IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) A 1.0 I.I Ul 12.5 N|^ 1^ m 2.2 2? H4 ^- — y5||U|i^ ^ 6" ► i / "^"4 '/ s Piiotographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. MSSO (716) S72-4503 \ .§\^ V •^ :\ \ o^ <^ . signifia "A SUIVRE", la symbols V signifia "FIN". IVIaps, platas, charts, ate. may ba filmad at diffarant raduction ratios. Thosa too larga to ba entiraly inciudad in ona axposura ara filmad beginning in tha uppar laft hand cornar, laft to right and top to bottom, as many framas as raquirad. Tha following diagrams illustrata tha mathod: Las cartas, planchas, tableaux, ate, pauvant Atra fllmte A das taux da r6duction difftrants. Lorsqua la document ast trop grand pour Atra reproduit en un seul clichA, il est fiimA A partir da i'angle supArieur gauche, de gauche A droite, at de haut an bas, an prenant le nombre d'images nAcessaira. Las diagrammes suivants illustrent la mAthoda. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 t & c> n J" CAPE BRETON, % ^-rf wp ' \ I .'iB' ; ,- J i **r^. 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Sir, • Having had occasion, in the course of my explorations last summer in C!H)e Breton, m connection with the Geological Survey of Canada, to visit and examine your coal mining property at New Campbellton, and having been requested by you to state such facts as have come under my observation in relation to its value for mining purposes, I have now much pleasure in complying with your request. In illustration of my remarks I have prepared a plan of the property, showing its position, extent and topographical features, and the course and probable connection of the various coal seams found thereupon, &c. The areas leased for iL-'.ning purposes are denoted on the plan by the red sirp'j^y 4 border at the boundary lines ; while the portions of land pertaining to the property and held in fee-simple are distinguished by the same tint. SITUATIOK AND GENERAL DESCKIPTION OP THE PROPERTY. This property or which, with occasional intermissions, mining opera- tions have been carried on for the past ten years, comprises the mining rights on three square miles or 1920 acres, a small [jropoition of which, as shewn on the plan, is sea area, but easily accessible and workable from the land. It includes also the fee-simple or freehold right of an ample extent of land for all requisite buildings and premises connected with the collieries, for railways, stores and shi[)ping wharves. A farui of 120 acres, immediately adjacent to the wharf, and a portion of which is under cultivation, fjrms also part of the property, which comprises in all about 170 acres in freehold. This mining property is situated on the northern side of the Groat Entrance of the JJras d'Or Lake, a very extensive and deep arm of the sea, occupying a great part of the interior of the Island of Cape Breton. It is contigous to Kelly's Cove, which forms a deep, capacious and »vell sheltered harbor, admirably adapted in every respect for a shipping place. This harbor is about three miles from the Atlantic Ocean, with which it communicates by a broad and deep channel ; and is within an easy distance from the track of the great ocean steamers plying between Canada and Great Britain, as well as the Afaritiine I'rovinces, For local demand and for convenience of shipment to Halifax, it offers the direct and safe internal navigation of the Bras d'Or ; thereby avoiding the dangers and delays incident to a long ocean coasting voyage around the eastern shores of the island. Eecently important beds and veins of iron ore have been discovered and partially worked at certain points along the shores of the Bras d'Or Lake ; in connection with which, and in view of the facilities afforded by the Xew Campbellton Mines for the supply of fuel for smelting and other purposes, the value of this mining property will probably be enhanced. GEOLOGICAL FEATURES. Your property lies at the north-western extremity of the Great Sydney Coal Field, and about thirteen miles distant on the course of the beds from the justly celebrated Sydney Mines, which have been for upwards of a century in extensive and successful operation. Most of L 5 the coal seams of the Sydney Mines are traceahle throughout the whole of this distance ; and although at the Great Entrance their direct continuity seems to have been interrupted, and their course deflected considerably to the west, it is nevertheless believed on good grounds that