Judsonia weekly advance., 1919-11-06

the transmission lines on his system, but this is probably an exaggeiation. He undoubtedly does know, however, that there is money in the kilowatt business. His company, starting with small dam and power plant, today dominates the power field.
 Since the hydro-electric day dawn ed there are today just eactly as many cotton mills in Gaston County. next to Mecklenberg county, as there were wild cat stills in 1904, the na- tives say, and that entire section is humming with activity and prosper iity.
 There isn't a youth thereabout who needs to leave his native heath to find opportunity. Therei sn't a girl who needs to go1to the city for em- ployment, education or culture. Hydro electric power among it's multifold benefits has developed the country right along with the city. The cotton mills, attracted by cheap power avail able at any spot, locate in the small rural communities as we'll as in the towns
 Happiness and Prosperity There
 Unlike the dirty, smoky, unsani- tary manufacturing communities of many other localities, the cotton mill settlements of the Carolinas are we'll lighted, we'll drained, well ordered communities. The mills are prosper ous, the workers, mostly native Car olinians, are well paid and well dress ed. The boy who quits the farm doesn't hike to New York but goes over the hill from dads farm and satisfies his ambition to become weaving room foreman and later a mill superintendent. Many Carolina boys who were mill hands si years ago occupy questions of superinten- dents, forcmen, managers, secretar- ies and sstenograughersin the mills, drawing from $25 to $75 a week, with opportunities for advancing in one of the most profitable games in the world.
 The mills are liberal in their sup port of welfare work. Some mills con tribute for instance $50 per month to the salary of pastors of various de- nominations and similarly augment the salaries of school teachers so that their communities may have the best sort of religious and ducational lead ership. Some of the mills offer prizes for flower gradens and the best kept prmises. Recreation grounds, club houses and ball parks, supported en- tirely or largely by the mills are quite the common thing. I rode over three miles of concrete, guttered hard surfaced road bordering a park that will rival anything in Arkansas, all installed at the expense of the mills. his was at Great Falls, N. c, which few years ago was an absolute will dorness. Power development turned this wilderness into a town of 10000 pople with the improved streets, wa te1works, two large cotton mills where all the streets are "white ways" at night.
 Makes Farmers Prosperous
 At that point l sat in the best ap- pointed small town drug store it was ever my experience to enter and our party was served at $5000 fountain with ice cream for which native Jer- sey cows had done their bit. A few years ago only scrub cattle were to be found in that entire region. Now to see anything but thoroughbred cat tie is unusual. T he farmers, in spite of the fact that the land is not over ly good and that they have to fertil- l:.c heavily to get, on the average about one-half bale of cotton to the acre, are prosperous. A few years ago they were Hand poor"
 Even the cows benefited by hydro electric power. Two hunderd dairy farms have sprung up near Charlotte N. C., in 12 years and most of the cows are milked by electrically driv- en milkers, run by hydro electric power.
 The Southern Power Company of Charlotte, N. C., sells 80 per cent of it's power to textile mills, 10 per cnt to municipalities and 10 per cent to the sales manager, J. w. Fox.
 Development in Georgia
 Electric power generated from the rivers of Georgia unlocked the treas ure stores in her hills. ItI made pos sible the working of the yellow ochre and barium sulphate mines of that state.
 That was the assertion of w. Raw son Collier, operating mana ger, of one of the great hydro-electric power companies of the Southeast, theGeor- gia Railway and Power Company This concern operates more than 1900 miles of transmission lines and has numerous and ever-increasing dams, power sites and generating stations scattered over Georgia.Some of these are great engineering achievements. They represent millions of dollars of invested capital.And the development is only about 15 years old.
 MT. Collier gave two hours of his time to answering in detail the ques- tions of the Arkansas men who were in Atlanta surveying the hydro-elec- tric situation in the southeast. The assistant secretary of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. D. c. Lawhon