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armature. As advised by the company's electrical engineer. Prof. 

 George Forbes, of London, three such dynamos, of 5000 horse- 

 power each, constructed by the Westinghouse Company, of Pitts- 

 burg, have been installed. During the summer of 1S96 a trans- 

 mission line was constructed from Niagara Falls to Buffalo, and 

 since November of that year some of the street railways in Buffalo 

 have been operated electrically by power from Niagara Falls. 



According to a statement of William B. Rankine, secretary of 

 the Cataract Construction Company, the power furnished or con- 

 tracted for by the Niagara Falls Power Company July 1. 1897, 

 was as follows : 



Power furnished by the Niagara Falls Power Company in 1897 



Company Business 



(a) Hydraulic power 

 Niagara Falls Paper Company 1 Paper 



(&) Electric power 



Pittsburg Reduction Company 



The Carborundum Company 



Acetylene Light. Heat and Power Company. 

 Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Light 



and Power Company 



Walton Ferguson I 



Niagara Electro-Chemical Company 



Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway . 

 Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge Rail-, 



way Company 1 j 



Buffalo Street Railway Company 



Acetylene Light. Heat and Power Company 8 . 



Mathieson Alkali Works 3 



Buffalo Street Railway Company ' 



Buffalo General Electric Company 4 



The Carborundum Company 5 



Niagara Falls Water Works Company 



Power City Foundry and Machine Company 

 Albright and Wilson 



Aluminum 



Abrasives 



Calcium carbide 



Local lighting 



Chlorate of potash. 

 Peroxide of sodium. 

 Local railwav 



Local railway 



'22-mile transmission 

 Calcium carbide .... 

 Soda ash 



Lighting . 

 Abrasives 



Electro-chemicals 



7. 200 



3. 050 

 1.000 

 1.075 



500 

 500 

 •100 

 300 



250 

 1.000 

 4.000 

 4,000 

 1.000 

 3.000 

 1.000 

 45 

 25 



400 



Total hydraulic power sold at Niagara Falls. 

 Total electric power sold at Niagara Falls. . 

 Total electric power sold at Buffalo 



Total 



7.200 

 10.545 

 5.000 



28, 745 



All from October 1, 1S9G. 

 2 From delivery, say. November 1. 1807. 

 'From June 1. 1S97. 

 *From November 15, 1S07. 

 'From June 1. 1S97. 



