. Health and pleasure on America's greatest . eing one of the best fruit markets in theState. LOCKPORT. After leaving this town the stations of Mid-dieport and Gasport are passed, and the nextstop is at Lockport, abeautiful and prosperouscity of 20,000 inhabitants. At this point therailroad crosses the Erie Canal by a bridge fivehundred feet long and sixty feet in height. Thecanal falls sixty feet in a short distance, andhas five combined double locks. Its surpluswater is distributed through a hydraulic canalthree fourths of a mile long to the various manufactories of the city, whic
. Health and pleasure on America's greatest . eing one of the best fruit markets in theState. LOCKPORT. After leaving this town the stations of Mid-dieport and Gasport are passed, and the nextstop is at Lockport, abeautiful and prosperouscity of 20,000 inhabitants. At this point therailroad crosses the Erie Canal by a bridge fivehundred feet long and sixty feet in height. Thecanal falls sixty feet in a short distance, andhas five combined double locks. Its surpluswater is distributed through a hydraulic canalthree fourths of a mile long to the various manufactories of the city, which comprise the worksof the Holly Manufacturing Company, theWesterman Rolling Mill, the Indurated Fibre Company, the Cascade Wood-pulpMill, and many others. This immense water power is the chief source of thecitys prosperity, affording it unexcelled facilities for manufactories of eveiy railroad company bus recently completed a handsome new passenger stationat this place. Doing the Cave of the Winds. NEW YORK CENTRAL & HUDSON RIVER R. R. IJ. View from Prospect Point, Niagara Falls 50 HEALTH AND PLEASUEE RESORTS ON THE SUSPENSIONBRIDGE. Eleven miles beyond Lockport is the hamlet of Sanborn, and then SuspensionBridge looms in sight. This village is a port of entry on the Niagara River,nearly opposite the lower rapids, two miles below thecataract, at a junction of the New York Central Railroadwith the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, which crossesthe river on a suspension bridge more than eight hundred feet long and twohundred and fifty feet above the water. The railway bridge is eighteen feetabove the bridge used for carriages and foot passengers. Three hundred feet above the old Suspension Bridge, and in full view of thefalls of Niagara, is located the great Cantilever Bridge, built by the MichiganCentral Railroad, and completed in November, 1883, forming the connectinglink between the New York Central and Michigan Central Railroads. This remarkable structure is recognized
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