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equivalent area of farming land in the adjoining township of 

 Lockport was $17,692.88; the total annual net profit to the State 

 on account of the city of Lockport for the whole period from 

 1865 to 1896, inclusive, was $494,169.16, and the present value 

 (amount) is found to be $1,584,765.17. 1 



Streams flowing into St Lawrence river. Proceeding along the 

 St Lawrence river we find a number of streams, such as the 

 Oswegatckie, which flows into the St Lawrence at Ogdensburg; 

 the Grasse, which enters the St Lawrence near the north line of 

 the State ; the Kaquette and St Regis, flowing into the St Lawrence 

 a short distance below the Grasse, and finally the Chateaugay, 

 which flows from this State into the Dominion of Canada and 

 thence into the St Lawrence. These streams all head in and 

 about the Adirondack plateau and, as a rule, fall rapidly from 

 their sources to near their mouths, affording large water powers, 

 which thus far have been chiefly utilized for pulp grinding, paper 

 making, and sawing lumber. - 



There is a lack of definite information in regard to all the 

 streams of the northern part of the State. No detailed surveys 

 of this region have been made. Partial reservoir systems have 

 been constructed on the Oswegatchie, Grasse, and Raquette rivers. 

 Some of the economic questions involved in the construction of 

 these reservoirs have been discussed on another page. 



Until within a year or two, no measurements had been made of 

 any of the streams tributary to the St Lawrence river proper. It 

 is probable, however, that several of them are the best water- 

 yielding streams of the State, because they flow from the great 

 northern forest, and because their headwaters are in the extensive 

 lake region which lies immediately west of the main Adirondack 

 mountains, and which extends westward from the base of the 

 main range to the borders of the forest, a distance of nearly 

 50 miles. This portion of the Adirondack plateau is compara- 

 tively level. As regards geographic distribution, these lakes are 

 most numerous in the northern parts of Herkimer and Hamilton 



1 Abstract from Report to the Board of Engineers on Deep "Waterways. 



