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Table of Laege Undeveloped Powers in the Development of Which 

 Private Interests or Other Questions Must Be Considered. 



Continuous 



power. 



Horsepower. 



Uong Sault of the St. Lawrence 500, 000 



Jftapids of Niagara river (Using a second time at the rapids the 

 20,000 second feet available at the Falls on the American 



side under the International Treaty) 145, 000 



Upper Hudson 90, 000 



Eaquette * 120, 000 



Total 855, 000 



Total undeveloped power for which electric highways should 



be provided 1, 284, 500 



The commission is conducting a careful investigation of the 

 rights of the State in existing power developments. A complete 

 plan for the development and use of State-owned powers should 

 be worked out, and the support of the Legislature, in the granting 

 of adequate appropriations, is earnestly invited in behalf of the 

 numerous lines of investigation and research which are needful 

 in order that the provisions of the Conservation Law may be 

 realized. Investigations already begun under the Fuller Act 

 of 1907, on the Black, Oswegatchie, and other unsurveyed streams, 

 should be continued, as well as subsurface investigations near 

 Conklingville, in connection with the proposed Sacandaga reser- 

 voir and along the proposed tunnel line, for power development 

 at Hadley. 



During the past year there have been several important devel- 

 opments relating to the river improvement law, the most signifi- 

 cant whereof was the decision of Justice Sutherland in the Can- 

 aseraga Creek improvement matter. When the Conservation 

 Commission, in July last, succeeded the State Water Supply 

 Commission, it was confronted by the Sutherland decision, handed 

 down January 4, 1911, to the effect that, in dealing with the 

 Canaseraga Creek improvement, the Water Supply Commission 

 had exceeded its statutory authority by including in its ordered 

 construction artificial channels, thus grafting upon the river im- 

 provement scheme a drainage scheme. Obviously, if sustained 



