FEILDING COAL SEAM.
PROMISING PROSPECTS. The owners of the property at Feilding on which a new lignite coal deposit was recently discovered have lost no time in prospecting and experimenting with the possibilities of the seam. About 130 acres of ground round about the deposit have been thoroughly prospected by experts, and in every place investigated further indications of an extensive seaiii have been noted. A considerable amount of excavation work in clearing the earth away from the outcrop has already been accomplished, and about nine chains of trolley line have been laid down to carry the coal to the top of the hill. It is expected that about 500 tons will be taken from the outcrop alone, and this should have considerable commercial value locally. A start would have been made with tunnelling operations by now but for the fact that the necessary timber cannot be carried under the present railway regulations.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2011, 5 August 1919, Page 3
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153FEILDING COAL SEAM. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2011, 5 August 1919, Page 3
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