some of the most important seams of the district underlie the New Canipbellton property in a basin shape, with their outcrops comprised entirely within the area. The surface of the ground throughout this area is for the most part very rough and irregular ; thus rendering the tracing of the seams and their identification at difi'erent points a matter of some doubt and difficulty. The western boundary of the property is skirted by a high ridge of syenite ; upon the flunk of which three coal seams, one of six feet, another of two feet, and another of four feet in thickness repose in a nearly vertical position. The whole group is included within a thick- ness of 110 feet; the two feet seam being intermediate between, and about equally distant from the six and four feet seams. These have been traced running in a perfectly straight course over a length of 100 chains or one and a quarter mile ; and the four feet and six feet seams have been partially worked for a length of 560 yards and 53 yards respectively, by a tunnel or adit driven across the strike, and connecting both seams transversely at or near the natural drainage level. A consi- derable quantity of coal has been here obtained and shipped, chiefly from the four leet seam, by overhead workings in the ordinary bord and pillar method, above the levels referred to. At the distance of about three-quarters of a mile southward from the tunnel, a seam of coal four feet live inches in thickness crops out, di|tpiiig to the east at an angle of about twelve degiees, and which has bei'n worked to some considerable extent by a slope. Although its attitude and course are thus very different from that of the seam cut in the tunnel, there can be little doubt that they are identical, and that the area included within and beyond th( ir outcrops is in the form of a basin, which will be entirely underlaid by this and all the accompanying coal seams, as above specified, to the extent of their respective outcrops. In confirmation of this view it is found that the seams themselves and associated strata, were seen along the side of the mountain to the south- west of the tunnel, instead ■of maintaining the straight course which they have in the opposite direction, gradually bend round to the south with diminishing dip to meet the seam worked at the slope. The four feet seam (so called) has been traced, partly by underground workings and partly by surface openings, for a distance of nearly a mile across the property ; and will no doubt extend over its entire breadth. The underlying seams have been exposed at intervals, to a sufficient extent to render it probable that they will also be found throughout in their proper relative positions. Thus supposing these three seams to maintain their thickness, and to be unaifected by faults, they will underlie, at a moderate and easily workable depth, an area of 1,000 acres; and contain 18,000,000 tons of coal, exclusively of the vertical portions of the seams which may be estimated to contain 8,000,000 or 10,000,000 tons additional, It is proper to mention, however, that the six feet seam, where cut and partially worked at the tunnel, is irregular in thickness, and may not prove to be workable throughout its whole extent ; but on the other hand there are unmistakable evidences of the existence of otlier seams lying both above and below those specified. It is also worthy of remark that, although that part of the area where the seams have been tested is in a disturbed condition, there is still a very large proportion of it in which the strata appear to be perfectly undisturbed, and where the coal seams may reasonably be expected to partake of the same regularity. EXTENT OF THE WORKINGa. Mining operations for the extraction of coal for the market have been carried on upon this property since the year 1862. These, however, ha\'e been conducted only to a limited extent, owing chiefly to the want of a local demand, and to the general depression in the coal trade in the British Provinces after the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty with the United States. Daring the time your collieries have been in operation, the coal was obtained partly from the tunnel and partly from the slope workings. The extent of the former has already been specified ; they were discontinued at that point chiefly in consequence of the limited extent of the seam available overhead, and until preparations could be made for sinking below the