Butts-Jasper County GaArchives News.....Jasper County wants a good bridge built. July 1909
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Butts County Progress July 1909
Jasper County wants a good Bridge Built    Ferry to be abolished soon.

Central Georgia Power Company Must Replace Ferry With A Bridge or Provide for 
A Boat Line Across The River.

The people of Jasper and Butts counties are registering a vigorous protest 
over the proposed removal of Dempsey’s Ferry on the Ocmulgee rive, unless the 
Central Georgia Power Company will agree to build a bridge across the river at 
that point, or replace the ferry with a boat line.

The matter has been taken up with the power people by the Chamber of Commerce 
and the county commissioners of the two counties interested and they will make 
a hard pull to secure what they want.  The matter is one of vital concern to 
the people of Jackson.  A large territory across the river on the Jasper 
county side that now throws its business to Jackson would be lost to this 
place if the ferry is done away with and a ridge is not put there to take its 
place.  For this reason the people of Jackson are going to fight hard for 
either a bridge or a boat as a means of crossing the river after the ferry has 
been removed.

It is said the Central Georgia Power Company has offered to put on a gasoline 
boat as soon as the ferry is taken off.  Some of the interested parties prefer 
a bridge, however, and this is one point that must be settled soon.

Upon completion of the big dam, work now being well advanced, an immense body 
of water will be backed up for several miles and the river will be several 
miles wide at Dempsey’s Ferry.  This will make it impossible to operate the 
present ferry at that point and they only recourse left or those desiring to 
cross will be to go drive five miles to Pittman’s Ferry.

Mr. W. C. Cornwell, of Jasper County, was in the city Monday and while here 
took the matter up with a number of the business men and with Chairman J. O. 
Gaston of the County Commissioners,.  He has the hearty support of the 
business men of Jackson and the county authorities in the movement or the 
bridge or a boat to replace the ferry.

The secretary of the Chamber of Commerce has addressed a letter to President 
W. J. Massee of the Central Georgia Power Company of Macon asking him just 
what his company proposed to do in the matter.

Butts County Progress
Week of July 30, 1909


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