Niagara Falls 



1904 Since that time, however, great developments have taken place 



in the electrical arts which have made possible the present 

 realization of such a demand for power. The developments 

 which have created this demand have been, first of all, in electro- 

 chemistry, though the output of the Niagara plant is not con- 

 fined to electro-chemical applications, as is generally supposed. 

 Large blocks of its power are in use for electric railway pro- 

 pulsion, electric lighting, and mechanical power application. 

 One of the recent and important factors in the growth of this 

 power system has been the introduction of the electric motor drive 

 for factory appliances. The evolution of economical methods 

 in power transmission has made the delivery of Niagara power 

 commercially possible to a widely scattered market. 



As a result of these developments in the application of elec- 

 trical energy the first power house has reached the limit of its 

 capacity of 50,000 horse power and the second plant, having a 

 capacity of 55,000 horse power is well along toward its limit. 



The Niagara Falls Power Company's distributing system now 

 covers a very large territory; thousands of people are dependent 

 upon it in their daily lives, and commercial interests of great 

 importance are involved in it. The industrial world has learned 

 that the Niagara power enterprise is no longer an experiment, and 

 that it has already become an important factor in the manufac- 

 turing status of this continent. 



When the Canadian plant is completed the Niagara Falls 

 Power Company and the Canadian Niagara Power Company 

 will have available three large independent power houses for the 

 operation of their system and will be the only power companies 

 having more than one power house for the protection and assur- 

 ance of continuous supply of power. This is a matter of great 

 importance to customers. In case of some unforeseen accident 

 to any one of the plants, interconnections can at once be estab- 



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