The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-01

The side of the mountain instead of curves
and countercuryes, and that the cars
could be run much more rapidly. IL
takes less than ten minutes to go from the
foot of the mountain to the top, ana it
used to take the stage coach three or four
hours. The precautions which have llsen
taken to prevent accidents are simple. If
the cable should break an auto
matte clutch would seize a support on the
the track and the car be brought to a
halt. 1t used to take all day to go from
New York or Boston to the top of this
favorite peak of the Catskills. but after
the cable road was built last summer a
company OF capitalists were invited to
make the journey from New York City,
the idea being to make record for
time. In a little over three hours after
the train left the Grand Central station
abe party was at the summit of the
mountain. The road viii be continued
so that it viii descend on the west
slope Of the mountain, and the engineers
have done some rather complicated work
TO overcome the difficulties which were
presented on the west side.
CAPITALISTS and engineers as well are
talking great deal about the consumma-
ton of the vast plans for the utilization
of the water-poWer which has hitherto
gone to waste over Niagara Falls.
When the scheme was proposed few
about Investing. 1t had been az old
story Some engineers were very
doubtful about the practicability of any
plans TO secure any portion OF that great
power. At last men connected with what
are called the Vanderbilt interests ad-
vaneed some money eXperimentally and
were so well satisfied that the capitaliza-
ton of the corporation was completed a
few years ago and the great work begun.
1t is now announced that within a few
weeks the plant viii be finished, and the
company viii be able to furnish 80 900
horse power to the city OF Buffalo, and
ultimately TO serve more distant cities
with sufficient power to light streets and
run manufacturing establishments. The
development of electricity as a motive
power made the completion OF this Mag
ara tunnel scheme possible. The power
which the great volume of water passing
through the tunnel WIZ furnish is to be
communicated through electric dynamos,
thus making it possible to distribute this
motive force over a great territory. On the
Canadian side of the river another tunnel
is to be constructed speedily, which
is to provide for separate electric
plant. serving some OF the Canadian
cities. but chiefly to be used as sort of
duplicate for the American system. Both
the plants viii, engineers say, be able to
furnish power sufficient to turn the
notwithstanding
lishments as can be Guilt between the
Niagara river and the city of Buffalo, and
already propositions have been received
from some great manufacturing estab-
lisnments in different parts of the United
States looking towards the abandonment
of their present sites and location here.
If the expectations OF the engineers and
ihe company are realized, there Will be
built in this vicinity the greatest electric
manufacturing city in the world. Colonel
Albert d. Shaw, who was one of the most
conspicuous consular representatives of
the United States some years ago, believes
that a city of more than one million peo-
ple,with magnificent yearly output, Will
be established IN this region.
Private adyices received in New York
city indicate that the engineers and sur
veyors sent out by the government of
the United States and those of the South
American continent have progressed
much further IN their work than the
public realizes. The district in which
they now are is the southern portion of
Ecuador They have surmounted the
difiicult mountain regions OF that coun-
Try and although they are not permitted
to write much about their work. yet re-
Dorts have been received in New York
suggesting that they have found an en-
figelv feasible pathway over these noun
tsfns. A firm of New York bankers is
able to keep pretty close track of the M
gineers. since this firm has issued ex-
change for them which have been cashed
n some Of the Ecuador towns Each
monthly mail brings a nex set of these
ohlioations from towns considerably
fartl7er south than those from which the
bills OF the month before were received.
The engineers are likely to get
info the region OF the upper waters
Of the Amazon early in the sum-
mer. and it is possible that they
NAV find greater difficulties there than
they did in the MOUNTAINS. The country
is 50 cut up with the afiuents of the Am
azon that very frequent bridging will be
necessary. In the fall the engineers are
likely to reach the mountains OF Peru,
and thence southwark their work viii be
comparatively easy. When they have
made their reports, the project then be-
comes a matter Of inter- continental con-