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Design, Estimated Cost And Earning
Capacity Crisp Hydro-Electric Plant
The fact that my subject is one of
vital importance to those interested
in this project prompts me to de
part, for a moment, from the Engi
neer's usual path, and submit just a
few remarks which are purely per
sonal in their nature, in order to es
tablish a basis, so that the informa
tion which I will submit will not be
classed as having its origin “no
where” and its destination no more
definite,
I was born in Newton, Alabama in
1879, my father was the originator
of the Killebrew Wcolen Jeans,
which I am sure some of you, during
your early days, prized as your ‘best}
pair “of breeches.” I graduated from
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute in
1901 my degree being B. Sec. in elec
trical and Mechanical Engineering.
For the past 25 years since gradua
tion, I have been continuously en
gaged in Engineering in its variedl
phases, design, construction and op
eration. For the past eight years I
have engaged, exclusively in Hydro
clectric design and construction. I
have on file now in my office six
Hydro-clectric Engincering con
tracts, three of which represent re
peat orders. We all know, that in
this day of keen competition in ev-l
ery line of endeavor, that it would
be impossible for anyone to get re
peat orders in any line, were the ser
vices unsatisfactory in any respect,
and there is no one item where the
disappointment is more keen than
for the actual cost to exceed the es
timated cost.
There has just been completed at
River Falls Alabama a hydro-electrie
development, engineered by the
writer, approximately one half the
size of the proposed development,
which incorporates many of the fea
tures which will be utilized in the de
sign—the same tainter gate design
has been used without modifications,
the retaining walls, with some_slight
éfiifiéés and the fispillway, including,
“Tumble Bay” or “Cease Pool” and
“Breakwater” is identical, except the
net effective head is 35 feet on the
River Falls development, wherecas it
is 30 feet for this project. This last
named feature so impressed the
President of the President of the
o o o o o
Industrial Georgia Will Surely Give Crisp
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County This Helping Hand
Believing in the future of our county and section, we have
pledged our support and hearty cooperation in the movement to
huild the Crisp county power development on Flint river. The
iegislation goes before the people of Georgia for approval on
November 2nd. It must win.
We cannot now foresee what opposition will he offered,
but we can urge vou, wherever you see this, to stand for us and
deliver your vote for our development on that date.
Crisp county has the brightest promise in all Georgia for
abundant cheap power in this project—and it consequently has
to combat all the rivalry of powerful opposition to get it. The
citizenship here stands strongly for it and needs it. The help
that the voter may give the cause in the clection will mean a
greater Crisp county, a greater Georgia because of it. We are
enthusiastie in our effort to get the right to go ahead and build,
and we will give back to Georgians a reward for their support in
a greater measure of growth here than they have ever dreamed
possible.
To our friends in Crisp county we have to say that the
fight for the power development is abundantly justified in the
rewards which will come through steady industrial growth.
Cheap power gives us the right to claim industry which we have
: not heretofore enjoyed. Rival communities and sections —the
great power producers elsewhere—have been able to take every
thing from us. With our own power supply in our hands, we
will be independent and capable of meeting all competition,
Stand by the guns, let’s win this battle; it is worth fighting. The
eause is a great one for this community and section, We must
win,
CORDELE, GEORGIA
Hardway Construction Company, one
of the largest Contracting firms in
the south, that he has adopted and
installed it on a dam which he owns
and is just completing near Newton,
Baker County Georgia. ’
The forebay, wheel setting and
draft tubes for units numbers one
and four is very similar to that
used in River Falls, The |tainter
gate, sluice gate, and head gate
hoists are of the same general lay
out, though varying capacities.
The entire structure in hoth de
signs will be underlain with a con
tinuous reinforced concrete mattress‘
three feet or more thick. The same
general idea as to anchorage and
seepage ditch will be used as well as
a complete system of weep or drain
vents to eliminate any possibility of
accumulating pressure causing uplift
under dam or power house mattress,
The same system of spillway venting
to prevent vacuum accumpation will
be applied. There is |considerable
difference in the foundation bed
formation is preferable.
This brief reference to the River
Falls development is made for the
purpose of showing that the struc
ture herein proposed is based largely
upon a very similar development
which is now in operation, and with
which there has arisen no difficulties
whatever, either in the eonstruction
or operation,
Thereby providing a tried and
proven guidance for all the processes
involved in the design and construec
tion of the Crisp County Develop
ment. l
I have personally made a very
thorough study, for the past two and
one half years, of the dam site at
Warwick and the proposed process
es of development, and wish to state
unreservedly that it is the best site
on which I have ever worked and I
am not alone in my convictions as
to its great value. I have had some
of tae foremost engineers in the
United States, from Boston, Mass-,!
