Identifier: newfoundlandatbe00harv (find matches)
Title: Newfoundland at the beginning of the 20th century : a treatise of history and development
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Harvey, M. (Moses), 1820-1901
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936
Publisher: New York : The South Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rifes, itsanxieties and its ambitions, its struggles, its weariness and itsvanities are things of the past. He has entered a more realexistence, where true peace abides. He partakes of thecalmer moods of those about him, and lives again the free andhappier days of the long ago, when the small troubles of theday were lost in the sweet repose of the night. The needs ofman are few ; his desires are many. It is little to supply hisneeds ; his desires are the source of his woes. Who, tossedon the ever-restless billows of lifes sea, ever seeking, butnever finding rest, would not learn a lesson of wise living fromthese careless villagers. The several crystal lakes, resting upon an elevated plateau,have a superficial area of 56,000,000 square feet, and are anever-failing storehouse, from which the river, whose cadenceshave been stilled, draws its supplies. Its course has beendammed, and its stored waters are conducted by means of aflume eight feet square and 3,300 feet in length along a level
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NEWFOUNDLAND. 179 to a tunnel that has been bored for 350 feet through a moun-tain of stone. At the opening of this tunnel, a steel tube,starting at a right angle, extends down a steep incline 185feet to the power house. Down this tube the immense volumeof water rushes with augmented momentum upon the waterwheel. This is the embodiment of gigantic force, evolvinghundreds of horse-power. The present capacity of this power hydraulic plant is1,600 horse-power, but the flume is sufficient for another plantof equal size in case of requirement. In transmission of thepower to St. Johns there is a loss of 20 per cent., which leavesan amount adequate to present demands. To supply thispower reduces the level of the dam but six miles. Six wires arerequired to transmit the current from the Petty Harbor powerhouse, seven and a quarter miles, to the sub-station atSt. Johns. From this sub-station adequate horse-power willbe furnished to operate twenty street cars over seven miles oftrack, and the ba

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