The log cabin Democrat., 1921-10-08
PUSH COMPLETION
 POWER PROJECT CONSTRUCTION IS BEGUN Directors Expect to Complete Big Hydro-Electric Plant at Judso-
 mia by July l.
(By Clio Harper.)

creased directorate representing the state at large and pledged to produc- tion of electricity from Arkansas
 first big water power project by July 1, marked special meeting of the board of directors of the Arkansas Hydro Electric Company, held in the general offices in the Boyle building.
 Under the leadership of Dr. R. k. James of Cotton Plant, chairman of the board, and Virgil C. Petite of Lit tie Rock, president of the Arkansas Advancement Association and vice president of the England National Bank, who is president of the Arkan
 sas Hydro Electric Company, the. board adopted a policy of the widest publicity regarding the expenditures made in the past, and those contem- plated with the new financing.
 The directors were unanimous in pushing the construction work which will bring a new era of industrial and manufacturing progress to this state.
 Completion of dam No. 1 by July 1, is entirely possible, according to re- ports of both the resident and con- sulting engineers and the contractors in charge of the work. The success of this project is so important to the industrial development of Arkansas that all section of the state will be kept fully advised, according to the decision of the board of directors at the special meeting just held here. The company's project is the largest con- struction job now under way in the entire state of Arkansas. It will in- volve the expenditure of almost S2,000,000 and is providing employ ment for a small army of workmen.
 The salient features of what is called dam No. involve the construc- tion of reinforced concrete dam across the Little Red river nine miles above Judsonla, creating a lake IS miles long. As a part of the dam will be the powerhouse with d capacity of 22,000 horsepower. The dam will be 80 feet high and approximately $50 feet long. It will store three billion, eight million cubic feet of usa- ble water, ample to insure continuous production of electric current. The lake will cover 10,300 acres of land The work has now passed the preliminary stages. A miniature city called Camp Livingston has been built on the east bank of the Little Red river, to house the workmen and machinery used in construction of the dam. Rock crush CTS, cableways, derricks and other machinery are now in operation. The ground is being stripped down to bed rock and material being hauled in for actual construction. L. I. Fletcher, head of the hydro electric department of J. Livingston & Company, the big New York contractors is personally on the ground experimenting the work for his company.
 Directors present at the special meeting just held reported widespread interest in the great project, progres
 sive communities bidding for the trans mission lines which will carry the cleo trical energy for the operation of many new cotton manufacturing mills and other industrial enterprises. Banks, business men and chambers of commerce in the territory to be served by the Arkansas Hydro Electric Com pany are eager to bring to this state the same sort of prosperity that has followed the hydro electric develop ment in the Carolinas. Gaston coun- example In few years it devel- oped from a poverty stricken county with small assets to the fourth county in the world, outside of Great Britain, in the cotton spinning industry. Fly dro- electric development was the very foundation of this wonderful growth New cotton mills are being built as fast as the material can be secured. Over twelve millions of dol lars was spent upon building work in Gastonia alone in 1920. With the southern states enjoying 20 cent cot ton, the south has 540,000,000 more today than it had month ago and Arkansas is the state leading them all it was pointed out. Now is the time the directors concurred, in pushing Arkansas to the front as the state to manufacture it's own rich bales of cotton, bringing employment to a
 greater population, increasing land values and insuring permanent prof it's, which it was asserted, should be as perpetual as the water rushing