| Show FARMERS lERS INSIST MUSCLE l SHOALS BE PUT TO WORK PRODUCING CHEAP CI FERTILIZERS By ByR R F BOWER g i j i Member Of President Coolidge's Muscle 1 Shoals Inquiry w S i- i f h RP 1 Cn i r v s y r A 1 w v I f Muscle The Shoals Shoals The Farmer Fanner s Dream Of Cheap Fertilizers Wb be b the next chapter In Inthe inthe Inthe the lobe bug and hectic career of Muscle Shoals The magnificent po pow er dam stands fully Cully completed the 15 air nitrate plant Is fully full tull equipped and ready to operate the turbine generators costing nearly ne halt half a million dollars dollar each are arc In place and electric current Is being belne gen generated generated yet let et no nitrates are beIng produced Only a part o of th the electric current Is being belne utilized and this goes oe to the power po monopoly of that region reelon the th Alabama Power Company Company-at Company ata a price that thit falls fails tall by b more than halt hal halla a million dollars a year icar ear to pay even cven 4 per cent Interest on th the fair peace time cost of the th dam and power plant The Th price received by bythe bythe bythe the Government Is only two mills per kilowatt att hour bour I At the same am time farmers are bu buying Ing millions of tons ton of fertilizer each year The us use of fertilizer Is slowly Increasing but It would go goforth goforth forth by leaps and bounds bound If It cheaper fertilizers were available President Coolidge s Muscle Shoals Inquiry ro rc reported ported that proper utilization of Muscle Shoals would cut fertilizer costs 43 per cent Farm organizations have hav been able to work out with the tir leading air nitrates producers producer of ot America America America- the American Cyanamid Company Company- a proposal for the operation of the th Muscle Shoals plants plant on a basis even better than that offered by Henry Ford and finally lly withdrawn by him when Congress wore or ore him out with Ith It Its dilatory dilator tactics tactic No wonder then that farmers farmer are demanding or of o Congress quick and full disposal of the th Muscle Shoals Shoal question In la accordance with the purposes adopted when hen the th tu lax pa payers er ers money was as appropriated for this project namely for the pro pro- production production production of nitrates for tor explosives In time of war and fertilizers fertilizer In time or of Congressman peace man W F James or of Michigan acting chairman of the Military Affairs Committee of the House has th the chief chlof responsibility for getting early action on this matter mat mattor matter tor ter when the tho new Congress assembles as assembles assembles In December Congress v was as ready to vote vot on a Muscle Shoals leasing bill last session especially espe the Madden bill Introduced by Con Congressman Congressman Conre gressman m n Martin lad Madden den of ot Illinois chairman of the powerful appropriations committee But Dut Mr James committee adjourned with without without out giving elving Congress he to vote ote on any bill |
