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1799 as these shall be required by an increased consumption. On the 

 same principle he has built his corn-mill which has at present only 

 four courses. The miller's dues for grinding, as fixed by the 

 legislative power, amounts to a twelfth throughout all upper 

 Canada, and for sawing logs to a moiety of the wood sawed. 



An iron-mine, too, has lately been discovered near Chippaway 

 creek. A company has associated for the working of this mine 

 and resolved on erecting an iron-forge in the vicinity of the falls. 

 But this they dare not establish without the governor's permission ; 

 for the mother country still persists in supplying all its colonies 

 with its own manufactures ; and refuses to relinquish a monopoly, 

 that has already cost it that part of America, which composes 

 the United States. But the company hope to obtain the desired 

 permission. 



Throughout this whole tract of country, labourers are not 

 easily procured; and they receive, besides their board, from five 

 to six shillings per day. The winter continues only from the 

 middle of December to the beginning of April. 



1857 



1857 Articles of incorporation, together with the by-laws of the Niagara 



Falls Water Power Co., as amended April 11, 1857. N. Y.: Baker 

 and Godwin. 1857. 



The subscribers have associated, and do associate themselves 

 together for the purpose of carrying on and conducting manufac- 

 turing, chemical and mechanical business, at the village of 

 Niagara Falls, in the State of New York, by means of water 

 power drawn from the Niagara river immediately above Niagara 

 Falls, pursuant to the act of the Legislature of the State of New 

 York entitled, " An Act to authorize the promotion of corpora- 

 tions for manufacturing, mining, mechanical, or chemical pur- 

 poses," passed February 1 7, 1 848, and the several acts passed in 



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