level of the tunnel. The slope has been driven 200 feet on the angle of dip ; levels have been extended 385 yards north-west, and 140 yards south-east; and the coal, of which a thickness of four feet is available, has been extracted to the rise on the ordinary bord and pillar system, modified to suit the high angle of the seam. The aggregate quantity shipped from these mines from the date of commencement to that of temporary suspension in 18G7, (all of which met with a ready market), is 27,066 tons large, and 2,187 tons small coal, besides a very considerable amount used on the works. Operations have been resumed last summer at the slope by sinking further to the deep, and have been attended by a marked improvement in tlie quality and available thickness of the seam, with a diminution in the angle of dip. From the last accounts received from the mine, it seems reasonable to expect that, with an additional hundred feet of sinking on the slope— a work which is now in progress — the seam, which has hitherto been worked altogether too near the crop, will yield from four and a half to five feet of good coal. QUALITY OP THE COAL. The so-called six feet seam, where exposed in the brook at A, shcAVs a thickness of five feet six inches of bright, clear, bituminous coal. This seam, however, as already remarked, does not maintain its regular thick- ness in the exposures hitherto made. The two feet seam, wherever it has been exposed, is a remarkably fine and pure bituminous coal. The four feet seam, from which by far the largest amount of coal has hitherto been extracted, has been worked both at the tunnel and in the slope, too near to the crop ; and consequently the coal has been somewhat contaminated with earthy and other impurities, which, however, have not prevented the demand, and which will probably disappear as the seam is worked farther to the deep, and in those parts of the area where the strata are undisturbed. The coal from this seam is remarkable for its powerful heating qualities ; a large sample sent to the Dublin Exhibition in 1865 was very favorably noticed by the Judges. MACHINERY, FLANT, REAL ESTATE AND BUILDINGS. No machinery has hitherto been employed at the tunnel workings, although such will be requisite in the event of operations being resumed there. At this part of the property eight acres of land are held in fee- simple, and there are three dwelling houses, a blacksmith's shop, screens, &c. At the slope there is a ten horse power steam engine, with vertical boiler and oscillating cylinder for hoisting, and a powerful " Cameron " pump, supplied with steam from a separate boiler. The tramroads underground and in the slope are 2 feet 6 inch gauge, with iron strap- rails 2| X ^ inch, and supplied with 40 tubs of half a chaldron capacity. The property comprises twenty-fivo acres of real estate at and in the vicinity of the slope, together with eleven double houses for miners, store houses, powder magazine, blacksmith's shop, screens, &c. There is a good and substantial railway from the slope to the wharf, a distance of one and a quarter miles, with descending grade for the n)odt of the distance, as shown on the profile. The gauge of the railway (which is capable of being worked by a light locomotive, and is about to be supplied with one) is 3 feet 6 inches, with iron T-rails, chiefly 35 lbs. to the yard ; the railway is equipped with 40 or 50 trucks or waggons, each capable of carrying one and a half ton, and all in good working order. From the slope to the tunnel a tramway has also been graded, and laid with strap-rails on longitudinal timber sleepers. This part of the road, however, has been allowed to fall into decay in consequence of the discontinuance of the tunnel workings. At the shipping place at Kelly's Cove there is a water frontage and right of possession to the extent of ten to fifteen chains, with sufficient area in freehold (about twelve acres including both land and water lots) for a complete establishment. The wharf is a substantially built structure, capable of accommodating at one time three vessels for loadin" coal, with all requisite shoots, also an equal number discharging carf^o, &c. The depth of wuter at the wharf is sixteen feet, which can be easily increased to twenty feet by extending it a liftle farther from the shore. There are also at this point large, substantial and well furnished store- houses, managers' houses, blacksmiths' and waggon repair shops, fishing