Niagara Falls 



The bibliographical list on this subject is so large, that if 

 all the titles had been included within the confines of this chap- 

 ter, it would easily have made a volume of itself. Those omitted 

 on account of duplication of subject matter will be found in the 

 alphabetical list at the end of the book. Neither was it possible 

 to quote fully from many of the articles cited in the chapter, 

 but from the notes and resumes any student of the subject may 

 easily inform himself as to the context of any article cited. 



In the longer quotations which are given, an effort has been 

 made to choose those which present the broader aspects of the 

 subject, in a manner appealing rather to the general reader than 

 the technical student. With such a wealth of material from 

 which to choose, the difficulty lay rather in elimination than 

 selection. The subjects range from the earlier articles dealing 

 with the potential power of Niagara, the history of the early 

 power developments, the struggle to market the power, the solu- 

 tion of the transmission problem, the application of electric power 

 generated at Niagara to various industries, down to the contro- 

 versy waged between those advocates of an unlimited use of 

 Niagara power regardless of the grandeur of the Falls, and those 

 who, while believing in a proper use of this power for economic 

 purposes still hold for restrictions which shall preserve the Falls 

 for the future. The esthetic side of the controversy is more 

 fully dealt with in the chapter on the " Preservation of Niagara." 



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