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take water from the lower level and discharge its tail-water into 

 the creek. Finally the Jackson Lumber Company was permitted 

 to construct a sluiceway on the tow-path side, through which it 

 drew for many years about 600 cubic feet per second, and which 

 was all discharged into Eighteenmile creek. Complaints having 

 frequently been made that boats were drawn against this sluice 

 on the tow-path side, the Superintendent of Public Works, in 1892, 

 granted a formal permit to the Jackson Lumber Company to 

 construct a sluice and subway under the canal bottom, by which 

 this water is now drawn from the berme side. Under this permit 

 a substantial masonry sluice was constructed in 1893. In the 

 meantime the Jackson Lumber Company has gone out of exist- 

 ence and this waterpower has passed into the hands of the 

 Traders' Paper Company, which now occupies the site with its 

 pulp-mill No. 1. 



The west branch of Eighteenmile creek descends about 175 

 feet within the limits of the city of Lockport, of which 148 feet 

 have been utilized for power during recent years. 



The following are the companies now using power on this creek 

 and the horsepower used by each : 



Horsepower 



Traders' Paper Company 1,060 



Lockport Paper Company 230 



Niagara Paper Company 115 



YVesterman & Company 320 



Cascade Pulp Company 925 



Oowles Smelting Company 1,185 



Total 3,835 



The output of the establishments on the west branch of Eighteen- 

 mile creek is about f 2,000,000 a year; but this sum includes the 

 output of the Indurated Fibre Company, which, Avhile operating 

 by steampower, depends largely for a supply of pulp on the 

 Cascade Pulp Company. In any case the figures show the magni- 

 tude of the manufacturing interests which have been fostered in 

 the valley of the west branch of Eighteenmile creek by discharging 

 into that stream about 300 second-feet of water from the Erne 

 canal. 



