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Paper Company, where the water wheels ordinarily work under 

 from 67 to 68 feet head, yielding a power of something like 7731 

 horsepower. The crest of the power dam above the falls is at 

 an elevation of 801 feet above tidewater, while the crest of the 

 barrage at Carthage will be placed at 772 feet above tidewater. 

 There will remain, then, when the reservoir is just full, 29 feet 

 head instead of about 68 feet, as at present. During such flood- 

 flows as occur, with the water surface of the reservoir above 

 crest of barrage at Carthage, the head will be less, although this 

 condition will only rarely occur. Usually, with the reservoir 

 drawn somewhat down, the head at Lyon Falls will be, on an 

 average, from 30 to 35 feet. In any case the mill will largely re- 

 quire reconstructing in order to conform to the new conditions, 

 and from this point of view the damages have been liberally 

 estimated. The Gould Taper Company was expending about 

 |200,000 on improvements to their mill during the summer of 

 1899. 



At Deer River village the backwater of the reservoir just 

 about reaches the crest of the lower dam, practically eliminating 

 water-power at that dam. 



At Lowville there is an old mill, the waterpower of which will 

 be destroyed. 



At New Bremen there are three small establishments entirely 

 submerged. 



At Fentoms Mill, on the east side of the reservoir, a small 

 feedmill will be submerged. 



The chief damage will occur at Beaver Falls and Lyon Falls, 

 the mills at the other places being relatively unimportant. 



Tabulations are given in the Report of the Board of Engineers 

 on Deep Waterways similar to those given in discussing the 

 Genesee river storage project, from which it is learned that a 

 reservoir of the size and capacity indicated would furnish 2200 

 cubic feet per second to Black river every day in the year and 

 at the same time be adequate to meet all possible contingencies 

 of water supply for the proposed deep wa tor ways. The total 

 capacity of the reservoir would be about 2600 cubic feet per 

 second. 



The estimated cost of this reservoir was. in 1S99, fg/T*2,200. 

 In 1904 the cost may be expected to be approximately 25 per 



