Illustrated Buffalo: the queen city of the lakes . ara Kails Cotiijianv arc: Ilosidotil, fliailcs li. (;askill; Treasurur, Francisl:. Delano; Sccrctarv, .1. Tortcr; Attorneys, W. Caryl Ely, W. Itankin; Resident Enirineer, II. Porter. The sum of * was speiil in , llie survey und in determining the feasibility of tlicjiroject. Thomas A. Edison has been retained to devise a method of transmitting power to Buffalo. Lie map showing the location of every shop and factory in IJuffalo where power is used. It shows that 50,000horse-power
Illustrated Buffalo: the queen city of the lakes . ara Kails Cotiijianv arc: Ilosidotil, fliailcs li. (;askill; Treasurur, Francisl:. Delano; Sccrctarv, .1. Tortcr; Attorneys, W. Caryl Ely, W. Itankin; Resident Enirineer, II. Porter. The sum of * was speiil in , llie survey und in determining the feasibility of tlicjiroject. Thomas A. Edison has been retained to devise a method of transmitting power to Buffalo. Lie map showing the location of every shop and factory in IJuffalo where power is used. It shows that 50,000horse-power is employed. He has already liad a cor[)s of men looking over the ground, and is confident thatany desired quantity of power <an be transmitted to Buffalo by means of a cable laid in the Niagara is enthusiastic over the project. Sir William Thompson, an English scientist, illustrated before a Parliamentary committee, in 1870, thaithrough a copper wire only half an inch in diameter 21,000 horse-power might be conveyed to a distance of. 300 miles, with a ciirivnt ,.i |,i-, ..f mi,0(hi \,,1|v. || |„,\\,.r ,-aii I,, s,, ca-ily and clii-Mply transmitted, it islikely that many small manufacturers will not care whether their factories are located at the seat of power or afew miles away, especially when that few miles would bring them into the midst of the countless advantages ola city already established, with a population of more than a quarter of a million. But tiie larger establishments—flour, paper, woollen, and cotton mills—will be located at the seat of power, and their thousands of employees,and the small army of men who will be indirectly employed by the owners of the tunnel, will live within easyreaching distance of the mills. That a great city is to be built up at Niagara Falls is a certainty, and thenatural and created advantages make it also certain that the development of that city will be southward, alongthe river towards Buffalo, as Buffalos gr
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