Butts-Jasper County GaArchives News.....Big Dam - Clearing Reservoir October 1908 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 May 6, 2011, 10:30 am Butts County Progress October 1908 Big Dam – Clearing Reservoir Sealed bids are asked for clearing the whole or any part of the land that will be covered by back water from the dam now being erected at the foot of Capp’s and Lloyd’s shoals in the Ocmulgee river, in Butts and Jasper counties, Georgia. The land to be thoroughly cleared of standing or fallen timber, brush, stumps: etc., in accordance with specifications or information furnished by J. G. White & Co., Jackson, Ga. Bids are asked in the following manner: First: At so much per acre for the land actually cleared; the company reserving all merchantable timber and cord wood. Second: At so much per acre for the land actually cleared; without any claim on the timber or cord wood. Bids are to be addressed to Georgia Construction, care J. G. White & Co., at Jackson, Ga., and plainly marked BIDS FOR CLEANING RESREVOIR. Bids to be received not later than Dec. 1st 1908, and the company reserves the right to except the land purchased from any individual owner or reject any and all bids received. For particulars as to the manner of doing the work, the time of completion, etc., apply to the Superintendent of Construction for J. G. White & Co., at Jackson, Ga., or at the dam site. Georgia Construction Co. – W. J. Massee, President Butts County Progress Week of October 30, 1908 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/newspapers/bigdamcl3035nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb