Crossword-Solution: USINES 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Lowe's budget, put a premium on the making of bad sugar, are confining themselves to growing the canes, and sell them raw to 'Usines Centrales,' at which they are manufactured into sugar.

Going was bad, up broken little roads over ground composed of a bewildering variety of slag-heaps 40 to 150 feet high, intersected with railway lines, mine heads, chimneys, industrial buildings, furnaces, and _usines_ of all sorts, and thickening into suburbs consisting of narrow winding little streets and grubby little workmen's houses.

The purer _eaux de source_, brought by the aqueducts, are reserved for domestic use; the _eaux de rivière_, from the Seine and the Marne, are elevated to the altitude requisite to serve the higher quarters of the city by eleven _usines_, within and without the walls.

Sugar and rum were essentially plantation products down to the last ten years of the empire, when central usines using improved machinery and methods were introduced as a means of saving the sugar plantations from ruin.

The centres of this industry are St Anne, Pointe-à-Pitre and Le Moule, where there are well-equipped _usines_, and there is also a large _usine_ at Basse-Terre.