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1903 was determined to use the discharge water from the wheels then 

 Van Cleve installed in the wheelpit above described. Accordingly a new 

 tunnel was driven from the face of the cliff to connect with the 

 bottom of the wheelpit and the discharge water was thus led to a 

 steel penstock 8 feet in diameter laid on the same slope as the 

 talus. In case sufficient water is not discharged from the upper 

 wheels an arrangement is provided for admitting water from the 

 basin directly into the upper tail race . 



The plant for the Cliff Paper Co. was the fore-runner of 

 the present electrical power plant of the Hydraulic Co. As 

 soon as the company saw that electrical generation and trans- 

 mission was an assured success and that Niagara Falls was 

 destined to become one of the great electro chemical centers a 

 line of pipe was laid from the basin to the edge of the lower river 

 and water under a head of 2 1 feet thrown from a giant nozzle 

 or " Monitor " commenced to wash away the rock that for ages 

 had fallen from the bank above to the shores of the gorge below. 

 A level strata near the waters edge was cleared, the fallen 

 boulders were used for masonry and a power house 1 00 feet wide 

 was built immediately below the old mills, being located a short 

 distance above the upper steel arch bridge. 



. . . a figure to be carried away with you tonight is that the 

 wheels now installed by the Hydraulic Power and Manufac- 

 turing Co. and its customers have a total capacity of 38,000 

 H. P., an amount approximately equal to the total power at 

 Holyoke. Very important is the announcement that a new power 

 house with a capacity of 50,000 H. P. is about to be commenced. 

 This power house will contain high voltage dynamos and will be 

 used for supplying new industries in the district just mentioned. 

 Niagara Falls will then contain three great factory districts using 

 an amount of electrical power far exceeding that of any city in 

 the world which employs water as its motive force. 



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