Bradley, there is a little coal above instead of below the Fire-clay coal, as follows:—
| |
FT. |
IN. |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Coal |
|
0 |
6
|
| Black batt |
5 |
0 |
–
|
| Fire-clay coal |
5 |
4
|
|
|
5
|
0
|
5
|
10
|
Similar to this is a section at Tipton Green (Vertical Sections, sheet 16, No. 12), where the only representative of the Fire-clay coal is,—
| |
FT. |
IN. |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Coal |
|
0 |
3
|
| Fire-clay |
5 |
0 |
–
|
| Coal and batt |
|
2 |
6
|
|
|
5
|
0
|
2
|
9
|
The section at Tipton Moat is the same, except that the lowest coal
is only 10 inches thick. At Gornal clay- works there is simply 2 feet of
poor coal ; at Darlaston the same ; and at Dudley Port, 2 feet 6 inches.
At the Foxyards, however, we have the two following sections:—
The Sinking Pit[1]
| |
FT. |
IN. |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Little coal |
|
1 |
6
|
| Fire-clay |
1 |
6 |
–
|
| Coal |
|
0 |
7
|
| Fire-clay |
2 |
5 |
–
|
| Coal |
|
2 |
7
|
|
|
3
|
11
|
4
|
8
|
| Total with partings
|
8
|
7
|
Another Pit.[2]
| |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Coal |
|
2 |
7
|
| Parting |
1 |
9 |
–
|
| Coal |
|
1 |
4
|
|
|
1
|
9
|
3
|
11
|
| Total with partings
|
5
|
8
|
If now we pass into the district south and west of Dudley the same remarks will hold good as to the "Fire-clay" that were used respecting the "New mine coal," but to a still greater extent. There are but five shafts of which I have sections, in which any coal near its place is mentioned. Of these one is the Grave-yard Trial pits,[3] south of Gornal, where below what is supposed to be the New mine coal we get,—
| |
FT. |
IN. |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Rock and fire-clay |
5 |
9 |
–
|
| Coal (possibly the Fire-clay) |
|
1 |
8
|
|
|
5
|
9
|
1
|
8
|
- ↑ Communicated from Lord Ward's office, by Air. K. Smith.
- ↑ From Smith's "Miners' Guide."
- ↑ Lord Word's office.
