The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-01
NIAGARA GETTING HARNESS ON
sHIS YEAR WILL SEE BIG DOINdS
~ POWER DEL ELOPMENT.
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NIAGARA FALLS, Dec. 3l.-Thc coWu's
yrar Is az stined to witness wonderful az
n''on 70 the force which man has deveioltu
.loin the waters of Niagara Falls 70.
'"e Iast two years there has been sreaV
"o"'Ity in power development on 'no
Ndhau ian side. and it Is probable thaV
!ear from to-day will see Canadian Magyar"
!" the lead In the electrical horsepower
taken from the river currents
In 1883 the lands about the Horseshoe
Fall on the Canadian side werr thrown
open for park purposes, and ever since
there has been a constant letting OF fran
chi>es by the commissioners OF Victoria
Park TO secure revenue 10 maintain the
free pleasure ground.
At present there ara three power com
panies at work constructing plants for
developing the rivers energy. The Can
adam Niagara Power Company will de-
velop 10000 horsepower, the Electrical
Development Company Of Ontario will
develop $4,000 horse power and the On
tario Power Company has franchises which
viii allow il TO develop 10000 horse power.
Thus the franchises Of these three COM
panies will permit total development OF
$4,000 electrical horse power, and 1t is
likely that rights for a more extensive
developmsn Mt can be tecured.
The Canadian Niagara Power Company
has the initial section of it, installation
about ready and it will not be many days
before 1t Is announced from Niagara that
the greatest turbines and generators ever
built are in successful operation. The plan
adopted is similar 70 that OF the Niagara
Falls Power Company on the New York
ode that is wheelpt and tunnel tail
race. The companies are allied
The wheel PIT construction is similar to
that on the New York side, but the tunnel
Is shorter, its length being about 400 feet
as compared with a length OF 1000
feet OF the first tunnel built at the Falls.
The portal is close up by the Horseshoe
Fall, and when the rush Of water plunges
from it the currents at the base of the fall
will feel a new and important influence.
In size the Canadian tunnel Ia slightly
thslarger OF the two, but its shoItness makes
the development on the Canadian side far
more economical than that on the New
York side. The power house is Of stone,
and similar 20 the big power houses on the
New York side
The leading feature Of this development.
however will be the size Of the unit adopted
for the development On the New York
side the power houses have units Of 5000
horse power but in This new Canadian station
the unit "a to be double that or 10 COO horse
power. This large unit was adopted for
economys sake a turbine and generator
Get which will develop 10000 horse power
requiring little more space than aat which
ripzre on ( mn horse Tho
orators will be wound for n three phase.
1900 volt. Is cycle current, at $50 revolu-
tons minute and this will allow the paral-
lei operation Of the two plants.
When transmitted TO the New York side
the current from This big Canadian plant
will be passed through Transformers and
chan ged 20 2.2O0 volts. two phase The
Canadian company has the privilege or
placing its transmission cables across the
upper steel arch hridre, and on each side
cables are now laid in condut- ready for
the current.
This Canadian company has secured the
wight OF way for transmission line along
the Canadian side between Niagara Falls
end Fort Erie Initiating that possibly
some of the electric current may he trans
mitted 70 Buffalo The inviting field how
ever. j. the city Of Toronto. where there il
p demand for power. and it l. probable that
the first Niagara power sent 10 Toronto
~ill 90 over transmission line now build
UlG lTHll ttl~ pant. II 80 II VIII not he
many months before the eighty miles he
tween Niagara FALL and Toronto will be
covered hy the transmission. and when
this ia accomplished the loHTest transmits
sion yet will have heen effected in con-
nection with the Niaoara DEVELOPMENT
To transmit the current 50 far. its voltage
vill be raised TO 900 or 90 coo.
The Electrical Development Company Of
Ontario. which i, developing nower in
Nictor1 Park has al4o adoptcd the wheel
4 Il / =.
NOW being sunk and some progress has
been made in driving tho tunnel which
will he about > 100 feet long. - feet wide
and % foot nigh, built in the fonm Of horse
shoe THIS tunnel viii discharge behind
the ehcet Of winter Of tho Horseshoe Fall
Al i's unrer end Two lateral tunnels will
extend lGi feet 70 the ends of tho wheel nit
and through the-p lateral tunnels the
wafer from the turbine, viii reach the main
'unuel
Tho Ou-ar.o powor ,mpanv has built
two io~r1 forriav, ;u Victoria Park above
the .DrNerin Isard- screered carefully
r. avoid Inconvenience from ice In winter
time 4 the lower end ri the inner fore
har il will -or - gatehou~n. whore tho
winter of the torehay will fow into huge
steel pipes eighteen feet in diameter the
largest cte- usad H. connection with a
power devplopmeui
Tho pipes ere built of steel rlates riveted
together and covered outside with CON
creie. md then with ear'h to eouali7c tho
earth pressure. Ono Of these steel fumes
now H. rlaoo Is over r go feo' long II is
expected o. deliver mo Cubic feet n wafer
n socord into q spillway unar old Table
Rock Clo4' lv the cd-e of the HIGH brink
From tbs point tho water will be taken
hv venHtncks toa power house at the wnter's
edgc in iNo gorge. very close TO the hpsa
Of the old waterfall. IN this station the
unit Of development will be 1000 horse
power arc The vn'er from each steel furne
ts rooted 20 HnfrpiCD IN ON hArzn-