Union recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1886-current, September 26, 1929, Image 1
VOLUME C
Georgia Power Company Begins Erection c
MASS MEETING OF CITIZENS CALLED FOR MONDAY NIGHT
Immediate Construction of
Hydro-Electric Development
jrgest Storage Lake in State to 'Be 'Constructed. Concrete Dam
Jhrcc-fifths Mile Long to Hold Back Resevoir, Containing
Over Five Billion Cubic Feet of Water
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DEVELOPMENT WILL HAVE CAPACITY OF 60,000 HORSE POWER :
Construction at Furman Shoals to Begin in Less Than Month and
Complete b 1931 Employing Hnndredi of People. Lake
Covers 12,000 Acres. Great bdustrial Eeomp
FURMAN SHOALS THE SITE OF THE POWER DAM
Ty, Unadilla and Vienna.
Announcement of the Oconee river
development comes on tfy? heels of
inauguration of construction on a
great steam electric-generating plant
near Atlanta on the Chattahoochee
river. The steam plant to be known
as plant Atkinson in honor of H. M.
Atkinson, chairman of the board of
directors of the company, will hav
plan.- for immediate construction
a new hydo-clectric power deve-
in! , :1 - v .ich will be the largest in
.tr:ii Georgia .and which will in
ly ; .-'.ruction of a 12,000'acre
lake, the largest in the state,
, :i unced by Preston S. Ark-
president of the Georgia
.,!■ Company. The development
H be on the Oconee river at Fur-
in SfconK four miles north of this
._ y; ,rk i- expected to be started
than a month and the 400,000 horse power.
:r .t i expected to be completed and The company now has 401,351.5
. r.ration in the summer of 1931. | horse power developed in all of its
The development will have a ca-1 hydro-elcctric and steam plant!
C-v of 00,000 horse power and will Georgia. Completion of the Oconee
R. H. Wootten, and Committee Appointed at Special Citizens Meeting,
Call Mass Session for Monday Evening at Eight
O’clock at Council Chamber at City Hall
EVERY CITIZEN URGED TO BE PRESENT FOR THE BIG RALLY
Out-of-Tcwn Speakers Invited Here to Speak on Program. Committee
Holds Meeting Tuesday Afternoon and Works
Out Plan to Be Preferled Before Citizens
“Every citizen of Milledgcville ( has been made of the city and the
and Baldwin county, men and wo-j committee decided to call a second
men, arc urged to be present at the ! citizens meeting Monday night when
City Hall Monday night at eight every man and woman in the county
The above photograph is a scene of Furman Shoals where the
n initial capacity of 100,000 horse Igiganiic Dam. three fifths of a mile long and ninety feet high will be
power and an ultimate capacity of erected by the Georgia Power Company, work to begin within the
next few weeks. The dam will be the largest in the State.
magnitude than any
Georgia Power Company cys-
*h the exception of the Tallu-
1 Tugalo devopments.
rr from this development will
,to the existing network of
110.000 ami 44,000 volt transmission
ms in the Macon and Augusta di-
r: ns of the Georgia Power Com-
mjr, furri«hing many communities
ith a new source of power. The
ties of Milledgcville, Eatontgn,
•elopment and the first
of the iteam plant at Atlanta
bring this capacity to nearly 559,-
000 horse power.
The new plant will be fed by
vast leke impounded by a solid co
crete dam and earth abutments which
will be 3,000 feet, nearly three-fifths
of a mile, long .and 90 feet high,
This will be the largest power de
velopment lake of the company. It
will have an available capacity of 5,-
Augusta, Dublin, j 500.100,000 cubic feet of vr
frishtsville, Vidalia, Swainsborw, i This great new lake will, in fact,
. Statesboro, Millen, Louis- have a larger volume of stored water
t3k Ilnzlehurstt, Baxley, Claxton, than all of the Company’s North
fcbe and other cities in the south | Georgia storage lakes combined. It
nd central Georgia section will be | will cover an area of 12,000
inicularly benefited by the new; It will lie chiefly in Baldwin, llan
os, of power. | cock and Putnam counties, with per-
Ia addition the communities serv- j haps small portions in Jones county
id iy the South Georgia Power j and Greene county. .
