. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. the wheels. The amount of waterrequired for each wheel is about 25,000 cubic minute, flowing to the wheels through channels fromthe main canal, each 17 ft. deep by 14 ft. wide, walledup of dressed stone with an average depth of water ofabout 12 ft. The position of these channels will beindicated by the gate machinery only, as otherwisethey are hidden from view, beneath the floor Tensuch channels are devoted to the Power House,while at sui
. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. the wheels. The amount of waterrequired for each wheel is about 25,000 cubic minute, flowing to the wheels through channels fromthe main canal, each 17 ft. deep by 14 ft. wide, walledup of dressed stone with an average depth of water ofabout 12 ft. The position of these channels will beindicated by the gate machinery only, as otherwisethey are hidden from view, beneath the floor Tensuch channels are devoted to the Power House,while at suitable intervals on the main canal manyother channels of similar size are provided for futureuse. Two gateways arranged with similar operatingmachinery to that in the Power House will control theadmission of water to the long canal which feeds theNiagara Falls Paper Companys extensive works. Weeds, grass and floating matter that might passinto the wheels and obstruct them are prevented fromentering the inlet channels by means of racks or irongratings, which are located at the mouth of each oneof the entrance canals and arranged in such manner as. Transverse Sketcli Showing Inlet from Main Canal. THE UTILIZATION OF NIAGARA S POWER. 20/ to admit the floatage to be easily raked off and thewater-way kept clear. The sluice gates already men-tioned to roughly govern the water that passes to thewheels are of steel moving in planed cast iron guides,and resting against sets of loose rollers which permiteasy movement of each gate under the enormouspressure of 75 tons of water that has to be restrainedwhen closed. Before describing the wheels that are to be usedin the Power House it may be well to call atten-tion to the fact that the conditions controlling theuse of Niagara Falls for motive power are land on the American side of the river is a vastplain extending for miles in every direction. The Ni-agara River below Buffalo flows through this plain,a broad, comparatively quie
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