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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 44444444 44444444 ♦ 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 444444444444444 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 Next to Five Story Building WINN-JONES CO VALDOSTA, GEORGIA.