﻿HYDROLOGY 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  529 
  

  

  mate 
  — 
  that 
  the 
  only 
  way 
  in 
  which 
  these 
  states 
  can 
  be 
  compared 
  

   with 
  New 
  York 
  is 
  on 
  equivalent 
  areas. 
  If, 
  in 
  comparing 
  the 
  

   States 
  of 
  Connecticut, 
  Massachusetts 
  and 
  Rhode 
  Island 
  with 
  New 
  

   York 
  on 
  this 
  basis, 
  we 
  find 
  that 
  the 
  aggregate 
  wealth 
  per 
  unit 
  of 
  

   area 
  is 
  greater, 
  we 
  may 
  be 
  very 
  sure 
  not 
  only 
  that 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  good 
  

   reason 
  for 
  it, 
  but, 
  as 
  will 
  be 
  shown 
  further 
  on, 
  that 
  the 
  real 
  

   reason 
  is 
  largely 
  due 
  to 
  mistaken 
  views 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  

   State's 
  attitude 
  towards 
  the 
  developing 
  of 
  manufacturing. 
  The 
  

   main 
  reasons 
  why 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  water 
  power 
  versus 
  steam 
  

   power 
  has 
  been 
  so 
  different 
  in 
  the 
  leading 
  New 
  England 
  States 
  

   from 
  what 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  in 
  New 
  Y^ork 
  are 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Water 
  poiver 
  reservoirs 
  in 
  New 
  England. 
  In 
  the 
  New 
  England 
  

   States, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  in 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  southern 
  and 
  in 
  several 
  

   western 
  States, 
  there 
  are 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  statutory 
  enactments 
  which 
  

   are 
  designed 
  to 
  encourage 
  the 
  erection 
  of 
  mills. 
  Under 
  their 
  pro- 
  

   visions 
  parties 
  desiring 
  to 
  flow 
  the 
  lands 
  of 
  others 
  for 
  the 
  pur- 
  

   pose 
  of 
  creating 
  water 
  power 
  to 
  propel 
  mills 
  may 
  do 
  so 
  under 
  

   condemnation 
  proceedings 
  analogous 
  to 
  those 
  for 
  acquiring 
  lands 
  

   and 
  property 
  for 
  canals, 
  railways 
  and 
  other 
  public 
  purposes. 
  This 
  

   peculiar 
  extension 
  of 
  the 
  principle 
  of 
  eminent 
  domain 
  has 
  grown 
  

   out 
  of 
  the 
  original 
  conditions 
  of 
  interdependence 
  of 
  the 
  early 
  

   colonists 
  to 
  whom 
  mills 
  for 
  grinding 
  grain 
  were 
  among 
  the 
  neces- 
  

   sities 
  Of 
  life. 
  The 
  first 
  mill 
  acts 
  originated 
  in 
  Massachusetts 
  and 
  

   Virginia, 
  from 
  whence 
  they 
  have 
  been 
  adopted 
  into 
  the 
  statutes 
  

   of 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  States. 
  

  

  In 
  order 
  to 
  show 
  what 
  may 
  be 
  accomplished 
  in 
  a 
  comparatively 
  

   small 
  State 
  by 
  properly 
  encouraging 
  manufacturing, 
  we 
  will 
  refer 
  

   to 
  conditions 
  as 
  existing 
  in 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  Massachusetts. 
  This 
  

   State 
  has 
  always 
  been 
  mindful 
  of 
  the 
  interest 
  of 
  manufacturing, 
  

   and 
  accordingly 
  at 
  the 
  beginning 
  of 
  the 
  eighteenth 
  century 
  a 
  mill 
  

   act 
  was 
  enacted, 
  and 
  while 
  the 
  original 
  act 
  was 
  merely 
  intended 
  

   to 
  encourage 
  the 
  erection 
  of 
  grain 
  and 
  flour 
  mills, 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  

   gradually 
  extended 
  to 
  include 
  all 
  kinds 
  of 
  manufacturing 
  operated 
  

   by 
  water 
  power 
  on 
  the 
  ground 
  that 
  the 
  Commonwealth 
  was 
  di- 
  

   rectly 
  concerned 
  in 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  all 
  such. 
  The 
  writer 
  has 
  

   no 
  intention 
  of 
  discussing 
  the 
  mill 
  acts 
  of 
  Massachusetts 
  in 
  detail, 
  

   and 
  wishes 
  merely 
  to 
  point 
  out 
  that 
  such 
  acts 
  have 
  also 
  been 
  

   enacted 
  in 
  Maine, 
  Wisconsin, 
  Rhode 
  Island, 
  New 
  Hampshire, 
  Con- 
  

  

  