Stages Of Legislation And Votes On Charters (Continued) PAGE. Niagara River Hydraulic Tunnel, Power and Sewer Company. {Niagara Falls Power Company 188 188 Niagara, Lockport and Ontario Power Company, Bill, 1904.. 198 198 Argument by C. M. Dow, President, March 10, 1904. 199 205 Letter from C. M. Dow to Governor Odell, April 15, 1904. 217 225 REPORT To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of New York: As required by law, the Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara herewith submit their Twenty-first Annual Report for the fiscal year begun October 1, 1903, and ended September 30, 1904. Twentieth Anniversary of the Reservation. The public lands of the State of New York, a portion of which it is the duty of this Commission to administer, may be classified under three general heads: strictly utilitarian properties, such as the Erie canal; lands reserved partly for utility and partly for pleasure, such as the Adirondack and Catskill parks; and areas which have been acquired primarily for their remarkable landscape beauty or their historical significance. Of the latter, the one for which the State enjoys the widest fame and in which the people of the State probably take the greatest pride and interest, is the State Reservation of 412 acres of land and land under water at the Falls of Niagara. In the acquisition of properties of this kind for the pleasure and instruction of the people, New York has been a leader of the States of the Union; and with good cause. Not only has the high culture of her people demanded it, and her great physical resources permitted it, but probably no State between the two oceans possesses such a variety of scenery to stimulate and at the same time gratify the love of the sublime and beautiful, as the State of New York. With respect to individual features of comparison, other States excel-Mount Rainier is taller than Mount |