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Augusta's Big Hydro-Electric Development
Steven’s Creek Development ot the
Georgia-Carolina Power Company.
What the Big Plant Means
to Augusta.
Augusta's new electrical power
a reality today when the
dU,OUO-horsepower plant at Etev
ens Creek, on the Savannah River
was put into operation, with 500
people present at the exercises.
J. Pink Wood, the man with a
vision, who succeeded in interest
ing capita.ists in the work, threw
tfce switch that caused ,ne giant
wheels to make their first revolu
tions. There was not a hitch in
the proceedings, included in the
crowd of visitors were about 200
prominent Augusta business men,
the same number of nearby vis
itors, while 100 prominent tour
ists, capitalists and those direct
ly interested in the work consti
tuted the remainder of the party.
A feature of the gathering was
the bringing together of Frank Q.
Brown, head of the present power
development, and Chas. Estes, fa
mous as founder and developer of
the Augusta Canal 67 years ago
Though 95 years old, Mr. Estes
went over the big hydro-electric
plant in every detail, and was en
thusiastic over the aceomplisn
ment.
Those present included Frank Q.
Brown, president of Redmond & Co.,
of New York, who is also president
of the Augusta-Aiken Railway and
Electric Corporation; R. Lancaster
Williams of Middendorf, Williams &
Co., of Baltimore, whose firm is
equally financially interested in the
power development with Redmond &
Co.; Dr. Albert Shaw, editor of the
Review of Reviews; Mr. .1. H. Pardee
president of the J. G. White Manage
ment Corporation; Mr. Jos. K. Choate,
vice-president of the J. G. White Man
agement Corporation; Mr. W. R. Sul
livan of New York; Mr. W. E. Ben
jamin of New York; Mr. Alexander
Pratt of New York; Mr. D. H. Thomas
secretary-treasurer of the Augusta,
Aiken Railway and Electric Corpora
tion; Mr. Kennedy of the J. G. White
Companies, and Mr. J. W. Steele of
Philadelphia.
After an inspection of the plant the
guests were served with an excellent
Georgia barbecue, the weather being
ideal. At dinner addresses were
made by Mr. Frank Q. Brown, who
outlined the plan of the interests he
represented, stressing the fact that
it was a belief universal that the de
velopmen of the South during the
next decade warranted stupendous un
dertakings. Following him Mr. J. H.
Pardee, president of the J. G. .White
Management Corporation, told of the
great work that had been accomplish
ed and the prospects for the future;
Dr, AiloipM.Gordon
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has been a practicing physician in
the City of Augusta for over twenty
years. He graduated from Meharry
Medical College in the spring of
1894.
His literary education was obtain
ed at Clark University, Atlanta, Ga.
He lias been successful in his voca
tion and enjoys a large practice
among his people. He has operated
a drug store situated at 9th and
Adams Streets, and has the patron
age and commendation of the com
munity.
As a citizen and a member of liis
race he has contributed to most every
public enterprise that has meant
progress and their betterment. He
owns considerable property in the
city, all of which has been fully paid
for.
He is a member of quite a number
of the fraternal orders, being treas
urer of the largest Odd Fellow lodge,
examiner and member of the Knights
of Pythias and Masons, as well as
Grand Medical Registrar of the Good
Samaritans, a Shriner and 33d degree
member of the Scottish Rite Con
sistory,
Dr. J. R, Littleton spoke on Augus
ta s development from the other side,
including especially the big hospitals
and medical college; Kev. Howard T.
Cree spoke on community interest as
related to community development,
and Dr. Albert Shaw, on developing
and elevating manhood while making
material progress. Dr. Ashby Jones
emphasized the nation-wide import
ance of the event, characterizing It as
a binding force that would common
the cause of S’outh and North and
East
Magnitude of the Work.
The Stevens Creek development of
the Georgia-Carolina Power Co. is on
the Savannah River, about nine miles
above Augusta, and one mile above
the Auguhta Locks dtm. As the site
or the development was located in a
very sparsely settled farming coun
try and the plantation roads were in
such poor condition, it was necessary
to build roads and bridges, construct
a telephone line of several miles to
connect with the city system and to
put in a standard-gauge railroad con
nection. Living quarters with all th e
needs of a small town also had to he
installed, because it was necessary
to provide for a working force of
over 1,000 men, which meant a com
munity of about. 1,500 people.
