Lakeview Power Company Updating Equipment, Dec. 10, 1920

We understand that the Lakeview Power Co. Is going ahead with its work of putting in new machinery at the upper plant. This plant was built in 1910-11 by a company composed of Messrs. F.R. Danley, J.R. McQueen, Jack Eastwood, and others, and was run by this company for a while, when Mr. Eastwood sold his interest to Messrs. Danley and McQueen. Later Mr. Danley sold his interest to Mr. McQueen, who still owns and operates the plant together with another up to date plant about five miles further down the river. The first plant was run night and day and the machinery was getting some what worn, and now they are replacing this old machinery with modern and up to date new machinery, and when complete will be one of the most up to date plants in Hoke county, if not the best in the State. From those two plants light is supplied to Vass, Lakeview, Cameron, Pinehurst and Raeford, and power is furnished the Vass Cotton mills, the Vass Roller mills, the Pilot press, and numerous other enterprises, and reflects credit to the community, and a nice income to the county, and gives a lot of men steady employment the year round. (From the front page of The Pilot, Vass, N.C., Friday, Dec. 10, 1920)