrupted the witness to express agreement. with his testimony: Tn deed" he said, there is no limit to the possibilities resulting from inter connecting sources of waterpower. Those who know nothing of this fascinating subject call us dreamers and declare us crazy, and go ahead contentedly in their ignorance"
 Mir. Yates spoke today of waterpower and the blessings it is capable of con ferring. He dwelt on future conditions in the south provided the south be adequately served, and provided the south be handicapped by d shortage. It was at that point that he expressed the fear that within a score of years a lrsheRtage would exist in the states of North and South Carolina, Georgia,
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 n i8l0 he nlghess seil se 1 eapAeft 0f N seven sun ias sn- I 1siysAk fb &As 0e0 h6sss power Ez1 1 ll5fs power. n $2sfs Ns added, fha capacity would be twice as egeag e submitted statistics to prove that aA result of the horsepower development, ! the south had greatly profited, and at an increased cost infinifesimal .in com parison with the increased cost of food and clothing. l Mir. Yates compared conditions in Mississippi and Louisiana, states which have no waterpOwer, with conditions in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and the Car0linas, which have waterpower. He declared that whereas only short time ago Alabama and Tennessee were pay ing more than $70 for a unit of power, they were now paying $40; whereas in the same length of time the reduction in Mississippi had amounted to only s.
 With waterpower, he added, North and South Carolina and Georgia are transforming into cotton goods more cotton than they produce. whereas Ala bama- is manufacturing 45 per cent of its production. Mississippi, on the other hand, he declared, is manufac- turing less than 5 per cent of its pro duction, and Louisiana less than 1S per cent.
 Urges Connection
 Yates Illustrated the value of con meeting the power sources in Alabama by a hypothetical case involving Muscle Shoals and the Tallapoosa. With Mus cle Shoals and the Tallapoosa operating singly, he said, they would produce 310,- 900 horsepower, whereas were they in terloeked the production would total 465, ,000. With one stream assisting the other, the tendency would be to transform secondary or unstable power into primary power, he added. It was then his cue to make the point that by constructing dams at 20 sites on the Tennessee and connecting the resources of the seven companies combined in the | fight for Muscle Shoals, there would be adequate power to serve cities on the western border of Mississippi and Louisiana, and take care of the States of Georgia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, and possibly Florida. He presented a map with the trans mission lines of the indefinite future heavily marked in their extension from Muscle Shoals to Natehez, Vicksburg and Jackson in Mississippi, and New Orleans in Louisiana. This view in connection with the extensions to the east as far as, North Carolina consti- tuted, in possible prospect, network of current bearers gathering into a single cOmmunity's point at present far dsitant from the other.
 When Ford asked for Muscle Shoals he spoke of a future city 70 miles in length. This prompted the Alabama Power company to declare Ford a dreamer. The city that the Alabama Power company painted on the stand this. morning was one extending from Charlotte to New Orleans, from Mem phis to Pensacola, and from Muscle Shoals to Mobile, city of infinite area and a population of millions rendered prosperous and happy as result of the beneficience of its enterprise.
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