. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. els eachof 5,000 H. P., which will generate the electricityby which to transmit power to a distance or to worksnear by; and the extensive establishment of the NiagaraFalls Paper Co., the first to anticipate the new develop-ment and to risk, before the completion of the tunnel, theerection of an industrial plant that will at the out-set use 3,000 H. P. generated by three separatewheels, with the capability of extending to six or seventhousand hor
. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. els eachof 5,000 H. P., which will generate the electricityby which to transmit power to a distance or to worksnear by; and the extensive establishment of the NiagaraFalls Paper Co., the first to anticipate the new develop-ment and to risk, before the completion of the tunnel, theerection of an industrial plant that will at the out-set use 3,000 H. P. generated by three separatewheels, with the capability of extending to six or seventhousand horse power; all of the wheels required forthis establishment, designed and built in America, be-ing under the personal control of the paper company. The tunnel is a remarkable piece of engineeringwork, over a mile and a quarter long, the upper endlying more than i 50 feet below the inlet canal, andthence sloping gradually towards the lower river where THE UTILIZATION OF NIAGARA S POWER. I97 its discharge portal is visible a short distance belowthe Upper Suspension Bridge adjacent to the Govern-ment Reservation. The cross-section of this tunnel is. INLET CANAL AND NIAGARA RIVER, of horse-shoe form, and is lined with brick throughout,the sides and roof being of the best quality of hardburnt brick, the concave floor or invert being pavedwith vitrified brick of great endurance. It is withoutcurve in its entire length of 7,000 feet but its slope isnot entirely unitorm, being at the rate of 4 feet per1,000 at the upper end, and the lower half slopingapproximately at the rate of 7 feet to the 1,000 to- 198 THE UTILIZATION OF NIAGARAS POWER. wards the mouth, where for some few hundred feetthe floor slopes still more rapidly and is plated on thebottom and sides with steel, forming a wavehke curvethat brings the extreme end a number of feet belowthe mean water level of the river. The back waterstanding in the tunnel at the mouth presents a watercushion to the outgoing stream as it leaves t
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