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b. Cane Flumes, Flume cuts and shelves, and the "Cane Pit": Related to the industrial <br />sugarcane milling complex was the method by which the cane was delivered to the Mill. <br />For most of its existence the harvested sugarcane from the fields of the plantation was <br />delivered through a system of on grade water flumes. The hand cut cane pieces were <br />bundled and placed in the flumes and they coursed their way down to the crushing <br />plant. Being on grade and using water as the transport medium, the flumes were <br />elevated over low spots and valleys, or they were `cut' into the ground to pass through a <br />high ridge or other such elevated impeding height of land. The terminus of the three <br />major flumes was the "Cane Pit" upon the subject parcel. The round concrete side and <br />floor structure collected the cane prior to it being loaded into the cleaning plant and <br />main delivery flume to the crushing plant. <br />Cane Storage Pit witb Crane and Feeder Table in Operation <br />