establishment, «S:c. The property comprises in freehold near the wharf a farm of 120 acres, a portion of which is under cultivation, and the rest tolerably well wooded. OTHER USEFUL MINERALS ON THE PROPERTY. Besides the coal on this property a variety of other minerals of economic value are to be found in inexhaustible abundance ; some of which will be immediately, and probably all prospectively available to enhance its value. Of those I may enumerate the following, viz : sand- stone, limestone and syenite for building and ornamental purposes, marbles of various colors, common and niagnesian limestone for the preparation of ordinary and hydraulic cement (for which the slack coal will be extensively available, and a good kiln is already erected) ; also common and fire-clay for brickmaking, &c. Ty ese are sonic of tho special advantajros jjossessed by this property over most others in tlic district; but the most important consists in the facilities whieii it offers for the economical production and shipment of a large quantity of coal ; and in the fact that it is actually productive at the present moment, and fully equipped with all requisite appliances for such business ; which with the present and prospective high price for that article, can scarcely fail to be highly remunerative. I have the honor to In-, Sir, Your most obedient servant, CnABLKS KOBB. EEPOET OF CHAELES F. ESCHWEILLEE, ESQ., MINI?r. There are two warehouses near the harbor, one store, several dwelling houses and a blacksmith's sho)). The .store is well tilled with goods of all kinds: iron, steel, ropes, castings (car wheels) and other mining sup[)lies are found in quantities larger than 10 are usually inot with on mines. The dwellin;;: houses arc well finished ; (•.Ia|)-boiinlo(l and witii stone i'oiuuialions. The ston; iia^ a very good cellar built of freestone, whieh can be obtained on the property, cluse to the railroad ; limestone and sand are also found, so that buildings can be put. np witl) foMiparativc eltcapnes-^. The railroad has no double track. Horses draw the loaded ears from the adit or shaft within about half a mile of the wharf; where brakesmen take charge of tlu; cars, convey them down to the shoots and unload them, to be taken up again by the horses whieh follow tlu! car-*. Although these arrangements answer very well in the meantime, yet tlu're is mueh loss ui liiiii' aii.'>in- Uijui thein, and a chaiigt; slmidd h(- iii.hle. Tni' full cars should pull up the empty ones, which can be done with very little expense. The rail is of strap-iron naih.'d upon scantling.* The mine ])ropcr consists of the mineral lights of 040 acres.t This square mili.' embraces about all which is at jU'esi'iit ccuisidered as coal-field ; but to secure any further discoveries, either of coal l~eds or bituminous shale, a right of search has been taken out, wliich eventually will eidarge the i-'ineral right to 1,280 acres. One hundred and seventy aines are hehl in fee-simi)le. Three .seams of coal have been discovered (jn the ])roperty ; one is two, out! four and the other six feet wide. The .second alone is now worked, thi^. last, the six feet simiu, will be reached by an adit in a short tinu'. I s.iw this ju'incipal seam crop[iing out on the sloiu; of the mountain, and also saw coal taken from a shaft sunk upon it. which had been exposed to the air four years, and still looked very well. The seams of coal dip first almost vertically, and then again they have a tlip of about 20 degrees to the west. The vertical part is worked by an adit, which is two and a half miles from the shipping point; it is 3G0 feet in length, and cuts the seams at a depth of I-IO feet from the surface. The four feet seaui has been worked here to some extent. The six feet sr^ain was not ill its normal conditiiUi where struck by the adit, and tlu'refore another cross-cut from the four feet seam was driven which will reach it very soon. Tliree dwelling houses and a blacksmith's shop are near the adit. The more horizontal jiart of the coal .seam is worked by an incline shaft, two hundred feet deep. It is arranged for a doubl(> track. The ,> * Xow changed to T rails, '.i'> poutuls to the yartl. I Since this Kepoit was written the area has been increased to three .square miles or 1920 acres. 