.MINKKAT. ItKSOUlv'CKS, l.'M 



'Ijlurt" Heail. Tlii- imiuiitaiu iU'li'iiuiiK'> ilic soutlierii liouiidai-v 

 .(if tliL' scTpeiitim^s. 



" It was liere tin- a-ln-stos tii->I attrarte'il imu'li notice. Blnll' 

 Hi'ail was long k 111 )\\ II Id ilu- lisln-riiuMi of tlic m-igliliourliood as 

 ■'Cotton Ro(;k;' ami it raiiic in tin- kiuiwii'.lgc of tlic Hon. Pliiliii 

 ^'Icai-y, of 8t. JolinV, who, sonit* tliree- years ago, equippeil a 

 sniall e\]RMlition to ilo some j^i'ospecting woi'k in the neiglil)oui-- 

 IkhiI. The .succes.s nut v. ith was so ininieiliate and mai'ked that 

 ■iithei- claims were immediately secured, till in a sliort time tliirty 

 -ijuare miles Nvere taken uji l)y jirospectors and specnlators, and 

 the ])ast sunnner lia< witnessed a large amount of development 

 work. Much of tlii- work has lieen of the must satisfactory 

 natui-e til the owner-, and }ii-oves the field lo he a hirge and 

 valualile one." 



The ]ia[iei- then ,uoes on to descrilie the operations of the 

 ■••Halifax Asliestos ('n.'" in tin's region, which ajipear to he (if 

 .;r very ]iromising character, al-o thdse of the "Newfoundland 

 Mineral Syndicate" — an English Co., — and the Cleary claims, 

 j\ll of which show satisfactory results. Tiie writer close.s in the 

 following terms: — "Lahdiu- i- lioth almndant and cheap, and 

 sujuilies can he readily olitaiiied and lande(l from a vessel within 

 ii short distance of the mines. With water transportation at 

 liand for the jiroduct, cheap lahour, and heing much nearer the. 

 European markets than the dlher sources of supply will enable 

 the operators to compete successfully with miiu's in othei- 

 countries."' 



COAL ARKAS. 



Reference has already lieen made in the 3rd chapter lo the 

 coal beds of St. George's Bay, whi(di is the principal caboniferous 

 region in the island. Fifty years have ela])sed smce the dis- 

 covery of coal there by the sulisequently distinguished geologist, 

 Mr. .T. B. Jnkes, who was for many years ]3irector of the Irish 

 (leological Survey. "When a young man he spent twelve months 

 in the island and afterwards published a most interesting book 

 on the results of his survey. He found a coal seam, three feet in 

 thickness, containing caunel coal of excellent q^uality cropping 



