IMPERIAL CROWN.
\ Several tributes were let in this mine after its purchase from the CoM}y Council, but with the exoeptionof Sohofield and 1' party, the others hare given them up, being unable to make them pay. Schofield and party, hare sunk a small shaft near the Pumping Association office, with the intention of prospecting the country about the 100 ft lerel of the Association shaft, where, in the early days, Austin and mates worked a leader, which yielded at the rate of 40ozs per ton. The tributers would bare worked from the main shaft, but the water not being down to the 400 feet lerel, the air is rery bad, and in their own shaft they hare to contend with gas.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3534, 23 April 1880, Page 2
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121IMPERIAL CROWN. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3534, 23 April 1880, Page 2
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