Excerpt from The Depreciation of Factories and Their Valuation In the Valuation of a Factory for any purpose whatever, the past depreciations and additions have to be considered, and the possible modifications which may be necessary are dealt with in the later chapters. The first four chapters have already appeared in the Engineer, from September to November 1883, but have been revised and extended here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.