The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-20
Twelve Mechanics Finding Bot ion Fer Great Water
 Power System
ARTIFICIAL LIKE
 EIGHT MIl.ES LONG
IImp0undad WstGTS lli Housa' ionic VIII Cover Miles of Roads and (lt
 Dwellings
fsnecial to The Earener.l

sS@xrto.zyn. Conn. Ar,zii f0x--A party Of twelve mechanics under tl1e civil anxineering firm Of sprae ue S H an. wood of Scranton. Pa began lsasz ,eT ee3< che dri1l11E and 5oa 5n g on the a5auzs and bed of the Hozz a ton 1cA asly--. .ar for. the long ta 1lxed-of zoar Bridge 1sepxer plant for the so1sporation ons known as the N. Ys N F. 6 F F co. the Bay st ate Gas arc Improve
 -Tst7o TOW e1sfa1i engines are. driving
 s-e.ssef3 al ar Ills tlls1l Elt the s1Is farH t0 bedroeH. and when slEffc honeyeomDeds gispt es7pl sslXes VII zsss,- a hole k17 the bowels of the earth 5e4. tie bit of ff1e dazn T1iis dam will rise thirty-ffve feet above the bed of the river ana lrnpound tE e wafer9 of xhe Housatorze, and crease an lrreEf7 zalar artificial lake run nnils hack up stream fo the railroad tasi des at Ssaz1-'
 7vI Hook station. distas1cs Of mora than eight miles from the dezn. Al lowing for a level Of tTso feet over inc darn as a ma 1zi1rl 1lr11 | sf1f Of the waters. the iznpot udlng Hs r Hood over nlns miles Of foadway in ale towns of S0utnplIfy and 1]1zforps ana c7yer' r zz1fH dreds of acres or 1oN land in the same towns on the left nix Of the river with "a su banerBinf5 of many acres 1n NeTttoWi1 and the Wapplng road near Bennett's Brt1ge: It. will also wipe o<t more than q SCOTS of fled Ter trFe hzpkzTed sats at t7ze 9ase oE these lower stre 1lses of the ] I3ez kshire naoun tains W 1lcn follow { R>nfh sides of the river fro nl fits spprre i F, the Taconic ra nge in North western Iazaszacziu to the fall ltie at Der hv and shelton
 TBese fi1o1nee have all been p11r- chased by the attorneys f1z' the power oof1pa1Y or taken by condemnation Brpneedinas The author lti es Of Qx- x5fd and so4thbsl1.y do mot regret the loss 0f their hieshWayss as the state fo b4Id1d state road nor sh and south es, <z1e eastern 5s1lz as sossn as the survey cf the power ccn1l5 af9 would Hisclass how nu4h of flzA and would be invp1ved
 Esropstz no1dess is1 ths zrnnediate @.t the idea Of Increased zalua lions of fhaIr holdings lien the power plant fs conpIeted and some 5oelIsFe vi1- za6e will spring up aroun by the pp- t4ary of the power rorpera tion pth- exz there are vino are specaIa tin E nz the e1ectr1 1liesi ton of 5he Csonsolid- afed ralIrcaH to New a5s ven by Jl1aa 1st and the acknowledged incapacfty of the Cos Cob power plsmlt to do the xnGF1HSea YRorR IS not 4l6 immediate 6crasibn of the fever1sh haste or all
 eonneeted with, the enterprise near 2 z'oar BtidEa.
 The contrartor,s expect 50 start the <VcrlE or building the dam in three
 weeks and to have 1t built by Jul 7.
 yRfn asIzed who was back of the en- ter tr4sa 4thsIf Ai1AVeeras were evasiva, tnut some Of the readias public o1 17ewtovn believe the PennsyI vania kradlroad AofE1ctaIs could ts they would zansWer clearly Tn the nea tlrne the rempressed air drills are Hailine and +zhriekfng to the scold1ns crows and rvAtAr fowl that h0ver D sar, and soon
 zEev will have to chanf:e their ha.b- '1tak- To the tourist in tlie House.t oIlfc
 valley this inland lake as he sazes
 down upon it from tie new state sziigbway cannot but prsivo an added
 ettraceiqn. for the topography of this
 section wilI undergo great change,
 As the result of t1ae liam at zcaz