A HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND 



south-western side. This drift was driven for 

 a considerable distance, but no ore was found 

 of any commercial value. In the neighbour- 

 hood of Gosforth also some prospecting work 

 has been carried out, but although the ore 

 indications are abundant, no sufficient work- 

 able quantity has yet been found. The total 

 quantity of haematite raised from the various 

 parishes in the Whitehaven district during 

 the last thirty years has amounted to nearly 

 28,000,000 tons. The present output from 

 the mines in each parish will be found in 

 Table No. IX. 



MILLOM DISTRICT 



MILLOM PARISH. Although the ore bear- 

 ing area of this part of the county, so far as 

 proved, is much smaller than that of the 

 Whitehaven district, the deposit of haematite 

 at Hodbarrow worked by the Hodbarrow 

 Mining Co. Ltd. far surpasses in size and 

 richness any other area of the same extent in 

 Cumberland or even in Great Britain. This 

 deposit is not only of vast dimensions, but 

 the ore is noted for its uniformly high yield 

 of metallic iron. The following is an average 

 analysis of the ore : 



The total output from the Hodbarrow 

 mines from 1864 to 1900 inclusive has (as 

 shown in Table No. VII.) amounted to 

 12,790,126 tons, and it will be seen from 

 Table No. VIII. that this quantity represents 

 more than one third of the total output from 

 all other mines in Cumberland. The annual 

 average number of persons employed at these 

 mines is as under : Above ground, 350 ; 

 under ground, 1,050 ; total, 1,400. 



TABLE No. VII 

 Output of haematite from the Hodbarrow mines. 



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