Niagara Falls 



1912 wonderful manufacturing growth of Western Ontario in the past 

 Agassiz £ ye y ears> Such thriving communities as Toronto, Hamilton, 



London, Guelph, St. Thomas, Woodstock, Brantford, and 

 Stratford have already made marvellous progress in the few short 

 years that they have been no longer dependent on American- 

 mined coal as their one source of fuel supply, while the city of 

 Welland alone has grown from 1 ,800 to 6,000 in the past three 

 years, a record only excelled by Niagara Falls, New York, 

 which has increased its population in the past decade from 20,000 

 to about 35,000 people. 



The industrial growth of Canada, consequent to some extent 

 at least on the Burton Act, is well illustrated by the fact that in 

 1907 Canada was taking less than one per cent of the power 

 generated on the Canadian side, while today she is consuming 

 almost as much as is the United States. 



Few questions are fraught with more importance to the nation 

 than the one involved in the industrial upbuilding of the Niagara 

 frontier, which should become one day the greatest manufacturing 

 region of the world. It is an economic problem that statesmen 

 will have to work out with great care and conservatism. 



Anomalous as it may seem, the hydro-electric development 

 of Niagara Falls constitutes in itself one of the most remarkable 

 chapters in the history of American conservation, aside altogether 

 from the direct saving of fuel the utilization of this wonderful 

 store of natural energy effects. For out of it has been evolved 

 the modern electric furnace, which, with its products entering into 

 every field of human endeavor, is now playing such an all- 

 important role in the industrial upbuilding of the world. 



Without Niagara and the electric furnace, indeed, the really 

 marvellous progress that has been made in the arts and sciences 

 in the past two decades would have been well-nigh impossible. 



What Niagara Falls' power has accomplished for man's 

 upbuilding through the electric furnace abrasive, is so stupendous 



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