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TUB VALDOSTA
TDW VALDOSTA. GA, lilUROAT, FEBRUARY 4,
THE ROOSEVELT
DAM IS READY
Monster Engineering Feat is
OOUBLAS MADE
FINE SHOWING
Ready for Opening by Form-
\ er President
Roosevelt Dam iteady for Opening
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♦ Facts Concerning Great Dam. 4
♦ It la ‘1,'OSO feet long, 280 4
4 feet Ugh and contains 826,000 4
♦ cufiic yvds'of masonry.
4> The reservoir will have a ca- 4
4 paclty of_ 66,628,000,000 cubic 4
4 feet of water, which will be *
a used to Irrigate 240,000 acres 4>
4 of land. 4
4 The dam has been nearly 4
.4 six years In building and will 4
■ 4 cost the. government about $8,- 4
4 640,000. 4
4 The location of the dam and 4
4 reservoir la In the Salt river 4
4 valley, about seventy miles 4'
4 northwest of Phoenix, Arliona. 4
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Phoenix, Arts., Feb. 2.—The
Roosevelt dam, the stupendous engi
neering work In connection with the
Salt river irrigation project, is com
pleted and will be formally opened cr °PS
Coffee County Town Breaks
the Record on Increase
Georgia in a Decade.
Washington, Feb. 2.—Douglas,
Ga., has .set a new record for growth
From a very email town In 1900,
when it had but617 Inhabitants It
has jumped into the city clan ana
now can boast of a population of
3,600.
Such Increase is regarded here as
wonderful but Geoglans know It Is
but more evidence of the rapid
strides being saade by 8outh Geor :
gin.
Douglas’ percentage of increase
in the ten years was 476.3. The in
crease was 2,933.
The “capital” of Coffee county
now holds the record of increase for
Georgia cities of Its also and few In
the United btates can boast of sucu
rapid gr-wth. The growth, how
ever,, is not regarded as of the mush
room variety, but seems 1 merely to
promise as rapid development -Hi
the next ten years.
AMERICANS TO
STAND GUARD
The Mexican Revolutionist*
Threaten Juarez With Bom-
barment in 48 Hours.
next- month by former President
Roosevelt, in honor of whom the dam
was named. Preparations already
•re under way to make the opening
a gala occasion. The event will be
attended by representatives of the
national government, public officials
of Arizona and neighboring'states
and by many eminent engineers.
. The dam Is regarded as one of
. the marvels of modern engineering.
Located in an , almost ,Inaccessible
canyon, -about seventy miles north
west of this city and sixty miles
from the nearest, railroad,. Its rap'd
and successful construction-has been
watched with Interest' 4iy engineers
all over the world.
At the point where the dam cross
es the Salt river the stream runs
through a narrow gorge, across
which the huge barrier of stone and
cement stretches to a length of
1.080 feet. The dam |p 280 feet
high, or about the-height of the
flatiron building In New York. On
top Its length Is equal to that of two
city blocks, and provides a roadway
wenty feet wide. The dam con-
nine 326,000 cubic yards of mgson-
■y. The blocks of stone were blasted
'rom the canyon walls and the hun-
Ireds of thousands of barrels of re-
nent used in the construction was
nanufactured by the government !n
i mill erected on the ground.
Behind this Imposing structure of
itono and cement the waters of the
urbulent stream will form the larg
est artificial lnke in the world. The
Teat reservoir will ty- twenty-live
Piles long and more than 200 feet
leep against the dam. It will have
- -capacity of 66,628,000 cubic feet,
ir sufficient water to cover the
itatg of Delaware a foot deep.
The reservoir will,Irrigate*240,-
100 acres of land and it Is estimated
by expert agriculturists that
a single season will pay
for the entire Investment of the
government, which has been about
$8,540,000. Not ony will the gre$t
dam save up the water for the dried
fields, but It will also light the far
mers' homes, give them, the power
for their telephone lines, run their
mills and factories and also operate
lines of railway if desired. All of
this will be done through the me
dium of a great power house which
the government has erected at the
hose of the dam and' which writ «e
used to convert' the waterfall Into
electricity.
The completion of the dam Is ex.
pected /t/L. rjbsult in, the Influx of
thousands of-farmers to the valley
and this In turn will create a de
mand for all classes of -labor. The
whole project is a part of the gov-
ernment’s great irrigation service
which, as some one Bald, "Is making
the dry places wet and the wet
places dry.” In a moat wonderful
way the various irrigation projects
In Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Colo
rado and other sections of the West
are rapidly changing the country
from a land of sage brush and cac
tus to one of prosperous farms and
flourishing towns.
