Identifier: reviewofreviewsw33newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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■Copyright, 1903, by o. H. I)unl.ii>. A PIIOPIIKCY OF THKKATENKI) ItUIN—THK AMERICAN FAI.I, .SIIKUNK BY WIND AND ICE, MAIUH H, 19t)3. (Failing* tro&ty, the power companies may permanently reduce it to such a ghost of itself.) INTERNATIONAL AID FOR NIAGARA. 435
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THE CUKLING GKEEN FLOOD OF THE CANADIAN FALL WILL KEMAIN LONG AFTER OURS IS RUINED. (Contrast with the picture on the facing page, also taken from Goat Island, but looking in the opposite direction. TheHorseshoe is twenty feet deep; our fall, between four and ten feet only.) MOKE WATER RIGHTS DEMANDED. . AVater rights for two moie American and fourmore Canadian plants have been demanded bygreat corporate interests. They involve, perhaps,50,000 additional feet per second. The Ameri-can companies are the Niagara Power & Devel-opment Company and the Niagara, Lockport &Ontario Power Company. Their legal rights aredoubtful. But there are also four sites for Ca-nadian plants plotted by an Ontario governmentengineer in 1903, which may at any time be soldby the province to intending developers. Thesealone involve 30,000 feet. It is true that, immediately above the Horse-shoe, water may be drawn off with perhapslittle effect upon the American side, owing toGoat Island and the rapids ab

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