Shenectady, N. Y., and other cities
to visit the site with me and not one
has failed to express himself as to
its value and great possibilities. ‘
The foundation bed is composed of ‘
a very hard limestone inlaid wit-h?
strata and boulders of pure fiint
| rock, there is much of the flint rock
l in evidence, such as the Indians used
in making their tools and arrow
heads, and the waters which have
scoured the sand and silt of the
stream over these shoals for cen--
turies do not seem to have caused
any erosion or cutting of the bed
rock,
All of the steps which have been
taken, including inspection of this
site, to date have been checked by
the Enginecrs of the IFederal Power
Commisgsion, and there are none bet
ter, who have approved tte project
and issued a preliminary permit, But
before any steps can be taken as to
actual construetion it will be neces
sary to test every foot of the river
bed-rock by setting up well drilling
machines and exploring deep into the
bowels of the rock so as to deteca
any crack crevice or defect. ‘
In addition every drawing, plan,!
print, report, specification will havo;
to be submitted to the Government
Engineers in Washington who \\'m;
check every detail and forward onj
to the War Department Division of- |
fice in Montgomery, Ala., for a rc-z
check and re-inspection of the sitef!
and soundings, before a license willi
be issued for the work, or a dollar |
of Crisp county’s money spent. E
What more precaution could any- f
body ask? ~ |
Now just one word about the Do- |
than site. I have personally examin»!
ed the site where Dothan was to con- ;
struct their dam and talked to the|
men who did the sounding and tcst-!
ing of the river hed, and know that‘
it is composed of a poor quality of
sand sixty (60) feet thick. |
The Crisp county development will ‘
have a dam 30 feet high, a lake area !
of 8,000 acres, the spillway section
402 feet long—width of dam at basc
100 feet. Size of the power house
40 feet wide, 150 feetlo ng and 100
feet high from base. |
There will be installed two water
wheels having amaximum capacity of
9.600 horse power and spaces pro
vided for two more like units.
There will be provided water wheels
suited to floodwater and low-water
operation, and when there is flood
conditions in the stream, and the Al
bany station standing idle waiting
for the water to recede, this devel
opment will be grinding merrily
along to the tune of 5,000 horse
power.
The entire structure will be con
structed of reinforced concrete,
brick and steel, built for all time.
l DISMISSION ADMINISRATION
Georgia, Crisp County,
WIHEREAS, Fred A. Persall, Ad.
ministrator of Mrs, Etta Persall, rep
resents to the Court in his petition,
duly filed and entered on record, that
he has fully administered Mrs. Efta
Persall's estate:
This is, therefore, to cite all per.
sons concerned, kindred and creditors,
to show cause, if any they can, why
said Administrator should not be dis
charged from his administration, and
receive Letters of Dismission on the
first Monday in November, 1926. |
W. P. FLEMING, Ordinary,
LEGAL LAND SALE !
Will be sold at the court house
door in said county on the first Tues
day in Nov., 1926, within the legal
hours of sale, to-wit: All that cer
tain tract—Thirty-five acres land in
I.ot Number 127 North West corner
of said Lot in the 11th Land District
of Crisp County, Ga. 80 acres of Lutl
No. 129 Kast Half in the 11th Land
District of Crisp County, Ga., with im
provements thereon, said land levied
on as the property of J, C, Patten, to
entisfy an execution issued on the
Zsth day of August, 192 G, from the
Justica court of 1451 in said (:nunty.‘
in favor of J, D. Ryals against J. C.
Patten, I
This 4th day of Oct., 1926,
C. 0. NOBLE,
Sheriff,
DISMISSION ADMINISRATION
Georgia, Crisp County,
JWHEREAS, W. L, Black, Adminis
trator of Mrs. Georgia A. Black, rep
resents to the Court in his petition,
duly filed and entered on record, that
he has fuliy administered sair estate:
This is, therefore, to cite all per
sons concerned, kindred and credit
ors, to show cause, if any they can,
why said Administrator should not be
aischarged from his administration,
and receive Letters of Dismission on
the first Monday in November, 1926,
W. P. FLEMING, Ordinary,
10-8; 4t
DISSOLUTION NOTICE
C, C. Greer has purchased this day
all the interests of C. B. Davis in the
business formerly conducted by Greer
and Davis under said partnership
name,
. Octobor 1, 1926, .
