490 



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DISTANCE DESCENT RATE 



Adams to Pulaski 22 miles 2S8 ft 13 ft to mile 



Adams to Central Square. . 41.4 " 1099 41 

 Pulaski to Central Square . . 20.1 " 967 47 



Taking the Trenton limestone as a base, we find it reported as 

 follows : 



Pulaski 550 ft below the surface 



Mexico 1027 



Central Square 1609 " 



Baldwinsville. 2250 



Warner 2600 



Calculating on the basis of the facts above given, we obtain 

 results consonant in a general way with those previously re- 

 ported. They are shown in the accompanying table. 



DIRECTION DISTANCE DESCENT BATE 



Pulaski to Mexico. . Southwest 8^- miles 479 ft 41 ft to mile 



Pulaski to Central 



Square South 22 " 1036 " 47 " • 



Pulaski to Baldwins- 

 ville Southwest 30 « 16S7 " 56 



Baldwinsville to 



Warner South 5^ " 313 " 57 



The figures of the tables above given will allow still other cal- 

 culations than those that have been made. The calculations 

 establish the fact that the strongest descent is in a southwesterly 

 direction and that the dip increases slowly to the southward. 



It has been a genuine surprise to find at this late day any part 

 of central New York in possession of a considerable stock of 

 stored power. The form in w r hich this stored power is found is 

 the most uncertain and in some ways the hardest to control of all 

 its forms. But it is after all delightfully adapted to the service 

 of man and can not fail to be appreciated and valued when its 

 true character comes to be understood. 



For the first century of its occupation in a large way the state 

 depended for fuel on the noble growth of forests with which its 

 surface was originally covered. 50 years ago, its forests being 

 no longer able to meet the ever-increasing demand, specially for 

 power to use in locomotion and manufactures, it began to draw 