All of this work was to be carried
on simultaneously with the install
ing on construction equipment and
the beginning of actual work in the
river. Work on the lirst cofferdam
was started in July, 1912, and design
ed to enclose the power-house, lock
and tailrace portion, and the first
concrete was placed in this enclosure
on February 14, 1913. The placing of
concrete then proceeded daily with
practically no interruption until Jan
uary, 19 1914, when the final closes
were made in the spillway section of
the dam.
The mechanical equipment to ac
complish this work consisted in part
of a main rock-crushing plant, in
which was installed one No. 5 and one
No. 9 gyratory crusher, with the U3ual
hoprer. elevator and screen arrange
ment. This equipment was designed
to supply 2 1-2-inch stone, the out
put stored between the crusher and
mixed buildings by means of a belt
conveyor apparatus some 40 feet long,
or carried direct to the bins over the
mixers. Beneath this storage space
was provided a tunnel, with carrying
belt arrangement which conveyed the
stored material to the mixer elevators
thus provided not only for reserve
storage, hut an auxiliary feeding ar
rangement in case the crushers were
idle.
The mixing plant housed two one
Or.G.W.Peterson
An interesting figure in the
development of the Colored
Race and an example of what
is possible for the negro to ac
complish is Dr. G. W. Peter
son, one of the leading colored
physicians of this city. Born
April 6th, 1872, in Edgefield,
S. C. He later attended the
public schools of the county
and by earnest application to
his studies fitted himself for
an academic course at the
Greenwood, S. C., Normal
School. From there he entered
the Leonard Medical College
at Raleigh, N. C., graduating
with the class of 1900 with
high honors. Realizing the need
of conscientious men in whose
care should be the health and
life of the race, he located in
Augusta, Ga., in 1900 and
started in practice and has
built up one of the largest
practices of any colored phy
sician in Augusta, and he soon
came to be recognized as a
prominent figure in the devel
opment of the Colored Race.
cubic yard rotary concrete mixers,
which were charged by gravity from
overhead bins of several hundred cu
bic yards capacity. Cement was
brought to the charging hoppers from
. the large cement storage-houses 100
feet distant by means of a belt con
veyor, the sacks being automatically
counted in transit. The storage
house had a capacity of 10,000 barrels
of cement, which were provided to
obviate any delays which might be
caused by manufacturing or trans
portation delays. AH cement was fur
nlshed by the Clinchfield Portland
Cement Corporation, Kingsport,
l’enn.
The excavation and concrete plac
ing equipment consisted in part of
stiff-legged derricks, with 70-foot
looms and 12-foot bull wheels, and
operated by 8 l-2xlo-inch double
drum hoisting engines and 4 1-2x6-
inch swinging gear. Twelve of these
setups were provided.
The concrete was conveyed in steel,
bottom-dump buckets of 2 1-2 cubl®
yards capacity from the mixer to the
site on narrow-gauge fiat cars, a train
usually consisting of five cars, one
bucket to each car. As the loaded
trains arrived under the derricks the
buckets were detached, swung to po
sition, lowered and dumped with
rapidity. The facility of this arrange
ment may have been seen by the per
formance on November 8, 1913, when
1,006 cubic yards were deposited at
a point about one-half mile from the
mixer in nine hours, making use of
three trains of five cars each.
The extensive area of construction
is shown by the fact that there were
in operation near the site approxi
mately four miles of narrow-gauge
railroad and one mile of standard
gauge railroad, the rolling equipment
consisting of seven 10 to 15-ton and
one 40-ton locomtive, with 70 cars
of various designs.
This entire undertaking involved a
dam with a total length, including
power-house, of 2,700 feet; a power
house designed for an ultimate equip
ment of 31,000 horsepower, with In
itial installation of 15,600 horsepower
and a lock 30 feet wide and 150 feet
long for the passage of vessels on
the river.
The lake created by the dam ex
tends 14 miles up the Savannah Rivet
and 13 miles up Stevens Creek, giving
altogether a surface area of about
4,000 acres, the size of the lake pro
viding for the opertaion of the plant
on any desired load factor at all times
and it will also be sufficient to equal
ize the daily fluctuations during the
weeks of low flow.
The dam proper is of Cyclopean
concrete construction, the concrete
being mixed in the proportion of one
part Portland cement, three parts of
sand and six parts of broken stone,
and large irregular fragments of rodk
are imbedded In the concrete. Al
Rt. Rev. J. S. SLIPPER, L. L. D.,
Chancellor.
Morris Brown University
Tlie largest Institution in the South owned and controlled by Negroes. Founded in 1881. Annual Registration 950.
