The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1913-08-01

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second hauling after unloading
Located on the grounds are two
large concrete mixers that will be
used for the mixing of the concrete
in the construction Of the plant.
When asked in regard to the de-
signs of the plant the reporter was
told that the present plant would be
erected so at first to give employ.
ment to at least 800 men. This
plant, it is stated, will be operated
with power that will be secured
rom the Tennessee Power company
which generates It's po er at Ocoee
but as soon as the five dams can be
completed on the Little Tennessee
River near Chilhowee the plant will
be enlarged. The construction and
the plans of the present plant are
such that additions can be easily
built without interfering or stopping
the work of the plant in operation.
LOCAL LABOR EMPLOYED
Word was sent out from Mary
vile on Saturday that number OF
men was wanted. Many who were
through their work on the farm and
had been employed on the road
work came in to Maryville from the
surrounding territory and secured
work. Owing to the rush of the
work the men are working at SO
much per hour and are putting in
eleven hours out Of twenty four
hours each day.
The coming of the Aluminium
Company of America to this section
not only means they will establish
their plant but means far more than
that, said one wac is experienced
in the generating power of electric
ity and its uses. First take the
plant of the Tennessee Power Com
panv located at Ocoee. They are
building another dam This plant
is now generating the electricity
that supplies the three of the four
cities in Tennessee Knoxville, Nash
vile and Chattanooga. Not only
are they supplying the three large
cities but all of the small towns be-
tween these points. They still have
power to sell Now the Aluminium
Company is going to construct five
dams on the Little Tennessee River
which it is said, will have three
times the power of the Ocoee plant
In upper East Tennessee there is
power plant that is controlled by
the Doherty interest supplying Bris.
tol and that section. The question
now rises how will all of this power
be used when the dams are built
1t means more to East Tennessee
than simply the plant of the COM
pany, said an engineer, it means
that the Aluminium Company of
America who will have this power
to sell with the other interests and
the Tennessee Power Company who
already has its transportation lines
for its power from the dam at Ocoee
to Knoxville and Nashville, will be
on the alert all the time to locate
factories in East Tennessee which
will use their power. East Tenn
essee will have standing representa-
tive men whose companies have in.
vested millions of dollars to devel-
Ope the power urging the manufac. 1
tories to locate in Tennessee espec. {
ally in East Tennessee near the I
power plant SO they can dispose of g
,he current They will not only |
nave cheap power to offer them but {
/ section of country that has more q
natural undeveloped resources than c
my other state in the union. There +
,an be only possible one thing lack
ng and that is more railroads. /
KNOXVILLE OPPORTUNITIES t
TO be the Hub of the Universe or i
hat section of the country, which,
or more than one hundred miles in
my direction, has the largest varie-
y and the richest undeveloped re-
ources in the United Sta.es it neeos
mother trunk fine. Knoxville now
las this opportunity if it will only n
.rasp it aud what is good for Knox 4
lille helps everything within one Q
hundred miles. This op 9ortunity :
) the construction of the trunk :,
inc from the middle west to l.