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S Is ft To THE Proprietors op the Aoadia Coal Property : Gentlc7nen — The Trustees, to whom the management of the Acadia Coal property in Nova Sootia was confided, until suitable arrann^ements could bo made for its future dgvelopmont, would respectfully report their action — as well as the proceediiin^s had nt two meet- ings of the parties iutore-^ted, liald in this city. The clear and able reports of Messrs. , Thomas Petherick, Mining Engineer, and Jesse Iloyt, General Agent, will enable you to form a correct judgment as to the value cf our coal lands, and the means required to give practical development to them. It has been decided to apply at the opening of the Nova Scotia Legislature on the 9th inst., for a charter, with a capital of $1,000,000, under the title of "the Acadia Coal Company." This charter has already been drawn up by distinguished Counsel ; and we do not apprehend any difficulty in securing its passage. You will find embodied in Mr. Iloyt's letter a statement of what is now being done at the mines. The Nov^a Scotia government having located their railroad immediately through our lands, we are thus saved an outlay of at least $300,000 in gold, which otherwise we should have been obliged to expend to secure transportntion to the shipping harbor. ' I !,P We are well satisfied that the manufacture of oil — from one of our coal veins — can be profitably carried on ; but it has been decided to form a sepa- rate company for this branch of business — inviting ail the parties in interest to join in it, and keeping " the Acadia Coal Company," strictly to the business of mining the coal for sale. EDWARDS S. gANFORD CYRUS W. FIELD, ■I Trustees. 1 !^av I f) '■': ON THE PROPERTIES OP THE ACADIA COAL COMPANY, NOVA SCOTIA. -<•»- These properties nre situated about two miles southwesterly of tlie town of iNew Glasg-ow, on the East River, in Pictou County, and about eight miles southerly from the sen port of Pictou. Tbey comprise four areas : two of them the Fraser and Carmichael tract?, each containing one square mile, piuciinsed by the Compnny, and a right of mining search over ten square miles acquired directly from the Gov- ernment. The carboniferous formation on which these prop- erties are situated, extends from its southern limit northerly to, and under the tide beyond, Pictou ; easterly some miles, and a much greater distance to the westward ; but excepting the important and very profitable mining operations in the adjoining property of the General Mining Association of Lon- don, the " Albion Mines," and sojne limited open- ings in the Company's, and otlier lands in the imme- diate neighborhood, I do not find that any suitable efficient means have yet been taken to prove what other valuable coal veins it contains. In the adjoining "Albion Mines" the mining opera- tioiis have hitherto been confined to two coal seams — the " Main. Coal," and the " Deep Coal ;" but besides these unusually large, " powerful " veins, (which run through the Carmichael tract of the Acadia Co.,) other valuable coal veins are known to run a great length through the Company's four properties — tho "Third Coal," the "Purvis Coal," the "McGregor Coal" and the " Oil Coal ;" but from the information 1 have obtained, I consider it highly probable that other valuable veins underlie, and perhaps intervene between, them. My impression in this respect is very strongs and the inducements to the adoption of proper efficient means to prove this important question appear to me to be obvious. The close proximity of the Company's properties to the Albion Mines Collieries, and their great success, rendered me very desirous to make myself acquainted , by personal examination, with the coal formation dev- eloped by those extensive works, for which every desired facility was afforded me by the Superintend- ent, Col. Scott, and his son, Mr. George Scott. I found the Albion Mines " Main Coal" opened by the " Dalhousie pit," which reached it at the depth of forty-five fathoms, to be a very large and im portant vein ; important, not only on account oi its great thickness, but in regard to its great regularity, and the evenness and strength of its roof ; which important circumstances arc rhdracteristic of all the veins which I have examined^ both in the Al- bion mines and in those of this Company. The thick- ness of the '• Main Coal" was stated by Mr. Poole, the former Superintendent, to be upwards of forty 8 feet, deduotiiijj Iroiri which iho ugjLrro^ate thickness of five small bands of other material, about two feet, leaves that of the coal thirty-eii^ht feet ; but as the measurement was vertical, instead of being at right angles with the dip of the vein (about 20*^), the true geological thickness of the coal may be taken to be about thirty-six feet. The next deeper vein worked in the "Albion Mines," the " Deep Coal," deducting for similar bands, was found by the same gentleman to be about