Niagara Falls 



1912 the part Niagara power is playing in conserving the natural 

 Aga " iz wealth of the nation? 



But it is in the field of electro-chemistry that Niagara hydro- 

 electric power seems destined to find its most important province. 

 Electro-chemistry is essentially a child of Niagara. Fifteen years 

 ago this rapidly developing branch of science was in the labora- 

 tory stage, its possibilities unrealized, its potentialities practically 

 unconceived, and it was only when Niagara endowed the 

 electro-chemist with the power that permitted him to put to prac- 

 tical test the experiments of the laboratory that any real progress 

 was made. 



What has been accomplished in the last decade in the field of 

 electro-chemistry belongs really to the category of the marvelous. 

 Ten years ago the United States depended for its supply of 

 chemicals wholly on foreign importations. Today things have 

 changed. Such important chemicals as chlorate of potash, caus- 

 tic potash, bichromate of soda, muriate acid, liquid chlorine, 

 carbon tetrachloride, tin tetrachloride, bleaching powder, phos- 

 phurus, caustic alkali, metallic sodium, and cyamanid, are now 

 manufactured either in whole or in part through electrolytic 

 processes, increasing the efficiency of the product and very materi- 

 ally decreasing the price. 



There is apparently no limit to the possibilities of Niagara- 

 developed power. It has been shown that paper can be manu- 

 factured at Niagara Falls more economically than anywhere, 

 because Niagara paper mills are never affected by water drought, 

 a condition foreign to any other locality in the world. In the 

 firing of china the Niagara electric furnace should also have a 

 considerable future, for it has been demonstrated that with it 

 china can be fired in as many hours as it now takes days, and 

 the electric furnace has none of the discoloring qualities of coal. 



Niagara is indeed the greatest of all conservators; and in 

 serious contemplation must we not ask ourselves — Was this 



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