St. Lawbence County 



603 



Records op Temperature and Precipitation at Canton 





Temperature 



Ph 



Average 

 inches 



ECIPITATION 





Aver- 

 age 



Hig 



I1KIX1 



i )egrees 



lest 

 num 



Lowest 

 minimum 



Greatest 



amount 

 in 24 

 hours, 

 inches 



Snow, 





Year 



Degrees 



Year 



depth 



in inches 



January 



16.6 

 15.3 

 26.7 

 42.8 

 54.4 

 63.9 

 68.7 

 66.0 

 58.4 

 46.9 

 34.5 

 21.5 



43.0 



60 

 61 

 72 

 85 

 93 

 94 

 98 

 96 

 91 

 83 

 70 

 61 



9S 



1890 



1900 



1910 



1913 



1911 



1901* 



1911 



1916 



1900 



1891 



1902* 



1911 



1911 



—37 



—43 



—26 



1 



21 



30 



34 



35 



25 



14 



—15 



—37 



—43 



1898 



1898 



1900 



1911 



1902* 



1897 



1894 



1914* 



1897* 



1895 



1917 



1894 



1896 



2.85 

 2.50 

 2.58 

 2.34 

 3.38 

 3.42 

 3.72 

 3.47 

 3.25 

 3.04 

 3.02 

 2.75 



36.64 



1.18 

 2.15 

 1.26 

 1.58 

 2.36 

 1.58 

 1.94 

 2.90 

 2.72 

 2.27 

 1.87 

 1.07 



2.90 



15.4 



February 



16.6 



March 



14.1 



April 



3.2 



May 



.1 



June 



T. 



July 









September 



T. 



October 



.2 



November 



7.2 



December 



14.1 



Year 



72.5 







; Also earlier years. 



TOPOGRAPHY AND NATURAL CHARACTERISTICS 



As St. Lawrence County covers so vast an area it shows great 

 variety of surface, from the heights of the Adirondacks in the 

 southeast to the flat, open country lying near the St. Lawrence. 

 A very peculiar feature of the topography of the county is the 

 curious course pursued by the principal inland streams. They 

 all rise in the highlands and flow for about half or more of their 

 course directly toward the St. Lawrence, when they make sudden 

 turns and flow to their union with the great river in courses 

 almost parallel to that stream. The Raquette River in its course 

 from Tupper Lake to Massena has a fall of 1,500 feet, furnish- 

 ing a waterpower that is extensively used in the manufacture of 

 electricity. Every twenty-four hours there is used by the 

 Aluminum Company of America at Massena 200,000 horsepower 

 of electricity. It is possible to produce in this county many 

 times this amount. At Hannawa Falls in the town of Pierrepont, 

 electric current is supplied for Ogclensburg, Potsdam, Canton, 

 and other sections in the northern part of the county. 



Tho middle and western portions of the county are somewhat 

 broken by protruding masses of Potsdam sandstone. The northern 

 and northeastern portions are generally level or slightly undulat- 



