The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17
NECESSITY OF BRIDGES ELIMINATED Approved Plans Remove Barriers To Port
 Development TO DIVERT COURSE OF ONE-MILE CREEK Swamp Section Back Of Docks Will Be
 Drained ACCESS TO PIERS
 WILL BE ENABLED Small Craft Will Use Canal For
 Navigation To
 Landings
TO DIVERT COURSE
 OF ONE-MILE CREEK
ACCESS TO PIERS
 WILL BE ENABLED

MOBILE, Ala, Aug. 16.-(Special Leased Wire. Illumination of what was first thought to be an insurmount- able obstruction in the path of port development on Mobile river, between One and Three Mile creeks, is. shown in the approved plans of the state docks commission, 1t developed yesterday.
 The revised plans, as, approved by Gov. ". w. Brandon, call, for the re- moyal iof the barrier by the diversion of water from One Mile creek through a canal to Three Mile creek and the . filling of One Mile creek from Mobile river about one half mile to the point where the canal starts. The canal will be the means of draining the swamp section back of the docks prop CT, while the filling of the creek will eliminate the huge expense of num- Der of bridges and win give freight cars an outlet from the docks to the city and from city to docks, the com mission announced yesterday.
 = Small Graft Use Canal
 Small craft, such as barges, and launches, will use the canal, and pro vision will be made for turning basin at the point where the canal taps One Miie Greek At the revised drawings of commission engineers show the mag nitude of the canal project and how essential 1t is to the development of the port.
 One of the outstanding reasons for the filling of the creek. one halEmiie from the river, is to remove the barrier to port units and to give easy access to and from the docks.
 Plans show that the canal will tap One Mile creek at a point west of the plant of the Alabama Naval Shores company, Lindsay will be on the canal, 1t was stated. <,
 Announcement that the approved plan provides for the canal was made on the eve of the opening of bids on $1, 100000 of state bonds. The bonds were opened at the governors office in Montgomery Saturday, in the pres ence of members of the state docks commission, Governor Brandon and others. These will be the first of the $10,000,000 of state bonds, authorized by the voters and legislature, for de velopment of the Mobile port,
 Expect Work Soon
 Belief is expressed in business cir cles that actual work will be started soon after the bonds are sold. The first item of work is. the removal of tracks of the l.. and N, railroad. The cost of this single item will be around $S00,O 900. Owners of land where the docks are to be built will get around $6O0,OO0.
 The docks commission yesterday came into possession of land and irn- proyemepts belonging to Farmers Is- land company when agents of the com pany and the commission agreed to, figures of value as filled by a board of appraisers selected by Judge Price Williams of probate court. The liti- gation was a formaIity required by law, and the ilitigants were not in dispute as to value, etc, it was stated. The : property was valued at $22 2,528.80S all parties concerned being satisfied. While in the nature of condemnation procedeings the litigation was friendly and was settled by agreement.
 This was the first actual settlement of q court case, many of which are ex- peeted to originate. as a result of the controversy over land values.
 Indications are the Marmott wharf case, started by the commission as means of ascertaining who is the owner of a stretch of land along the river, will not come up until the latter part of September. The case is in the equity division of the circuit court. 1t is not considered necessary to get a ruling at this time, because the su- preme court is not in session, and re-. gardless of the outcome of the case in the lower court, it Is expected to be ap- pealed. A hearing next month will give litigants sufficient time to get the appeal to the supreme court at the No yembert session. it wass tated.