11 hoisting engino, ton horse power, has a vcitioal boiler aiid oseilliUiiig cyhiidcr, luid does also the pumping. iik; trainroads uiidcrgroini,! htno been put in good condition. That tlio. coal of Sydney and vicinity sometimes ignites spontane- which the coal seams are wrought. Then; is no more bisulphurct of iron in these seams than in those <>{' nnv other coal distriet : ])ut tlim! is less care taken to separate the poor jiarts of tlu; s(!an.s from the rich coal. This poor part in the four feet soam tonus the upper six incliiw, while it is lying in the middle ot the six feet seam, where it is nine indies wide. i>y iiicking into this jioor portion of tlie seam, as it is done everywhere, far enough ahead to l)ring the rest down by wedges, the coal can l)e kept very dean, Tho coal then will iKjt only keep without any danger of spontaneous combustion, but it will also look much better. The coal of the six feet seam is of a very superior quality, and will command a high price, if treated in the i)roper way. The shaft and adit having been made large, the product of the mine can be made very considerable. Un the whole I do imt hesitate to recommend this property to your earnest coi;sideration. With an influence brought to l)ear on tin; coal market, and by the superior (piaiity oi the coal of the six feet seam, these mines will soon acipiire a great rei)utation. Chaulks F. KscuwEU.Lr.u. NOTE IN EEOAIII) TO THE QUALITY OF THE COAL FKOM THK NKW CAMPBFJ.LTOX MINES. Pom/ret Cf., ion, S>-pt., 1S73. * * * As resjioets the coal from the New Campbell ton Mines, I recollect selling a cargo to Messrs. McLaudilin in JJoston, Iron workers; and another to Mr. S. G. .Snelling, Treasurer of the L(nvd! I;leacher3% Each of these genflenien sul)sequently bought another cargo, which I considered sufficient oinof of their good esteem of the coal. I remember keeping a cargo for several months heapc^d on a wharf, to ascertain if then; were any danger of spontaneous ignition. None took place, and 1 afterwards sold the coal. C. J. IIlGGINSON. 12 REPORT OF EDWIN GILPIN, jR. 7,5 liinninflhaw SL, Halifax, JavUj Id, 1S80. The Hon. (". .7. Campbell, Sir, la accordanci' witlj your requost 1 liavo carefully road ovor tho reports on your property, issued in 1874, and liave also received a plan of your workings up to date, and I wcnild state that since the date referred to your operations have assumed a permanent character, a large amount of c(jal has been won, and future ])ly of pure water has beciu secured for the boilers by laying pipes to a pond, distant about 1,500 feet. The pit tubs, waggons, (t'c, are in good order, li.iving been recently repaired. One of the most important improvements, however, that you have introduced at your colliery is the adit which starts fmui the shore, and is continued 2,900 feet, crossing the slope about 50 feet from the bottom, and continued to within 100 feet of the face ot the north side workings, draining 450 feet of rise coal. 13 The importance of this level may >)P gathered from the fact that a Xo. 6 Cameron pump, running 10 hours a week, with twenty lbs. of steam keeps the pit dry. This adit has opened up about fyO acres of unwrought coal on the soutli side of the slope, which would yield in round numbers about 315,000 tons of coal available for workin<,'. In this section u counter- balance has been driven 1 "0 feet long, and is ready for working. On the north side of the slope the levels are not much in advance of the coal now being worked, but the supply for immediate wants is so abundant that they can bo driven by easy stages to meet all future wants. Thus, a length of levels 100 yards long would give about 25,000 tons of rise coal. On this side of the slope an important change has been made during the past season, in the method of working the coal. 1 have not yet had an opportunity of seeing it, but understand from Mr, J. [McDonald, Agent of the Mine, that the system of stall and pillar work has been abandoned for a modification of long wall work— whereby the coal is taken out altogether, and lowered by counter-balances to the main level. The roof, Mr. McDonald informs me, is found to answer the new system very well, the coal is larger and less powder is requireil. And on(> important feature is that by it the cost per ton is lessened by from 10 to 15 cents. The ventilation, according to the official return, dated Dec. 10th, 1879, is ample for the present extent of workings, being 10,000 cub. feet per minute, and is maintained by a furnace placed in a shaft near the head of the back slope. I do not know that there are any further remarks that are necessary, as