twenty-two feet thickness of coal. My observations at different points on those two great veins, induced me to believe that those statements were substantially correct, — the joint thickness of those two veins being about fifty-eight feet. It is very important to observe that the whole geo- logical formation in which the " Albion Minos " and the Acadia Coal Company's properties are situated, is remarkable for the unusually great regularity of its stratification ; exempt, in a remarkable degree, from the disturbance and consequent deterioration and loss of coal, and liability to serious and indefinite expense, which under less favorable geological cir- cumstances, often render coal mining a source of uncertainty and embarrassment. In the Company's ground no attempt has yet been made to mine the " Main Coal ;" but it has been proved at the point "A" in the Mining Association's property, (see accompanying map), to be a very large vein, at the distance of only one hundred and sixty yards from the Company's line. The length which it will occupy in their (the Company's) property, cannot in consequence of its strike being somewhat uncertain, be stated with accuracy; but from the course of this vein and also of the '* Deep Coal," it will probably be nearly sixteen hundred yards in the Carmichael or Avesteru portion of the Company's ground, and a vastly greater length in their recently acquired mining areas, in their eastern ground, be- yond the lino of the General Mining Association. The — ** McGregor" vein, and other lower veins in the series, will occupy a much greater length still, as will be seen by the map herewith. The " Deep Coal" has been opened at the point " B," or at least an upper bench ot it, ai the McKenzie pit, sunk about forty two feet, at wliich depth I ibund the vein to be over seven and a half feet thick, below which, it was observed to me, there is another "bench" of a considerable further thickne^^s of coal ; but it was not accessible for my examination, and 1 can therefore state nothing specific on the subject. In the recent opening at this pit, I examined a drift of about sixty yards length, in which I found the vein to be very regular, with an excellent sound roof. This coal is of very good quality and free from sulphur — like all the other coal hitherto proved on the Company's property. Properly opened, this coal can be cheaply worked, and with unusvally small waste. There is a great country demand for this coal, but it has been worked at a great disad- vantage on a small scale, by hands unaccustomed to mining. Properly opened, with suitable machin- ery for pumping the water (which is in trifling quan- tity) and hoisting tlie coal, which have been done by 10 Mi 1 I very unsuitable horse power, a large production can be cheaply effected from this pit, when a railroad is ex- tended to it. The "McGregor Coal" has been opened at the point " C" by an "Adit" or horizontal drift, which has been extended on the vein over four hundred yards in excel- lent coal, which is being mined upon a small scale for country use, and for (*arting over wretched roads to the East Pictou river, below New Glasgow, for shipment. The quantity thus produced is of course limited, but even under those great disadvantages it leaves a large profit, the superior quality of the r.oal command- ing a high price. This vein appears to increase in size, in extending under the rising ground, and I found it at the extremity of the dritt to be fully six feet thick, of fine quality, very regular, and with an excellent roof At about 136 yards northerly from the mouth of the drift, a shaft, called the '' Fleming Shaft" was sunk some time since to the deptli of 164 feet. Being full of water I could not exainine it, but the vein in the bottom of it is stated to be con- siderably thicker than that described above in the drift, separated, it is said, by seven feet of slate iiom a vein of four feet of good roal. Not having seen such associated veins on the property, I merely give the statement as I received it. This "Fleming iShalt" is of a fair size for deeper operation, 14 teet length by 6 feet width, calculated for a considerable extent of business. The Government railroad from Truro to Pictou harbor, touching at a point about half a mile easterly from this shaft, from whence the shipping of the coal will be far more convenient and 11 ;.,'« less expensive, renders it desirable to sink a slope (or diagonal shaft) on the vein near such point, by the railroad, instead of at present using that shaft which wil! however, at no distant day, be of service for ventilation and perhaps otherwise, "What has been called the ''Third Coal" was opened at " C," to a small extent. It is stated to be a large vein, (its precise thickness T could not learn,) a four feet bench of which, stated to be very good coal, was mined for country use. The snme vein was opened, some years ago, to the depth (diagonally) on the slopes of forty yards, the coal from which