DEPARTMENTS: Theology, Collegiate, Normal, Commercial, Preparatory> English, Music, Domestic, Science, Nurse Training and
Industrial Department. The University maintains an Employment Bureau which is able to furnish competent help at all times.
LOCATED CORNER NORTH BOULEVARD AND HOUSTON STREET.
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For further particulars address. ...
Rev. WILLIAM A. FOUNTAIN, President
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA,
together approximately 90,000 cubic
yards of concrete was used.
Tilers are five sluicegates, Bxß feet,
installed in the section of the dam
adjacent to the lock, the mechanism
lor these gates being located within
the dam. The main value of the
sluicegates will be tb handle small
floods.
The power-house has a sub-struc
ture of concrete and a superstructure
of steel and brick. Its general di
mensions are 51x388 feet.
The turbines are of the vertical
type, 104 inches in diameter, and are
set in a concrete spiral casing, with
concrete draft tubes. All operating
parts of the turbines hre accessible
for quick repair if needed, making
it unnecessary to unwater the wheel
casing, with the one exception of ad
cident to the runner. These turbines
were made by the I. P. Morris Com
pany, of Philadelphia.
The initial installation of electrical
equipment consists of five vertical
type three-phase 60-cycle 2,300-volt
2700 K. V. A. generators, two 300
kilowatt 250-volt exciters, three 5400
K. V. A. transformers, stepping up
!rom 2300 volts to 44,000 volts. All of
this equipment was furnished by the
Westinghouse Electric & Manufactur
ing Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.
All wiring in the plant, fhere possi
ble, is installed in conduits buried in
the coirMeie floor.
The transmission line to Augusta, is
about seven miles long, and consists
of galvanized steel towers designed
for two circuits, with three wires on
each side. The spacing of the towers
is about 10 to the mile. Two special
towers are installed at the Lake Olm
stead Crossing, these being 80 feet
igh and providing a span of 960 feet.
The transmission towers were fur
nished by Milliken Bros., Inc., New
York. The wire for the power cur
rents consists of No. 1-0 17-strand me
dium hard drawn eat per. Ten feet
below the lowest power wires a tele
phone circuit is run, and all instru
ments are protected by transtermers.
The wires are hung on suspension
type insulators, made by R. Thomas
&Sons Company, Lisbon, O.
The substation in Augusta adjoins
the steam plant of the Augusta-Aiken
Railway and Electric Corporation.
This building is designed with two
galleries, and there will ultimately be
installed three banks of three each
2000 K. V. A. single-phase transform
ers, stepping down fom 44,000 volts,
three-phase, to 13,000 volts, three
phase, while provision is also made
to further step down to existing cir
cuits in Augusta of 2300 volts, two
phase. All of the equipment in the
substation was furnished by the Gen
eral Electric Co., of Schenectadv, N.
Y.
To meet the requirements of navi-
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ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
A Christian School and Co=Educational
gation, a concrete masonry lock has
been consturcted through th dam be
tween the power-house and the sluice
gates. This lock has a normal lift
of 27 feet and is 30x150 feet in the
clear.
This development was designed and
ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH
FLORENCE ST. AND AUGUSTA AVE.
AUGUSTA, GA.
REV. J. W. WHITEHEAD, Pastor
A. T. WILSON, Supt.
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Rev. WILLIAM A. FOUNTAIN, A. M.,
President.
constructed by the J. G. White En
gineering Company. The complete
plant is to be turned over to the Au
gusta-Aiken Railway and Electric
Corporation and this company will
supply the power market centering
around Augusta.
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WYLIE TRAINING HALL
DISCOURAGED.
The Lovelorn One —Say, Edgar, 4Vo
you 100 tired to dig me a grave? I fe«l
like jes' endin’ ever’thlng!
AWFUL.
The Desperado—Gee, dis life of crime
is killin’. Yesterday I almos’ killed a
chicken an’ today I busted two winders!
Tliis church has enjoy
ed a most prosperous year
under the administration
of the Rev. J. W. White
head, a man who ijs bril
liant and progressive, and*
who is known to succeed
in everything lit 1 under
takes for the spiritual and
financial success of the
church.
ORDER OF SERVICES
ON SUNDAY:
Preaching, 11:30 a. m.
Sunday School, 3:30 p. m.
B. Y. P. IT., 6 p. m.
Preaching, 8 p. m.
Everybody Invited.
Rsv. L. H. SMITH, D. D.
Treasurer.
FLIPPER HALL
AUGUST A IN 1914"