This thin board album contains letters and reports documenting a proposal to acquire the Nashville Interurban Railway and the Middle Tennessee Railroad for the purposes of extending rail lines and providing electricity to the area surrounding Columbia, Franklin, Mt. Pleasant, Gordonsburg, and Wales, Tennessee. Among the subjects covered are the estimated cost of construction and the estimated profits based on surveys of population, production, and other resources in the area.

The first section of this album includes Plans A, B, C, and D for electrifying the area and the advantages available to Howard and Carpenter, investors. The second section, written in the fall of 1916, is the engineering plan proposed by Mr. Crawford and Mr. Hitchcock for G. B. Howard and Company. The third section, written on November 11, 1913, is a letter from S. E. Junkers (vice president of Westinghouse Church Kerr and Company) to John H. Carpenter (president of Nashville Interurban Railway and Middle Tennessee Railroad) discussing Nickerson's reports of September 13, 1913 (sic) and estimating the project's earnings and expenses in 1918. The fourth section, dated September 24, 1913, is a report from H. R. Nickerson that includes information about agricultural production, local banks, population density, area resources, cities, and possible competition in order to estimate the project's potential profit. The fifth section includes five large photographs of factories and a letter dated June 20, 1912 from Grafton Stevens to W. R. Thompson (assistant chief engineer at H. M. Byllesby and Company). This letter is a thorough survey of local plants, their current production, and an estimate of how much electricity each might purchase in the future. The sixth and final section begins with a letter dated May 1, 1914 to Mssrs Tucker, Anthony, and Company that claims to be a hurried examination of the Tennessee Traction and Light Company proposition. After this extensive report, there is a document with specifications covering work to be done for the Tennessee Traction and Light Company, followed by the syndicate agreement dated June 8, 1914 between Tucker, Anthony, and Company and the Tennessee Traction and Light Company.