the general extent, and particular values of the property are so well set forth in the reports referred to. I may, however, add in conclusicm that you are in a position, so far as my information extends, well adapted for cheap extraction of coal for a number of years to come without being obliged to extend your slope further to the dip. And remain, yours truly, Edwin Gilpin, Jr., Inspector of Mines, TESTIMONIALS. New Cumpbellton, 13th Febniari/, 1S74> C. J. Campbell, Esq,, ]>adJeck. Dear Sir, # # # # * I may here say in reference to yoiir mininjj property, -which I have carefully examined in the four past days, that it is liif,'h classed. Inde- pendent oian inexhaustible supply of coal from the present known seama of four, six, and two feet, all of which arc of good marketable (pialities, you have fitted up a working plart for the development of those rnsources such as you will rarely find, even in the advanced ideas of the old country. There is also a never-failing supply of splendid lime stone, slate, building atone, and sand. Archd. Gilchrist. Halifax, N. S., 26th March, 1874. C. J. Campbell, Esq., Dear Sir, In answer to your enquiry concerning quality of coal received from you, we beg to stale, that for steam purposes, we have found it quite O'pial to any Cape Dreton coal, and if a little more free from slate more lasting and equal to any for general purposes. Tiuly yours, ^y. s. Symonds & Co., L. Symonds. Halifax, March 30th, 187 4. C. J. Campbell, Esq., Sir, In answer to your inquiry as to the quality of the New Campbellton Mines Coal, I beg to say that I bought and stored several cargoes, two years ago, of your'Xew Campbellton ^Nliiies Coal. I subsequently retailed it out to my customers. I never heard any complaint again.st the quality of it. I consider it fully as good as any Cape Breton Coal that comes to this market for domestic or steam purposes, and is much harder and stands more handling than most Cape Breton Coal. Yours truly, James McDaniel. 15 l/uli/ax, April 4fJi, /,9^;. C. J. CAMPnKLL, Esq., In ro[)ly to your inquiry ropunlinj,' the qnulity of tlic Xi'w Canip- bcllton Mines Cuiil, 1 bcjf to say thai for the sovural yoais that I iictttl an a^ont for salo of saitl coal, I sohl lar^'c quantitioH to the ( Jovcrnnicnt and uthcTH, and believe it gave general satisfaction tor steam and ddnicstic use, Yours truly, Edw. ^loiunsoN. Sfmm Marble and GraiiUe Polifhhtg Worl-ii, Hall/ax. HoK. C. J. Campbell, Dear Sir, In answer to your enquiry concerning the New Cainpbollton Coal, I may say tiiat I have iised it for the past three months and iiiid it one ul' the best steam producing 'Jouls I have ever used and can recommend it to those who rei^uire coal lor steam purposes. I am, dear Mir, Yours truly, George Sanford. HaVfax,5thAngmt,1876, Hon. C. J. Campuell, Dear Sir, The cargo of Xew Campbellton Coal, which wc purchased from you, has given us good satisfaction in our Erewery. Youra obediently, Eraser, Oland <% Co. " The Army & Navy Ih-ewery." Halifax, August Ut, 1876. Hox. C. J. Campbell, Dear Sir, I have used the Coal from New Campbellton Mines for the last two years and find it is always, of uniforndy good quality, equal to the best Cape Breton Coal for domestic Uoc* B. O'NiEL. 10 IlaVfax, Angmt 5th, 1876. Hox. C. o. Campbell, Dear Sir, We liavo used your Xew Civniphollton Mine Coal at our Foundry, ami it gave good satisfaction. Wo can recouuucad it for steam purposes. We are> Yours, &c., W. S. Symonds & Co. Tarmouth Fuimdri/ and Machine Works, Yarmouth, N. S., March 11th, 1S7S, C. J. Campbell, Esq., Halifax, Dear Sir, Kindly inform us how early we can obtain a load of Coal from the Minos, so that we can arrange to charter a vessel. We have been very well .satisfied with your coal, and if you desire to make another trade for stoves this coming season we shall be pleased to do so. Yours truly, JBurrkll, Johnson & Co., Per C. H. Bryant. Halifax, N. S, May lJ,th, ISSO. C. J. Campbell, Kpq., Dear Sir, At your solifitation, t procured from you last October a half chaldron of your coal, as a .sample, which I was well pleased with, since which time [ have not used any other llituminous Coal, having had thirty-live chaldrons, and feel satisfied that the quality is as good, if not bettor, than any other coal mined in Nova Scotia, and can recommend it to the general public as a good house Coal, suitable for grates or any other purpose that may be required. A. NliLSON, International Hotel. 