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Tu his Pamphlet on “The Coal Eesources of Queensland,”* the late Eev. J. "E. 
Tenison Woods gave the following particulars ; — 
“ TVaterstown Mine. — This is a colliery which is being worhed by two or three shafts, 
all on the north side of the Bremer, and very close to its banks, and where it is navigable 
for small craft. There is a shaft upon the Garden Seam, which is about seven feet thick, 
and crops out upon the surface. It has a dip of usually 1 in 5 S. 15' 20° E. The coal 
has a short fracture, breaks into small cubes, soils the fingers, and is full of bright 
bituminous streaks. Of the coal from this mine Mr. A. C. Gregory reports : — “ The coal 
is a fairly hard coal, cokes well, and is a good steam coal.” The following is the 
analysis : — 
Fixed carbon 62'0 
Volatile hydrocarbons 25 2 
Ash 12-8 
1000 
“ Above the seam there is about four and a-half feet of splendid fireclay. The seams 
connected with the Waterstown Coal Eiekl are the Edina, Eclipse, Tivoli, and Old Tivoli. 
The Bell Seam, which is about a mile from the Garden Seam, and belonging to the same 
proprietor (Mr. Moffatt), is about three and a-half feet thick. It seems a more compact 
coal than the last, and is a first-class coal for steam, gas, and coaking. It is worked by a 
drive like the Garden Seam, about two hundred yards long, and dipping 16°, which is the 
dip of the seam, the direction being S. 15° E. There is supposed to be a fault betwmen 
this seam and the Garden Seam. A seam which crops out near the latter, and which 
has thinned out, may be the same. Its true position is supposed to be one hundred and 
fifty feet below the Garden Seam. A new drive has been made on the outcrop (sup- 
posed) of the Garden Seam, about a quarter of a mile from the pit referred to last. 
It is extremely good coal, with scarcely any partings in the scam.f 
“ On this property there is a large coking kiln which has been in operation some 
eight years, and during which some four or five thousand tons of coke have been turned 
out. The coke is made from the very fine slack and dust. It is of splendid quality, 
and is exported to Rockhampton, Maryborough, and even Melbourne, to the iron 
foundries. It sells in Brisbane at about £l 17s. 6d. per ton.J 
“Hossend. — The Rossend Mine (Lindsay’s) adjoins this property. It is worked by 
one shaft, to the extent of about 20 tons daily, on what is supposed to be the Bell Seam. 
“ Tivoli. — The Tivoli was until lately extensively worked, as its proprietor had the 
railway contract, and was able, by a short tramway with a steep incline and shoot, to 
load all the lighters on the river. He has now the contract for the Australasian Steam 
Navigation Co., and finds it more convenient to work on another seam on the south side 
of the river. Ou the Tivoli Mine there is one shaft and three seams. The Eclipse 
Mine works on one seam of the old or original Tivoli.” 
Of the portion of the field above referred to, the late Mr. Tenison Woods further 
remarked : — “ There are probably five different seams at present worked. These are : 
(1) Garden Coal; (2) Edina Coal; (3) Tivoli; (4) Old Tivoli; (5) Bell Coal. No 
data can be given as to the distances of these seams from one another. 
* 8vo. Brisbane, 1883. Attention should have been called in a previous chapter to two pamphlets by the 
late Eev. J. E. T. Woods on the Burrum and Burnett Districts, viz., “Lecture on the Burrum Coal Field ” 
(pp. 13, 8vo., Maryborough, 1881) and “The Carboniferous Rocks of the Lower Burnett: A Lecture 
delivered at Bundaberg on Friday, May 20th, 1881” (pp. 4, 8vo., Bundaberg, 1881). 
t Mr. Gulland believes the position of the Waterstown Seam to be five hundred feet above the Tivoli 
Seam. (B.L.J.) 
J The manager of the Toowoomba Gasworks informed me, in 1880, that the Waterstown coal yielded at 
the Works 9,200 cubic feet of gas. (B.L.J.) 
