398 NORTHERN OUTCROP, CUMBERLAND COAL FIELDS—GILPIN. 
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The Dominion Government have made arrangements for sur- 
veying a line of railway from Maccan to Barnes’ Creek, on the 
river Herbert, and thence to the Joggins, a total distance of about 
nine miles. This line of road would prove a valuable feeder to 
the Intercolonial Railway, and an important outlet to the whole 
Cumberland coal district. It passes across and skirts the 
productive belt nearly the whole way. By it, in winter, 
the Joggins, Minudie and other mines would find an_ outlet 
to New Brunswick and the Upper Provinces. In summer, 
the Maccan, and Springhill, and other mines, would find by this 
road an outlet to a shipping port much nearer than Dorchester 
and Parrsboro’, and open for a longer portion of the year. 
The Joggins coal, I presume almost unknown in Halifax, is 
when carefully prepared a good steam coal. During this year the 
company have contracted to supply coal for a line of steamers 
calling at St.John. Jam not in possession of any data as to its 
qualifications for gas and coke making. 
The coal from the Scotia and Chignecto seams has found a 
ready market as a good lasting house coal, and its adaptability 
for that important use, iron making and working, is shown by 
the selection of the Chignecto property by the Steel Company 
of Canada as a fuel supply. The coal from the Styles seam is 
also well adapted for domestic use, while from trials made on 
the Intercolonial Railway, it would appear to be a good steam 
coal. From its action while burning it should also possess good 
