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Outline of Plans (with ) for Furnishing an Abundant Supply of Water to the City of New York, from a Source Independent of the Croton Watershed; Delivered Into the Lower Part of the City Under Pressure Sufficient for Domestic, Sanitary, Commercial a

Outline of Plans (with ) for Furnishing an Abundant Supply of Water to the City of New York, from a Source Independent of the Croton Watershed; Delivered Into the Lower Part of the City Under Pressure Sufficient for Domestic, Sanitary, Commercial a


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1888 Excerpt: ... LAKE HOPATCONG. Situated nearly on the divide between the Hudson and Delaware rivers, with an elevation above sea level of 926 feet, and contains about 2,800 acres of water surface. It is of uneven depth, in some places-150 feet. OPINION OF EX-CIIANCELLOR WILLIAMSON. The Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures was incorporated by the Legislature of New Jersey iu 1791, and as expressed iu its charter "for the purpose of establishing a company for carrying on the business of manufactures in this State." The powers and provisions of the charter were ample and generous to effect the object contemplated and to project and anticipate future developments on a scale of great magnitude. Its capital was four millions of dollars, with authority among other things, to purchase lands, tenements and hereditaments, to cut canals, to clean and improve the channels of rivers, and to acquire the right and title to all streams and rivers in anticipation of the necessities for the full enjoyment of the object contemplated. In an opinion of a Chancellor of New Jersey, in a most important litigation, involving the rights of the Society to the enjoyment of the waters of the river Passaic and its tributaries, he.says: "Soon after the passing of the charter, the Society was organized, and in 1792 a "situation at the Great Falls of the Passaic River was made choice of as a suitable place "for the principal seat of their said manufactures.'1 "They purchased the old mill seat and upwards of seven hundred acres of land, vith "the bed of the river both above and below the falls. They expended large sums of money "to create a great water power, to carry on their manufacturing operations with. They "constructed a canal, or water course, a short distance above the falls, to lead the w...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217629508
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217629504
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 104 gr


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