UNDEVELOPED COAL FIELDS OF NOVA SCOTIA GILPIN. 135 



The Journal News has recently published a summary of 

 explorations carried on last year by the Cumberland Railway & 

 Coal Company in the measures underlying the seams at present 

 worked by them. It has always been known that there were 

 underlying seams, but details as to their size were not available. 

 The company has now shown that there are a number of work- 

 able seams of good quality available at any time, as shown by 

 the following section in descending order from West slope seain : 



Feet. Inches. 



Seam 3 4 



Strata 



Seam 4 3 



Strata 



Seam 5 6 



Strata ..... , 



Seam 2 8 



Strata 



Seam 1 6 



Strata 



Seam 7 6 



Strata 



Seam 2 



Strata 



Seam 4 8 



Strata 



Seam 5 



Strata 



Seam , 7 



Strata 



Searn 2 4 



Strata 



Seam - 



This is a case exactly in the line of this argument. The value 

 of the property of this company was before a defined item ; they 

 had large tracts of coal opened by their slopes, ensuring, as far 

 as the coal miner could judge, many years of work. The dis- 



