Niagara Falls 



1905 Canadian-Niagara power to-day. (Elec. wld. and eng., Jan. 7, 



1905. 45:17-20.) 



Development of the Canadian-Niagara Power Company's plant; its 

 capacity and its connection with the American plant. 



1905 CLARK, George L. Niagara Falls power, different types of 



Clark development. (Cass., May, 1905. 28:79-81.) 



Nearly every type of water power development known to the 

 art may be seen about Niagara Falls. There we find a deep, 

 vertical shaft or pit near the intake, with water wheels at the 

 bottom, and a long horizontal tunnel for carrying off the tail 

 water to a point in the river gorge below the falls. There, too, 

 is the open surface canal that leads water from the intake to a 

 forebay at the top of the cliff at one side of the canon, and 

 delivers it to steel penstocks that drop to a power house at the 

 edge of the river below. 



In a third case a long steel pipe line takes the place of a 

 canal for leading the water from an intake above the falls to a 

 point at the top of the cliff, whence it drops through steel pen- 

 stocks to a generating station in the gorge. Still another plan 

 is that by which a power canal, several miles long, draws water 

 from the Welland Ship Canal, expands at several points into 

 large storage reservoirs, and finally terminates at the top of the 

 Niagara escarpment, whence steel penstocks run to a power sta- 

 tion near the Lake Ontario level below. 



Besides these existing plants, there is the proposal to dig a 

 long open canal from the upper Niagara River, and conduct 

 the water to a point in the gorge below the whirlpool. There is 

 also the plan to excavate a tunnel with its head below the water 

 level in the gorge above the Whirlpool Rapids, and its mouth 

 below the whirlpool, about one and one-half miles down stream, 

 where the power house will be located. 



Even the underground type of electric water-power station is 

 to have an example at Niagara Falls, if the proposal of one 

 engineer should materialize. This is to sink a vertical shaft near 

 the upper river to a depth approximately equal to the height of 



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