Utilizing Niagara Falls

Tbe rondón Graphio thus speaks oí what it terms the desecration of Niágara Falls: "Nothing is Bacred to tha practical man of the present age, especially when he happens to dweil across the Atlantic There he uses the tronders of nature as adrertising boards for puffing quack medicines or patent stoves, and the picturesque and grandiosa are only appreciated by him in proportlon to their utilitarian value. For many years past, howerer, he has had a standing grievance. In tha falla of Niágara he has sean a forcé of 7,000,000 horse power running to waste, and hi regrets that no effort has been made to utiliza so stupendous a forcé hare found rent in very newspaper in tha Union. "Eis niind is being now set at rest Som years since the first considerable use of water power at Niágara was madeby the running of hydraulic canal about a mile in lengt h ƒ rom Port Day to a point below the falla. Thb lias been so sucoessf ui that a far more ambt tious enterprise is now being nndertaken by a Niágara Tunnel and Power Companjr.' BrieÜy outlined, tbe scbem to to construct subterranean tunnel trom the water lina below the falls (marked X. In the illustration) xtending thi-ough the solid rock to the upper Niágara river, at a point about one mila bove the falls, where a head of 120 f eet 11 obtained. It is stated that the magnitude oí tbe power thus available wül exceed the con bined power in use at Holyoke, Lowell, Min neapoús, Cohoes, Lewiston and Lawrenc The mili sites are to be provided with raO way sidings and tracks leading to all import tant northeni railways, while the Eria canal, ■eren miles distant, is connected with the river and is thus uvailable íor the dispatch of goods. "The cost of this scheme Is estimated at 4,000,000 to $5,000,000, and the work is to be executed by an army of 10,000 Italian laborera."