Niagara Falls 



1911 before the committee on rivers and harbors of the House of Representa- 



United States {j ves f t ne United States, sixty-first congress, third session. Wash.: 

 Congress ^^ p^ Qff ]g]] £ p j 5 3 7_ 6 24 p., 2 pi. 8°. 



United States. — War Department . . . Preservation of 

 Niagara Falls. Message from the president . . . transmitting informa- 

 tion relative to scientific investigations made by certain officers of the War 

 Department, for the preservation of Niagara Falls . . . Washington: 

 [Gov't Print. Off.] 1911. 1 73; diagr., maps., pi. 4°. (U. S. 62d 

 Cong., istsess. Sen. doc. 105.) 



Reports by Major Charles Keller, Francis C. Shenehon and Sherman 

 Moore. 



1911 WHITE, ARTHUR V. The water-powers of Ontario. (In the Corn- 



White mission of conservation, Canada, Report on the water-powers of Canada. 



Ottawa: Mortimer co. 191 1. P. 35-100,1 13, 354-361.) 



Pp. 35-100. Deals with the establishment of the Niagara Power 

 Union, the powers and activities of the Hydro-Electric Power Commis- 

 sion, the rates and amounts of power supplied under agreements made by 

 it, discusses in detail power development at Niagara Falls and on the lower 

 river, — its esthetic and commercial aspects, national and international 

 legislation governing development, the franchises of the various companies, 

 Canadian and American, the amount of power being actually developed, 

 the general conditions governing power development on the Niagara river, 

 its power possibilities, the power of the lower Niagara river. 



Pp. 1 13—1 14. Table on power conditions at Niagara. 



Pp. 354-361. Bibliography of reports relating to the Niagara river 

 and Falls, and Index to official documents relating to Queen Victoria 

 Niagara Falls Park. (Pp. 357-361.) 



Power Development on the Niagara River 



Since 1905, the general situation regarding the development 

 of water-power on the Niagara river, and at Niagara falls in 

 particular, has acquired a very different status from what it had 

 before. For years the supply of Niagara's waters for power pur- 

 poses was regarded as practically inexhaustible. To acute 

 observers, however, it was evident that, even up to 1906, under 

 the powers and privileges which had been granted to various com- 

 panies in the United States and Canada, it might have become 



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