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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. 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