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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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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 balance will be available for electric lightingand for operating motors for various mechanical and otherpurposes. To the inhabitants of St. Johns who, through all this longand dreary waste of years, have been dwelling upon the ex-treme outport of the continent, the diversion of this riverfrom its idle pastime to practical ends—this final innovation—is an event of benign import. That, at last, upon the thresholdof this great epoch, they should be transported to and fro byelectricity, is a realization far greater than the dream of ages.It is meet that a people who have waited so long should enjoythe latest and the best fruits of all preceding research.
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CHAPTER XXIII. BELL ISLAND. The deposit of red hematite iron ore at Bell Island, New-foundland, has brought this once obscure isle in ConceptionBay into great prominence. The island has an area of aboutsixteen square miles, it being some eight miles long and twomiles wide. The discovery of this deposit dates back but a fewyears, and was purely accidental. A fisherman picked up whathe supposed to be a heavy stone as ballast for his boat. Uponhis arrival at St. Johns, it was discovered by a mining pros-pector, who investigated it, and soon became satisfied of itsvalue. This led to the vast development which has followed. The ore exists under conditions so peculiar and remarkableas to render it the most interesting deposit yet discovered.The ore bed is composed of regular blocks of red hematite ofvarious dimensions, from four inches in length, two incheswide and two inches thick, to larger sizes. They are piled up,one above the other with singular regularity, the depositsaveraging eight

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