NEW COAL AREA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3392, 23 January 1920, Page 7

NEW COAL AREA.

_._...__c__._: ‘ VAST MEASURES FOUND IN ENGLAND.

LONDON, Nov. 25.

An announcement :ofl°leE~ally made that vast new coalfields have been discovered to the east oflthe Dukeries in Notts, is arousing eager interest in commercial circles. Owing ‘to the euterprise of the Stanton Coal and Iron Company, and the Butterley Company, boring zopevations, which have occupied several years, have revealed coal deposits of vast extent towards the east.

Mr G. A. Longden, nlanag'mg director of the Stanton Company, states that at Bolton, two miles from Alfreton, a hard scam has been reached at ‘a depth of 2000 feet in the villages of Kirklington, Bilsthorpc, and VVCL ton. Boring has been going on since 1915, and it is now proved that there are good seams capable of providing an xmmcnsc tonnage Output.

At Kelham, near Newark, the boring has been done by The COlll and Iron Development Syndicate. According to the testiniony of Mr James Ford. of Doncaster, the ‘wellknown mining‘ engineer, the exisfence has been proved of an -area. which has added several hundred square miles to the known coal resources of the country. The successful results obtained by what Mr Ford calls “tliis historic boring” has led to further operations at Fm-nfiom, Ki.-krington. and Wollow, all in _-2 di.<tri<-1 which until recently xvus belir-\'w‘l to contain no I)/L1)Y.L1I.)i0 coal deposil‘.<. .\t Soufh I’.e\=erton, on the grem (‘emral R:lilwa_\'. between Rotf'o"(1 an-J lrimzohv fin) whole grmiml has been prover] down to tin. middle coal Im~n.<iru-e.<. and wifhin a short (listanee of the Y':xm()ll>‘ B:H'lls]t‘_\' seam.

Tlw mlHH'<".lk Ci’ war put‘ :1 stop {'o m()1'«.~ a"-_\'f<-11.~<i\". opmatiolls, and the un--I'-‘l'f£lil‘rl‘\' as to Iht‘ f'lltl_ll'o of the coal ill«'ll:siz;\' j._;mmrally (-au.~od 11:0. pioneer (',r)nl{>:’xni(‘S Io sizly tlwir hands locfm-v pnttingg‘ down -thv Vast uzlpital which win bin Ilendod to develop one of the ric-.he=st coa.lfie].d;< in (rho, country. It is understood, ho\w\'ol'. flmt ()pUl‘ZlHnlls are ‘to be \'igo'l‘on;<l_\' renewed. Valuahlo im‘m'ln:ltion' hII.~ bvon gainoL_l, which will clw,r)lll'ag‘o the colnpani(-4 collCcl'n-ed to sink pits to wifi the W01!-dc-fined seams.