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Niagara Falls Power Com pan}/. The Niagara Fulls Power Com- 

 pany has developed an extensive plant on quite different lines 

 from that of the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufac- 

 turing- Company. In 1883 to 1885 Thomas Evershed, who was at 

 that time division engineer of the western division of the New York 

 State canals, was called on to survey Niagara Falls Park Preserva- 

 tion, as provided for by act of the Legislature. This led Mr Ever- 



Fig. 42 Niagara Falls and vicinity, showing location of the great tunnel. 



shed to spend considerable time at Niagara Falls, during which 

 he conceived the project of constructing a tunnel to begin at the 

 level of the lower river and extend under the city of Niagara Falls 

 for a distance of about miles. This tunnel was to be generally 

 parallel to the Niagara river, but at some little distance from 

 it. At its head and at various points along the river from above 

 Port Day it was proposed to construct branch canals connecting 



mission, by Orrin E. Dunlap: Western Electrician, Vol. XIX (Dec. 5, 1896) ; 

 (4) Pulp Mill of the Cliff Taper Company of Niagara Falls, New York, 

 by W. C. Johnson: Trans. Am. Soc. Civil Eng., Vol. XXXII (Aug., 1894). 



