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have 3,000 acres of land, five stationary engines, of an aggregate 
of 85 h. -power, and three locomotive engines, amounting to 130 
h.-p., for taking the coal from the mine to the Newcastle harbour, 
a distance of about 4 miles ; also 150 9-ton coal waggons, 4 miles 
of private railway, and a shipping place of their own, at Port 
Waratah, about 2| miles from the Newcastle wharf. They raised 
181,268 tons of coal, valued at £107,032, in 1874, and employed 
285 miners and 106 men and boys daily tvhen the collieiy was at 
w^ork, and 37 horses. 
Mr. Moody is now engaged opening out an upper thick seam 
ot coal on the southern portion of the property, similar to the 
one now being worked by the Australasia Company. 
E. L. Moody, Esq., is the Colliery Manager. 
Shale and grey post, with G-lossopteris, 
Phyllotheca, &c. ft. in. 
Chitter 0 4^ 
Coal 0 4| 
stone band 0 fii 
Coal 0 10 
Baud 0 Oi 
Coal 2 2i 
Stone baud : 0 Oi 
Coal 2 1 
Stone band 0 0^ 
Coal 1 3 
Clutter (Jerry Wag) 0 
Coal 0 10 
Stone band 0 1^- 
Coal 0 10| 
Total thickness ... 9 9 
Here we have a section of the seam of coal 9 feet 9 inches in 
thickness, 8 feet 1 inch of which is generally worked at the New 
Lamhton Colliery, situated about 5 miles by rail from the 
Newcastle Harbour. (See C on plnn No. 1, and No. 6 on vertical 
section A, section No. 7.) The coal is worked from a shaft 100 feet 
in depth ; it lies very regular, with a dip of about 1 in 30 in a 
southerly direction ; is a free-burning bituminous coal, suitable 
for household, steam, smelting, gas, coking, and blacksmith 
purposes, the specific gi^avity varying from 1*23 to 1*29. The 
property consists of 1,185 acres of freehold land j they have two 