* my recently acquired by Com-| Two generator* will be installed,
i-alth & Southern Corporation Each will have a capacity of 30,000
il o acquired the Georgia Pow- horse power.
nr ny. will he especially bene- This is just another step on the
by the development. These j part of the Georgia Power Company
AtibeviDe, Albany. Ameri- j to supply mli'quatc service to all sec-
Arnhi, Ashburu, Baconton.. tions of the state it serves, it was
Vista, Butler, Byromvilte, j pointed out by Mr. Arkwright.
Cochran. Cordclc, Cmdillo. Development uf this water power
rt. Dawson, DcSoto, Donlinp, | project will rtvc ndiled a surance
ilo. Findlay, Flintsidc, Ft 11 tot continued, uninterrupted
. Georgetown, Grav<
will be offered by the company. The
iox. Leslie, Lester, Lumokin,
ir-hal!ville, Meigs, Montezuma,
ee. Ocilla, Oglethorpe, Pel-
iia, Perry, Pinehurst, Pitts,
it*. Poulan, Putney, Rcy-
W-S Richland, ~ Rochelle, Sasser,
. v 'hellmnn, Smithville. Sum-
ycamore, Sylvester, Tifton, Ty
60,000 horse power from the Oconee
development generators will go into
the high tension transmission lines
already serving Georgia and will be
augmented by the great interconnect
ed system of power transmission in
the southeast of which the company
Is n part.
COTTON MARKET
REACHING TOP
Jock," Chairnmn R, H. Wootten
declared in calling the meeting
Tuesday after a session of a special
committee appointed to perfect
plans for the organization of the
citizens here in a civic body to pro
mote the industrial development of
the city and county.
The meeting Monday night will be jgether, nwal
one of the most important ever held tunitie* and
could be present "There will be l
solicitation of money at the meeting,”
Mr. Wootten and members of his
committee declared.
“If we ever did attract industries
here, now is the time, declared, Mr.
Lee N. Jordan, and the purpose of
this,meeting is to get our people to
ri them to the oppor-
ork harmoniously and
Increases of Cotton Yield. Brings
Back Pre-war Days Before
Boll Weevil
PRICE IS ABOVE 17 CENTS
Cotton lining the streets in front
of the warehouses, gins surrounded
•ith wagons loaded with the white
fleecy staple, bring back memories
of pre-war days when the boll wce-
ras an unknown pest, when this
season’s yield is compared to that
of the past three or four years.
The market was supposed to have
ached the top thi- week, although
the yield predicted fro Baldwin coun-
just half harvested. The num
ber o’f bales this week showed the
market on a decline, Sept. 14th hnv-
een the biggest day to date with
250 bales. » The Sheriff was making a wide
The yield wns pushing the four | search for him. hut had been unable
onsand mark close as this week -ad-, to establish a trail. The murder dc-
inccd and before Saturday night | cured on the edge of Baldwin and
the figure was expected to pass on i Jones county at what is known as the
ard five thousand. | old Jenkins farm.
’arir?r.' hnve been gathering the j
to Like part on the program, that
will center around plans for a united
effort of the citizens to bring in
dustries to Baldwin county.
The committee in session Tuesday
were, Mr. Wootten, A. C. McKinley,
L. N. Jordan, Frank Bell, John Hollo
way and L. C. Hall. These men were
named at a meeting of the City
THE SLAYER ENDS LONG FUDE Council when th« dtiKn, were V*kv,l
to meet with them to outline plans
MGRO MURDERER
Paul Quarker Still at Liberty After
Killing a Negro Named Manson
Friday Night
the city. Speakers from Atlanta j as one man for a bigger and better
and Savannah have been invited here city and county."
“We can’t sleep over our rights,
Mr. McKinley stated. We must be
active and alert and let the world
know that Milledgcville is progres
sive and wide awake."
The meeting Monday night will
begin at eight o’clock shnrp cud a
group of interesting speakers are on
the program to make addresses. The
Paul Quaker, Jones county negro,
was still at liberty today, a« Sheriff
Haynie and his deputies continued
wide search for him after the murder
of a negro named Manso:- Friday
night at a farm in the Northwest
section of the county.
