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smaller than in Xew York — probably for these three States it 

 does not exceed 25,000 water horsepower in all. 



Although once stated in a general way, it may be again 

 repeated that nearly all the available waterpower was developed 

 relatively earlier in the States of Connecticut, Massachusetts and 

 Rhode Island than in Xew York. 



It will be shown in detail further on that the Adirondack 

 region, when fully utilized, is capable of developing at least 

 800.000 water horsepower, although the present use on the 

 streams issuing from this region is not more than about one- 

 quarter of this. 



Future power development of the Adirondack region. A num- 

 ber of years ago the State entered into a policy of conserv- 

 ing this region for a State park, and a notion that the interests 

 of people who go to the park is inimical to that of manu- 

 facturing has become prevalent. Here are located the best 

 streams of the State of Xew York, with unparallelled oppor- 

 tunities for storage. Aside from a few developments, the 

 region is as yet untouched. This extraordinary fact becomes 

 specially pertinent when we consider that not only is the area 

 of the Adirondack region larger than that of the State of Massa- 

 chusetts, but that the quality of the soil and the climate is not 

 very different therefrom. Massachusetts is a rugged region, 

 largely underlaid with granitic rocks — the same tiling is true of 

 the Adirondack region. Had the State not entered into a mis- 

 taken commercial policy this region would have been developed 

 somewhat the same as Massachusetts is. and the population 

 instead of being from 90,000 to 100,000 would have been perhaps 

 1.500,000, its river valleys would be dotted with thriving manu- 

 facturing villages and its assessed valuation instead of being per- 

 haps $100,000,000 would have been, in 1900, from f 1,000,000,000 

 to S2.000.000.000. 



The proviso is made that this region would have been devel- 

 oped somewhat the same as Massachusetts, because it is realized 

 that Massachusetts possesses some advantages which the Adiron- 

 dack region does not possess, as for instance, proximity to the 

 ocean, etc. This region is, however, near to the main lines of 

 transportation from the east to the west, and can therefore receive 



