Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23

| give each team ten feet on an ordinary
roadway, and you would have one great
/ double file of horses sixty miles long hitched
| to the works Of this power plant. don
know how many hundred thousand horse
| power the falls of ST. Mary's river can fur
nish. but this company has already har-
| messed a force equal to 1900 and can de-
! liver that force through Its canal and plant
here.
The water rushes into the canal at the
rate of 30, 600 gallons second. 1t taxes g.
| good-sIzed barrel to hold fifty gallons. II
| you will imagine the falling of thousand
| Of such barrels from the second story OF
| your house to the ground every time your
| watch ticks all day and all night, every day
| and every night the year through, you may
| appreciate something of the power which
Americans own on the Canadian side Of the
4 falls.
Of this mighty force 1900 horse power is
consumed in the plants now in operation
here, and 10000 horse power has been
| leased to the Union Carbide Works; so that
| there is something like 10000 or 10000 horse
power left to sell or turn into new uses
| The force runs the pulp mill and other fac
tories. 1t is carried to the steel works and
| saw mills, and it operates the cars and
| lights of the town 1t is developed by tur-
bine wheels. which transform 1t into cleo
tricity, so that it can be sent anywhere by
wire
Factories Like Medieval Castles.
The main buildings of these works are
right on the st. Mary's river. not far from
where the great steamers pass through the
Canadian locks on their way down the
lakes. They look like medieval castles
rather than modern factories, and are equal
In beauty to any of the ruins of the Rhine
or the Danube Indeed, they remind me of
the mighty forts of Delhi in North India.
They are built of rich red and white sand
stone, with crenelated walls, and, notwtth-
standing their beauty, are said to have been
remarkably cheap. A canal had to be
Dug for the power plant. Its path was right
through the rock, and the rock taken out
was this white reddish sandstone. The
strata was such that the rocks were just
fitted for the building Indeed, the stones
could be raised up like bricks from a pile
and laid in the walls without redressing.
All Done by the Water.
It is interesting to go through these fac
tories and see how the power is applied In
the pulp MILL where hundred two-horse
wagon loads of pulp board are turned out
every day, L saw Lake Superior grinding
the logs to dust. mixing the latter with
water and changing 1t into miles of paper
for the printing establishments of the
world. The output at present Is such that
1t could paper a pavement as wide as the
ordinary sidewalk clear around the world
in less than three months.
In the sawInil saw Lake Superior cut
ting millions of feet of lumber into boards
for the markets of the United States and
in the veneering works birch logs as big
around as a flour barrel were being rolled
out into sheets, some as thin as your little
a g los 20 oi.I ia aI Pibi % Ing ooaio
This yeneerine is used for the hacking of
mahogany and quartered oak, which is
brought here in thin sheets from Grand
i haplus ana oeher places by means OF me
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sniid nak whereas he has oniv the i.9otf,eet
of nine Or other rough wood on which is
niacad a strin of birch with filn, of ma
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