is stated to have been of very good quality. At the horizontal distance, southerly of say 300 yards from the '' McGregor Coal," and deeper in the series, are openings at what is termed the "Oil Coal." or " Stellar Coal," (so called from the brilliant corruscations which it throws off, like stars, when ignited.) from one of whicli open- ings, I am informed, nearly three thousand tons of coal was sold ibr the manufacture of Kerosene Oil. I examined it, in a recent opening, where I found it to be IG inches thick, overlaid by 13 inches of bituminous coal, and underlaid by 19 inches of "batt," or bituminous shale, the whole thickness being four feet. The bench of oil coal is stated to contain from 80 gallons of oil per ton, up to a much larger yield. I have reason to believe that if the distillation of the oil from this coal, and probably also from the bitumimjus shale, were to be carried on in the immediate vicinity where the neces- sary fuel would be cheap, it would be a very 'profitable manufacture. I am not, however, sufficiently acquaint- 12 ^ ed with the operation, to enahle me to offer an opinion on the precise results to be expected from it ; but the statements which have been made to me, by the best informed parties, of undoubted reliability and experi- ence in the business, and who have operated on this particular coal, have fully satisfied me of the great value of this portion of the Company's property. It has been stated to me, that there is another vein of Oil Coal of the same peculiar and valuable quality, but much thicker, on the property, running through the whole extent of it. I suggest that means be resorted to speedily, to prove this important point. The " Purvis Coal" remains to be noticed. It was worked at the point "A," several years since, for coun- try use. It appears that the good coal of this vein is of about four feet thickness, and of a very superior quality. I am not able to give very particular de- scription of it, but I may observe that it could be con- veniently worked in connection with the "Third Coal." Obviously a point of prominent importance in regard to the value of coal properties, is the cost oj' transportation of the coal to market. In this respect the Company's lands are very favorably situated. The Government of Nova Scotia have already in opera- tion a railway from Halifax harbor, on the Atlantic, (one of the best in the world, and, untiKe some other northern harbors, never frozen up) to Truro, about sixty-five miles, and have under contract, and the work commenced, the remaining portion, extending about forty miles to Pictou harbor, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence ; the whole to be completed and in opera- tion by the 1st July, 186(5 j)a^sing through the prop- 13 1 opinion but the the best d experi- i on this lie great erty. It jr vein of quality, throuj[>'h neons be point. It was for coun- lis vein is f superior cular (le- d be con- ird Coal." tance in le cost ol' is respect Lted. The in opera- Atlnntic, )nie other iro, about , and the extending UlfofSt. in opera- theprop- y4h erties of the Acadia Company^ the value of which, it can scarcely be necessary to add, will be vastly increased by it, affordinir an easy and short access to an excellent shipping place in deep water in Pictou harbor, and (when that and most other northern harbors are frozen up,) giving the Company shipping lacilities for their coal to the superior har- bor of Halifax, with far less length of transit than that from the anthracite coal region in Pennsylva- nia to tidewater. The Government are disposed to hasten the completion of the road from the Acadia Collieries to Pictou harbor, so as to be prepared for the shipment of coal there at the opening of navigat'oa in 1866. There are two blocks of miners' houses, of two dwelling* each, on the ground, a house for the fore- man, carpenter's and smith's shops ; and arrange- ments are being made for the erection of several blocks of suitable miners' houses. As soon in the approaching season as circum- stances will permit, shallow openings should be made to develope the size and other circumstances of the " Main Coal," and the " Deep Coal," (the thickness of the latter is believed to be only partly ascertained at the McKenzie pit, in the Company's property,) and to prove what other veins may exist in the great extent of unproved ground in it, within the carboniferous formation. It is not practicable in the present state of their development to ibrm more than an approximate esti- mate of the probable aggregate quantity of coal, in the know n veins in theFraser and Carmichael tracts, I I I ^ u I t I 1 p i|! 