472 SEVICXTII KEPURT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



1, 800 to 2,000 feet above tide water. The catcliment area of Sacandaga River, 

 at its mouth, is 1,057 square miles. 



16. Mohawk River is really a tributary of the Hudson, but for the purposes of 

 this paper we may specially consider the Main Mohawk, making furtlier subdi\i- 

 sions of a number of the principal tributaries. 



This stream rises in Central New York, about 25 miles north of Rome, and flows 

 first southerly, then easterly, across the State, emptying into Hudson River at 

 Cohoes. The elevation of its extreme head waters, near Boonville, may be taken at 

 from 1,050 to 1,100 feet above tide water; but at Rome its elevation is only a little 

 over 400 feet above tide. Water power on this stream is substantially confined to 

 the Great Falls at Cohoes, and the Little Falls at Little Fails. 



17. Schoharie Creek, the principal tributary of the Mohawk from the south, 

 rises in the CatskiU MoLintains at a elevation of from 1,600 feet to 1,800 feet above 

 tide, and flows first westerh' for 20 miles and then northerly, emptying into the 

 Mohawk River at Fort Hunter. The elevation of its mouth is about 280 feet above 

 sea level. This stream is entirely without lake storage and is subject to very great 

 fluctuations in its flow. Flood flows of from 50,000 tg 60,000 cubic feet per second 

 are not at all uncommon, while its minimum flows do not e.xceed 175 cubic feet per 

 second. The catchment area at its mouth is 947 scjuare miles. 



There are a number of other streams entering the Mohawk from the south, but 

 none of them are of any great importance. 



iS. Of the streams from the north East Canada Creek may be mentioned as one 

 of the principal tributaries. It rises in Morehouse Lake at an elevation of, perhaps, 

 1,900 feet above tide water. It flows south into the Mohawk River at East Creek, a 

 few miles east of Little Falls, at an elevation of something over 300 feet. The 

 catchment area above its mouth is 283 square miles. 



19. West Canada Creek, the chief tributary of the Mohawk River from the 

 north, may be taken as rising in West Canada Lake, in Hamilton County. This 

 lake lies at an elevation of 2,367 feet above tide. The creek flows first westerly to 

 Trenton Falls, and then southerly, emptying into the Mohawk River at Herkimer, 

 at an elevation of something like 380 feet above tide. The catchment area of this 

 stream at its mouth is 569 square miles. 



The foregoing are the principal streams issuing from the Adirondack water 

 center. There are a great many smaller ones, but as the object at the present time 

 is not specially to enter into the detail the less important are omitted. 



We may now make an estimate of the total fall of each stream, together with the 

 possible water power which may be developed, it being premised that the lakes and 

 valleys of all this region are especially fitted for efficient water storage at low cost. 



