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Mr. Tata had the matter prominently before
his mind for nearly thirty years before his
death. He was convinced that the utilisation
of this kind of power, so common in the
west, would prove of the greatest industrial
value. It was while he was in the look out for
an eligible site for his Empress mills near the
Jabbulpore marble falls which led him first to
utilize water power for industrial purposes.
However the idea did not take any practical
form till 1897. In that year an old expert
friend, who was connected with a European
local firm whose former brokers were the
firm of Mr. Tata, offered him the option
of bringing up the concession of the power
to be obtained from the Doodh Sagar falls
at Goa. This led to a mature consideration
of the ultimate value and utility of the falls of
the Western Ghauts in preference to those near
Goa. And an examination of all the physical
and scientific facts led to the resolution that
the falls of the western Ghauts were im-
mensely inferior. Mr. R. B. Joyner C. I. E.
who was one of the earliest expert consultants,
had described the value of them in a small
leaflet from which some interesting sentences
may be reproduced. Those will enable the
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Mr. Tata had the matter prominently before
his mind for nearly thirty years before his
death. He was convinced that the utilisation
of this kind of power, so common in the
west, would prove of the greatest industrial
value. It was while he was in the look out for
an eligible site for his Empress mills near the
Jabbulpore marble falls which led him first to
utilize water power for industrial purposes.
However the idea did not take any practical
form till 1897. In that year an old expert
friend, who was connected with a European
local firm whose former brokers were the
firm of Mr. Tata, offered him the option
of bringing up the concession of the power
to be obtained from the Doodh Sagar falls
at Goa. This led to a mature consideration
of the ultimate value and utility of the falls of
the Western Ghauts in preference to those near
Goa. And an examination of all the physical
and scientific facts led to the resolution that
the falls of the western Ghauts were im-
mensely inferior. Mr. R. B. Joyner C. I. E.
who was one of the earliest expert consultants,
had described the value of them in a small
leaflet from which some interesting sentences
may be reproduced. Those will enable the
66