How Are You Gentlemen !!

In A.D. 1901

War was beginning.

What happen ?

If you know what you're doing, you can help determine which of these gentlemen ended up with what.

Somebody set up us the problem

Five gentlemen (Abercrombie, Billington, Carruthers, Darlington, and Edmonstone) each paid a different amount of money (from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000) for a different kind of facility meant to deal with a different chemical compound, each located in a different U.S. city.

1. The depot was located in Zanesville, but neither the mine nor the warehouse was in Effingham.
2. Billington bought the facility in Harrisville.
3. The facility in Zanesville sold for $3,000,000; the sodium bicarbonate facility went to Darlington for less than that.
4. The laboratory in Dearborn sold for more than $1,000,000, and it did not work with either quicklime or ammonia.
5. Darlington's warehouse cost him less than $4,000,000.
6. Edmonstone did not end up with the ammonia facility.
7. Abercrombie's facility and the refining plant and the potash facility each cost more than $2,000,000.
8. Only one facility was found in a city that started with the same letter as its purchaser's name.
9. Carruthers was a big spender: he paid $4,000,000.
10. The cheapest facility was found in either Akron or Effingham.
11. Ammonia and caustic soda were processed in Effingham and Harrisville, though not necessarily in that order.

You are on the way to deduction

What d'you say !!

• The third letter of the kind of facility that processes caustic soda.
• The second letter of the city where the laboratory is found.
• The first letter of the name of the gentleman who spent $5,000,000.
• The first letter of the substance that is processed in Akron.
• The second-to-last letter of the name of the gentleman who purchased the depot.
• The first letter of the kind of facility that cost $2,000,000.
• The first letter of the substance that is processed in Carruthers's facility.
• The fourth letter of the name of the gentleman who purchased a facility in Harrisville.
• The first letter of the city where Edmonstone purchased a facility.
• The first letter of the name of the gentleman who purchased the quicklime facility.
• The last letter of the name of the gentleman who purchased the mine.
• The first letter of the kind of facility that is located in Zanesville.
• The first letter of the name of the substance that is processed in the facility that cost $2,000,000.
• The first letter of the kind of facility that is located in Dearborn.
• The fourth letter of the name of the gentleman who purchased the sodium bicarbonate facility.
• The second letter of the substance that is processed in the laboratory.
• The first letter of the name of the gentleman who purchased the facility in Akron.
• The third letter of the substance that the depot handles.
• The second letter of the name of the gentleman who spent $4,000,000.
• The second-to-last letter of the city where the quicklime facility is found.
• The last letter of the kind of facility that cost $3,000,000.
• The fifth letter of the name of the gentleman whose facility is located in Akron.
• The second-to-last letter of the substance that is stored in the warehouse.
• The fourth-from-last letter of the kind of facility that processes caustic soda.
• The last letter of the kind of facility that is located in Akron.
• The third letter of the city where a facility sold for $4,000,000.
• The third letter of the name of the gentleman who bought the potash facility.
• The last letter of the city that contains the mine.
• The second letter of the city where Edmonstone's facility is found.
• The last vowel in the city where the warehouse is located.
• The fourth letter of the name of the gentleman who paid $4,000,000.
• The third letter of the substance processed in Harrisville.
• The last letter of the name of the gentleman who bought the laboratory.
• The seventh letter of the name of the gentleman who bought the quicklime facility.
• The third letter of the city where caustic soda is processed.