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switches and sidings, of temporary and permanent constructions, in 

 confusion worse confounded, has confronted him. Out of it all, it 

 is presumed, the plans for the artificial beautifying of the spot will 

 gradually unfold and the visitor of coming years is to see it with its 

 attractions not onlv restored,' but enhanced. 



Site of the Power-house of the Ontario Power Company at the Edge of the 

 Water below the Falls ox the Canadian Side. 



Great sections of the river bottom, acres of rock over which the 

 river has flowed for ages in tumultuous energy, have been for the first 

 time exposed to the eye of man and the light of the sun. These 

 sections of the river have now in large part been absorbed into fore- 

 bays and intakes, into the permanent constructions of the companies, 

 never to be given back to their proper charge. 



The three Canadian companies are to be greater consumers than 

 the American. They are the finest, the most magnificent concep- 

 tions of hydraulic engineering, and in their ultimate realization rise 

 to proportions which are an expression of the genius that has inspired 

 them. ISTo one of these, let us remark, is moribund or inactive; each 

 shows the highest type of virility. 



The Canadian Niagara Power Co. has a statutory limit of 



consumption of 8.900 cu. ft. per sec. 



The Ontario Power Co 12.000 " 



The Toronto & Niagara Power Co 11,200 " 



32,100 " 



