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lIAL NUMBER ligusta is Spending Over 2* Millions For Levee Work ■r Means Population and Pay Rolls I Prosperify-For Every Additional I rsepower Used Means An Increase 14 in Population-Augusta Soon ■o Be City of 100,000 Population MBty ii the country is as well ! as Augusta. For its BHes no town of 50,000 people SH> widely know r n and had it cheap power for the Bfßve years it would be the in Georgia instead of HB That fact more than any kept it back. the Future Holds. prophecy. If Augusta has to reach 50.000 population delivering approximate horse-power, what will it it has 110.000 additional? BH simple arithmetical problem. ■He canal has come a growth four persons to every furnished. Therefore twen- additional power n cans Population of 80,000, or a H approximately 140,000 people BB r,round Augusta within the years. these figures are ex- Cut them in half and we Be two persons added to those the city for every unit de- BrJ The total is still staggering. should show approximately by 1930. every horse-power put in- at least two persons ad |Hthc Population even the casual BB will not deny. Take any plant one horse-power and figure people are employed in it. (Hi! be found to be a small num- these two mean more at Bor in these gregarious times [■individual bespeaks some con ■ Every adult employed means Bt a family of three, allowing |B contingencies. And the law- of Hes as compiled by the census H shows three to be a small Bwer means population, and pop- B> means advancement and Bt and wealth. B is the story of Augusta for Byears. Look into it closely and B be found that the greatest Bi of the city has been coinci- Bvith attainment of cheap power Manufacturing Purposes. Indeed, Bw is almost universal and wher- Bn this country power develop- B have reached the finished stage Bss has followed inevitably, its B being graded only in proportion B amount of the power developed Bie cheapness with which it could Bd. This is a manufacturing age. ■te the fact that food products ■early increasing in cost because ■ production is not increasing in ■ ratio with their consumption, it ■tent that the cities that have ft in greatness—outside the few THE LOMBARD IRON WORKS AND SUPPLY COMPANY Eleventh St., Between Walker and Fenwick Sts. Augugta, Ga. The Largest and Most Complete Foundry, Machine Shop and Boiler Works and Supply Store in the South Builders and Dealers in Engines, Boilers, Steel Bridges, Roofs, Tanks, Towers and Building Construction. Complete Cotton, Saw, Grist, Oil, Fertil izer, Gin, Press, Cane and Shingle Mill Outfits. Building, Bridge, Factory, Furnace and Railroad Castings. Railroad, Mill, Machinists’ and Factory Supplies. Belting, Packing, Injectors, Fittings, Saws, Files, Oilers, Etc. Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers and Boxes, Mill Supplies and Tools. AH Augusta attests the high standing of this long established institution. A. J. Twiggs & Sons, one of the South’s biggest contractors and builders, state that during the past five years the Lombard Company has executed over fifty thousand dollars worth of work for them and that they never had a complaint; that every order has been filled properly and promptly The Following Well Known Mills Have Tested Lombard Co. Mill Work and Modern Business Methods: The Chadwick, Hosbins, Woodside, Chiquola, Ring, Enterprise, Augusta, Sibley, Langley and King Mills Lombard Products are Shipped to all Parts of the United States. Some as far as Egypt. that natural location makes gateways —have attaineed that eminence through their importance as manu facturing centres. The reason is plain: Each manufac turer not only directly gives employ ment to a stated number of individ uals, but indirectly to dozens more. The empoyment of the head of a fam ily means that his wife and children are supported through the manufac turer. It means incidentally that there is greater demand for the grocer, the shoemaker, the dry goods house, the butcher and the other tradesmen who depend upon the workers and the monied people for their livelihood. The manufacturer is essentially a producer and production always calls for con sumers. The Story of Augusta. That is the whole story in a few w-ords. And it is a narrative that is particularly pertinent to Augusta which attained its greatest fame through its manufacturing interests. The city's proudest title has been “The Lowell of the South,” and it reached that flattering sobriquet through the aid accorded it by the Augusta canal, for many years the greatest power canal of the country and even today one of the biggest of Its kind any where. Other factors, it is true, entered in to the situation that produced the re sult. Early it became a cotton market. Many years ago it was the scene of the invention of the cotton gin and therefore was one of the frist