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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  armature. 
  As 
  advised 
  by 
  the 
  company's 
  electrical 
  engineer, 
  Prof. 
  

   George 
  Forbes, 
  of 
  London, 
  three 
  such 
  dynamos, 
  of 
  5000 
  horse- 
  

   power 
  each, 
  constructed 
  by 
  the 
  Westinghouse 
  Company, 
  of 
  Pitts- 
  

   burg, 
  have 
  been 
  installed. 
  During 
  the 
  summer 
  of 
  1896 
  a 
  trans- 
  

   mission 
  line 
  was 
  constructed 
  from 
  Niagara 
  Falls 
  to 
  Buffalo, 
  and 
  

   since 
  November 
  of 
  that 
  year 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  street 
  railways 
  in 
  Buffalo 
  

   have 
  been 
  operated 
  electrically 
  by 
  power 
  from 
  Niagara 
  Falls. 
  

  

  According 
  to 
  a 
  statement 
  of 
  William 
  B. 
  Rankine, 
  secretary 
  of 
  

   the 
  Cataract 
  Construction 
  Company, 
  the 
  power 
  furnished 
  or 
  con- 
  

   tracted 
  for 
  by 
  the 
  Niagara 
  Falls 
  Power 
  Company 
  July 
  1, 
  1897, 
  

   was 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Power 
  furnished 
  by 
  the 
  Niagara 
  Falls 
  Power 
  Company 
  in 
  1897 
  

  

  Company 
  

  

  Business 
  

  

  Horse- 
  

   power 
  

  

  (a) 
  Hydraulic 
  poioer 
  

   Niagara 
  Falls 
  Paper 
  Company 
  | 
  Paper 
  

  

  (&) 
  Electric 
  power 
  

  

  Pittsburg 
  Reduction 
  Company 
  

  

  The 
  Carborundum 
  Company 
  

  

  Acetylene 
  Light, 
  Heat 
  and 
  Power 
  Company. 
  

  

  Buffalo 
  and 
  Niagara 
  Falls 
  Electric 
  Light 
  

   and 
  Power 
  Company 
  

  

  Walton 
  Ferguson 
  

  

  Niagara 
  Electro-Chemical 
  Company 
  

  

  Buffalo 
  and 
  Niagara 
  Falls 
  Electric 
  Railway 
  . 
  

  

  Niagara 
  Falls 
  and 
  Suspension 
  Bridge 
  Rail- 
  

   way 
  Company 
  x 
  

  

  Buffalo 
  Street 
  Railway 
  Company 
  

  

  Acetylene 
  Light, 
  Heat 
  and 
  Power 
  Company 
  2 
  . 
  

  

  Mathieson 
  Alkali 
  Works 
  3 
  

  

  Buffalo 
  Street 
  Railway 
  Company 
  

  

  Buffalo 
  General 
  Electric 
  Company 
  4 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  

  

  The 
  Carborundum 
  Company 
  5 
  

  

  Niagara 
  Falls 
  Water 
  Works 
  Company 
  

  

  Power 
  City 
  Foundry 
  and 
  Machine 
  Company 
  . 
  

  

  Albright 
  and 
  Wilson 
  

  

  Total 
  hydraulic 
  power 
  sold 
  at 
  Niagara 
  Falls 
  . 
  

   Total 
  electric 
  power 
  sold 
  at 
  Niagara 
  Falls 
  . 
  . 
  

   Total 
  electric 
  power 
  sold 
  at 
  Buffalo 
  

  

  Total 
  

  

  Aluminum 
  

  

  Abrasives 
  

  

  Calcium 
  carbide 
  . 
  

  

  Local 
  lighting 
  

  

  Chlorate 
  of 
  potash. 
  

   Peroxide 
  of 
  sodium 
  . 
  

   Local 
  railway 
  

  

  Local 
  railway 
  

  

  22-mile 
  transmission 
  , 
  

  

  Calcium 
  carbide 
  

  

  Soda 
  ash 
  

  

  Lighting 
  . 
  

   Abrasives 
  

  

  Electro-chemicals 
  

  

  200 
  

  

  3,050 
  

   1,000 
  

   1,075 
  

  

  500 
  

   500 
  

   400 
  

   300 
  

  

  250 
  

  

  1,000 
  

  

  4,000 
  

  

  4, 
  000 
  

  

  1,000 
  

  

  3,000 
  

  

  1,000 
  

  

  45 
  

  

  25 
  

  

  400 
  

  

  7,200 
  

  

  16, 
  545 
  

  

  5,000 
  

  

  28, 
  745 
  

  

  >A;11 
  from 
  October 
  1, 
  1896. 
  

  

  2 
  From 
  delivery, 
  say, 
  November 
  1, 
  1897. 
  

  

  3 
  From 
  June 
  1, 
  1897. 
  

  

  4 
  From 
  November 
  15, 
  1897. 
  

   6 
  From 
  June 
  1, 
  1897. 
  

  

  