Butts-Jasper County GaArchives News.....Bridge Over Ocmulgee April 1907
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Jacksonian Record April 1907
Bridge over Ocmulgee River

Notice is hereby given that I will go before the commissioners of Butts and 
Jasper counties and ask their co-operation in building a bridge across 
Ocmulgee river.

The co-operation I will ask will be as follows:  If I can induce the Bibb 
Power Co. to build a bridge at some point between the  Loyd Shoals and Keys 
old ferry at the most practical and accessible point, this to be determined by 
their engineers, then the commissioners of the two counties to enter into a 
contract for 20 years to give the Bibb Power Co. credit each  year on their 
taxes for a sum equal to the interest on the cost of the bridge, and make it a 
fine bridge.

I don’t think any citizen of Butts or Jasper county will object to such an 
arrangement as the investments to be made will be on the line of the two 
Counties and both equally interested.

I suppose it is pretty generally known that Mr. Howe and myself have been for 
some time buying up lands along the river for back water privileges, and I am 
glad to say we have generally been met in  a spirit of friendly co-operation 
and fairness.

There are many citizens in Butts County who know of the influence I have 
wielded in having developments made in this County, and they can bear me out 
in this statement that I have never worked for an enterprise that proved 
detrimental to the individual.

I can say that Mr. How is actuated by the same sprit.  So we ask the hearty co-
operation of all our people in the great developments we mad, and the bridge 
build, it will be so constructed as to admit of the passage of trolley cars 
from one County to the other.

The building of this electric plant will be by far the largest investment ever 
made in either of the two counties…………………………

Note:  Balance of article missing

Jacksonian Record
Week of April 17, 1907



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