. Northern Maine, its points of interest and its representative business men, embracing Houlton, Presque Isle, Caribou, Ft. Fairfield, Danforth, Lincoln, Mattawamkeag, Winn and Kingman. safe to say that an average horse power of more than3,000 is secured, as by actual computation at the time of the test, above 7,000 horse power was running -over the dam. This is ample for any and all purposes, and pulp mills, lumber mills, cotton or woolen smills, with numberless smaller manufactories can be driven from this dam. The pond made by this -^iam is six miles long, and the New Brunswick Railway, whi
. Northern Maine, its points of interest and its representative business men, embracing Houlton, Presque Isle, Caribou, Ft. Fairfield, Danforth, Lincoln, Mattawamkeag, Winn and Kingman. safe to say that an average horse power of more than3,000 is secured, as by actual computation at the time of the test, above 7,000 horse power was running -over the dam. This is ample for any and all purposes, and pulp mills, lumber mills, cotton or woolen smills, with numberless smaller manufactories can be driven from this dam. The pond made by this -^iam is six miles long, and the New Brunswick Railway, which runs along by the side of the river has HISTORICAL SKETCH Oh CARIBOU. 31 tad to be graded up from two to four feet for nearly that distance. The New Brunswick RailwayOo., has offered to put in side tracks for any manufactory established on the east side of the river, andif manufactories should be established on the west side, they would cross the river for their accommo--dation. The railway now passes within 100 feet of the dam. On the west side there is a plateaubelow the dam one-half mile long and 600 feet wide, most admirably adapted for the establishment The Water Power of Caribou. The dam was completed in 1889, and the fact that seventy-five new buildings were erected in•Caribou Village that year shows that private and public enterprise go hand in hand. Tne village isvery favorably situated for a system of water works and those now in use were furnished by the sameparties who built the dam, and as regards reliability and efficiency are unsurpassed in the entire entire plant cost about $100,000 of which $35,000 represents the cost of the dam alone. Most ofthe village lies in the valley of Caribou Stream and to the north of it is a hill more than 200 feet high, thisbeing the site of the standpipe, which is thirty feet in diameter, twenty-nine feet high and has a capacity of160,000 gallons. It is about three-quarters of a mile from the pumping
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