A Souvenir of Niagara Falls, showing Summer and Winter views of Niagara Falls and their . THE CITY or niflCflRfl FROM O55EKVRT10ri TOWHR. LOOKING ERST Until recently Niagara Falls was only known as a great rusi»-c town en accmint >-•{ its womlcrfiilt ataract. Of late it has become famous Hj a manufacturingtown on account of its superior water power and shipping Witl in the last fifteen years tne population hasdoiibled many times and every manufac-turer has been obliged to double his facilities. Over 3 0000 carloads of mill freight are handled every year. Niagara
A Souvenir of Niagara Falls, showing Summer and Winter views of Niagara Falls and their . THE CITY or niflCflRfl FROM O55EKVRT10ri TOWHR. LOOKING ERST Until recently Niagara Falls was only known as a great rusi»-c town en accmint >-•{ its womlcrfiilt ataract. Of late it has become famous Hj a manufacturingtown on account of its superior water power and shipping Witl in the last fifteen years tne population hasdoiibled many times and every manufac-turer has been obliged to double his facilities. Over 3 0000 carloads of mill freight are handled every year. Niagara Falls has a great future before THc RRP1D5 ABOVE THE FALLS From tbe head of Goat Island to the brink of the precipice, a distance of about one half mile, the fall is 55 feet. Lpon reaching the liead of the islandthe river breaks into a rapids increasing in velocity from 7 to 30 miles an hour. The mad torrent, rushint; on to make its final leap over the dread precipice buta few feet below is dashed into foaming billows by the hugh bowlders in the rivers bottom, and speeds on until it meets its doom in the seathing caldron below.
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