Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Sandwell Park Colliery.
(The Engineer, July 1905)
“Boring for coal has been in progress at the Moat Farm estate, near Sandwell Park Colliery, for about a year past, and in a report to the directors of the
Birmingham Coal Company Mr. Henry Johnson, mining engineer, states that while the boring contractors have been unable to produce cores of the coal bored, they have obtained a large quantity of coal from the bore. He is of opinion that the bore has encountered and passed through a thin end of the thick coal in close proximity to a fault. He therefore recommends the full development of the estate by the sinking of a pair of permanent shafts, and the erection of a modern colliery plant,
If this is impracticable, he strongly advises the sinking of a trial shaft. Another authority, Professor Hull, regards the results as "ạsufficient to prove that the Staffordshire thick coal is there, and that it should be opened out by shafts." The directors of the Birmingham Coal Company, under whose instructions the boring has taken place, have submitted these expert opinions, in association with their annual report, to the shareholders, at whose ensuing meeting it is proposed to take a vote as to laying out some £17,000 in sinking a trial shaft.”
(The Engineer, July 1905)
“Boring for coal has been in progress at the Moat Farm estate, near Sandwell Park Colliery, for about a year past, and in a report to the directors of the
Birmingham Coal Company Mr. Henry Johnson, mining engineer, states that while the boring contractors have been unable to produce cores of the coal bored, they have obtained a large quantity of coal from the bore. He is of opinion that the bore has encountered and passed through a thin end of the thick coal in close proximity to a fault. He therefore recommends the full development of the estate by the sinking of a pair of permanent shafts, and the erection of a modern colliery plant,
If this is impracticable, he strongly advises the sinking of a trial shaft. Another authority, Professor Hull, regards the results as "ạsufficient to prove that the Staffordshire thick coal is there, and that it should be opened out by shafts." The directors of the Birmingham Coal Company, under whose instructions the boring has taken place, have submitted these expert opinions, in association with their annual report, to the shareholders, at whose ensuing meeting it is proposed to take a vote as to laying out some £17,000 in sinking a trial shaft.”