That such a routing is contemplated is
indicated by Ford’s request for a right
of way from Muscle Shoals to Lock
17, the water power rights to which, by
the way, the Alabama Power Company j
recently made an unsuccessful attempt
to acquire. Any great addition to the
business of the Warrior would insure
its success beyond any peradventure of
a doubt..
When the Warrior barge line is made
permanently successful, the next logical
development in Alabama would be the
canalizing of the'Coosa and the removal
of bars from the Alabama so as to give
uninterrupted navigation from Rome,
Georgia, to Mobile. This would mean a
stimulus to Selma, Montgomery, We
tumpka, Gadsden and intervening points.