17 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE NEW OAMPEELLTON COAL AND LIME COMPANY. (Passed the 30tli diiy of April, a.d, 1873.) Bo it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows : 1. Charles J. Cunipbcjll and his associates, successors, and assiirns, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the " New Campbellton Coal and Lime Company," for the purposes of purchasinj,', holdin<,^ leafciuf,' and sel.ing Mines and Mining rights, and of opening and working Coal Mines in the Island of Cape JJreton or elsewhere in the Province of Nova Seotia, and of manufacturing Coal Oil and other sub- stances from coal, and manufacturing lime and trading in the products of such mines or manufactures, and transacting business connected with any of the puri-oses aforesaid, with full power to purchase, take, or lease, or otherwise acquire any lands or other property, to construct and make such railways, tramways, or other roads as may be deemed necessary fcr the transportation of the products of the mines and quarries worked by such Company, and of other articles to and from such mines and quarries, to construct harbors and br-akwaters, to purchase, hire, construct, build, 01' erect al' such wharves, docks, piers, mills, houses, buildings, and machinery as may from time to time appear expedient, and to do and perform all other matters and things which the Company may deem incidental or conducive to such objects or any of them. 2. The Cai)ital Stock of the Company shall be Four ITuudred Thousand Dollars, to be divided into shares of One Hundred Dollars each, which sliall be personal proi)erty, transi^issible and assignable as such, and the Company shall have power to increase their Cajiital Stock to One Million of Dollars by the issue of new shares; but the Company shall not go into operation until twenty-five per cent, of the Capital Stock is actually paid up, 3. The first meeting of the Company shall be held at such time and pliteo in this Province, as the above corporators or any three of them shall deto;Mnine, of which public notiof , all be given in one or more newspajKrs published in the City of hal.. .x, in this Province, at least twenty da^s previous to such meeting, and continued to the date t}>ereof, at which or at any subsequent meeting, the Company may be organized by the election of not less than ihree Directors, and of other neiiessary officers, and tlie shareholders present in person or by proxy, shall have pow(>r to organize the Company, establish bye laws, and elect all neces- sary officers. 4. No member of the corporation shall be liable in his person or separate estate for the debts or' the Company to a greater amount in the 18 whole than the amount of stock hekl by him, deducting therefrom the amount actually paid to the Company on account of such stock ; unless he shall have rendered himself liable for a greater amount by becoming surety for the debts of the Company ; but no shareholder who may have transferred his interest in the stock of the Conipany, shall c .ise to be liable for any contracts of the Company, entered into before tlie date of such transfer, so as any action in respect of sue).: li^'.bility shall be brought within six montlis after sucli transfer. 5. The Directors of the Company may receive lauds, mines, build- ings, wharves, machinery, mining rights, or privileges, or any interest therein respectively in payment for stock subscribed for, or for any instalments due thereon, but subject nevertheless to such conditions as to valuation or acceptance of the same or otherwise, as may be imposed by the bye-laws of the Company. 6. The transfer of shares in the Company shall be valid and effec- tual for all purposes from the time pirch transfer is made and entered in the books of the Company. 7. A list of the Shareholders of the Company and of tlie numbei of shares held by each of them on the first days of the months of May and Xovember, in each year, certified under the hands of the President and Secretary, shall be filed in the months of May and November in each year, with the Registrar of Deeds of the County or District where the principal works of the Company are situated in this Province ; such certificate to contain the name of the Shareholders and the number of shares held by them respectively, on the first day of the month on which such certificate is filed ; and it shall not be necessary to file any other certificate of transfer or copy thereof. 