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Southern Electric Generating Co. - SEGCO - 1959 dated $1,000 Utility First Mortgage Bond

Inv# GB5057   Bond
Southern Electric Generating Co. - SEGCO - 1959 dated $1,000 Utility First Mortgage Bond
State(s): Alabama
Years: 1959
Color: Purple or Green

$1,000 5 1/4% Bond printed by American Bank Note. Female figures with babies & a globe. 'SEGCO' logo at center. Several hole cancellations, but nice. Please specify color.

The Southern Company is a utility holding company whose principal subsidiaries provide power in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. Nonutility assets include Southern Electric International, which markets technical services, Southern Company Energy Marketing, a joint venture with Vastar, and The Southern Investment Group, which seeks new business opportunities. With the gradual deregulation of the utilities industry in the 1990s, Southern Company expanded its holdings into New England, New York, the Midwest, and California, making it the largest power producer in the country. In addition, Southern now owns power generating operations in Europe, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and South America.

The late 1950s marked the beginning of a dramatic period of capital construction. In 1956 the company organized Southern Electric Generating Company (SEGCO), as a cooperative venture between Georgia Power and Alabama Power. With no coal deposits of its own, Georgia Power wanted a power plant in Alabama where it could be close to the source of energy and not pay rail costs; Alabama Power was attracted by economies of scale. Built on the Coosa River near Wilsonville, Alabama, and completed in 1962, the plant consisted of four 250,000-kilowatt units as well as two fully mechanized coal mines. At the same time that SEGCO was gearing up, Tom Martin of Alabama Power was pushing for a series of dams on Alabama's Coosa and Warrior Rivers. The extensive project, which eventually provided 852,525 kilowatts of energy, took ten years and $245 million to build. Read more at https://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/60/The-Southern-Company.html

Condition: Excellent

A bond is a document of title for a loan. Bonds are issued, not only by businesses, but also by national, state or city governments, or other public bodies, or sometimes by individuals. Bonds are a loan to the company or other body. They are normally repayable within a stated period of time. Bonds earn interest at a fixed rate, which must usually be paid by the undertaking regardless of its financial results. A bondholder is a creditor of the undertaking.

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Price: $9.00