TAPPING NIAGARA.
Engineers pronounce the project of tapping Niagara River by means of a canal, and bringing the water to Lockport, entirely practicable, and experts have declared that not elsewhere within the known world are there such natural advantages for the creation of a gigantic water power, and that it can he delivered at Lockport to the extent of three hundred thousand horse-power if so much be wanted, at a minimum of expense. Lake Erie, and all the great upper lakes would be the mill-pond for this power—the Niagara River the head race, and Lake Ontario the tail race. The supply of water can never be diminished by drought, no spring floods or freshlcts will tear away the dams—for there will be no dams. The supply of water will be uniform, uninterrupted, and practically unlimited. The Lockport Water Supply Company have commenced work preliminary to die erection of extensive manufacturing establishments.—Chicago Journal of Commerce.
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Kumara Times, Issue 3100, 9 October 1886, Page 3
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