C. C. GREER,
C, B. DAVIS.
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LEGAL LAND SALE ‘
Georgia, Crisp County, ‘
WHERKEAS, on the 15th day of
Maveh, 1922, R, D, Mims, executed
and delivered to Rutland Trust Coms
pany, his deed, under Section 1969,
of the 1882, (3306 of the 1910) Code
of Geergia, to the lands hereinafter
described, for the purpose of secur
ing o debt referred to in said deed,
which deed is recorded in the Clerk's
office of Crisp Superior Court in hook
13 of deeds, page 2.
AND WHEREAS, in said deed, said
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GETTING ACQUAINTED
-~ We got acquainted with a man
from Vienna the other day who
informed us that he had made
$4O at a pie eating contest last
weelk; when we asked him
whether he took first or second
prize he exclaimed: ¢“Neither;
I'm 2 doctor.” We want you to
get acquainted with our bat
tery. Its strong current sup
ply leaves no opening of fluctu
ation, Nor is its response ever
found lacking,
QUICK SERVICE BATTERY
COMPANY
Dodge Bros. Service Btation
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We Have Great Hopes of Growing When Our
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CRISP COUNTY POWER PLANT
CORDELE and Crisp county will
have their fuiure development
in the scales on November 2nd,
whenwe pass upon the question of
whether we shall construct and
operate the fourteen thousand
horse-power hydro-electric power
plant on Flint river. We have
worked years upon this project.
It is now passing from the dream
stage to reality. We are going to
vote for it and work for it---and
then appreciate it as a comimunity
asset for pulling industrial growth
unlike anything eclse we could de
velop.
l)()N 'T let theni pass---don’t let
our enemies keep us down---
let’s vote for the power amend
ment and grow as our sister
states are growing under the
spell. Those of us who go and see
what others are doing, want io do
what we can here to grow. If we
set our minds upon the power de
velopmeni, we will win. We will
grow rapidly, for we will have a
great store of chieap power with
which we can induce industrial
building.
J, D. RYALS DRUG STORE, Cordele, Ga.
R. D. Mims gave to said Rutland,
Teust Company the power to sell said
lands in case of default in the prompt
payment at maturity, of interest or
principal of said debt,
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of|
the power so vested in the un(lcruigu.l
ed, which is Wmore accurately shnwn‘
by reference to said deed Rutland
Trust Company will sell at public ont. |
cry to the highest bidder, for cash, |
on the first Tuesday in November, |
1926, during the legal hours of sale,
hefore Crisp County Court House dnm"
at Corvdele, Georgia the lands describ
ed in the aforesaid deed, to.wit: !
All that tract or parcel of land]
gituate, lying and being in the 14th|
land digtrict of originally Dooly, now
Crisp, County, Georgia, consisting of
the whole of lot of land No. 71, con
taining 202 1.2 acres, more or l(-',\'-:il
The said deed first above mention
ed was executed and delivered to se.!
LET US PICTURE
THE FUTURE
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Taking pictures is our business, and the
one we will take of industrial Cordele of
the future, if we succeed in putting over
the hiydro-eleetrie power plant on Novem
her 2nd, will be the most glorious we have 1
cever taken, d
Our one great opportunity is just be- |
fore us. That we will measure up to it
goes without saying. ;
Now that we have started the job let’s |
finish it, ‘
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PHOTOGRAFHY—FRAMING—KODAK FINISHING
curc the payment of his wrulu,
issory note for the cum bf $3500.
note dated March 15, 1922, and
principal debt bearing interest at |
rate of 8 per cent per annum,
Said principal debt is now past
by the terms, thereof, remains
|;mm. The total amount of prinef
and interest that will be due on 8
debt on the first Tuesday in Novi
Cher, 1926, i 3 §3826.87. Fee sl
ilitlv:’. will be made to ;he purcha
(at sald sale and the proceeds of Y
l::ul:l will he applied first, to the p|
|ment of sald debt with interest
| expenses of this proceeding, and |
remainder, it any, will be paid o
to said R, D, Mims or his legal
resentative,
Dated this sth day of October, i
Rutland Trust Company, By
l ', M. McKENZIIL
Its Attorney-at-L]
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To Our Druggist Friends
Gyer the Stale
We want your vote for
this amendment and we
want your kindly word
for it everywhere you can
give it. We must ask the
people of Georgia to favor
this amendment when it
goes to the election, Nov.
2nd. Your loyalty to our
development on our own
resourses will help us to
give Georgians something
here which they will ad
mire and appreciate in
added growth and added
Georgia wealth.