Pelano 



Open Road — Guides — Railroads — Canals — Bridges 



1877 



New guide to Niagara, with descriptions of its scenery, casualties, 1877 

 narrow escapes, etc. Niagara Falls: Gazette printing establishment. 

 1877. 



1879 



Tunis' illustrated guide to Niagara. Rev. and pub. by H. T. Allen. 1879 

 Buffalo: Courier. 1879. Tunis 



1880 



People's guide to Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Chautauqua lake. 1880 

 Buffalo: 1880. Pp. 71-82. 



1881 



ALLEN, H. T. Allen's illustrated guide to Niagara; rev. and pub. 1881 

 byH. T.Allen. Buffalo: 1881. AIIen 



Other editions issued in 1 882 and 1 883. 



DELANO, F. R. The water power of Niagara. N. Y.: Banker's 1881 

 pub. assn. 1881. P. 4. De 



In this connection it may not be inappropriate to mention a 

 plan which was matured some years since for establishing a second 

 Manchester in the County of Niagara. It was known as the 

 Niagara ship canal project, and was the revival of a similar one 

 which had been entertained some years before, and for which a 

 survey had been made by authority of the War Department of 

 the United States. Topographical Engineers under the charge of 

 Capt. W. G. Williams. In 1853 Mr. G. W. Holley, then a 

 member of the Legislature from Niagara, . . . presented a 

 bill which was passed, authorizing the construction of a ship canal 

 from some point on the river above the Falls into the river below 

 them, or into Lake Ontario. The reports to the Canadian authori- 

 ties of the operations of the Welland Canal for some years pre- 

 vious to that date showed that three-fourths of the business of 

 that canal was done by Americans, and there was a strong desire 

 manifested that a ship canal should be constructed on the Ameri- 

 can side of the river, which would be much shorter and more 

 safely navigated that the long Welland Canal. The idea was 

 so favorably received and supported by individual capitalists and 



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