Of all the projects of the kind
yet undertaken by the government
the Roosevelt dam Is the largest In
point of dimensions. It Is about
twenty-flve feet higher than the fa
mous Shoshone dam In northwest
ern Wyoming, which Is the largest
structure of Its kind completed up
to the present time. The natural
difficulties presented In the con
struction of the Shoshone dam were
however, much greater than in the
Roosevelt project.
The indications are that N. P.
Bryan Is elected over Blount In the
the Senatorial primary In Florida.
El yPaso, Feb. 2.—Fifteen (hun
dred revolutionists, headed by Paa-
quale Orozco,' are within twenty
miles of Juarez, just across the bor
der, and are marching on the city.
It Is reported that an attack has
been planned for tonight
The citizens are building breast
works , and preparing to defend the
city. ,
A late report this afternoon says
that the revolutionists are repotted
as threatening to shell Juarez with
in forty-eight hours.
One hundred cavalrymen have
been sent from El Paso with dyna
mite to blow up the track of the
Mexican Central road to prevent the
insurrections from entering the city.
Business here Is practically at a
standstill. Soldiers are stationed
on the American end of the river
bridge! to prevent the rebels from en
tering the United States.
Skirmishes are reported from be
low Juarez today.
NEW YORK HAD
A CLOSE CALL
If (til of the Dynamite had
Exploded it Would Have
Made Skyscrapers Topple.
New York, Feb. 2.—The discovery
today that one Hundred thousand
pounds of unezploded dynamite
In the-ruins of Jersey City, wrought
by the' ezploston of thlrty-flve thou
sand pounds of the explosive yester
day, when from thirty to fifty peo
ple were killed and five hundred
were injured, caused the experts to
declare that lower Manhattan had
escaped one of the largest calami
ties in . modem times.
Had this dynamite been detonateo
NEW YORK AND CHI-
CAGO MARKETS TODAY
Stocks and gfovisions Were
on the Advance, but Cot-
top Remains Dull.
New York, Feb. 2.—Led by St.
Paul, stocks rulbd active and
strong today. Steel started a frac
tion lower, but soon recovered and
joined the advance. American tele
phone stocks passed 146.
Cotton was easy at two to nine
lower. March 14.68 and May 14.87.
Provisions Aro Higher.
Chicago, Feb. 2.—Wheat Is firmer
at a half a cent higher. May 97.
Provisions are a little firmer des
pite a five to ten cent decline In
hogs. Cattle are weak.
EIGHT PEOPLE IN
AIRSHIP MAKE TRIP
the city would have toppled over like
house cards.
The laborers who were searching
for bodies killed by the explosion
yesterday’ found this Immense quan
tity of dynamlt^ mixed in the deb-
NO MORE RACES GROWTH OF
FOR ATLANTA
Speedway Employees are
Dismissed and Future Races
May be Knocked out
Atlanta, Feb. 2.—All the salaried
employes of the Atlanta Speedway
were dismissed yesterday, and the
future of the Speedway enterprise
with the possibility of having big
automobile races In the future are
both - n a very uncertain basis.
The board of directors decided jtion of $698,600, snd srs a subatun-
yesterday that it was a foolish pol- - tlal addition to the business Inter-
Icy to retain high-salaried employ-jests of Georgia snd Alabr-.i. They
es through long off seasons, when; represent <ptuch activity along man-
TWO STATES
A Splendid Record it Being
Made During the Week in
Georgia and Alafa
Columbus, Ga„ Feb. 2.—The
Georgia and Alabama Industrial In-
dax says In Its regular weekly Issue;
"Thirty-three new corporations
are reported in the two states for
the week ending today. These en
terprises begin life with a capItalUa-
tbe question of having any more big
races was uncertain. Consequently
the skyscraper* in that section of the polItfon of gener8 , ma „, ger ;
A PASSENGER TRAIN
HIT A HERD OF DEER
Train was Stopped, Conduc
tor Alighted and was At
tacked “by big Buck,
Feb, 2. ■— A St. Louis
Si.rn jfl,vssenger train
miles froiTl
lng and killed live of them
| The train was stopped snd Con
ductor Cramer alighted. He was
attacked by a big buck and received
painful wounds.
ROBBERS MAKE A BIG
HAUL IN TENNESSEE
They Bind and Gag Depot
Agent and Make Away
With $10,000.
Another Record was Broken
in a Flight Around an
Aeredrome in France.
Pau, France, Fen. 2.—A foui
seated Bleriot monoplane, piloted by
Lemartlo, flew over the aerodrome
today with eight passengers.
Thslr combined weight wss 1,112
pounds.
The feat established a new
record.
