114 OTJR COAL AKD OUR COAL PORTS. 



The cable gives tlie necessary power, in several directions, to 

 the following named industries, namely : — 



A large foundry and engineering works, 20-horse power. A 

 paper manufactory. Chemical manure works, 20-horse power. 

 A flour mil]. A stone-cutting and stone-polishing works. 

 Pottery works, and gypsum-grinding. 



This was all that was in work, or in progress of erection, to the 

 end of last year. The rest of the available power was expected 

 to be soon farmed off. 



The farming of this immense motory power is, however, only 

 one source of profit out of many others that Herr Eitter obtains 

 for his flourishing Company by his great engineering design, to wit: 



He has obtained fifty years' right to the artificial fisheries 

 produced. 



He is erecting ten ice-houses, each of which is. to contain 200 

 waggon-loads of best ice, to be harvested each winter from off the 

 artificial lake, and which ice will be transmitted in summer to all 

 parts of the Continent by rail. 



He has obtained all the sewage of the town free of cost. The 

 whole of this he removes in a diluted state, just fitted for 

 irrigation purposes. 



These three last-named industries he sub-lets to another 

 bi'anch Company, which is called "Societe de Pisciculture, Grlaciers 

 et Irrigation." In this last undertaking, as in all others, Herr 

 Eitter has obtained the greatest fame, and has achieved important 

 results by an especial appliance of his own, used here at Preibourg 

 for the first time — namely, by sending off all the diluted sewage 

 to two suburbs, north-west and south-west of the town, by means 

 of compressed air, and without the aid of any pumps. The sewage 

 and the water is received into two large reservoirs at each place, 

 from whence it is all utilized, with wonderfully fertilizing results, 

 whilst the town is thereby kept in a state of great purity and 

 healthiness. 



Herr Eitter is also working off (in prudent quantities) the 

 forest timber of the large acreage purchased for this purpose. 

 The forest being situated above the dam, and now on the borders 

 of this long artificial lake (measuring 160 acres) he is enabled to 

 float the logs across the lake and down to the dam, from whence 

 he conveys them by a tramroad for half a mile, to the large saw- 

 mills which are annexed to the great railway line. The profits 

 on this timber enterprise alone, and consequent on the cheap 

 motive power at his command, yields no less a return for this 

 Company than thirty francs on every cubic metre of timber sawn 

 into various forms. 



Besides the above industries there are various minor means 

 applied for increasing rental, namely, by large washing and 

 bleaching establishments, and by swimming and skating schools 



