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it is probable that this j^rovince will continue to obtain its supply of 

 coal from the Nova Scotia mines unless the contemplated borings should 

 disclose the presence of underlying seams at a workable depth. 



Passing to the province of New Brunswick it may be said that Car- 

 boniferous rocks have a very wide distribution and comprise an area of 

 more than 10,000 square miles. They form a triangular area with the 

 base along the eastern part of the province extending from Bathurst on 

 the north to the îsTova Scotia boundary line on the south, while the apex 

 of the triangle is near the south-west part of the province. At many 

 points throughout this area thin coal seams outcrop, and near the upper 

 end of Grand Lake, where the coal appears to have the greatest thickness, 

 it has been mined for nearly a century. The thickness of the main 

 seam at this place rarely exceeds twenty inches but in places two seams 

 imite, forming a thickness of two and a half feet. The annual output 

 now amounts to about 40,000 tons. 



The mining is done, in a comparatively inexpensive manner without 

 the expenditure of much capital in the erection of costly mining or hoist- 

 ing plants; and while. there does not appear to be any possibility of in- 

 definitely extending the output, as in the case of the Nova Scotia mines, 

 a fair amount of fuel can l)e raised for local consumption, and the out- 

 put meets with a ready sale. Boring operations have been carried on 

 throughout the coal basin for over sixty years, but have so far failed to 

 find any underlying seams of greater thickness than the one so long 

 worked. These coals are regarded as belonging to the Millstone-grit 

 formation rather than to the productive coal-measures. 



At various points in^ the province outside the limits of the principal 

 coal basin small seams of coal are found, some of which belong to a dif- 

 ferent horizon.- Of these, several outcrops in the south-eastern part near 

 Northumberland strait, belong to the" Upper Carboniferous formation but 

 are of no practical value. At Dunsinane- near the Intercolonial Railway, 

 north of Sussex, seams, similar in character to those near Grand Lake, 

 have been found near the surface, but though borings have been made 

 at Ihis place to over 1000 feet no deep seams have been discovered. They 

 are probal^ly of the same horizon as those of Grand Lake. In Albert 

 and Westmorland counties and on the south side of Chaleur bay small 

 and unimportant seams also occur but have never been mined, owing to 

 their comparative insignificance. 



An interesting occurrence of coal in the northern part of the pro- 

 vince is seen in Devonian rocks on the south side of the Restigouche 

 abooit two miles west of the town of Dalhousie. Here a sheet of igneous 

 rock (diabase) has been injected along the bedding plane of the shale, 



