This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. HOW THE COMMISSION HAS GONE TO WORK. TP HE Hydro-Electric Power Commission established its headquarters in the City of Toronto, and organized a technical, clerical and general staff, proportioned to the work undertaken by the Commission, the expense of which has, of course, shown a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. HOW THE COMMISSION HAS GONE TO WORK. TP HE Hydro-Electric Power Commission established its headquarters in the City of Toronto, and organized a technical, clerical and general staff, proportioned to the work undertaken by the Commission, the expense of which has, of course, shown a progressive increase since the year 1905. The estimated expenditures of the Commission upon its work for the year 1911-12, amounted to $268,690, of which a sum of $95,600 was devoted to expenditure upon appliances, furniture and a laboratory, leaving the operating expenditures of the Commission at $173,090. It will be recalled that the Chairman stated that the Provincial appropriation in this expenditure was "fifty "to sixty thousand dollars a year," leaving over $100,000 to be met by the revenue of the electric systems. The members of the Commission gave their services gratuitously to the work in which they have been so greatly interested, and it was not until the spring of 1912 that a payment in the form of an "honorarium" of $6,000 a year was voted by the Ontario Legislature to the Chairman of the Commission, in respect of the services he is rendering in that capacity. The Commission has dealt with four problems of hydro-electric service in four widely separated localities in the Province--at Ottawa, the Niagara district, the Big Chute System, and at the City of Port Arthur. In none of these has the Commission attempted to construct or to acquire, or even to operate hydro-electric power plants or developments, but has purchased from existing corporations a supply of energy on contract, and has then sold it to municipalities. This course has been taken after every opportunity had been afforded to ascertain the cost of operation of such power...
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Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall 281 pp; This great book has only previous owner's name on front pastedown. Dust jacket has light soiling & edgewear with 2in chip at top edge. An attractive book with a solid binding, and a clean tight unmarked text. Jacket protected in a clear Brodart cover. Includes BW photos. Bolton set out to inform the taxpayers of the city of New York how building a power plant such as the one at Ontario would be an ill considered and ill-informed scheme of government speculation.
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Very Good+ No Jacket. Baker & Taylor. Copyright 1913. First Edition-1913 also printed on title page. VERY GOOD+. A fresh clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy. Light foxing to page edges, otherwise text is fine. Bound in light green cloth cover with gilt lettering front and spine. The cover is clean with light rubbing to spine ends, corner tips. Binding firm, hinges tight. With photo portrait of author on frontispiece. Bolton was an avid historian of New York City and state, resided in Washington Heights and authored "Washington Heights, Manhattan: Its Eventful Past. " Here Bolton decries the planned vast over-expenditure of public funds for an "ill-considered and distinctly ill-informed scheme of Government speculation in the electrical industry"-and reveals facts gained from studying Ontario's experiment with hydro-electric power that should awaken New York taxpayers to the dangers of this greed-driven plot. 5 x 8"; 281 pages.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 281pp., frontispiece and other plates; showing the author, Niagara Falls, the diminished Niagara Falls as the result of development, transmission lines, P.W. Sothman, designer of the Niagara transmission system, Hamilton, and power lines in Ottawa with the pre-1916 Centre Block of Parliament, later destroyed by fire. Minimal wear, previous owner's signature. "This is the story of a Great Experiment undertaken by nearly three-quarters of a million people, to which they have committed themselves and their successors for a quarter of a century to come, and in which they have involved themselves in a vast expenditure of public funds, and have shouldered a heavy burden of debt...It is an experiment which has involved the people of a great Province, in the surrender of some of their constitutional privileges..." A criticism of public involvement in hydro generation.
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