Niagara Falls 



1895 States. Two railroad bridges cross the river there, each used by 

 several East and West trunk lines, and other such bridges are 

 already talked of. Railroad freight rates are in competition with 

 each other, and with lake and canal rates, and are to-day no 

 greater from Niagara Falls to New York and to Boston, than 

 they are from the established manufacturing centres of the East 

 to these cities, while they are, on the other hand, very materially 

 less from Niagara Falls to the great cities of the West, Southwest 

 and South than they are from these same older manufacturing 

 centres. The present favorable conditions will bring more manu- 

 facturing into the Buffalo and Niagara Falls district, and, as such 

 things always operate, will also bring in still other trunk lines of 

 railroad. 



It is for the purpose of enabling the occupant of any mill-site 

 of the Niagara Falls Power Company to receive cars shipped 

 to him by any line of railroad entering the Buffalo— Niagara Falls 

 district, and of delivering cars directly to any such railroad, that 

 the Niagara Junction Railway Company was organized and the 

 road built. It is an allied enterprise of the Niagara Falls Power 

 Company and will do no little in furthering the growth and busi- 

 ness of the new city, benefiting, in turn, all the trunk lines that 

 do now or will, eventually, traverse the Niagara Falls neck of 

 land between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Lake transportation, 

 and transportation on the Erie canal are, however, also available 

 to the occupants of these mill-sites. Many of them front directly 

 on the Niagara river, where it is navigable, and none of them are 

 any great distance from it. 



It will not be necessary to say much more on the subject of 

 water connections at the Niagara mill-sites. The Niagara Falls 

 Paper Company has a square wheel-pit, which is connected with 

 the main tunnel tail-race by a branch tail-race, 7 feet in 

 diameter. All dimensions of underground work are kept as small 

 as possible at Niagara Falls, to economize rock excavation, as, for 

 example, the branch tail-race just mentioned. Fall being a com- 

 modity of less than the usual value on these sites, it is economy 



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