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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  agency 
  of 
  the 
  electrical 
  current, 
  may 
  also 
  be 
  mentioned 
  as 
  a 
  reason 
  

   for 
  the 
  increased 
  use 
  of 
  waterpower 
  recently 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  State. 
  

   The 
  development 
  of 
  electric 
  power 
  transmission 
  at 
  Niagara 
  Falls 
  

   has 
  been 
  the 
  largest 
  and 
  most 
  conspicuous 
  work 
  of 
  its 
  kind 
  done 
  

   anywhere. 
  

  

  The 
  significant 
  increase 
  in 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  waterpower 
  in 
  New 
  

   York 
  State 
  is 
  also 
  accounted 
  for 
  by 
  the 
  growth 
  of 
  the 
  paper 
  

   and 
  pulp 
  business. 
  The 
  increase 
  here 
  is 
  directly 
  traceable 
  to 
  the 
  

   great 
  expansion 
  in 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  manufacture 
  of 
  wood- 
  

   pulp. 
  This 
  business 
  depends 
  entirely 
  upon 
  waterpower 
  — 
  so 
  far 
  

   as 
  known, 
  wood-pulp 
  is 
  not 
  made 
  by 
  steam 
  power 
  anywhere. 
  

   About 
  65 
  horsepower 
  per 
  ton 
  per 
  twenty-four 
  hours 
  is 
  required, 
  

   and 
  if 
  steampower 
  were 
  utilized, 
  it 
  would 
  immediately 
  make 
  pulp 
  

   cost 
  at 
  least 
  double 
  its 
  present 
  price. 
  In 
  New 
  York 
  State 
  water- 
  

   power 
  was 
  used 
  in 
  paper 
  and 
  pulpmills 
  in 
  1890 
  to 
  the 
  extent 
  of 
  

   65,052 
  horsepower, 
  while 
  in 
  1900, 
  191,117 
  horsepower 
  was 
  utilized. 
  

   This 
  industry, 
  therefore, 
  accounts 
  for 
  126,065 
  horsepower 
  of 
  the 
  

   increase 
  of 
  134,661 
  horsepower 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  from 
  1890 
  to 
  1900. 
  

  

  In 
  Massachusetts 
  the 
  increase 
  of 
  28,061 
  horsepower 
  in 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  

   waterpower 
  from 
  1890 
  to 
  1900 
  was 
  due 
  to 
  the 
  additional 
  use 
  

   of 
  waterpower 
  in 
  the 
  paper 
  and 
  cotton 
  industries. 
  In 
  1890 
  

   29,148 
  water 
  horsepower 
  was 
  reported 
  in 
  papermills 
  and 
  44,935 
  

   water 
  horsepower 
  in 
  1900, 
  an 
  increase 
  of 
  15,787 
  water 
  horse- 
  

   power. 
  In 
  cotton 
  mills 
  in 
  Massachusetts 
  waterpower 
  to 
  the 
  

   extent 
  of 
  55,944 
  horsepower 
  was 
  in 
  use 
  in 
  1890, 
  and 
  64,158 
  water 
  

   horsepower 
  was 
  in 
  use 
  in 
  1900, 
  an 
  increase 
  of 
  8214 
  water 
  horse- 
  

   power. 
  These 
  two 
  industries 
  account 
  for 
  24,000 
  of 
  the 
  total 
  

   increase 
  of 
  28,061 
  water 
  horsepower. 
  

  

  The 
  census 
  statistics 
  are 
  not 
  complete 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  water- 
  

   power 
  in 
  either 
  Connecticut, 
  Massachusetts, 
  Rhode 
  Island 
  or 
  

   New 
  York. 
  The 
  power 
  furnished 
  from 
  electric 
  motors 
  is 
  reported 
  

   separately 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  impossible 
  to 
  determine 
  what 
  proportion 
  of 
  

   it 
  is 
  made 
  by 
  steam 
  and 
  what 
  by 
  water 
  — 
  for 
  the 
  whole 
  United 
  

   States 
  it 
  is 
  311,016 
  horsepower. 
  Probably 
  for 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  

   York 
  it 
  is 
  from 
  80,000 
  to 
  100,000 
  horsepower, 
  making 
  the 
  total 
  

   water 
  horsepower 
  in 
  this 
  State 
  in 
  1904 
  in 
  reality 
  something 
  like 
  

   450,000. 
  In 
  either 
  Connecticut, 
  Massachusetts 
  or 
  Rhode 
  Island, 
  

   on 
  the 
  contrary, 
  electrical 
  development 
  has 
  been 
  relatively 
  much 
  

  

  