. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. .#-•. FOR the first time in the history of Niagara Falls,attractions other than those furnished by natureare offered; not only to the mere pleasure seeker, butto the scientific world generally, in the attempt that isnow being made to utilize some small portion of thepower of the great cataract on a scale that is vastcompared to all previous attempts at such is to be done not by diminishing the beauty of theFalls, but by adding t
. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. .#-•. FOR the first time in the history of Niagara Falls,attractions other than those furnished by natureare offered; not only to the mere pleasure seeker, butto the scientific world generally, in the attempt that isnow being made to utilize some small portion of thepower of the great cataract on a scale that is vastcompared to all previous attempts at such is to be done not by diminishing the beauty of theFalls, but by adding to what would otherwise attractthe visitor to the place, the visible progress of a gi-gantic engineering enterprise that has no precedent inthe civilized world or that can be compared to any ofthe . other similar works of man in the results thatmay flow from the venture. What is the power of Niagara Falls ? One fantastic computation, perhaps reliable, sets it down comparatively as being so great that if all the coal mined in the world each day should be burned to make steam, it would barely suffice to operate pumping 194 THE UTILIZATION OF NIAGARAS PO
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