ENGLISH MINING VENTURES.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1844, 31 August 1874, Page 3

ENGLISH MINING VENTURES.

The following : from tho J)oncaster Gazette, arid shows the enter-. i. ; prise in which mining : ventures are entered into at home. The work in questiou' is.nothing more than a : prospecting shaft, which will be carried .down to a • depth of 1,800 • feet, with the' requisite •~> ■ pumping and winding machinery, at the expense of one'gentleman, Mr Dickinson. There is no coalfield in "the vicinity, but . it issurmised that the seams of the West 1 ' Yorkshire field pass under : the estate. '"•" For many montlis Doncaster arid neighbourhood:have engaged the serious attend tion of many of the most skilful and emi-o nont mining.ehgineers of?, the Forth. It was agreed on almost every hand that '. ■'."., the coal'measuresvof South .Yorkshire] ■ extended .through -the, town-eastwards,. .- • and by many : it was,hinted'that there ; - ■is in the "neighbourhood' the' celebrated •''. . ahd valuable Barnaley'seam. l ' 1 ' Mr Marßh, ; tJ;;, Sit' William Gobke's agent, -has long .en-; .; tertained the idea that coal existed iinder-|^' ; the .Wheatley estate, and | he has-been . . unremitting in his Exertions -to have the coalfield opened. Mr -Woodhouse, d- :y, Derby, one of the coal commissioners in ; 1866 ;Dr; ; GTeen, ; iOfLee.ds;;Mr Peacock, : of rloyland '£ White; of Wake--, V • field/ all'mining'engineers, have declared,. ; , tjiere was coal, : .under., the, r Wheatley •> estate, at. a denth,of fetperi;soo ', yards..,, Manyy objections' were" 1 ' urged J." ; against the introduction 61' coal mines'mto-*: ;f the di's'tncti v: B"ut "e 7¥bituaUy '-'.Sir r'i'.!; ■ Cooke decided to'place llie coal -rights ;pf<i his land in the marketi -Several; extendi sive capitalists •immediately.commencedi!.negotiations, Abut'.Mr' a; well known extensive colliery .'.''" priefcor in Durham,, was the successful" >r ; bidder.;,.„.An,.,,agreement.''was'*''drawn' :; up .between Sir William Oooke : 'ah'd; !, Mr'-.''? ■ Dickinson, in' which..'itwas "agreed the latter, should' hayel'on' a lease-of : 40-> y ,■ ■: : years/'the cbal'risflits/of abodt 2,500 acres; ' in Bentley, Arksey, Wheatley, 5 holme '-and Almholme/j the'.price ; ;toi be I £300 an acre. It is proposed to commence sinkitfgi the l mines early >in; May. fiir Dickinson is t0... have prior claim of all iron stone*'fouri'd'on thVestate.'.the . price of thesame to be; fixed by ajbitra-.tion.-,-Sontloj-is,ekteemely r .w?|l v aifcaated'- : ;. for. colliery < working,, in, ;cpn9equenqe.'6f . being close to the Great Northern Bailway Company's lines, and:ho r 'doubt if- : mines are opened they will. entirely revo- - lutionise matters on., this side.:,of Don-;;