DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE FLORIDA CANAL


 Had the canal been in operation last year it could have made the following
 record: Over 10,000 vessels would have passed through the canal at a saving to
 these vessels of 284,000 hours or 11,900 day-and saving the people of 37 States
 over 20,000,000,000staute ton-mile in the movement of their gods to market-
 and resulted is a myJWsf .lS QN 0 h M e I was the traffic
 passing between the Gulf and Atlantic that theoreticaly there wouTd have
 been 23 vessels passing through the canal at all times-both day and night,
 And this, my friends, does not include the vast barge and other trafie which
 would move between the two intracoastal canal systems.
 I ask you then if this is not a meritorious project. It has been endorsed by
 every outstanding waterway association of this country which it has come before.
 The State of Florida can only hope to receive a small share of the benefits to
 accrue to the Nation through this artery of transportation. The great bulk of
 these savings will accrue to you of the valley-toou u of the Middle West-to
 you of the Atlantic seaboard-and to you of the Great Lakes. We therefore
 urge that you give this great project-which is your own-your unqualified and
 active support.

 DOCUMENT NO. 8 (FILES OF CHIEF OF ENGINEERS), JANUARY 25, 1932

 RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BOARD OF ENGINEERS FOR RIVERS AND
 HARBORS, UNDER DATE OF JANUARY 25, 1932
 The Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, having reviewed
 the report of the special board (see Document No. 6), recommended
 that a survey be made:
 * to determine the feasibility, cost, and economic advisability of, and
 the best location for a ship canal between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of
 Mexico * *
 The Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors further recom-
mended that action on the special board's conclusions pertaining to
a barge canal be postponed until the reports called for by the act of
July 3, 1930 (see Document No. 3), had been submitted.


DOCUMENT NO. 9 (FILES OF CHIEF OF ENGINEERS), JANUARY 27, 1932

REPORT or THE SPECIAL BOARD, SUBMITTED UNDER DATE or JANUARY
 27, 1932
 The special board on the above date submitted its reports on the
preliminary examinations and surveys called for by the act of July
3, 1930. (See Document No. 3.) All of these reports recommended
that a survey be made in accordance with the recommendations of
the reports submitted under date of December 1, 1931. (See Docu-
ment No. 6.)

DOCUMENT NO. 9A (FILES OF CHIEF OF ENGINEERS), JANUARY 28
 192
SPECIAL ORDER ISSUED BY THE CHIEF or ENGINEERS, UNDER DATE
 or JANUARY 28, 1932
 This order authorized a special board to make the. survey recom-
mended in their reports of January 27, 1932 (see Document No. 9), and
concurred in the recommendations of the Board of Engineers for
Rivers and Harbors pertaining to the barge canal.