120 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE FLORIDA CANAL

DOCUMENT NO. 59 (FILES OF MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ASSOCIATION),
 NOVEMBER 24, 1934

AcToN BT THE MISSISSIPPI VALLE ASSOCIATION, AT ST. LOUIs, Mo.,
 NovEMBEB 24, 1934

 At its annual convention in St. Louis on November 24, 1934, the
Mississippi Valley Association adopted the following resolution:
 This convention reasserts its declaration of a year ago, and particularly the
following:
 "The improvement to dependable usability * of * and the
now favorably recommended Gulf-Atlantic ship canal, which are of primary
importance toward providing the interior of the country with low-cost water
transportation and they should be carried forward to completion with the
least practicable delay."

DOCUMENT NO. 60 (FILES OF BOARD OF ENGINEERS FOR RIVERS AND
 HARBORS), DECEMBER 11, 194

 NoTICe n B BOARD O3 ENQINEmE FOR RIVERS AND HARBOBm

 HamnX ON THX -OE O THE BP WAL BOAND OF ARMY BU UNQBB UNDB DATS OF
 DWCMBEB 80, 1938

 On December 11, 1984, the Board of Engineers for Rivers and
 Harbors issued a notice of a public hearing to be held for considera-
 tion of the report of the special board of survey, made December 80,
 1988 (Doc. No. 48).

 DOCUMENT NO. 61 (FILES OF P. W. A.), DECEMBER 15, 1934

 APPLcATION TO THE PmRESIDNT or THE SHIP CANAL AurTHonrry or
 THE STATE Or FLORIDA--"AMENDED PLAN"

 The President's board of review having reported to him that,
 under the assumption that 8 cents per ton was the probable maximum
 toll which could be collected from shipping using the canal, the
 project would not be self-liquidating at a cost of $142,700,000; the
 Ship Canal Authority of the State of Florida addressed a communi-
 cation to the President suggesting that the project be given credit for
 certain capital items which would materially reduce its net cost
 chargeable under the law to a P. W. A. project. This communica-
 tion was as follows:
 PLxa PaoPosa BT THU SHIP CANAL AUTHORT r THo STATE or FLORIDA io
 TH3 PXMSlUT or THE UNIHr STATES FO FINACING. COM5TRUrING. AD
 OPmATIr THr GUr--ATLANIC SHIP CANAL Aaoes FLOBIDA
 Hon. FuaNxxDw D. Booevrr,
 The WUMe Hone, WaTMhnton, D. 7.
 Mr DzuA Ma Pznmmur: We respectfully submit for your consideration the
 following plan for financing, constructing, and operating the Gulf-Atlantic
 ship canal across Florida, in the hope that its simplicity and fairness will rec-
 ommend themselves to you in such forceful manner that the vast, widespread,
 and unusually diversified work relief which the construction of this project
 portends may be availed of by yourself in order to promptly place men on
 useful works and at the same time to open the front door to the Gulf of