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Show A TREATY TO SAVE NIAGARA FALLS The United States and Canada havo negotiated a treaty which controls the diversion ot water from the Niagara Niag-ara river aud preserves tho scenic grandeur of Niagara fall3 for 3ll time The treaty goes into full effect automatically au-tomatically In March, upon the ex-piratl6n ex-piratl6n of the law which now limits lim-its somo of its provisions. The international agreement was mad In response to a general demand de-mand that the question of water diversion di-version be settled onco and for all In aocordance with ovpert opinion. Tho treaty makers had exhaustive tests conducted by hydraulic engineers engin-eers and It was determined that di-cublc di-cublc feet a second on tho Canadian side and 20,000 cubic feot a second on tho American side, out of a total flow of 240,000 cubic feet a second T;he use of this quantity of water ifor (power purposes, the engineers found, would not affect tho appearance appear-ance of the falls sufficiently for tho oyo to detect. Sinco only about half the quantity permittod by the treaty is now diverted, twice the present horse power can he produced without endangering the scenic beauty of tho catarncL |