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cent greater, or $7,140,000. The relations of cost to the water 

 power to be developed may be obtained by considering the de- 

 tailed tables of developed power on Black river as given in the 

 Deep Waterways report. The storage of Black river reservoir at 

 level of crest of dam is 57,200,000,000 cubic feet. Hence the cost 

 per million cubic feet of storage becomes, on the basis of the esti- 

 mate of 1904, about $125. 



Storage Reservoirs on Hudson River 



Hudson river is divided at the Troy dam into the upper or 

 water-power section and the lower or tidal portion. The pro- 

 posed reservoirs are in the upper section above Troy. 



Early surreys. The project for constructing storage reservoirs 

 on the upper Hudson has been agitated for many years, the first 

 surveys for this purpose having been made in 1874. In that year 

 Prof. F. N. Benedict conducted surveys, and in his report pro- 

 posed an extensive system of reservoirs. The chief interest 

 attaching to this report is the proposition on the part of Mr 

 Benedict to build storage reservoirs at Blue Mountain, Raquette, 

 Forked, Beach and Long lakes, and divert the water stored on 

 these several lakes from their natural drainage into Raquette 

 river, to the south, thus making them artificially tributary to the 

 Hudson river. In proposing this diversion, Mr Benedict appar- 

 ently assumed that the State, in its sovereign capacity, could 

 divert waters from one catchment area to another without re- 

 gard to the rights or wishes of the riparian owners. 



In addition to the lakes already enumerated, which arc 

 naturally tributary to Raquette river, Mr Benedict proposed to 

 make reservoirs of the following lakes and ponds in the upper 

 Hudson catchment area: Round pond, Tallin lake. Rich lake. Har- 

 ris lake, Lake Henderson, Newcomb lake, Lower works reservoir. 

 Chain lakes, Goodenow pond, Goodenow river reservoir. South 

 pond, dear pond, Slim pond, Ackerman pond, Perch pond, Trout 

 pond. Lake Harkness, Shedd lake, First Sergeant pond. Third 

 Sergeant pond, Plumley pond, Moose pond, and Cary pond. The 

 total storage to be furnished by the entire system of reservoirs 

 is placed at 18,419,781,600 cubic feet. The total cost of the pro- 

 posed reservoirs was placed by Mr Benedict at about $265,000, 

 or, including the diversion canal and improvements at Long lake, 

 at a total of about $160,000. The dams proposed were to be 



