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Dooolbor 22, 1950
TM aunt-able coca-go authors, I. c.
ouoo of noprooontativoo
lashington, D. G.
Don- Goon-go:
In Soptolbor of 19-52 I sailed aboard an oil tanhr
no. Galvooton, 'Dom, around tho Florida kayo and
up tho But mot to low York. I vividly roooll tho
out-Irina dangora or that poriod, and at that ti-
had a fairly dotailod mulodgo of tho muhor or
ohipo loot on that trip. Later on and tho so.
ohip, I had oooaoion to travol doon tho Knot oooat to
Guantanamo and Curacao for a load of oil, in om
vith throo othor ohipo. Iona or union did not got
than.
may rooidouto at tho nun aroa havo told at Iatohing
ahipo fla- ort tho ooaot at night during that poriod,
and or hooohao m Iith oil tro- ahipo that had boon
am of! tho ooaot.
Tho roaoon itvaanoooooary tonoooooaagoinsoil
tanhro, dooporatoly ooodod to only othor part- of
tho world, in an intro-auto Ion-out or 011, no that
booauoo although thoro m a protootod inland Iatorvay
tro- aalvoaton to mo m on tho loot ooaot of
florida, and fro- Jaohuvillo to Portland him a
tho not oout of tho Dhitod statoo, thoro vao a atrip
of forty ailoo 1 h in tho oohtor or Florida ovor
thiohahargo hadnothoonlmilt. ldonothavo
any figuoo to provo tho point, but an oonfidoot that
it io no onwratim that tho ooot of tho ahipo and
1'30. loot during tho loot war, to oay nothing of tho
nsoo paid to ohipo onto and m, tho honotito and
yon-in- paid to tho hailioo or thooo loot at ooa, and
tho again-onto for aviation and naval protootiu. tar
ouoododthototalooototamooodhargooahal
aarooo Florida.
Page Two-dim. Oeorgo Suture.
As we approach another war in which the submarine is
going to be an even greater aenace than in the last,
and in which tho rcsourccc of the United States are
going to be taxed to the utaoct, why do we not tab
the advice of the aray corps of engineers. given not
once but several tines, and build a canal across the
center of Florida to cowletely eliminate the necessity
of expanding our resources of money and livoc to do
that which can be done so much more eocnoaioally and
safely. On July 23, of 195, there was authoriscd by
the River and Harbor Act the constructions of a twelve
foot intro-coastal waterway-cross florida barge canal
for which as yct no money has boon appropriated. The
right of way has been secured. the necessary re-surveyc
for the construction of a cross Florida barge canal
wore nadc during the last war, part of the excavation
has been completed, Florida's highway construction pro-
gran has taken into account the probability of the
construction of the canal, and all the doubts which
were felt about the effect of a canal on tho water
supply of South Florida have been dissolved.
I believe if you would correspond with A. 0. htthews,
Colonel, U. 8. A. mtired. Chief Engineer of the Division
of Hater survey and Ibsearch of the State Board of
conservation of Tallahaccec, Florida, that any doubts
you nay have had about the effect of this prograa on
the water cupply will be couplctely eliminated.
Dm'ing lonaber, as you know, I traveled to Iashingtm
in the hope of being able to talk with you about this
problea, and I will be delighted-to do so again to bring
you ccqlete inns-nation to satisfy you on it. I would
so much appreciate a frank nepcnsc fro- you which would
state any honest doubts which you have, and assure you
that your reply will be torn up at your request iediately
after I have read it.
There are two forces which fight the construction of this
canal: One of then, of course, is the railroads. The
Page Tureen-Eon. George author-o.
construction or a canal will of oouroe reduce freight
retea in Florida, and tho oppooition or the roux-cede
maderotandable, but that 1o on the lore roeoon why
the people or Florida ohould be muted behind thi-
proJeot. The other group are the oonora and oporatoro
or the pipe lines tron the Heetern on fielda. tutu-e117
the eonotruonon or the barge eanal will roduee tho
dound for tramportetion or on through thooe pipe
channels, and nah their pooition 1o ooqet1t1ve than
it to now. Hero again it eeeao tho intereot or Florida
donando. 88 I011 an of the nation. that the canal be
oonatruotod.
I went aloo to call your attention to a recent lunar:
Moon or federal nude opont on waterauu proJeeto
in Florida with similar expenditure: in the Idaho-Oregon-
Heo on region. rm.- eowarnon anon that the
fedora coat of all construction t h June 30, 19%9,
for the last 12 you-a, hao been only .29 per nan per
your in Florida, while it hao been $1.72 per an r year
for the laot 83 yoare in tho Idaho-Oregon-Hao on
region. The total estimated rederel eoet of eeqlotion
or an projoeto either eouplotod or even partially unho-
riud 1n ex-Ma in 1950 m v.00 per person, and 00.00
in the Idaho-OregonHaohington region. I an not a to re).
honey-crab", but theoe comm-none oeea to innate to
no that the people of mm are lath; oubotentuny
p'oetor eontributiona to the develop-out of other aroeo
than to fronted by a oondidoretlon or the foot that tho
inoc- or Flea-ids, though on e per eapita been far ebevo
that or other atateo 1n the leuthout, to far below the
national level.
nth oer-oat pot-Iona). roan-do and boot ouhoo for the
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