Curve. Tenn., Feb. 2.—Robbers
this morning broke Into the Illinois
Central 1 depot, bound and gagged
Agent John Williams, stole $10,00u
and all the tickets In the staUon
and escaped.
A posse Is pursuing the robbers to
day.
BIG FIRE DOES DAMAGE.
Bartelsvllle, Feb. 2.—Over $100,-
000 damage has been done by a
prairie fire which la still sweeping
Washington county. The oil. com-
panlee have two hundred men fight
ing the flames.
held by Bill Nye, and that of engi
neer,- held by J. E. Cothran, Were
abollsbpd, and all tho laborers at
the track wore dismissed. Mr.
Cothran already has another posi
tion, and Mr. Nye has one in view.
President F. J. Cooledge, of the
Speedway -aModatlon, is quoted as
saying be Is not In favor of hold
ing more races unless better co
operation of the railroads Is ob
tained.
Mr. Nye resigned a position wltn
the United State* secret service to
take charge of the track, and it is
believed that he will go back into
that service.
“A RANK OUTSIDER”
SHEARED THE BEAl^S
/
Little Lamb Speculator Pi<
ed up $100,000, but His
Cash was Held up.
ufseturing snd mercantile lines and
mirror the general business develop
ment of the two states.
“The week saw the Investment of
about $76,000 more South Carolina
capital In southwest Georgia farms,
and the tinreportod transaction*
would ddffbtlese swell the total con
siderably. Investments were made
In Sumter, Early and Randotnn
counties. For some time s steady
stream of South Carolina capital haa
been pouring Into that section,'the
rich farm lands there proving quite
s magnet.
A street railway company I* ap
plying for franchise at Albany, Ga.
A $1 $5,000 bolter and engine works
Is to be moved from Corinth, Min.,
to Mobile, Ala. A paving plant Is to
be erected at Birmingham, /la., by
a new company which will bid nctlv-
ly on otreot paving In Southorn
cities. At Coumbue, Ga. a company
Incorporated
Chicago, Feb. 2.—J. J. Farrqlly,
"a rank outsider,” made $100,000
profit In pork oh the board of trade,
but when ho wont to cash In he
found that he must wait the result
of an Investigation by a board, who
nls ft(r building an addition to a
high achool building. Unlontonn
Ala., invites bl<lo for Installing a
sewerage system. Conspicuous in
the long list of new residences is a *
$100,000 home to be erected at Sa
vannah, Ga. A company la applylag
for charter to build a railroad from
Blakely, Ga., to Jakln, Ga. A Macon
Ga..’ company received the contract
will decide whether Farrolly was at- to build 126 miles of railway In
tempting a "corner.” (Florida.
Farrelly declares that the board “A new bank Is reported for
Is seeking to prevent him, who Athens, Os., with $100,000 cspttsl
should be a lamb, from Shearing the Mock. Warrior, Ala., le also to have
bears at their own game.
CANNERS IN MILWAUKEE.
Milwaukee, Wt»., Feb. 2.—A roc-
ord-Oironklng attendance la expected, is reported for
at the annual convention of the fja-i plans to operate In ithe Alabama
tlonal Conner’* Association to bs, field."
held in this city next week. In con-
a new bank. All three banks ai Mc
Donough, Gn., will probably In
crease their capital stock. A board
of trade was organised at Sylveeter,
On. Another oil snd gas company
Birmingham and
neetlon with the convention the Ma
chinery Buppl'es Association will
Join the several sessions. The or
ganization work of the esnnera and
allied Industries during the past
year has made great progress snd
the approaching convention prom-
Colorado Labor Bodies Protest.
Dsnver, Colo. Feb. 2.—Organised
labor of Denver and vicinity Joined
today in s grost parade snj mass-
meeting ss s mark of protest
against the action of Judge Whit-
ford In sending some of'the strik-
Ises to mo the most important a» ing coal miners at Lafayette to Jail
well as the largest In ths history of, for violating an Injunction Issued
the canning Industry In America. by the court
All the npwpst things in Dress Goods
Big line of Low Shoes just received
One Hundred Per Cent. Gained in Cash Sales
This is our actual gain over last January. We feel proud of the gain, and desire to thank our customers and friends for their liberal patronage. There is a reason for
this enormous gain over last year; why is it? Study out the reason for yourselves; self praise is half scandal, “is the old adage” or we would tell you the reason, how-
ever, we will suggest one reason, just one; we sell everything “for less.” The reason we sell for less, is because, we buy for less, and the reason we buy for less, is be
cause we buy in big quantities, direct from the manufacturer. If it takes a carload to get the price, we take a carload, the reason we can do this is because we have the
outlet for the goods, the more goods we sell, the cheaper we can sell them. If you want to trade where your cash goes the fartherest, see
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