COLLIERIES. 24 1 



In addition to tlie Government a])])]i;inces for sliipment of coal at 

 Wollongoni?, the Coal Cliff, North lilawarra, ]}ulli, Bellambi, S(nith 

 Bulli, and Mount Kembla Companies, have jetties of their own, from 

 which coal is sent by steam colliers, &c., to Tcn-t Jackson and else- 

 where. 



The Coal Cliff jetty has a depth of 18 feet of water at hij^h tide, 

 and 14 feet at low tide, and can ship 100 tons per hour. 



The North Illawarra Coal Company, Bulli, JJellambi, South liuUi, 

 and Mount Kembla Jetties have a depth of about 26 feet of water at 

 their shoots and can ship about 120 tons per hour. 



Coal Sh!2>X>e(l at JVoIlougong Hurhour, or the Jetties, and sod Jnj 



Rail, Sf-c. 



The coal raised in the Illawarra and southern districts in 181)5 was 

 910,123 tons, valued at £2;39,035. 



Collieries at Work in the Illawarra or Southern District. 



In 1895 there w.n'e twelve collieries at work in the Illawarra district 

 that raised 681,782 tons of coal, valued at £174,780, and the number of 

 men employed in and about the collieries was 1,477, and one colliery 

 (Metropolitan) in the southern district, at Helensburgh, adjacent to the 

 Illawarra and South Coast Railway, 27 miles from the Metropolis and 29 

 miles from Darling Harbour, Sydney, that raised 228,341 tons of coal, 

 valued at £64,255, and employed 403 men in and about the mine. 

 The coal seam worked at these twelve collieries is the uppermost one 

 or No. 1 of the upper coal measures. It is a semi-bituminous coal used 

 for steam, smelting, household, blacksmith, and coking purposes, and 

 varies from 10 feet to 4 feet in thickness. With the exception of the 

 Metropolitan and South Clifton Collieries, the coal is principally 

 wrought from adits driven into the seam in the high ranges fronting 

 th3 Pacific Ocean at heights of from 20 to 750 feet. The coal seam is 

 very free from faults, and lies almost horizontal. 



The cost of hewing the coal is now 2s. per ton, and the selling price 

 at the jetties and Wollongong Harbour is supposed to be about Gs. per 

 ton. 



The Metropolitan Coal Com]mny have the Government railway con- 

 tract for supply of coal to southern district railway depots and ])ortion 

 of Penrith railway requirements at 5s. 4d. per ton, and for Metropolitan 

 District at 5s. lOd. 



Collieries at Work in the ^South-icestern District. 



The South-western Collieries (3) are situated at Joadja, Mittagong, 

 and Moss Vale, near to the Great Southern Railway. In 1895 they 

 employed 69 men in and about the collieries, and raised 6,379 tons of 

 coal valued at £2,803. 



The Western Collieries, their Raihcay and Shipjnng AjypUances. 



The Western Collieries are situated 91 to 158 miles from Sydney, 

 and are adjacent to, or within a short distance of, the Great Western 

 and Mudgee railway. Their coal meets with a ready sale for railway, 



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