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LLiji-. ^i |r‘? M ■ MKJS*' Ri .... ■VS't • ’ V* w fAGE TEN MUSCLE SHOALS BRINGS DISPUTE THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1924 N«i So Powerful, Claims Waldo. Production of Power Has Been Greatly Overestimated. Washington, May 3—Muscle Shoals does not possess the gigantic power pMsibilities that have been claimed, estimates submitted by W. G. Waldo, engineer employed by the Tennessee River Improvement asso ciation, are to be accepted. Instead of being able to produce 850,000 horsepower, as other engi neers have claimed, Waldo contends that only 241,300 horsepower of com mercial current can be generated the year round at Muscle Shoals. He explained to the senate agricul ture committee at today’s Muscle Shoals hearing that he had derived his figures from the flow of the river over a normal year. At times, he ex plained, the power would go far be yond the million horsepower mark but the average would not exceed his estimate. For this reason, he declared, the committee must decide whether Mus cle Shoals was to be used primarily for fertilizer or for power production as there -was not sufficient current for both. He further claimed that in or der to produce 40,000 to'ns annually of fixed nitrogen, which he says Henry Ford is obliged, to produce un der the terms of his bid, 257,000 horsepower Ayill be needed, which he said, shows why Ford will need an auxiliary steam plant. If congress decides the power is to be used for distribution to public utilities and industries, it “will have violated its pledge to the farmers of this country,” that the Muscle Shoals power was to be used to produce cheap fertilizer, he said. The fertilizer provision of the Ford contract is the “very heart of the bid," he added. “The company ex pressly agrees to manufacture and distribute fertilizer to farmers throughout the lease period." Ford could make light metals, such as aluminum and magnesium, Waldo said, as a by-product of fertilizer and la so doing reduce the cost of fertili- *Tf the entire cost*of the ammonia or nitrogen fertilizer product is charged against the aluminum, the nitrogen can be furnished free of charge for fertilizer manufacture and the cost of the aluminum will be re duced about 440 per cent," he stated. “The farmers are unquestionably justified in their contention that the operations at Muscle Shoals under the Ford offer will result in cutting the price of fertilizer to the farmers at least one-half, which means an an nual saving of fully $175,000,000 to them." Maj. Gen. C. C. Williams, chief of army ordinance, concluded his testi mony today. He gave the committee a technical discussion of the compara tive advantages of the Muscle Shoals proposals pending before the commit- Gray and a nephew, Haskell Gray, were in the sitting room; Booth Gray, son, was in bed, and the colored cook was in the kitchen. In escap ing Mrs. Gray was hurt, it is not believed seriously, and Mr. Gray was struck on \the head by flying debris. The rest escaped injury. The wreck ed building and the household effects were scattered over a large field in front of the house. In addition, the store, the barn, and a tenant house were blown and carried out in the] field. Ernest Reeves’ store, a largei new building, was leveled and contents scattered as forest leaves. His gar age was lifted off the auto and car ried some*distance, leaving the mach ine intact. The ginnery of William and Lang- don Brooks, located a half mile dis tant, was demolished, together with the machinery, entailing a heavy loss. And a tenant house occupied by negroes suffered a like fate. On Langdon Brooks’ place a negro house was blown down and three of the oc cupants hurt. A large barn was de molished and several mules were caught under the falling timbers and framework of the building, but after bein greleased, none seemed the worse for the experience. An uncompleteed gin house belong ing to Zimri Reves was wrecked. The | Taylor Campbell home, a mile or more east of the Gray and Brooks | settlement, was leveled by the storm, it was reported, but there were no accidents or casualties reported. I May 15, last year, a cyclone of larger scope passed over the same section and at Gray Court much dam age was done, as will be recalled. That storm came late in the after noon, just at nightfall. . At Lanford Station the storm tore off part of the depot roof. In that section the rain was heavy, swelling the streams to flooded capacity. On Beaverdam Creek in that section the waters carried away the dam at the Lanford’s old mill. While hunting rabbits, John Huck- aby, fourteen year old, of Colgate, Oklahoma, uncovered an old skunk hide wrapped around $10,000 in cur rency. He concluded with the statement that “there is a chance of a heavy loss being incurred in guaranteeing to produce a fixed quantity of fertili zer and it is felt that from a ferti lizer standpoint ail the offers fife of uncertain value.” HEAVY DAMAGE . RESULT OF STORM *■ r 0 , Dials Township In This County Visit-' ed By Windstorm and Number Of Dwellings Are Demolished. Laurens, May 3.—One of the series of wind-storms that broke over the State early Ipt Wednesday morning, dipped into a small section of the Eden community. Dials township, • and left in its wake a number of de molished dwellings, store buildings, gia houses, tenant houses and out- , buildings, entailing a property loss of aeveral thousand dollars and the in jury of one or two white residents and three negroes, none seriously, however. The storm broke over the Eden section at about 8:30 o’clock in the morning, and the storm was ac companied by a heavy rainfall, said hy many to have been the most damaging to farm lands that section has had in many years. In addition to the leveling of the houses in the yuthway of the storm’s fury, trees «ud fencing were blown down and in some instances picked up and car- Tied hundreds of feet, it is reported. During the day hundreds of peo ple from many sections of the coun- tjr *nd from other counties visited the scene of destruction,- and many Who had seen storm-wrecked build- tve before pronounced Wednesday’s >, So far as. it reached, one of worst ever* seen in this county. 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