Items of Interest July 28, 1906 Issue

Items of Interest

In accordance with the act granting authority to the Secretary of War to regulate the water of Niagara River for the preservation of Niagara Falls, Secretary Taft has announced that temporary permits will be granted power companies to take the following amounts of water: Niagara Falls Power Company, 8,600 cubic feet a second; Niagara Power Company, 4,000 cubic feet a second; Lockport Hydraulic Company, 500 cubic feet from the Erie Canal and 333 cubic feet from the lower level of the same canal at Lockport. The Niagara, Lockport & Lake Ontario Power Company is granted permission to receive into the United States electrical current equivalent to 25,000 horse-power daily from the Ontario Power Company of Niagara Falls, Canada, and the Niagara Falls Power Company is authorized to receive from the Canadian Niagara Power Company not to exceed 25,000 horse-power of electrical current daily. These last two permits are the only ones granted for the taking of electicity generated in Canada into the United States.

The registration for Government lands in the Shoshone or Wind River Indian Reservation began last week. Officials of the General Land Office estimate that fully forty thousand persons will register for homes. The registration will close July 31. The drawing will begin on Aug. 4 and continue until Aug. 15, when the Reservation will be formally opened. There are about 1,000,000 acres in the tract to be opened and from 265,000 to 300,00 acres will be capable of reclamation by irrigation.

Thirty-eight young Chinese, clad in American clothes and minus their queues, arrived in Cambridge last week to enter the Harvard summer school. All learned to speak fluent English at Dr. Tenney's university at Tien Tsin. They will continue their study of English at the summer school, and in the fall will enter different American colleges, fitting themselves as sanitary and mining engineers, chemists, and electricians.

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