14 which tracts comprise, together, two square miles. I have, however, come to the conclusion, after careful and repeated consideration, that after allowing for the loss of coal to be left for pillars and by waste, and, exclusive of the "Oil Coals," the probable aggre- gate quantity may be reasonably assumed to be not less than thirty-six millions of tons from these two tracts alone, which would be equal to the production of about a thousand tons per day for a hundred and twenty years. Of tho probable quantity of that very valuable min- eral — the " Oil Coar', — my opinion is yet scarcely formed ; it being stated upon what 1 consider good authority, that there are two veins of that coal ; the one which has been opened and partially worked be- ing by far the smaller of the two, the size of the larger, however, not being stated. I consider that this smaller proved vein will yield nett, in the two square miles above mentioned, over fifteen hundred thousand tons. Its importance, however, cannot be estimated by its quantity without reference to its superior quality. If the contemplated manufacture of it on the ground be established, it would yield a profit many times larger than any that can bo obtained from the mining of coal of the ordinary description. It is important to remark, that this proved "Oil Coal " vein rests im- mediately on a bed, of considerably greater than its own thickness, of " batt " — a highly bituminous shale, which it is considered can be also used in the oil manufacture with great advantage. It should be observed that my estimates of quan- tities of coal here given are confined to the sppcific 15 liles. I careful nng for Y waste, e aggre- 3 be not hese two eduction ired and ible niin- scarcely der good !oal ; the )rked be- 16 larger, s smaller tre miles md tons. ed by its litij. If round be es larger ining of )rtant to ests lin- er than uminous in the )f quan- spprifir. area of only two square miles, toithout reference to the other far larger grants made to the Company, principally on the left bank of the East Pictou River, CONTAINING FOR VERY GREAT LENGTH ALL THE COAL VEINS WHICH I HAVE DESCRIBED, AND PROBABLY OTHER VALUABLE ONES. I consider that the first step in establishing regu- lar effective operations on the Company's property, should be the speedy sinking of a slope on the McGregor vein, from the surface to a depth suitable for maki ig a large shipment irom it on the opening of the Pictou Railroad, and I'or a business of not less than 120,000 tons of coal a yenr. The high chftrac- ter of the McGregor Coal, already established by the sale of it from the limited operations of the " Fleming colliery," will no doubt insure a ready and increasing demand for it. Ample evidence of its superiority for steam cooking and gas purposes, has followed the use of it. The slope should be commenced in the corning spring, and suitable machinery for pumping the water snd hoisting the coal be placed on it during the summer. I recommend, as being appropriate for the purpose, the placing ol the following machinery at the pro- posed slope : A steam pumping engine, 18 inches diameter cylinder, 8 feet stroke, (to make a 6 feet stroke in the shaft,) the pumps (plunger or forcing pumps) to be 8 to 9 inches diameter, and the water pipes (to provide for an increase of water) to be 10 inches diameter. A steam engine of the same dimensions and length of stroke, (which will avoid the necessity of gear work), with drums, flat wire li % ; It 16 rope, &c. Three boilers of 50 feet length and 3 feet diameter, to supply steam to both the engines. Tlie underground equipment I propose to be equal at the outset to the pumping and hoisting from the depth of not less than 240 yards; — the power of these, with additional boilers, being estimateJ to be equal to the pumping and hoisting from the slope depth of 600 yards. The great length which the McGregor Vein occupies in the Frasor and Carmi- chael tracts alone (over 5,000 yards,) will render it necessary after some tiiiu; ; (in order to avail, even to a moderate extent, of its great capacity of production, and to meet the active demand which may be relied on I'or this coal ;) to have an additional slope or slopes ; but the pumping for such additional opera- tions may still be done in the first slope. To carry out these suggestions will be required : Two steam engines, one i()r pumping, the other for hoisting, with the boilers lor their joint supply of steam, as before described. Pump-work, pipes, rods, &c'., complete. Winding apparatus, wire rope, &c., complete. Coal cars for underground hauling, on the slope, and on the bank. Railroads in the gangwayi'. on the slope and on the bank. Sinking slope. Driving gangways, airways, &c. Houses for overman and miners boarding house, carpenters' and smiths' shops, magazine, store-house, office, &c. Tools — smiths', carpenters' and miners'. :$■ 17 d 3 feet 3. Tlie I at tlie e depth these, to be le slope ich the Carini- 3nder it even to duction, )e relied dope or ,1 opera- lired : ather for ipply of te. le slope, and on g house, re-house, wages and sundries ; at a cost in nil of $115,800 Add for continyenuies, 10 per cent. . 