GETTING MONEY READY, AND OTHER THINGS ALSO
Virginia Contractors Operating in North Carolina Put Up the Cash Said to Be Necessary.
DEVELOPMENT WORK AHEAD
All Arrangements Completed for All Kinds of Work in the Tarheel State—Immense Power Soon to Be Developed.
A special news telegram bearing a Charlotte, N.C., date line says:
The Hardaway Contracting Company of the Richmond-Dennison Co., the former of Columbus, Ga., and the latter of Charlottesville, Va., to whom were awarded the contract recently for the construction of three immense dams—one across the Catawba River, another across Paddy Creek and a third across Linville River—for the Western Carolina Power Company, a subsidiary of the Southern Power Company, in Burke County, N.C., have, just entered into a contract with the Maryland Casualty Company, of Baltimore, Md., for a blank-check policy aggregating between $1,500,000 and $5,000,000 to cover any liability arising by reason of injury to any of their employees on this immense work. The policy, one of the largest of the year, was written by the American Trust Company, of Charlotte, general agents in North and South Carolina for this well-known Maryland concern.
WHAT THE GREAT WORK MAY KIN A LIVING MAN
This development in Burke County, N.C., is unique in hydro-electric development in the South. It is designed primarily for the storage of  Water which will be used in times of limited stream flow during the hot summer months to augment the load at the five big hydro-electric plants operated by the Southern Power Company farther down the river at Lookout Shoals, 32,000 horse power; Catawba, 10,000; Fishing Creek, 6,000; Great Falls, 32,300, and Rocky Creek, 32,000. 