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  'Niagara 
  Falls 
  Power 
  Company. 
  The 
  Niagara 
  Falls 
  Power 
  Com- 
  

   pany 
  has 
  developed 
  an 
  extensive 
  plant 
  on 
  quite 
  different 
  lines 
  

   from 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  Niagara 
  Falls 
  Hydraulic 
  Power 
  and 
  Manufac- 
  

   turing 
  Company. 
  In 
  1883 
  to 
  1885 
  Thomas 
  Evershed, 
  who 
  was 
  at 
  

   that 
  time 
  division 
  engineer 
  of 
  the 
  western 
  division 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  

   State 
  canals, 
  was 
  called 
  on 
  to 
  survey 
  Niagara 
  Falls 
  Park 
  Reserva- 
  

   tion, 
  as 
  provided 
  for 
  by 
  act 
  of 
  the 
  Legislature. 
  This 
  led 
  Mr 
  Ever- 
  

  

  Fig. 
  42 
  Niagara 
  Falls 
  and 
  vicinity, 
  showing 
  location 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  tunnel. 
  

  

  shed 
  to 
  spend 
  considerable 
  time 
  at 
  Niagara 
  Falls, 
  during 
  which 
  

   he 
  conceived 
  the 
  project 
  of 
  constructing 
  a 
  tunnel 
  to 
  begin 
  at 
  the 
  

   level 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  river 
  and 
  extend 
  under 
  the 
  city 
  of 
  Niagara 
  Falls 
  

   for 
  a 
  distance 
  of 
  about 
  2J 
  miles. 
  This 
  tunnel 
  was 
  to 
  be 
  generally 
  

   parallel 
  to 
  the 
  Niagara 
  river, 
  but 
  at 
  some 
  little 
  distance 
  from 
  

   it. 
  At 
  its 
  head 
  and 
  at 
  various 
  points 
  along 
  the 
  river 
  from 
  above 
  

   Port 
  Day 
  it 
  was 
  proposed 
  to 
  construct 
  branch 
  canals 
  connecting 
  

  

  mission, 
  by 
  Orrin 
  E. 
  Dunlap 
  : 
  Western 
  Electrician, 
  Vol. 
  XIX 
  (Dec. 
  5, 
  1896) 
  ; 
  

   (4) 
  Pulp 
  Mill 
  of 
  the 
  Cliff 
  Paper 
  Company 
  of 
  Niagara 
  Falls, 
  New 
  York, 
  

   by 
  W. 
  C. 
  Johnson: 
  Trans. 
  Am. 
  Soc. 
  Civil 
  Eng., 
  Vol. 
  XXXII 
  (Aug., 
  1894). 
  

  

  