Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-01-04
Big PowersC Company
To Spend Millions
Georgia Company Will Resume Work
On Tugaloo Dam; To Employ
One Thousand Men

| Will be taken immediately toward the
completion of the biggest development
the state of Georgia ever known, ac-
Cording to announcement made here
today by the Georgia Railway and
Power Company
Beginning at once, work will be re-
sumed on the Tugaloo Dam and pow
er house, the fourth mammoth step in
the plans Of II. M. Atkinson. chairman
of the board of directors Of the Gcor-
gia Railway and Power Company, for
the complete hydro-clcctric develop
ment OF the Tallulah and Tugaloo riv-
ers.
The completion OF this company's
development plans on these two rivers
will represent an investment of nearly
$40000,000, attracted to Georgia thru
the efforts of Mr. Atkinson. The de-
velopments already made--thc gigan-
tic Burton Storage reservoir and dam,
the Mathis or Lakemont reservoir and
dam, the Tallulah dam and the Tai
lulah power house and high tension
lines-arc valued at $2l 100000 The
completion of Tugaloo will add up
wards of $5,000,OO0 to this. Later on
Mr.. Atkinson, it was stated here to-
day, hopes to complete the other links
in the great chain--the Burton power
house, the Seed Storage reservoir and
power plant, the Mathis Talulah pow
or house.
1000 Men Employed
The Tugalo development will pro-
vide employment for upwards of 1000
men for year and half or longer
Already about 200 men are on the
scene of the development ready to be-
gin work. This number will be aug
mentcd week after week, until, it is
estimated, by the latter part of June
more than 1000 men will be employed.
1t is expected that the first unit
of the Tugalo development will be in
service in the early fall of 1928. and
that the entire capacity of the station
will be available by January |. 1924.
Pouring of concrete in the dam will
begin in June, at which time it is ex-
pected that dedication will take place.
The Tugalo development will in
crease the present water power ca
pacity Of the Georgia Railway and
Power Company approximately 43 per
cent long stride toward putting the
water power future of Georgia on a
solid basis.
In addition to the economic value
of providing employment for large
number of men and stimulating bust
ness through purchases of supplies
machinery and the like, the develop
ment will have very direct bearing
not only upon Georgia but upon the
entire southeast.
Five States are Connected
Only a few weeks ago, Mr.. Atkin-
son witnessed the actual completion
of his plans for inter-connections of
all power systems in the territory OF
which, through physical connections
that have actually been made, furnish
a net work of high tension lines con-
meeting not only all of Georgia, but
the states of Alabama, Tennessee, N.
Carolina and South Carolina.
The result is that in a crisis arising
from shortage of power, the tremen-
dous resources of the Georgia Railway
and Power Company's power houses
will be at the command not only OF
all Georgia, but four other states as
well. Thus in crisis in Georgia or
in any other of the five states, the
: Georgia company will be able to step
in with power and. in turn, the other
companies, through the inter-connect-
ing systems, will be enabled to divert
power into Atlanta in the event il
should be needed
OF further interest to Atlanta and
the fifty other municipalities served
by the Georgia Railway and Power
Company will be the announcement
h also made there today, that change:
I will be made at Morgan falls, the Bul
e Slu'cc hydro-electric plant near At
lanta, which will increase the capaci
ty of this plant from $4,000 horse po
wer to q 900 horse power, an increas,
e of approximately 1000 horse power
), Active construction work on tn,
t Tugalo development was begun in tn,
S year 1917, but was stopped on accoun
of war conditions and losses sustain
ed by the Georgia Railway and Pow
er Company.
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