Industrial Niagara 



follows: The walls are arched, and the width is greatest at 1894 

 about two thirds of the height. The conductors are carried on 

 insulated brackets along the sides, spaced at intervals of thirty 

 feet. The subway is lined with concrete, and manholes at inter- 

 vals allow of access ; besides, there are small pieces of pipe let in 

 at the bottoms of the manhole ducts for the purpose of inserting 

 such wires as may from time to time be required to tap the line 

 conductors. The subway is five and a half feet high and three 

 feet ten inches wide. A track runs along it, and the line 

 inspectors will make their trips on an electrically propelled car; 

 heavy wire screens the height of the subway, extending on both 

 sides of the track, protecting the occupants from any possible 

 discharge from the main conductors. 



The Cataract Construction Company expect to be able to 

 deliver power in Buffalo at a cost per horse power, for twenty- 

 four hours a day yearly, greatly below the cost of steam power 

 as now produced in Buffalo with coal at one dollar and a half 

 per ton. The generators are expected to operate at five thousand 

 horse power each, with an efficiency of ninety-eight per cent on 

 the power delivered to them by the turbines, and there will be 

 only three and a half per cent drop of pressure in transmitting 

 at twenty thousand volts to the northern part of Buffalo. This 

 last appears wonderful when we consider that it is less than the 

 drop from the generators of an electric railway system to the 

 motors of cars within as short a distance as half a mile, quite 

 apart, moreover, from the extra losses in the latter case due to 

 imperfect trolley contacts. It is hoped also to transmit power 

 before long to the Erie Canal, on which at the close of last season 

 there was an interesting development in the line of electrical 

 canal-boat propulsion. . . . 



Limits to the profitable development of water power. (Eng. news, 1894 

 Oct. 4, 1894. 32:276-278.) 



The plans of the Niagara Power and Development Company for a 

 tunnel and model city. Remarks on the speculative nature of investment 

 in power development for which there is no immediate market. 

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