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the railway ran, was installed. Some thousands of tons of coal were taken 
out and retailed in Geelong at £1 per ton. It is very fair household coal, 
but too light for locomotive or forced draught work. Had a proper boring 
scheme been carried out at only a very moderate cost (say, £250), the exact 
position of the seam would have been located, and possibly a better method 
of mining adopted. 
It would certain y not pay any company now to attempt to reopen the 
mine, owing to the ramification of o d drives through the thickest portion 
of the coal and to the limited quantity of coa 1 available. 
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THE LORD TENNYSON REEF, WELSHMAN’S GULLY, 
EGANSTOWN, NEAR DAYLESFORD. 
By A. M. Howitt , Field Geologist. 
The beds adjacent to the Lord Tennyson reef are Ordovician slates and 
sandstones, which strike N. 20° W., and dip both east and west at angles 
varying from 60° to 70°. 
The reef is a lenticular laminated quartz block, wdth an average width of 
1 foot, bulging to 2 feet in width near the middle, and in strike it cuts the 
beds at a big angle. 
Originally this reef was worked by a party holding the ground under 
lease, but the present holders are working under miner’s .rights. 
From the surface to 95 feet deep the reef was payable and up to 30 feet 
in length, but water trouble caused the mine to close down. 
