DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE FLORIDA CANAL


DOCUMENT NO. 15 (FILES OF THE INTRACOASTAL CANAL ASSOCIA-
 TION OF LOUISIANA AND TEXAS), JUNE 3, 1932
STATEMENT BY ROY MILLER, PRESIDENT OF THE INTRACOASTAL
 CANAL ASSOCIATION OF LOUISIANA AND TEXAS, AT CORPUS
 CHRISTI, JUNE 3, 1932

 At Corpus Christi on June 3, 1932, Mr. Roy Miller, president of
the Intracoastal Canal Association of Louisiana and Texas, made the
following statement:
 I know of no waterway project now engaging the attention and consideration
of the American people which is more national in its scope or more obviously
economically justified than the proposed Gulf-Atlantic ship canal across the great
State of Florida. * *
 While I have not the figures at my disposal, I am sure that it is safe to say
within the record that at least 75 percent of the tremendous commerce of Texas
ports will be benefited by the construction of the Gulf-Atlantic ship canal. At
least three-fourths of our commerce moves coastwise to the Atlantic seaboard or
to European and Mediterranean ports. The saving of time and distance which
means money, and which would accrue to this great commerce by construction
of the Gulf-Atlantic ship canal can be computed only in terms of millions of
dollars annually.
 Speaking, therefore, for the ports of Texas which dot a coastline of more than
400 miles from Sabine River to the Rio Grande, I wish you God-speed in the
early consummation of your great undertaking and pledge you the unanimous
and enthusiastic cooperation not only of our Texas ports, but of every interest
and influence of our great State.

 DOCUMENT NO. 16 (U. S. 47 STAT. L. 709), JULY 21, 1932

EMERGENCY RELIEF AND CONSTRUCTION ACT OF 1932, APPROVED
 JULY 21, 1932

 Paragraph 3 of subsection (a) of section 201 empowers the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation:
 To make loans to private corporations to aid in carrying out the construction,
replacement, or improvement of bridges, tunnels, docks, viaducts, waterworks,
canals, and markets, devoted to public use and which are self-liquidating in
character.
 This legislation became the basis for the application to the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation by the National Gulf-Atlantic Ship
Canal Association, a corporation not for profit, for a loan to construct
the canal as a self-liquidating project.


DOCUMENT NO. 17 (FILES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE
 CORPORATION), JULY 30, 1932

 REPORT OF HENRY H. BUCKMAN, CONSULTING ENGINEER, TO NA-
 TIONAL GULF-ATLANTIC SHIP CANAL ASSOCIATION, UNDER DATE
 OF JULY 30, 1932
 JACKSONVILLE, FLA., July 80, 1932.
 NATIONAL GULF-ATLANTIC SHIP CANAL ASSocIATION,
 Jacksonville, Fla.
 GzNTLzE EN: Pursuant to your instructions we have examined the data con-
 cerning estimated traffic through the proposed Gulf-Atlantic ship canal. This
 data includes the economic survey made by Messrs. Hills and Youngberg, together
 with reviews of the same by other authorities believed by us to be competent.