﻿HYDROLOGY 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  837 
  

  

  A 
  small 
  amount 
  of 
  power 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  sold 
  at 
  different 
  times 
  

   at 
  Rochester, 
  but 
  since 
  the 
  power 
  at 
  this 
  place 
  is 
  nearly 
  all 
  held 
  

   by 
  manufacturers 
  who 
  use 
  it 
  at 
  first 
  hand, 
  nothing 
  like 
  a 
  uniform 
  

   price 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  at 
  Rochester. 
  Generally, 
  power 
  rented 
  has 
  

   been 
  in 
  small 
  quantities 
  and 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  floor 
  space, 
  the 
  

   rental 
  price 
  being 
  really 
  for 
  floor 
  space 
  with 
  small 
  power 
  fur- 
  

   nished. 
  Reckoning 
  on 
  this 
  basis, 
  small 
  powers 
  have 
  frequently 
  

   been 
  rented 
  at 
  Rochester 
  at 
  as 
  high 
  a 
  price 
  as 
  f 
  100 
  per 
  horse- 
  

   power 
  per 
  year, 
  this 
  being 
  for 
  power 
  on 
  the 
  shaft, 
  all 
  expenses 
  

   of 
  maintaining 
  wheels, 
  transmission 
  shafts, 
  etc., 
  being 
  borne 
  by 
  

   the 
  owner. 
  

  

  The 
  electric 
  companies 
  at 
  Rochester 
  furnish 
  electric 
  power 
  in 
  

   small 
  blocks 
  at 
  3 
  cents 
  per 
  electric 
  horsepower 
  per 
  hour, 
  which, 
  

   on 
  the 
  basis 
  of 
  ten 
  hours 
  a 
  day 
  and 
  three 
  hundred 
  and 
  ten 
  days 
  

   a 
  year, 
  becomes 
  $93 
  per 
  electric 
  horsepower 
  per 
  annum. 
  

  

  FUTURE 
  USE 
  OF 
  WATER-POWER 
  IN 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  foregoing 
  pages 
  we 
  have 
  seen 
  that 
  the 
  Erie 
  canal 
  was 
  a 
  

   development 
  from 
  the 
  necessities 
  of 
  commerce, 
  not 
  only 
  for 
  the 
  

   State 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  but, 
  as 
  a 
  means 
  of 
  connecting 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  

   ocean 
  with 
  the 
  waters 
  of 
  the 
  Great 
  Lakes, 
  for 
  accelerating 
  the 
  

   industrial 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  northwestern 
  States. 
  However, 
  

   in 
  the 
  nineteenth 
  century 
  events 
  move 
  rapidly, 
  and 
  what 
  was 
  true 
  

   of 
  the 
  Erie 
  canal 
  thirty 
  to 
  fifty 
  years 
  ago 
  is 
  not 
  necessarily 
  true 
  

   today. 
  Railway 
  systems 
  have 
  now 
  developed 
  to 
  such 
  complete- 
  

   ness 
  as 
  to 
  compete 
  successfully 
  with 
  water 
  transportation 
  by 
  a 
  

   channel 
  of 
  the 
  size 
  of 
  the 
  Erie 
  canal. 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  period 
  covered 
  by 
  the 
  rise 
  and 
  decline 
  of 
  the 
  Erie 
  

   canal 
  as 
  the 
  important 
  factor 
  in 
  through 
  transportation 
  between 
  

   the 
  east 
  and 
  a 
  large 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  west 
  the 
  economic 
  conditions 
  

   of 
  the 
  interior 
  portion 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  have 
  entirely 
  changed. 
  Cheap 
  

   transportation, 
  by 
  way 
  of 
  the 
  Erie 
  canal 
  and 
  the 
  Great 
  Lakes, 
  

   has 
  led 
  to 
  a 
  phenomenal 
  development 
  of 
  agriculture 
  on 
  the 
  broad 
  

   plains 
  of 
  Minnesota 
  and 
  the 
  Dakotas, 
  where, 
  by 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  mod- 
  

   ern 
  agricultural 
  machinery, 
  grain 
  can 
  be 
  raised 
  at 
  a 
  profit 
  at 
  such 
  

   prices 
  as 
  to 
  drive 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  grain 
  grower 
  from 
  the 
  market. 
  

   The 
  cheap 
  transportation 
  afforded 
  by 
  the 
  Erie 
  canal 
  has, 
  there- 
  

   fore, 
  to 
  a 
  considerable 
  degree, 
  led 
  to 
  the 
  passing 
  of 
  supremacy 
  

  

  