11,580 United Stales cuiiency . . . |127,380 This estimate is founded upon what the same work would cost in the Coal Mining Districts of Pennsyl- vania, at the present time. I could not, with my pre- sent means of iiilbrmation, undertake to state what the same work will cost in NovaSojtia; but an ap- proxii.iate conclusion can be arrived at on that point by those who are informed of the state of the currency, and the relative value of labor and materials in both countries. At the rates paid in Nova vScotia for mining labor and materials, and the shipping prices at Pictou, I con- sider that the McGregor Coal, under the arrangements I have proposed, without reference to the preference in point of price which it will probably command in the market, will he worked at a profit of a dollar to a dollar ajid ton cents per ton Nova Scotia cur- rency, i. c. in gold, after paying the usual rate often cents per ton royalty to clie (lovoniment. I recommend $fi,0(IO to f$7,000 being applied this summer to exploration on the veins not yet suffi- ciently developed in the Fraser and Carinichael areas, and in the new-acquired tracts, of i'ar greater extent, yet unexplored. In comdusion, I may observe tliat the very favor- able opinion 1 entertain of the great importance and value of the Coni|:)any's property, is founded upon careful examination, during three different visits ill lii!; 18 which I made to it in the months of September, Nov- ember and December last. Respectfully submitted, THO. PETHERICK, Mining Engineer. January, 1865. W. 19 EPITOME OF THE I^OREG-OINa REPORT. QUANTITY OF COAL LANDS. No. 1. Fraser area, acquired by purchase, No. 2, Carmichael " " " « i No. 3. Unexplored " " from Government, 5 No. 4. '* " " " " 5 1 square mil CI « Total, DISTANCE FROM NAV'GATION. 12 From New Glasgow, on East Kiver . 2 mile-i. " Pictou Hiirbor, " Gulf of St. Lawrence, 8 " " Halifax " " Atlantic Ocean 97 «» NUMBER OF COAL SEAMS AND THEIR THICKNESS- No.l."Main Coal," 30 feet 1 No 2. "Deep Ooal," 22 ' No. 3. " Third Coal," 4 . No. -1 " Purvis Coal," 4 < No. 5. Vein in Fleming Shaft, said to bo 4 feet thick. . .^0. 6. " McGregor Coal," ^3 . Total thickness,. .72 I X a ■ ■-4 P The above figure* represent the actual thickness of good coal, exclusive of the bauds of iutcratiatitied iron stone, $(,000 U. S. Currency. coal seams in unproved ground J 21 JsCoal. ilCoai. icy. m cue gokl, )fit of ently •ency. ASTOR HOUSK, New York, Blst Jan., 1865. To the Trustees of the Acadia Coal Property : Gentlemen : I have the honor to state, for your information, in reference to your lands in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, that the work of H mining coal for tlie local consumption of the country, as commenced by James D. B. Fraser, Esq., the furmor proprietor of the " Fraser •f; '."le" is continued by iho employment of twenty men and ^ two horses in the " adit," or horizontal level, referred to in Mr. Petherick's Report. The present yield from this " adit," is ahout 400 tons per month, all of which will be absorbed by local consumption. It is proposed to increase the working staff to thirty K men and boys, and three hor.sus, and to work night and day, by which means the production of the mine will be increased to 1,200 tons per month. In addition to the miners' dwellings on the Company's ground referred to in Mr. retherick's report, there is on hand a consider- able quantity of mining appurtenajici'S, and arrangements have been made for the immediate erection of six new blocks of hou.2,50 per ton, \ 20,000 " " From manufacture of Oil J 400,000 gallons per annum f 80,000 " " at JO cents ])er gallon ) ^'•"^fit $220,000 " " ■'Sii ,«'» M it \ Ij i! « M i li Hi: ^Pl? 't The followiu!; is the result of the Anali/sis of this Coal as made by Dr. John Torrkv, in the Labomlorij of the Manhattan Gas-Light Company : COKING COAL OP THE ACADIA COAL COMPANY, From Cyrus W. Field, Nova Scotia. One ton— 2.240 pounds— yielded 9,500 feet of L3.03 candle gas and 42 bu.shel.s coke, weighing 1,040 pounds. The coke is good It contains rather much ash, and makes some clinker ; but it burns very well, keeping up a good, strong fire The cual .seeuis to deserve a trial on a larger scale, as it is very readily carbonized, yielding a good volume of gas and coke. ANALYSIS OP THE COAL. Volatile matter 82.0 Fixed carbon 59 .3 Ash 8.7 100.0 Manhattan Gas Works, Feb. 9, 18G5. OIL OBTAINED FROM THE OIL COAL. Portland, Feb. DJ, 1SG5. Cyrus W. Field, Esq. Dear Sir—l have got through with the Eraser (Joal. In making the crude oil, it yields— after taking out the water, which is about 12 per cent.— 50 gallons to the ton, of good crude oil ; that, I think, will finish more than 40 gallons of refined product to the ton — at least HH gallons. To work this coal in the retorts that we work, would be an ex- pensive way ; if you would be willing to spend from to 800 dollars to put one of Atwood's pipes to work it, and then send here about 10 tons of each kind of coal you have there, we could decide intelligently upon the best way of working all the coal you have into refined oil. Yours truly, F. MACDONALD.