APPENDIX. 73 



10. — The laying of the Branch Railway Junction Line. 



The timber from the forest of the parent Company will be 

 floated down and across the Saane to the landing-place on the 

 lake of Perolles near the artificial fishery, and will be conveyed 

 from thence to the saw-mill by means of a special railway or 

 tramroad, where it will be worked up into boards, into building 

 and other timber, or in form of some finished product from the 

 large carpentering shop, and from thence be further conveyed to 

 the railway station at Freiburg (fig. 1.) This branch railway 

 line is about two kilometres long (2,187 yards), and its gradients, 

 from the saw-mills to where the logs are landed from the opposite 

 side of the Saane, do not exceed 14'5 per cent,, and from the 

 saw-mill to the Freiburg railway station only 5 per cent. The 

 railway trucks, which will be used for the transport of ice and 

 timber, as well as for the other wares and raw materials, will be 

 driven by a special wire rope transmission, which will have its 

 motive power given to it by that cable that drives the saws. 



The construction of this railway is now nearly finished. Beech 

 was used for the sleepers of this line, and these were creosoted 

 by a new plan, from which much good results are expected. 

 According to the last rendering of accounts, the cost of this 

 railway amounts already to £1,437 7s. Id., and that sum does 

 not cover all its expenses. Added to this, it should be understood 

 that small branch lines or sidings will have to be attached to each 

 of the separate works, and that the promising establishments on 

 the lake of Perolles require such approaches. The incomings 

 from this department of the works will therefore, for some time 

 to come, do no more than balance the expenditure. But when 

 all the buildings are finished, all works in motion, and all the 

 undertakings in full and satisfactory operation, the capital ex- 

 pended on this railway will doubtlessly yield good returns. 



By this paper I have tried to describe to my readers, in the 

 concisest possible manner, all the new creations that have taken 

 or are taking place at the old town of Freiburg, and I am con- 

 vinced that they will acknowledge with me that it is to the great 

 genius and enterprising spirit of the leading director, to Avhom 

 the special hauor is due for the development of this magnificent 

 and very important work. I think, also, that great credit is due 

 to the finance gentlemen, and to the official persons and others 

 who supported him so powerfully in his great undertaking. 



On reviewing all these creations, which are the result of free- 

 will, and of mutual trust and confidence, we may be well disposed 

 to agree with the elevating idea of the reporter of the Basel 

 newspaper, who, on writing upon this interesting subject of Mr. 

 Eitter's great works, says — " The people of no city need fear its 

 destiny, when the fruitful intelligence of man is ably supported 

 by willing financiers, and that such intelligence otherwise meets 



