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ing 500 hands ; J. B. Pigott, at Shaw Mill ; Richardson, 
Tee, and Rycroft, at Bore Spring ; Carter Brothers, at 
Oak Mill; and that" of William Taylor and Sons, at 
Redbrook. The number of bleach works are six :— William 
Taylor and Sons, (Richard Day's Executors), at Monk Bretton ; 
Samuel Coward's Executors, at S with en ; Robert Craik, at 
Old Mill ; Edward Parker, at Stairfoot ; H. Jackson and Co., 
at Midland Bleach Works ; and H. J. and J. Spencer, at 
Robroyd. 
A most important element of our material prosperity are 
our mineral beds, consisting of 14 workable beds of coal, 
intermingled with clay and ironstone, rising from east to 
west by south, which regularly bring their rich treasures to 
the surface. The workings in the Barnsley nine-feet seam 
have increased six-fold since many in middle life can re- 
member; there are now twenty-four working pits, and in the 
Silkstone five-feet seam there are upwards of twelve. 
Three railway lines meet in the town to convey its people 
and their productions to all parts of the globe. 
The Coal Beds of the Barnsley District — The 
coal beds of the Barnsley district rise from under the magnesian 
limestone hills, which, in a long narrow range from north 
to south by west, skirt their eastern side. These beds rise 
at various angles, averaging about one foot in twelve in a 
south westerly direction, in a series of bold undulations ; 
forming a picturesque, fertile, and well-wooded district. 
The elevations assume greater boldness and magnitude, and 
consequent sterility, towards the west. The height of the 
limestone range at North Empsall being 240 feet ; of the 
Ackworth Rock, near Brierly Manor, 430 feet ; at Keres- 
forth Hill, where the Barnsley bed crops out, 530 feet ; of 
the height above Oxspring, near the out crop of the Whin 
Moor Bed, 766 feet ; of Sheephouse Plantation, over the 
celebrated Green Moor stone formation, 836 feet ; while the 
