History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . 000 horse-power for eleven hours aday,—sufiicient to operate 40,000 spindles. Salmon Falls, the next falls above, two miles distant bythe course of the river, is utilized by a log dam twenty feetin height, over which the water flows in a narrow channelabout two hundred rods to the foot of the falls, giving anentire fall of sixty-two feet. Here is an estimated power,day and night, of 1860 horse-power, equal to 74,400spindles ; or 4060 horse-power for eleven hours a day, suf-ficient to
History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . 000 horse-power for eleven hours aday,—sufiicient to operate 40,000 spindles. Salmon Falls, the next falls above, two miles distant bythe course of the river, is utilized by a log dam twenty feetin height, over which the water flows in a narrow channelabout two hundred rods to the foot of the falls, giving anentire fall of sixty-two feet. Here is an estimated power,day and night, of 1860 horse-power, equal to 74,400spindles ; or 4060 horse-power for eleven hours a day, suf-ficient to drive 162,000 spindles. On the Buxton sidethere were, previous to 1870, four saw-mills, of one saweach, and an aggregate capacity of 4,000,000 feet of lumberper annum. The falls takes its name from having been, inearly times, the chief resort for salmon-fishing. There isa good site for mills at the foot of the falls. Granite forbuilding, and clay for making brick, are accessible. Oneand a third miles above are Bar Mills Falls, where, in a dis-tance of sixty rods, there is a fall of eighteen feet, with a.
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