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Show OO BBB HENRY FORD'S I j OFFER IS BEST I WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. Secretary J of War Weeks, after a conference lo-, lo-, day with C. C. Tinkler, of San Fran- cisco, whose construction company H ' has submitted an offer for the Muscle, I Shoals. Ala. nlttato and power pro- j ! jects, stated that the bid made by ; Henry Ford was the only eompre- H henslve proposition before him which I included both the construction of the I project and the manufacture of fertil- The secretary was in conference more than an hour today with Mr. Tinkler, and his engineer, and alter the meeting, he said that the propor-I propor-I ale made by the San Francisco man ' and others w ere "not in competition" i with tho offer of Mr Ford. The Tinkler and Engstrom propo J , tion. Mr Weeks said, related almost jcnttrelj to completion of construction 1 ( of the Muscle Shoals properties and i did not provide for the manufacture ; I of the fertilisers by private enterprise. |