The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-19

The Greatest Scheme II the Ago.
This evening your correspondent in
1peeted articles Of agreement which ha'
just arrived by mad, and we're drawn ~
betwe@sfh6 Prospect Park Association
of Niagara Falls, Niagara County, N
T., of the first part, and Leonard Henkle
inventor, of Rochester, N. Y, of tn
second part, stipulating that for con
! alteration of 81 ,O0O, 900. the party of tn
6rst part agreed to execute to the part,
Of the secOpd part D deed 20 SPDspec
Pafk. it's nine acres of land and the
acres ou9ides, in the villa9e Ct Niagar;
Falls. That this important contrac
might be thoroughly understood, you
correspondent interviewed Colonel Hen
de, the local inventor, this evening.
81 have about consummated," salt
he. 1.-The biggest electric-light projec
-ever1dreamed of. When q New Yorl
paper . few days since quoted a gentle
man as saying he believed all New Yorl
would yet be lighted and heated by cleo
tricity brought through cables from the
power that generated it. at the Creates
cataract in Che world, It only limited Al
half what l, through large company o.
capitalists, propose to accomplish in thai
very direction. This million-dollar con.
tract 1 hold in my hand is only the be-
ginning of the great things that this
prospect will yet develop. have can
vassed among leading capitalists of New
York, Boston, and other large cities,
and found them ready to agree. after
taking mere hints of the nature OF my
new electric-light inventions, that just as
soon as could secure right and title to
the water-power of Niagara, or any
thing co-equal, they stood ready to COM
rbine and push the Inventions to a'prac-
teal test if it took $50, OOO, 900 to do it.
.sIswould be foolish to describe toyou
in any way the exact nature of these in
venions until my project is more prac-
tically perfected, as hope to see it in a
very few weeks, certainly before autumn.
But will say this, that this land con-
tract contemplates the execution of a
deed in fee simple controlling the water
power of the entire American falls at
Niagara. some 100000 horse water
power altogether. When I first APP
preached one of the prominent officials
connecting with an existing Electric
Light Company and preached the SUBJ
ject to him, he pooh-poohed and said:
20, you poor fool, you never can get pos
session of Niagara or the right to its
gigantic water power Why, the Gov
eminent itself has been trying to buy the
American side for a public park. but
couldn't do it. We admit your scheme
might work if you could only get suffi-
.cient power to work it, but Niagara isn't
to be SO easily had
THAT electrician continued Henkle,
9'has already turned out to be false
prophet. You see, here 1 hold title in
controvertible The purchase of Pros
pect Park for S1,OOO,OOO would almost
pay even. if Niagara could not be util-
izedswith it. In181 the receipts of the
Park Association were over $4,000.
Last year they amounted to upward of
$33,000. You see we want that park,
and 1 start for New York just before
midnight to see the promising capitalists
there tomorrow and next day.
"The capital stock of the company
when organized will be about $40, O0O.-
900. Enormous buildings and ponderance
machinery will be constructed on, the
brink of the American falls. and to these
buildings there will be an immense race
way coming from the rapids, a short
distance above the falls We can have
water sufficient for 2,00O,O 900 horse
power there upon the money conditions
named, and the further condition that
the water be returned to the river with
in given distance.
81 decline to describe one process of
generating electricity by this unlimited
hydraulic force, but can simply say We
will conduct that electricity through
properly insulated cases underground to
sixty-five prominent American cities and
towns between Bostonand Chicago. just
as good and fOrcible an electric current
can be conducted 500 miles by my pro-
cess as can be utilized within an area of
one mile. We also contemplate dOmes-
tic light attachments to the main cables,
, and win Just as surely be able to trans
NIT limited electric power for operating
machinery and for heating purposes ulti-
mately.
There will be about 10000 miles of
. cables altogether, with corresponding
AldCnIICiy III iIIuuCtIdl pun PUSCS.- 1uIS
contract, looking toward the perfection
of my project, was, as you see, executed
recently at the falls. Do you wonder 1
said it was big scheme? Do you see
the agreement as to how the 81 ,OOO, 900
consideration is to be paid? The United
States Government three per cents have
been pledged to forward this undertak-
ing. That's why they are named in the
consideration.
Colonel Henkle at this point left to get
ready for the New York train, and babe
the correspondents hssty 4sGood night. y
He is . highly-skilled mechanic, has pat
-ented several very valuable inventions,
and has been working with the electric
light almost as long as Edison. Roches-
ter On ~ Special to Cincinnati En-
quirer. . Z 80 800 Z. = -. -
The Gopher and Prairie Squirrel.
The fact is, the gophers and ground
squirrels belong to different and widely
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