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 stations near the dam, or head canal, and then transmitting the * 8 f. 



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power produced, instead of water to produce it, to the consumers, 

 or mill-owners. Up to within say five years, this had always 

 been accomplished by means of wire-rope transmissions of power, 

 and it is easy to see that the invention of the electrical transmission 

 of power would give this form of the utilization of a large water- 

 power a great impetus. Many such plants are, therefore, already 

 in existence, many are building, but among them all, no one is 

 probably so celebrated, and is attracting the attention of all 

 intelligent men as this at Niagara Falls. 



The work at Niagara is designed to be utilized in both of the 

 methods above described, and examples of both methods of dis- 

 tributing power are built. The plant of the Niagara Falls Paper 

 Company is an example of the first and older method of power 

 utilization, while the Central Power Station of the Niagara Falls 

 Power Company is the grandest example yet undertaken of the 

 second described, and the later method of power distribution. 

 The Niagara Falls Power Company also owns some 1 200 acres 

 of land adjoining the Central Power Station and the present head 

 canal, all of which can be utilized for the sites of manufacturing 

 establishments by one or the other of the methods described. 

 This has been laid out in streets and blocks, with a freight rail- 

 road, to be spoken of presently, connecting the mill sites with all 

 the trunk lines that pass Niagara Falls, and adjoins the residential 

 district being developed by the Niagara Development Company, 

 whose first fruits are the village called Echota, and the adjoining 

 wharf and other property. But over and beyond all this, a trans- 

 mission of power to Buffalo, only 20 miles off, and possibly still 

 further, is within the scope and design of the Central Station now 

 building. 



One of the neatest and most valuable attributes of the Niagara 

 Falls Power Company's mill sites is the road of the Niagara 

 Junction Railway Company. Niagara Falls is already, or is 

 destined to be, one of the great railroad centres of the United 



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