cities to feel the impulse toward cotton manu facturing engendered by that revolu tionary improvement in the handling of a product, the growing of which the country around w-as admirably adapt ed to. Then again its situation with regard to the Savannah river made the canal inevitable some day. It had to come, just as the present hydro electric improvements were obliged to come. Given the invention of elec tricity, the existence of a city the size of Augusta, and th« presence of Stev en’s Creek with the existing topog raphy and it followed as the night the day that soon :or late Steven’s Creek would be the scene of a monster electric power plant. So it was with an earlier day with the Augusta canal. Given the factors enumerated above, it was certain that the canal would be constructed, o,r dug, as the proper term may be. But the fact remains that with the coming of the power created by the water in the canal the city took on new life and became a manufacturing center and its population grew rapid ly and there sprang into being these other numerous factors that go to make up the commercial importance of a thriving city. ■ The Augusta canal was first turned on for use in 1847. In 1840 the popu lation was 8,133, which was an in crease over 1830 of about 16 per cent. The first factory was started on the canal in 1847, and by 1850 the popula tion had increased to 11,055, an in crease of 23 pei cent. The canal was then but of 40 feet width at the surface, 20 feet at the bottom and only 5 feet deep, deliver ing theoretically about 600 horse pow er. Numerous small industries sprang up and the canal projectors soon in creased its depth to 7 feet with a cor responding increase in power. Then came the war in the midst of the city’s progress and it was follow ed by the inevitable depression. But the value of the canal has been so clearly proved as a producer of wealth and prosperity that early in the aev- j enties the work of enlargement was j begun and in 1875 was completed, j leaving the canal at its maximum j practically as it stands today. AND THE NEXT TEN YEARS SAW THE GREATEST PERCENTAGE OF , GROWTH AUGUSTA HAS HAD, 1 ACCORDING TO THE UNITED UNITED STATES CENSUS FIG URES. From 1880 to 1890 the popula tion increased from 21.891 to 33.300. The first level of the canal is prac tically 7 miles long from the locks to the turn at the Augusta factory. The second and third levels are 2 miles more, though the third is of no value except as an outlet. It has surface width of 150 feet minimum waterway, and is 106 feet at the bottom, and is eleven feet deep. The cross section area is 1408 square feeet. It theoreti cally gives 14,000 horse power, though that amount has never been delivered, • with any regularity, any how. Among the Canal Levels. Here are the industries along the first level of the canal, as indicated on the map accompanying this article: Augusta Factory, 1253.27 H. P. Augusta-Aiken Railway and Elec tric Corp., 2839.34 H. P. Enterprise Manufacturiing Co., 1.- 246.08 H. P. Clark Milling Co., 181.28 H. P. J. P. King Mfg. Col, 2928.10 H. P. ' Sibley Mfg. Co., 1650 H. P. Singleton Silk Mfg. Co.. 162.18 H. P. Sutherland Mfg. Co., 519.08 H. P. City Pumping Station, 1000 H. P. The Second Level. Augusta Lumber Co., 105.35 H. P. Globe Cotton Mill, 206.28 H. P. Georgia Iron Works, 35.57 H. P. Lombard Iron Works, 82.64 H. P. Nixon Grocery Co., 87.79 H. P. This makes a total of 12,107.25 H. P. delivered by both levels, of which 11,573.33 H. P. is obtained from the | first. HIS WIFE HIS BUSINESS. The hungry tarmii told his tale. It i touched the kind heart of the lady oi j the house. He ate the food she gave ! him and started wearily on his way. “And how,” said she, sympathetic i ally, “did the hand laundry you were I managing come to fail on you?” He glanced round, it might be as if he suspected the dog were within call. Then passing out and closing the gate, he said: “She quit and went home to her mother.”—Kansas Citv . Star. ' j i ■* THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA, JEFFERSON POWDER CO. JEFFERSON EXPLOSIVES Are used Exclusively by A. J. Twiggs and Sons in all the Quarry and Dirt Work where the material is sufficiently hard to make Blasting a Necessity, and in each case the results have proven Eminently Satisfactory. JOHN J. EVANS, 869 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia, IS AGENT FOR JEFFERSON EXPLOSIVES IN AUGUSTA. BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, MANUFACTURERS OF EXPLOSIVES OF ALL GRADES Railroad Powder, Blasting Powder, Blasting Gelatin, Blasting Gaps, Electric Fuzes, Etc. Contractors Tools and Supplies, wire cable and blocks for same; Steel Wheelbarrows and Scrapers; Galvanized, Corrugated and Fire-Proof Roofing; Wood Saws, Splitters; Tower Tank Pumps; Pipes and Fittings; Steel Flumes and Pen Stock , etc. “AUGUSTA IN 1914"