Show patting niagara rail falls toworu to work tile the plan is a one A or shaft Is to bo be cut through the rock close by and parallel with ibe river IW feet deep and running halt half a ill ruile ile or more back from the falls TI the Is opell ciul ot of this thin littia or tunnel ta Is to empty out ot of tile rook rock at the falls alia a foot foit or two above the level of the water below the tha cascade whenever a company wants water power it may sink a vertical shaft from tile tho surface almost down to this horl kontal shaft la in the bottom of 0 this thia vertical shaft a turbine who I 1 Is in 9 be ba placed and below tills thia a smaller ella eliast fit for a tail race will carry the tha water from tile tho wheel to the great horizontal shaft which will then work as baat waat alpe to car curry ry ort off the water in order to gt the needed water to drive tile tha chool it will only be necessary to build a short pier on the river shore to catch the edge 0 of I 1 tile swiftly flowing current and divert diver t it a lettla of il by means ot of a ditch or pipe alpe into tile alio vertical shaft and so BO past the wheel heel and through the great are nean w shaft and back into the river again below the tha falls these vertical shi baft lifts are to be big enough to admit one or two of tile the workmen who must place the turbine in position anil and afterward attend to it it is said that a wheel as 03 big as a mans hat bat will supply horse power though this was said carelessly by the reporters informant wh acknowledged uncertainty as to the precilia cilia amount now new york sun |