Mines and Mineral Statistics. 2,23 
This is a section of the No. 2 or Burwood seam of coal worked 
by Messrs. Grullivar and Ashman, and Messrs. James and Henry 
Wilson at the Victoria Tunnel and G-lenrock Collieries, the 
property of E. C. Merewether, Esq. (See L on plan No. 1 and 
No. 2 on section No. 7.) This seam is 14 feet 5 inches in 
thickness, 7 feet 5 inches and sometimes only 5 feet 2 inches, is 
worked by adits driven into the hill side. It lies very flat, with a 
southerly dip, and tbe coal is sold for household and other 
purposes at Burwood and Newcastle. It is a free-buruiug 
bituminous coal, suitable for household, steam, smelting, gas, 
coking, and blacksmith purposes, and the specific gravity ot it is 
about 1'25 to 1'3. 
The quantity of coal sold from these two land sale collieries in 
1874 was 3,548 tons, valued at £1,862 14s., and the average 
number of men employed when the mine was working was 
sixteen. 
Mr. Merewether has lately leased 1,400 acres of this valuable 
property to J. B. Winship, Esq., and others, who are now making 
the necessary preparations for opening out and working on a 
large scale the No. 6 or Borehole seam of coal. It has been 
proved by boring in several places, and is now being worked by 
the Australian Agricultural Company to the north and at no 
very great distance from the northern boundary of the portion 
leased. 
The property is situated only about 2| miles from the Govern- 
ment cranes and the Newcastle Harbour ; the coal is proved to 
be of excellent quality on the north and east of the portion 
leased, therefore there is no doubt in my mind that under Mr. 
Winship’s management, and as it is the second nearest colliery 
to the cranes and harbour, it will be a successful undertaking. 
C. J. Stevens, Esq., M.L.A., with his usual enterprise, is now 
putting down tubbing and sinking to tbe Boreliole seain ot coal 
at Stockton, on tbe North Shore, immediately adjoining the 
Newcastle Harbour, where the coal has been proved by borings 
several years since. 
Tbe only difficulty there will be to contend with in working 
the coal will be the water which is almost sure to be met with 
in considerable quantities as the mine is extended and opened 
out, and it will require exploring headings to be kept some dis- 
tance in advance of the men’s working places. Next year i hope 
I may be able to report that the Borehole seam ot coal has been 
sunk through. 
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