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and cut stone, with a corrugated iron roof. Pumping is effected 

 by a small donkey engine, which is also arranged to hoist bank 

 coal to the screening platform, the quantity of water in this mine 

 being so insignificant that a two-inch column-pipe is sufficient to 

 deliver it. 



Second Seam, 



The discovery of the Acadia seam was followed by the discovery 



of a second seam, underlying at about 160 feet, by Capt. Blacker 



of the Acadia colliery. At the pit sunk by him the following 



thickness was found : 



Ft. In. 

 Slialy coal 3 10 



Good coal 7 8 



11 6 



The bench known as good coal seems, from the specimens I 

 have seen, to be of a shaly character, and none that has come 

 before me would be saleable. On the Carmichael area this is 

 opened by only one trial-pit, now filled up. 



AREA NO. 3. 



Upon the No. 3 Acadia area no coal has been found, but from 

 the presence, as proved by trial-pits, of the black shales overlying 

 the Main seam, it is probable that the representatives of this and 

 underlying seams occur beneath a portion of this area to the west 

 of the McCulloch-brook fault. Of the size or character of the 

 coal no information can be obtained without extensive prospecting. 

 The only opening which is near this area is the Culton adit, and 

 from the strike of the Culton seam at that point, it may be pre- 

 sumed that it will continue on to No. 3 area. 



Railway. 



The Acadia Coal Company have built a fine single-track rail- 

 way of about three and a-half miles in length, the main line ex- 

 tending from the west slope to the track of the government railway 

 at a point near Coal Mines station, and passing through the 

 Acadia village near the McGregor colliery, with which it is con- 

 nected by sidings. From the junction at the railway station the 

 coal is conveyed over the government railway to the Acadia 

 loading ground at Fisher's Grant, on the east side of Pictou har- 

 bour, near the entrance. The shipping wharf extends into the 



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