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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 JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1909. t- 0 , \ 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. NUMBER 5