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The following tabulation gives the principal water powers devel- 

 oped on East Canada creek, substantially as they exist in 1904 : 



Number Effective 

 of dam Location head, 



in feet 



1 Beardslee falls 120 



2 Ingham's mills 10 



3 High falls 



72 



4 Dolgeville 20 



5 Stratford 



West Canada creek. This creek, another important tributary of 

 the Mohawk, rises near the center of Hamilton county and flows 

 southwesterly about forty miles, by general course, to the eastern 

 edge of the town of Trenton in Oneida county, where it turns 

 and first runs southeasterly and then southerly for a total dis- 

 tance of twenty miles, finally emptying into the Mohawk at Her- 

 kimer. The following tabulation gives the catchment areas on 

 this stream : 



Square miles 



At mouth 569 



Middleville 519 



Trenton Falls 375 



One-half mile below Hinckley 372 



Prospect * 370 (?) 



Twin Rock bridge 352 



Below mouth of Black creek 349 ( ?) 



This creek has its source in the Canada lakes, which are about 

 forty miles northeast from Prospect. These lakes are known 

 separately as the West, Middle and East Canada. The principal 

 lake of this series has an elevation of 234S feet above tidewater. 

 The catchment area at the village of Prospect where there is a 

 natural fall of about GO feet, is approximately 1570 square miles. 

 At Trenton Falls, three miles below, the stream descends about 

 200 feet in half a mile. x\scending the stream t lie principal falls 

 in order are: Sherman falls. 1>4 feet; High falls. 105 feet; Mill 

 dam falls. 14 feet ; Suydam falls. 12 feet. 



In a report made by Wallace C. .Johnson, under date of March 

 17. 1896, to t lie Trenton Falls Power Company, it appears that 

 of the 370 square miles of catchment area above Prospect, about 



