HYDROLOGY OF NEW YORK 



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Recapitulation of the total power in use or furnished from 

 Niagara Falls January 1, 1898, shows the following amounts : 



Hvdraillic power: Horsepower 



Niagara Falls Power Company 7,200 



Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing 



Company 7,525 



Electric power : 



Niagara Falls Power Company 21,545 



Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing 



Company 6,355 



Mechanical power : 



Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing 



Company 360 



Total 42,985 



The officers of the Niagara Falls Power Company in 1904 are 

 D. O. Mills, president; Edward A. Wickes, first vice-president; 

 William B. Rankine, second vice-president and treasurer ; E. L. 

 Lovelace, secretary, and W. Paxton Little, assistant secretary 

 and assistant treasurer. 



This company has largely extended its power-house within the 

 last two or three years. In a letter from William B. Rankine, 

 under date of March 21, 1904, it is stated that eleven dynamos 

 in the new power-house are now in place so that the units in- 

 stalled in both power-houses have a rated capacity of 110,500 

 horsepower, and that the company is delivering to its consumers 

 at Niagara Falls, Buffalo and intermediate points a maximum 

 of 75,000 horsepower. 



The 110,500 horsepower now developed represents the full 

 capacity of the present tunnel. This company has secured the 

 right of way for a second discharge tunnel, so that when the 

 demand for power renders it necessary, the present plant may 

 be duplicated, thus furnishing 200,000 horsepower. In addition 

 to this large development on the American side, originally the 

 Canadian Niagara Power Company, an allied corporation, held 

 from the Canadian government an exclusive franchise granting 



