. Landmarks of Niagara County, New York; . water works plant was estab-lished with a capacity of 6,000,000 gallons per day, the water beingtaken from the river a mile above the falls. The whole city is thusgiven an excellent water supply. A handsome stone power house has been erected over the wheel pit,in which is a fifty-ton traveling crane; the building is two hundred feetin length. The accompanying map shows a part of the city of Niagara Falls,with the location and comparative area of the properties of the powercompany and its allied organizations. There are three large corpoiations allied
. Landmarks of Niagara County, New York; . water works plant was estab-lished with a capacity of 6,000,000 gallons per day, the water beingtaken from the river a mile above the falls. The whole city is thusgiven an excellent water supply. A handsome stone power house has been erected over the wheel pit,in which is a fifty-ton traveling crane; the building is two hundred feetin length. The accompanying map shows a part of the city of Niagara Falls,with the location and comparative area of the properties of the powercompany and its allied organizations. There are three large corpoiations allied with the Niagara FallsPower Company, as follows: The Cataract Construction Company, theNiagara Junction Railway Company, and the Niagara DevelopmentCompany. The rapid development of the present street railways of the city of Ni-agara Falls and the immediate surrounding country has been no less re-markable than the growth of other important interests. At the presenttime different parts of the city itself are connected with excellent roads. 213 which are equipped with modern cars running at brief intervals, whileLewiston, Youngstown, Schlosser, La Salle, Tonawanda and Buffalo areall brought within short rides, some of which give the passenger glimpsesof the grandest scenery in the country. The Niagara Falls and Sus-pension Bridge Railway Company was chartered October 20, 1882,with a capital of $750,000 This road with its equipment, as at pres-ent existing, has cost about $1,125,000, and owns about seventeenmiles of track. It extends through and around the city and to theWhirlpool Rapids. John C. Brewster is superintendent. The Niagara Falls, Whirlpool and Northern Railroad Company waschartered March 3, 1894, with a capital of $50,000. The total cost ofthe road is $72,500; it has one and three-fourths miles of track, ex-tending from the city line to Devils Hole in the town of Lewiston. The Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway Company was con-solidated May 24, 1895 ; construc
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