Amidst the Laurentians; being a guide to Shawinigan Falls and points on the Great Northern Railway of CanadaBy from the author's own pholographs, with a few exceptions . Mav. Jyof at the top, on whichis built the penstocks are 500feet long, and are madeof iron plates five-six-teenths to seven-six-teenths of an inch in. This canal is woo feet long by loofeet wide and 20 feet deef>, and7Cas excavated out of solid1 ocli thickness. The diameter of each pipe is nine feet, and each carries downsufficient water to produce 5,000 horse-power in the power hous


Amidst the Laurentians; being a guide to Shawinigan Falls and points on the Great Northern Railway of CanadaBy from the author's own pholographs, with a few exceptions . Mav. Jyof at the top, on whichis built the penstocks are 500feet long, and are madeof iron plates five-six-teenths to seven-six-teenths of an inch in. This canal is woo feet long by loofeet wide and 20 feet deef>, and7Cas excavated out of solid1 ocli thickness. The diameter of each pipe is nine feet, and each carries downsufficient water to produce 5,000 horse-power in the power house below. The Shawinigan Company supplies water through the longest pipe tothe power house of the Royal Aluminum Company. In the power house of the Shawinigan Company there can be seen some


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