APPENDIX. 



\_Trmislated from the German, hy James Manning, Esq.'] 



THE NEW WATEEWOEKS AND INDUSTEIAL OPEEA- 

 TIONS AT FEEIBUEG IN SWITZEELAND. By 

 G. Delabae, C.E., OF St. Gallen. 



As a member of the Swiss Society of Arts, whicli had its annual 

 meeting at Ereiburg, on the 19th, 20th, and 21st of August, 1872, 

 I visited the prettily situated town of Ereiburg, on the Saane 

 Eiver, and by such opportunity I became acquainted with the 

 highly interesting waterworks and industrial enterprises which 

 had been undertaken there in the last three years. 



It is as well to remark, at once, that the soul of these under- 

 takings was in the person of its oue director (Mr. Engineer 

 Eitter), who is a highly educated, and is at the same time a very 

 genial and enterprising man. This gentleman has not only brought 

 about important advantages for both sides of the town of Ereiburg, 

 but he has succeeded in gaining the confidence of the capitalists 

 of Ereiburg and of other parts of Switzerland, particularly of 

 Basel and Winterthur, to aid him in the development of his 

 projects. 



On the 4th of October a contract was entered into between 

 the Town Council of Ereiburg and Mr. Engineer Eitter, which 

 was confirmed on the 12th of January, 1870, by the higher 

 Council of the Canton of Ereiburg. Mr. Eitter being thus 

 invested with full powers, the town of Ereiburg sold apart of their 

 forests, about 1,400 English acres, to Mr. Eitter, for the sum of 

 1,400,000 francs, equal to £66,000, and gave him at the same 

 time authority to erect waterworks and hydraulic motive works 

 on the river Saane ; but with this proviso, that he was to supply 

 the inhabitants of the town with an ample quantity of drinking 

 water, as well as to furnish sufficient water power for various 

 industrial mills and works ; but all, of course, with the under- 

 standing that he should be fully compensated for his undertakings. 

 Upon this Mr. Eitter formed a Company, which was called the 

 " Societe Generale Suisse des Eaux et Eorets." This Company 

 allotted to Mr. Eitter no less a sum than 500,000francs (£20,000) in 

 paid-up shares. The Company was duly formed and incorporated 

 by statute in Ereiburg, and at which place it was to hold its 



