The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-28
DELAWARE IN HARNESS
Company Incorporated to Utilize
the Rivers Power-Would
Run 500 Cars.
srecfa1 to the Jersey CITY Nears.

TRENTON, March Is, 1895.-The prop
arsv owned iby the Pennsylvania and
New Jersey Power Company was looked
over bv a reporter yesterday. 1t is not
very pretty to LOOK at, and one Wouio
not want any of it for residential pur-
poses, but on account OF one lact :
about as valuable a piece or grouhu as
one could find. unless he found a soiu
mine. This fact is that 1t is situated
along the Trenton Falls and has a wa
ter power which. engineers say, VIII
weld the energy of 5000 horses,
The property referred to is an islano
on the Pennsylvania Shore reachlng
from a few hundred feet below the PENN
svlvania railroad bridge to within a lew
hundred feet of the Trenton City prloge.
All of this land is not owned by the
company; in fact. on that part aooVe
the Pennsylvania Railroad they own put
a narrow strip of Ian bordering on the
creek that separates it from the main
land. But they own a strip on the main
land also. that borders on the same
creek and extends back to Mill street,
In view of the promising outcome OF the
designs of the company. this street. al
though it is but a country ROAD now.
seems to have been fortuitously named,
and another decade will probably see II
ab,tted with mills Of various KINDS.
RIGHT TO BUILD A DAM.
Rv an act of the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature. approved March IA. 1867, the risht
was given to Adam Hopes, MS heirs anu
assigns. to build a dam in the river "
extend upward and outward 100 1eet'
nroyided 1t did not extend 5o0 1eel lrohl
the Pennsylvania shore. A ia" had pre-
viously been passed by the Legislature
of that State giving the r-ght TO CON
struet a smaller dam that would ylelo
about LOCO horse power. and this mad
been built. a part of the same remaining
at the present time. The enabling act
of 1867 was never taken advantage OF py
the owners, they finding that the states
of New Jersey and Pennsylvania mad
/ concurrent Jurisdiction over the stream
| and never having applied for the approx
al of the New Jersey Legislature.
PLANS FOR IMPROVEMENT.
On March /, 1889, the Delaware river
Improvement Company was formed In
Pennsylvania They bought the proper
ty referred to above. consisting of forty
acres along the Pennsylvania shore.
| This company never made any improve
ments. and about two years ago. a syn
| dictate. consisting of General William 5.
/ stryker. Colonel William H. Skirm, MT.
p f. Lee. Colonel John T. Van Cleef,
of this city, and James F.. Ball Geo.
| r. Gray of Newark. bought the STOCK
of the Improvement Company. They re-
! organized the compan with me view q
utilizing the water power tnat VIZ ~
| ming by their property. and aaopteu tne
name Of the Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey Power Company. -
They saw that 1t was necessary ~
have both States concur IN the IAN
legislation, and SO they nad an mcs
PASSED at the session of the Legislature
Just adjourned concurring, IN the acl os 81
Tbhev are thus enabled to construct a
dam half way across the river;
REPORTS OF THE alMEEn =
their project from a number oI civil ano
hydraulic engineers, among Wnem arg
p. q. Wier. q this sity; J 70 2 9Ssms = Ey p9 y,
power; Edwin w. Harrison, Of Jersey
City, and J. H. Coyode. Chief Assistanl
Engineer OF the. Niaga are Sam - xt u1eS
ing to the middle Of the river q m:ni
mum of 5000 horsepower Will Pc d E !
o oppeaos on the p trssnaInit th ~ p Massa Il from 1
where it is generated g wnere = Is =
be used. If a dam was constructed al
the May y,,; across hs aa 5ne +, rlV Cine - the II horse
power will be increased 400
and 1900. X,
houn street bridge to the place wher'
tha turbine wheels that VIII run Atn'
dynamos VIII be put 2 is seven feet
which with the force OF the 1lpW OF tn
stream is equivalent to ten feet.
The capital stock q the company nav
The 500 horsepower 3 availabl
from the water, and AS g horsepower
calculated 70 be worth 40 per year. y !