Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1875 — Soundings at Niagara. [ARTICLE]

Soundings at Niagara.

A party of engineers, consisting of twenty-one men and three assistants, are now at the Falls of Niagara, under charge of Mr. Tower. They have surveyed and made accurate maps of the coast line about ten miles on each side of the Genesee River, while they are just finishing the survey of tt»e river from Lewiston to Navy Island. Here they have been unable to obtain as satisfactory soundings as at other points of the river. Very good results were obtained near the new Suspension Bridge. Directly under the bridge the lead showed a depth of 192 feet, while a Short distance bblow the depth varied froiA 102 to 185 feet. The height of the American falls is 158 feet; this is an accurate measurement, as, through the assistance of Conroy, the lead was placed at the base of the falls near the “ Shadow of the Rock ” The line of the falls is so ragged that any accurate measurement is extremely difficult. Mr. Tower hopes to obtain a faithful survey of this line by using a mirror and thus throwing a light to any desired point upon the other shore. Then he believes that the disputed question about the line of the falls moving up the river may be settled, though there will still enter the query whether the original survey of 1842 can be relied on as an accurate basis of calculation. —Oswego (N Y.) Times. —The Seamen’s Friend Society reports that it has wholly or in part supported forty-eight chaplains, missionaries, tractdistributors and others the past year. It has sent out 898 ship libraries, of which half were new. The expenditures were $65,058. —A fond of a million has been guaranteed to be expended in proving the continuity of several of the Cottonwood (Col.) mines.