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CENTRAL GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
FROM MANUFACTURERS’ RECORt).
The Bibb Power Cos. of Macon.
Ga., which was organized in
March, 1907, an was noticed in
these columns, has recently ta
ken steps to change its name to
Central Georgia Power Cos. The
new name of the company defi
nately locates its properties and
correctly describes the scope of
this enterprise.
The Central Georgia Power Cos.
owns most important power sites
on the Oconee, Ocmulgee and
Flint rivers, which are the three
principal streams draining that
populous and industrially import
ant section of Georgia. It also
controls additional power sites of
commercial importance in Cen
tral Georgia, or within a radius
of 60 or 70 miles of Macon, the;
“Central City” of the State.
The total amount of power
capable of eventual development
by this company is from 100,000
to 150,000 horse-power, which
fact will make its developments
among the most extensive under
taken in the South. It is planned
to make Macon the power-dis
tributing, as it is already the
railroad, commercial and manu
facturing, center of the splendid
and rapidly-growing section
known as Central Georgia. This
part of the state combines the
resources and products of both
North and South Georgia, and is
particularly rich in unlimited
supplies of raw material for man
ufacturing industries of many
kinds. This is evidenced by the
great diversity of its manufac
tures already well established.
The Central Georgia Power Cos.
has chosen for its first develop
ment its power site on the upper
waters of the Ocmulgee, just a
short distance below where the
confluence of the South, Yellow
and Alcova rivers and Tussahaw
creek forms this river, which
ftaws through the heart of Cen
tral Georgia and connects Macon,
the head of navigation, located
37 miles below the power site,
with the ocean at Brunswick.
The power plant will be only
about six miles from Flovilla,
eight miles from Jackson and
ten miles from Monticello, all
thriving and substantial towns
with considerable manufacturing
industries.
The development at this site as
planned by the company’s con
sulting engineers, Lockwood,
Greene & Cos. of Boston Mass.,
and Greenville, S. C., will be a
high head power without a canal,
the dam located at the foot of
Capps and Lloyds Shoals, creat
ing a storage reservoir embracing
3500 acres, or five square miles,
and capable of generating with
the hydraulic and electrical equip
ment to be installed 18,000 horse
power on a 10-hour basis. The
excellent physical features of
this power site, the high head
obtainable, natural granite foun
dation and abutments for the
dam, large storage basin, free
dom from ice and unusual fluctua
tions and comparatively low cost
of development have been most
favorably reported on by such
eminent hydraulic engineers as
Mr. Arthur Giesler of New York
and Mr. Frank E. Shedd of Bos
ton.
The dam which will be thrown
across the Ocmulgee to form the
storage basin will be built of con
crete and masonry, and will be
about 1400 feet long, thus mak
ing it one of the largest in the
country. The power house will
be integral with it, and con
structed of the same material.
Power will be transmitted at
60,000 volts over transmission
lines suspended from steel tow
ers. The most modern and ap
proved engineering practice wil
be followed in every detail of
construction, to the end that in
point of efficiency and economical
operation this plant will not be
inferior to any similar plant in
the United States.
This first great power develop
ment is estimated to cost $1,850,-
000, including transmission lines,
sub-stations and all lands and
rights of every kind. Its cost
per horse-power to be developed,
less than $lO3, is considered
very low for such plants.
The commercial and manufact-
| uring importance of the section
that will be reached by the trans
mission lines from this develop
ment is instantly understood when
it is stated that such towns as
Griffin, Barnesville and Forsyth,
on the main line of the Central
of Georgia railway between At
lanta and Macon; Jackson and
Flovilla, on the main of the South
ern railway. between Atlanta and
Macon; Covington, Madison and
Monroe on the Georgia railroad,
and Monticello and Eatonton on
the Central of Georgia railway,
are all less than 35 miles from
the projected development on the
Ocmulgee. It will be noted that
such growing and enterprising
towns as Fort Valley, Montezu
ma, Talbotton, Thomaston, Mil
ledgeville,, Sparta, Greensboro,
Union Point and other smaller
places are most conveniently lo
cated with reference to the other
power sites of this company. In
deed, its transmission Jines will
in a few years traverse and fur
nish with power and light the
whole of Central Georgia, and no
portion of the empire State of the
South, whether we consider its
manufacturing, agricultural or
other industries and resources,
gives surer evidences of present
prosperity or future promise.
In Macon and the towns men
tioned as within 35 milesof the Oc
mulgee river development there
are 25 cotton mills that contain
227,211 spindles and 4715 looms,
employ 6000 operatives, are
capitalized at $5,000,000 and use
over 10,000 horse-power now gen
erated by steam. Within the
same territory are 15 cotton-oil
mills with 52 oil presses and 67
linters, not to mention ginning or
fertilizer plants, soap factories or
refineries connected with them.
This industry and the cotton
compresses will require 5000 horse
power. As cotton furnishes the
raw material for these industries
so the other natural resources
and unlimited supplies of raw
material to be found in this fa
vored section, coupled with the
excellent transportation facilities
and the enterprise, industry and
requirements of its more than
250,000 population, have estab
lished other extensive manufac
turing interests, such as its large
lumber and woodworking plants,
brickyards, potteries and kaolin
works, vehicle factories, railway
shops, foundries and machine
shops, marble and stone works,
fertilizer plants, ice and refriger
ating plants, bottling works, ag
ricultural implement and cotton
gin works and various other
industries. In addition to such
numerous and diversified lines of
manufactures there are many
municipal water works and elec
tric light plants that will use con-
siderable quantities of power.
A few miles to the east and
west of the Ocmulgee river de
velopment routes have been re
cently surveyed and rights of way
and franchises secured for inter
urban electric railways which
will connect Atlanta and Augusta
and Atlanta and Macon. A sim
ilar line will also be constructed
from Macon to Americus and Al
bany. These electric railways,
to be constructed in the most
modern and substantial way for
heavy freight and passenger
traffic, will be large users of powd
er, and as Mr. Giesler has given
his unqualified recommendation
to the companies who will build
these railways in favor of their
operation by power from this
company’s plants, there is no
doubt of a large market for pow
er for such railway service. In
deed, he pronounces the combi
nation of these hydro-electric
power plants and interurban elec
tric railways as one rarely to be
found and nowhere excelled.
Macon, which will be the chief
(concluded on 7th page.)
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