Box W0065.01
Container
Contains 1 Collection or Record:
Valley Canal Report, 1943
Item — Box: W0065.01, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains two reports on a proposed canal project on the Valley River and Warrior River in Jefferson County, Alabama. A proposal written in 1943 discusses shipping costs on railroads and lists the commodities shipped by barge from Birmingham to Mobile and New Orleans. This report also includes a proposal written in 1917 by Gulf States Steel Company president James Bowron related to canal construction and maps of the proposed canal site. A second report was written in 1917 by the...
Dates:
1917 - 1943