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an effect of 600 h.-p. From the third pillar the transmission 

 branches off in two lines : the first, as stated, goes over No, 4 

 pillar to the saw-mill ; and the other passes along to the railway 

 carriage manufactory. These two end stations are connected by 

 a third line, which stretches from the saw-mill downwards to the 

 ice houses on the Saane, and on the other side of the carriage 

 factory on to the foundry and engineering shop, and thence to 

 the chemical manure making works. 



A second cable, for which the pillars are already erected, is 

 planned for the direction of the lower town, and next to the 

 projected paper mill, &c. 



The whole erection of the cables, together with the turbines, 

 are given by contract to the firm of Eicter & Co., of Winterthur, 

 and are already nearly finished. The cost was at first estimated 

 at £2,000. This sum is however considerably overstepped, inas- 

 much as the director's last statement of accounts showed the cost 

 of the cables to have already reached £2,662 17s. 2d. These 

 extra costs beyond the estimate arose in this way : that it was 

 determined during the progress of the work to start the founda- 

 tions of the pillars directly upon the rocks themselves, instead 

 of building them as first intended upon the alluvial formation 

 which overlies the rocks ; but this proves to be money well spent, 

 because so much of the well maintained transmissive power by 

 the cables depends upon the solidity of the under structures, and 

 consequently would be so much more economical and satisfactory 

 for the driving of the machinery of the different operations 

 carrying on upon the plateau of PeroUes, and in the valley of the 

 lower town. 



5.— The Industrial Works on the Plateau of PeroUes. 



We have now more specially to speak of the various industrial 

 works, which are ready, and of others that are nearly ready for 

 operation, and which are situated on the heights of PeroUes, and 

 close to the Freiburg Railway which leads to Lausaune. 



a. The saw-mill and great carpenters' shop. 



h. The railway carriage manufactory. 



c. The foundry and engineering works, and — 



d. The chemical manure works. 



The first of these factories is the mechanical saw-mill and 

 carpenters' shop, and this is retained in the interest of the 

 parent Company (Soeiete Generale Suisse des Eaux et Porets) in 

 order that they may have under their own control the economical 

 use of their own forest timber, besides having at their own 

 command the profits to arise out of the sawing and the cutting 

 up of the timber. The building that they have erected for this 

 pui'pose is 282 feet long, 131 feet broad on the ground floor, and 

 where the saws and the other machines are erected it is 24i feet 