The murder of Manson ended what
was termed n fude that has existed
between the two men for some I
They were in n fight when the i
der occured it was stated end Quaker
shot Manson with a pistol after
attack had been made on him with
crop fast and bringing to the mar
ket from fifty to sixty bales each
The price remained above
nteen cents, only a few bale*
bringing eighteen or better. Rams
of the past week hurt some cotton
and had the tendency to lower the
PITY BUILDS PLANS MADE FOR
ROAD TO DAM FAIR OPENING
The season’s yield is expected to go
II beyond the five thousand mark
ire than doubling last year’s out-
it
TV cotton fa.mer is realizing the
CADETS PRIME OPENING GAME
OCTOBER 4
Me.
Str<
for the promotion of the industrial
meeting will be largely an open
forum for a frank discussion of plans
development of the city. A survey I for the building of a greater city.
MR. C. D. RIDDLE
HERETHISWEEK
Officials of Construction in Charge
of Dams Erection Spends
Several Days Here
KiWANIS PLEDGE
CO-OP FORCOFC
Endorse Movement to Reorganize
Chamber of Commerce and
Pledge 'Support
Exhibi f or> From Five Counties Ex
pected to Show Products at
Fair Here Week Oct. 7 to 12
Plans were completed this week
for the opening of the Middle Geor
gia Fair which opens here October
7 and continues through the week,
with the largest agricultural exhibit
yet to be shown at a fair here.
Exhibitors from five counties arc
expected to show their products at
the fair during the week. The board
of Directors and managers are urg
ing the farmers both white and col-
- ored enter their exhibits for the
- • — and hills making the many prizes that will be offered.
: «nre direct, and eliminating! The J. 0\ McClellan shows will
f“ ac <v that have been impass- J furnish the amusement during t e
ln the zniny seasons. ' week. Crowds from throughout
he rai, *’oad will be two miles in . Middle Georgia will be attracted
! will go directly to the here by the fall exposition.
Mowing the course of
°M!ruct'on Begins at Once Grad
es and Changing Route to
Power Development
•ru;, began work necessary to
' ,ut the route of a new road to
rr *n •“'hoals, the Eite of the Geor-
P«wcr Co., gigantic power de
cent, while at the sa.ne time
• ,l ’" r "ia Railroad began the preli-
,r >’ ‘Urvtys for the two mile rail-
ha<iin e to the development
>e county commissioners ordered
»ork begun at once Monday
'itur. The road w jjj graded
'hanged at several point* tak-
‘ r - Machinery necessary to
truction of the dam is en-
^°>che« R 0I
SERVICES AT BAPTIST CHURCH
NEXT SUNDAY
Rrfrular services vrili be held at
the Baptist church nest Sunday
morning nnd evening. The pulpit
committee will see that provision
made for a preacher St these icrvicer.
Conch Johnny Broadnax was prim
ing his "ndet eleven for the opening
game on October 4th, v
cust Grove tram comes here to prize
off the lid. Season tickets wont on
mo.t prosperous »c»-nn in for the six game, in dam will be erected wiil »*■>■ —
year, and WPdlflnni throughout the M ., vil i r „f ft „ d „ t week. The surveys for the rad
yearn and condition, are promising ; , 4nm| m IoId „ t dniK , have been completed,
for the fall 'tason. ! Coach Rentz, chairman of athletics) Mr. Thomas Martin, a high o ic -
expected a big sale of the tickets , al of the Power Company, spent sev-
BLACK SPRINGS SCHOOL CON- j thil „ clt . !•■«> ■>»**" *“«
C0LIDATED WITH UNION The ead-ts face the hardest season point, in Milledgorffle- Mr. Martin
-U ltu j:,, years and the team new Inperao- is interested in the ht.tory here and
ncll I, expected to he ready for the is gathering data coneemmg the hts-
gong next week.
