Butts-Jasper County GaArchives News.....Trolley Line from Macon to Springs March 1909
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Butts County Progress March 1909
Trolley Line From Macon To Springs

Chances good for building up the point of Interurban Line
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Work to Begin when Dam is Completed.  To Establish a Summer Resort at the 
Power Plant.

The following from Macon Telegraph will be read with interest by the people of 
Jackson and Butts county.  In case the proposed line is built, it will be 
extended from Indian Spring on to Jackson:

In a recent talk with President W. J. Massee, of the interurban lines, he said 
that dirt would be broken for these lines within sixty days.  Every thing was 
ready in a financial way, and it only needed the necessary preliminaries to go 
through with to begin the actual work.   The company were endeavoring to have 
the cars operated for the first time with the turning on of the electric 
energy from the Central Georgia Power Company’s plant.

The delay in beginning the work has been caused, first by the inevitable delay 
in financing so large a proposition, but this is accomplished.  Then came the 
delay occasioned by unlooked for litigation in Atlanta.   All these delays did 
a great deal toward disrupting plans, but now everything  being gotten off the 
track, so to speak, and the work was now in sight.

In addition to the interurban lines between Atlanta and Macon and Macon and 
Albany it is quite probably that a line of trolleys will be put on between 
Macon and Indian Spring, and thence to the dam.  Nothing definite can be 
learned of this road, but it is being talked about and is one of the 
possibilities.  It is said that the company would have little difficulty in 
running this line for the reason that the charter of the Macon and Indian 
Spring Railway, which was absorbed by the Macon Railway and Light Company, 
gives the right to run the line between Macon and Indian Spring. 

With the trolley line to the Spring and thence a few miles further to the dam, 
where it is contemplated to establish a summer resort, Macon would be down 
among the fortunate cities.

Butts County Progress
Week of March 16, 1909


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