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Butts County Progress May 1908
RAILROAD TO CENTRAL GEORGIA HYDRO
CITIZENS OF JACKSON HOLD MASS MEETING

Steps Taken to Bring Proposed Railroad From Big Ocmulgee Dam to Jackson.

Get Busy – Think About It, Talk About It, Write About It 
Get Interested 
And Bring That Railroad To Jackson Regardless Of Difficulties


An enthusiastic mass meeting was held at the court house  Wednesday afternoon 
for the purpose of discussing means by which the proposed railway from some 
suitable point on the Southern Railway to the dam on the Ocmulgee could be 
brought to Jackson

A committee of six, composed of Messrs. F. S. Etheridge, J. H. Carmichael, R. 
W. Mays, S. O. Ham, T. H. Buttrill and J. B Settle was appointed by Mayor Ham 
who presided over the meeting, with instruction to take such steps possible as 
would induce the Central Georgia Power to make Jackson a terminus of the 
railway which is soon to be constructed.  (At the suggestion of the mass 
meeting, Mr.. Ham appointed Himself.)

The fact was brought out that the company had not so far decided TO WHICH 
PLACE THE ROAD WOULD BE BUILT, Jackson, Flovilla, or some point between the 
two places, but that all three of these points are being considered by the 
company and that the road would extend to that one of the three which offered 
the least resistance, everything else being equal.

It was stated that a free right-of-way is desired by the company before the 
road is built to either place.  Flovila, it is said, has offered the free 
right-of-way and while most right-of-ways have been offered free by the 
landowners over the survey from the dam to Jackson, about a half dozen right-
of-ways have not yet been granted.  Speakers at the meeting quoted the 
officers of the company saying that the route to Jackson is three miles longer 
than to Flovilla and a few thousand dollars more would have to be expended in 
order to bring the road to Jackson.

Yet the public spirit which was so manifest at this meeting did not falter at 
such difficulties and reasonable men believed then and now that Jackson is in 
a fair way to get the road if she will only go after it – and in the proper 
way.

The following resolutions were drawn up:  

“Whereas the Central Georgia Power Company which is erecting a dam on the 
Ocmulgee river near Jackson, preparatory to locating their great power plant, 
has made known its intentions to construct a railway from some suitable point 
on the Southern railway to said dam; and

Whereas we are keenly aware of the advantages which would accrue to Butts 
county and the city of Jackson should the Central Georgia Power Company make 
Jackson its base of supplies;

Therefore, be it resolved
1st  That we, the people of Jackson in mass meeting assembled, do extend a 
cordial welcome to the proposed railway to our city.

2nd  That we offer our hearty and such active cooperation as may lie in our 
power to the Central Georgia Power Company, with a view to the making Jackson 
their base of supplies.

3rd.  That we extend to the Central Georgia Power Co. our good will for the 
success of said enterprise.

4th.  That a copy of these resolutions be presented to the officers of the 
Central Georgia Power Company.

S. O. Ham, Chairman
R. L. Carter, Secretary

Butts County Progress
Week of May 14, 1908


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