The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-20
.}:'ISIT TO SHOALS BY PARTY OF 1SO
 CHEERS CITIZENS
Birmingham Industrial Heads Help Entertain
 Illinois Party
NEW HOPE SEEN
 FOR DEVELOPMENT
Senator, Congres s m e n And Newspapermen See
 Big Projects
(MuseIe Shoals Bureau)

Muscle Shoals Bureau
 FLORENCE SHEFFIELD, Ala, Nov. 19.-The Tri-Cities have in their midst today the most important delegation since Henry Ford and Thomas Edison made their memorable visit to Muscle Shoals. It in- cludes ,1S0 members of the Illinois Manufacturers asso- citation and a number of Bir- mingham manufacturers here to get first-hand information of the great power project. While here they are the guests of the Florence and Sheffield Chambers of Commerce and of the war department. Included in the visitors was a senator and several c on gr e s m e n, which local citizens believe bids we'll for Muscle Shoals in the next congress.
 Amid the grooming of air brakes, the clicking of motion picture cameras, the drestless shifting of a crowd that eager ly awaited their arrival the special trains of fourteen cars bearing the Illinois party arrived in Sheffield at noon We'd nesday.
 Immediately after arrival~the man. ufacturers were taken in charge by the welcoming committee and they forsook their Pullman cars and boarded a special observation train furnished by Major Anthony Poyet, commanding of ficers in charge of the two nitrate plants.
 Senator In Party
 Included in the Illinois party were many notable figures, such as Senator William B. Mckinley, Illinois; Phillip Kinsley of the Chicago Tribune, M. Koerner, Chicago Daily News, H. D. Moore, General Electric company, and Dwight Davis, assistant secretary of war.
 The delegation was under the super vision of F. c. Heidrich, Jr., of Peoria, H., George R. Meyercord of the Meyer cord company, Inc, Chicago is chair man of the arrangement committee. h. cluded in the company is about twenty. five women who were high in their praise on the climate in the sunny south."
 The Illinois manufacturers were met in Sheffield by a party of fourteen rep resenting the Alabama Manufacturers association who arrived Wednesday morning in a special car from Birming- ham. This delegation is headed by R. l. Ingalls,, who is a member of the board of governors of the Alabama assOcia- tion, filling the place of l.. Sevier, pres ident who was obliged to abandon the trip. This party of Alabama manu- lecturers includes T. Swan, president of the Swan Manganese corporation, George W. Corners, president Connors Steel company; D. H. Hartsfield, pres- ident of the Birmingham Stove and Range company, P. c. Shook, presi- dent Shook and Fletcher, also J. B. Chappell of the Birmingham News and others.
 Visit Nitrate Plant
 Immediately on arrival the Birming- ham delegation joined the Illinois assem- bly, and proceeded by special train to nitrate plant Number two where they spent the afternoon making a careful survey of plants and equipment.
 The visitors gathered at the cham Der of commerce building in Sheffield about 6 80 o'clock and were conveyed to the state normal school in Florence where a dinner was served at [ 80 o'clock. Returning to their Pullmans the visitors spent the night in Sheffield and early Thursday morning will de- part for an extensive sight seeing trip over Wilson dam, where they will see fo kha oit nf Wii- son dam.
 On their return to Sheffield at II 80 o'clock the visitors will depart for their return trip. When this special train pulls out of the yard in Sheffield the most noteworthy visit since Henry Ford made his memorable trip to the Ten nessee valley will come to a very sue cessful termination.
 Senator Impressed
 A most optimistic outlook for the fu- ture development of Muscle Shoals was voiced by Senator William B. McKin- ley of Illinois, who is a member of the delegation of 1S0 members of the Man ufacturers' association of that state. That Muscle Shoals was only in the first stages of It's development and that the people of this district inter CcICu HI tHC uCNCAOphAChb anu " eration of the Shoals, need have no fear that the government would deal with this great undertaking in mig gardly manner" were sentiments voiced by the Illinois senator.
 Senator Mckinley, who is member of the senate agricultural committee, stated also that he would exert every effort in his capacity for additional power and storage dams on the Ten nessee as auxiliaries to Wilson dam proper. It is pointed out that should this fight be successful it will mean an additional expenditure of millions of dollars and that perhaps 10 years will be required for completion.
 Wants U. s. Operation The senator further stated that "ti. tie to the property should be retained by the government" and expressed the belief that definite" policy as to the future development and disposition Of the property would be decided upon at the coming short session of congress.