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1 Authorize the Sale of Muscle Shoals to Henry Ford 1925

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68TI  CONGREss    HOUSE   OF  REPRESENTATIVES        '       oxe
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AUTHORfZE THE SALE OF MUSCLE SHO                     O  HENRY
                             FORD                 -


               FEBRUARY 26, 1925.-Ordered to be printed


Mr.  McKENZIE,   from the committee  of conference, submitted the
                            following

                 CONFERENCE REPORT
                      [To accompany H. R. 518]

   The committee  of conference on the disagreeing votes of the twq
Houses  on the amendment  of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 518) to
authorize and direct the Secretary of War, for national defense in
time of war  and for the production of fertilizers and other useful
products in time of peace, to sell to Henry Ford, or a corporation to be
incorporated by him, nitrate plant No. 1, at Sheffield, Ala.; nitrat6
plant No. 2, at Muscle Shoals, Ala.; Waco Quarry, near Russellville,
Ala.; steam power  plant to be located and constructed at or near
Lock and Dam   No. 17 on the Black Warrior River, Ala., with right of
way  and transmission line to nitrate plant No. 2, Muscle Shoals Ala.;
and to lease to Henry Ford, or a corporation to be incorporated by
him, Dam   No. 2  and Dam   No. 3 (as designated in H. Doc. 1262,
64th Cong., 1st sess.), including power stations when constructed as
provided herein and  for other purposes, having met, after full and
free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their
respective Houses as follows:
  That  the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of
the Senate and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:
  In lieu of the matter proposed by said amendment, insert:
  That  the United States nitrogen fixation plants numbered 1 and 2;
located, respectively, at Sheffield, Alabama, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama,
together with all real estate and buildings used in connection therewith;
alt tools, machinery, equipment, accessories, and materials thereunto
belonging; all laboratories and plants used as auxiliaries thereto, the
Waco  limestone quarry in Alabama, and any others used as auxiliaries
of said nitrogen plants numbered 1 and 2; also Dams numbered 2 and 8
located in the Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals, their power houses,
their auxiliary steam plants and all of their hydroelectric and operating


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