COAL AT THE THAMES.
Whilst we have been all talking about findsof coal at a distance from this district it has been found quite close to Shortland. The man who found the seam reports that where struck it was a fine large body of coal over 9ft thick. A landslip, however, during the late wet weather, came down and completely covered up the nlace where the seam was first found. He, however, found the run of it in the bed of a creek, and brought a sample down to town, which can now be seen at the office of Messrs Percival and Mitchell. Considering that -the sample was taken from under water, and is consequently broken up, it looks pretty fair for surface coal. The locality of the find is not known as yet, but no doubt it will soon be so if the discovery prove of any value. It certainly is worth looking after, as, had we a supply of coal so close at hand as this is, it would make a wonderful difference to us all in more ways than one, giving us cheap fuel, a requisite in heavy demand on all goldfields such as ours.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 239, 15 July 1872, Page 3
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