Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-04-22 | Page 3 | Mayo Tells Shoals Plan

MAYO A YO TELLS SHOALS PLAN I Ford Engineer Says Fer Per Fertilizer Fertilizer Industry In U 4 4 S Is Rotten WASHINGTON April In 22 22 In of ot Henry Fords Ford's Muscle Shoals otter offer by th the senate agri- agri agriculture airl culture committee awaits the th ar- ar rl al of ot W B Mayo rord's Ford chief engineer who nho is expected to ap- ap appear ap appear 1 pear some time Ume this thin week wekA A H Hooker an associate of at the tho White Atterbury bid bid- d bla-d d dora rs rs give Ive te testimony today by elaborating on the tho possibilities pos of at chemical production at Muscle Shoals under terms term of the th bid Senator McNary ary Republican Ore Oregon on asked 1 Mr Hooker It if the tho SI ills In transportation on fertilizer lizer would apply to the north eat and the tho th witness Hoess replied that in his opinion cheaper rates would be lI to territory east coat of at the Hock Rocky mountains mountains mountain but the th water w t transportation through the Panama cam canal 1 probably would aid the northwest Ho He said probably l Shoals would furnish a 11 nucleus tor for a 0 similar operation at some water power site In the th west wot The The Tho fertilizer Industry In the United States State Is rotten rott n from top to 10 bottom he h declared that commercial fertilizer contained many materials At Muscle Shoals however he lS hK s III fertilizer could be produced In 11 concentrated form and the far farmer mer iner could mix nil his own on the farm torm This Thi would effect a I f I real rat saYing saing In transportation he lidded added