Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-02 | Page 13 | Take Water from Falls

TAKK WATER PROM FALLS Power Company Plans Another Step in Destroying- Niagara. NIAGARA FALLS. Jnn 1 The ex ten-tflun ten-tflun of the canal of the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing company will be opnei soon, and another an-other step will have hecn taken toward destruction of the falls A new powerhouse, power-house, which when completed will be the largest on the American side of the river. is to bo built ioj feet below power-houae No. 2. In order to give this new- power-house S feeder on extension of the company 'a extended anal was necessary. Both aides of the extend. -i! . unal have been finished with a concrete wall The husln Is thirty feet deep and fifty feet wide. The head gates, massive steel structures, are said to be the largest In tha vorld The land upon which the power-house Is to be located was at the bottom of a sheer cliff at the edge of the goin-- and at the foot there was sicareely enough level ground to permit the erection of a good-sized shanty. The r'dff has bsan blasted Into the river to make room for the power-house. The water will not be permitted to pass the headgates however, how-ever, until next season, owing to the unfinished un-finished condition of the work beyond (bat point.