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higli ; on the west side there is a building attached 32f feet 

 broad, which is for the offices and stores. The distance of this 

 factory from the railway is 2,296 feet, and 2,510 feet from the 

 turbine house, as already stated. The first cable is used for 

 driving the saws and other carpentering machines, and which 

 cable up to this station has an eflective power equal to 300 

 horses, and is availed of as required. 



Out of the number of the twelve saws and cutting machines 

 with which this factory is to be provided, the large breaking down 

 saw was finished, and was in full work all last summer, and for 

 the then and present working of which, two locomotive engines 

 were used. It is expected that in November next (1873), the 

 building and all the erection of the machinery will be finished ; 

 and as these latter gradually get into work, so will the returns 

 from the Company's forest lands come in more and more. Already, 

 it may be thought, from this brief notice, that this special factory 

 will be of the greatest consequence to the whole undertaking, and 

 with these expectations it has undergone such expansion as is 

 probably not equalled by any other similar establishment. 



The next factory lies a little nearer the railway. This is the 

 railway carriage factory, and was erected by a branch Company. 

 This establishment is not of less importance than the first-named 

 one. Por the driving power of the various machines for these 

 works, a part of the power of the first or saw-mill cable is used, 

 besides the direct application of the second cable to this factory. 

 According to contract lately entered into between this branch 

 and the parent Company, a motive power of 50 to 150 h.-p. is 

 . provided, and the contract embraces the annual sale of from 2,000 

 to 3,000 cubic metres (2,616 to 3,924 cubic yards) of sawn timber 

 from the saw-mills for the express use of this railway-carriage 

 factory — a quantity that will take one-seventh part of the whole 

 year's production of the forest. This establishment has also a 

 most promising future before it, not only from its profitable 

 purchases of timber from the adjacent saw-mills, but also from its 

 prospects of great returns by the sale and transport of their 

 finished railway carriages, under the very advantageous position 

 of being immediately by or on one of the most frequented railways 

 on the Continent. 



In like manner are the prospects of the next or third establish- 

 ment, namely, the foundry and engineering works. This is 

 situated still nearer the railway station and on the junction line. 

 Its operations will be a great necessity for the carrying out of 

 the various new industrial works at Ereiburg. Eor this reason 

 these engineering works have already been nearly a year in full 

 operation, and when the wire-rope transmission power is in full 

 working order it will demand a motive power from it equal to 

 twenty horses. 



