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The hatliing establisliment is connected with a swimming school 

 for the summer, and a skating school in the winter. There is 

 also a washing and a bleaching establishment here, besides a 

 hotel, at which, in summer especially, every agreeable and 

 refreshing luxury can be obtained. This spot consequently is 

 likely to become a favourite resort for tourists, and is already one 

 of the most attractive places in the whole neighbourhood for the 

 inhabitants of Freiburg. 



In the winter season a temporary residence there will give a 

 fair impression of the severity of an Alpine climate ; but notwith- 

 standing such a drawback the place will be much frequented in 

 winter for the purposes of skating. 



The ice-houses are also immediately in the same neighbour- 

 hood, and are built in the steep and shelving sides of the bank 

 on the left side of the Saane. There are already two or three 

 dug out, and it is intended to have ten such ice-houses, each of 

 which is to hold 200 waggon-loads of ice. As it is intended 

 immediately to have a branch railway from the shores of the 

 upper part of this lake, to be connected with the main Freiburg 

 line, for the special purposes of bringing their forest timber in to 

 the saw-mills, and the ice for transportation to all parts, so it 

 may be counted upon that this ice business also has the promise 

 of a flourishing future. 



9.— The utilization and farming of the Forests purchased from 

 the Town of Freiburg. 



In consideration of the advantages to arise to the town of 

 Freiburg by the creation of this parent Company, as brought 

 about by Mr. Hitter, and more especially as an equivalent for 

 the important benefit of the new water supply, those authorities 

 made over to Mr. Eitter a large forest in the valley of the Saane 

 above the dam on that river. The destiny of this contract goes 

 to prove that it is one of the greatest groundworks of the whole 

 enterprise, and affords a guarantee from the very first that the 

 whole affair will be carried out to the satisfaction of both con- 

 tracting parties. Against the great costs which the parent 

 Company have been subjected to, through the building of the 

 dam and sluice works, through the turbine arrangements and 

 other waterworks, through the wire-rope transmissive power, and 

 through the other industrial works, it will be mainly recouped 

 through its timber which it purchased from the town, and which 

 the Company will convert into the best possible advantages 

 through the saw-mill, and by the railway carriage manufactory, 

 and through sales of timber at good prices to purchasers from 

 the south of France. 