NO ANNOUNCEMENTS READY ENDORSE SIBLEY AS GOVERNOR
c. D. Riddle, official of the Dixi. Ro .„ lut l,n„ were tpnraed at the
Construction, was here several JsJ™Lmattog of Kiwanis Club, pledging
this week conferring with Mr. I* or "; t|, e c o-opcration of the organization
ter, director of the preliminary sur- ^ reor(ran j 2e n Chamber of Com-
veys of the site for the Georgia Pow-1 merce fa MilledgevUle, the resolu-
er Dam at Furman hhoals, prepara- cornmctlc | e( j the idea had gave
tory to begining construction of the a(WUrancc of the c5vic c i ub *« work
dam at an early date. harmonizing with that of the Cham-
Mr. Riddle spent Tuesday and b€r
Wednesday in the city, and went, EndoT8cment was given Col. Er-
over the hituation at Furman Shoals. ^ sib , ey fof L i,. utcnant Gov-
Mr. Riddle stated that all details j ernorab j p o{ tb5s ^strict and in
here being worked out in Atlanta ftructpd thc name c f the proftiinent
and thnt he was not prepared to give | i|ied«cevllte lawyer to be placed in
further information «*» ydin « L omina Uon at the Valdosta ccnwh
the dams erection. | tion at t he meeting next month. Dr.
Construction of a ttfb mile stretch 1 w T Wynn will be the principal
of railroad from the Georgia Rail- de l C gate to the convention although
road main line to the site when- th* other members will be in attendance.
Col. Sibley has been active in Ki
wanis for a number of years and ha3
served in the district organization
Lieut, and Mrs. Thomas Blnf*ird
are in the city, visiting Lieut Bin-
ford’s mother, Mrs. B. W. Binford.
They have just returned from the
force that will erect the dam.
Hawaaian Islands where they have The officials visiting th? city have year Ladies night will be a feature
New Schcol House at liman foial to
Be Rurhed to Rapid Completion.
School Now One of Largest
The consolidation of the Black
Springs school and Union Point v*rnt
into effect today, Wednesday, by an
order issued by the Executive Com
mittee of the Board of Education, the
change becoming necessary when only
three pupils reeistered at the Black
Springs school this year.
The pupils have been transferred
with their teacher, Mrs. J. H. Under
wood, to the Union Point school
where a new building is being con
structed for tlje first grade pupils.
The Union Point school is one of the
largest in the county with 150 pupils
md five teachers, and is doing some
of the best work in the county.
Professor Holland .Strother is
principal of the-schools and the fol
lowing teachers arc assisting him:
h:;„
Wilson, Mrs. n i ^ of p.cnic goodies.
actively.
Dr. Francis Daniels was the princi
pal speaker on the cvenii.g’s program
Dr. Daniels gave interesting events
occuring on his trip by bus from Mil-
ledgevillc to Michigan where he -pent
tory of the city. Mr. Martin will b j s vacation. He gave both advant-
makc other visits to the city with | aJfeg and disadvantages in the motor
other officials during the course of transportation service,
the dams construction. j ^ £rvfin Sib i ey gp oUe pn the
Mr. Porter has been here several Constitution in the club's observ-
weeks and has had charge of the ance Constitution week,
preliminary survey* and other work Mr ^ c jjall, President of the
to make ready cons truct,on c lub stated that many activities were
planned during the remainder ^»f the
been the pa*t four years.
Lieut. Binford is a graduate of
West Point, and has recently been
appointed a first Liutenant in the
United States Army. He will go from
here to an a*any port in Oklahoma.
Lieut. «and Mrs. Binford are re
ceiving a cordial welcome.
announcements make and
to Milledgcville in their official ca
pacity to complete details for the
erection work.
later in the fall.
STUDENTS TO TAKE ANNUAL
HIKE MONDAY
AUX1LLIARY MEETING POSTPON-
The students of the Georgia State
College for Women will take their
The regular monthly meeting of annual hike Monday afternoon. The
the American Legion Auxiliary will young ladies will leave the campus
held next Tuesday. It and go to the meadow on Fishing
Mrs. Richard Smith.
Appointments have been made for
Elder R. H. Pitman of Luray. Va.,
to preach at Camp Creek Primitive
Baptist church on Friday, Sept. 27th
at 11 o’clock and at Midway chanei
opposite Mrs. Will Bloodworth’s
Friday night at eight o’clock. Elder
Pitman is editor of the Advocate and
Messenger. The public is cordially
invited to these service*.