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mile. Evidently this sum is not mathematical, as it 

 increases inversely with the distance, that is to say, if 

 the first mile would cost $900 the second would be 

 much less. 



This system can be worked by two men and a boy, 

 but, if with a greater number of hands, as many as 

 100,000 kilog. (220,000 lbs.) can be sent to the factory 

 daily. This idea in Europe is considered most excel- 

 lent, but for short distances only. But it strikes us that 

 there are thousands of cases, if applied as it should be, 

 even at a distance of sevei'al miles, where most satisfac- 

 tory results could be obtained. Cases we have up to the 

 present examined have been for factories working under 

 comparatively favorable circuriistances, that is to say, 

 within a short distance of limestone that is required, 

 near a railway station or a canal facilitating the arrival 

 and departure of the fuel consumed or sugar manufac- 

 tured daily; or, again, within a few kilometres of the 

 farm which furnishes the beets that are required. 



"We will now, on the contrary, suppose these condi- 

 tions changed, and a factory working 100,000,000 to 

 150,000,000 of kilogrammes per annum, and situated ten 

 or more miles from land yielding beets ; this location 

 having been chosen not on account of the special qual- 

 ity of the soil, but principally for commercial con- 

 siderations. The above plans of transportation have 

 been most excellent when the factory was comparatively 

 small, but, when on a scale as we now suppose, the 

 problem would be far too complicated, and cause too 



