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BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS.
VOLUME 27
GREAT STRIDES BEING MADE
IN WORK ON POWER PLANT.
Large Force working on the Immense Dam —Laying
of Concrete Taken up —Clearing of
Reservoir Well Under Way.
The spectacle of five hundred
men at work, eleven derricks —
great human-armed affairs that
lift tons as easily as a
man lifts a pound— two mixers
that never stop, the one-two-six
mixture—one of cement, two of
sand and six of crushed stone
being used to make concrete, the
ceaseless throbbing of several
engines, two quarries in full op
eration and the blasting of rock,
is a sight well worth going many
miles to see. Such is the view
one looks upon at the camps of
the Central Georgia Power Com
pany on the Ocmulgee river,
eight miles from Jackson. To
appreciate the view one must
take a trip to the works and look
at it in all of its many forms.
The laying of concrete has be
gun in earnest. The dam will be
built in forty-five-foot sections
and will be first constructed to a
height of thirty feet to make it
secure from the annual spring
freshets. It will then be raised
to its filial height of one hundred
feet. But until the dam is built
. thirty feet high there will be
little rest taken at the camps.
In fact work goes on night and
day, there being a day force and
a night force,
At present there are eleven
derricks in operetion. There will
be seven others installed before
the work is finished, making a
total of eighteen. Between five
and six hundred men are at
work. Several engines are in
VIEW OF DAM FROM JASPER COUNTY SIDE.
fnll swing, including one on the
Bibb Short Line, which makes
three trips a day.
Just below the shoals, where
the dam is being built, an orange
peel derrick is used to dip sand
out of the river, a cubic yard be
ing secured in this way each i
minute. This is brought to the
mixers in cars and with the
proper proportious of sand and
cement and stone is used to make
concrete. And the sight of the
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immense pieces of stone being
crushed in the big machine is
among the interesting things one
sees at the camps.
An average of 500 cubic yards
of masonry is laid per day. There
will be a total of 175,000 cubic
yards of masonry in the dam. It
is given out that the dam, includ
ing the coffer dams on either side
of the river, will be five thousand
feet in length and instead of gen
erating 20,000 horse-power that
VIEW OF DAM FROM BUTTS COUNTY SIDE.
45,000 horse-power will be gen
erated . 4
A number of Northern capital
ists have recently visited the
plant. In the party were Mr.
Farnam, chief superintendent of
the J. G. White Cos., engineers,
New York; Mr. Scott and Mr.
Campbell, of New York; Mr. W.
J. Massee, of Macon, and Mr. A.
B. Leach, of New York. They
reported they were well pleased
with the progress being made on
the work. Mr. C. W. Lane ac
companied these gentlemen
North.
It is stated that one purpose of
their visit to the camp was to
consider the matter of develop
ing interurban railways in this
section. This is a matter left
with Mr. W. J. Massee and the
members of the Central Ceorgia
Power Company and not with the
contractors, however
The work of clearing the res
ervoir has been going on for some
time and from the camps one can
see the smoke of burning brush
curling up from the river swamps
in the distance. A large force of
hands is engaged in this part of
the work and it is given out that
satisfactory progress is being
made in that part of the work.
The following news item from
the Macon News, telling of the
filing of a mortgage with the
Windsor Trust Company will be
of interest:
That k is going to cost some
ready money to continue to fi
nance the Central Georgia Power
Company, and place before the
people the new electrical service
that has been planned and which
will be furnished by Ocmulgee
river water, is to be seen from a
paper filed with Clerk R. A. Nir
bet of the superior court. The
paper in question is a copy of a
mortgage of the Central Georgia
Power Company to the Windsor
Trust Company of New York.
The details of the business
agreement are made plain enough
in the paper through which the
power company secures'the loan
of $3,000,000. It is a first mort
gage on the property of the new
company, near Capp’s and
Lloyd’s shoals on the Ocmulgee
river. At that point an immense
power plant is now in the course
of construction and will be used
to harness the water power that
is to be concentrated there by
means of a long 1400 foot dam,
eighty feet high.
An issue of bonds follow, bear
ing 5 per cent interest, the last
to mature in 1938.
Pension Checks Arrive.
%
The voucher for the payment
of pensions will be received by
Judge Ham Eriday night or Sat
urday and all those entitled to a
pension can get their money by
calling at the ordinary’s office.
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