8. The meetings of the Company shall be held at such time and place in this Province as the Directors may appoint ; and the Company, througli tlieir Directors or otherwise, shall appoint a recognized manager or agent, resident in this Province, service on whom of all process, notices, and other documents, shall bt- held to be sufficient service on the Com- pany ; and the name and address of such agent shall be filed with the Registrar of Deeils for the County of Halifax and Victoria, and for the County or District where the principal works of the Company are situat- ed in this Province. In default of such appointment or in case of the absence or death of such agent, process, notices, and other documents may be served on any officer or employee of the Company, or for want of such officer or employee may be posted on some [)rincipal building of the Company, and such service or posting shall be deemed a sufficient service on the Company. 9. Whenever it chall be necessary for the construction of any road, railway or tramway, or for the construction of any wharves, piers, or docks contem[)lated by this Act, that the Company should be invested with the lands over which the same shall pass or contigueeds for the County or District where such lands lie, who is hereby require.l to register the same, shall be considered the owners of such land. 10. It shall be lawful for the Company to make and construct railways, roads or tramroails over, under or across any river, brook or str«.?.ni, and over and across any railroad, tramroad or road, subject never- theless in such cases, to regulations to be made by the Court of Sessions to ensure the saft'ty of the inhabitants and their property. 11. The books and accounts of the Company shall at all times be open to the examination of such persons as the Cfovernor in Council shall appoint to inspect the same, 12. This Act shall cease and determine if effective works shall not be commenced and continued under it within three years from the date of its passing. ■^HH 20 NEW CAMPBELLTON, CAPE BRETON. (From the Canadian lUusirated News.) This picturesque and beautiful little harbor is'situateJ within the Great r>as (VOr entrance, and twenty-fivo miles below Buddeck the chief tov n of Victoria County. It is the poit ot shipment of all the r.rouns- Avhich rises sheer from the plain to the height ot 1,000 or 1,500 feet '^'"^eJi^ w'ri^Kgricultural district, this portion of Victoria embrJS: the nort"h-west section of the Gipe Breton Co;U Field, w^^^^^^^^ mining operations are vigorously prosecuted by Hon. C J. Can pbel whose enterprise has built np the commercial interests of he port and }lom whom it has derived its name. A railway of some three mdes lu length connects the several mines with the shipping pier shown in the ' '''^'in ad.lition to coal, the district abounds in limestone of finest quality which constitutes the foot-hills along the base of the mountain, and an rxamination is about to be undertaken with a view of testing the qua Ity of the Syenite of the vicinity as a commercial product. -T^^ l";«^t fanlities for shipment exist, as the largest vessels atloat can moor to the bank and receive cargo without the intermission of pier or railway. The shore and bank fishery also receive considerable attention, the Lake and adjacent rivers abounding with cod, herring, mackerel halibut robster. .^-c the two former at all seasons, being taken through the ice dui^ the winter. The general character of the Bras d'Or Lake is pSly unexcelled by anything of th. kind in the ^I>T»^;°"Lf J^ every variety of landscape from the quietest pastoral to the wildest effectj ormountain scenery. And among the many points ot ^^^;J^ UD bv a round trip over its waters on the good steamer :Neptune, low excml in picture^e beauty the little harbor of New Campbellton, familiarly known as ** Kelly's Cove." within the ddeck, the of all the 3 Lako and onntains — 1,500 feet of Victoria ield, whose Campbell, e port and ee miles in lown in the nest quality ain, and an the quality The finest moor to the Iway. tention, the rel, halibut, lugh the ice Or Lake is )n, affording ildest effects srest opened ;^ptune," few 'ampbellton, iPiPP X mmmmmmmfi . t ■TON. I WE.W C AMPB] ^ c O ^ L PBEL LTQN C OUTER J WITH tfai OOl^'A/ CAST - ^- ■ ag t a ,^. '■^'^^^^.^SSsi CARKV HILL w Oj To day we Find a f^aad ti we find a jgoad tile roof Forming : mm^ (8fn. SoFrFina Clay mixed wi^^ p. -, . . .^^- , , l. r- < i I ^ ^ ^ fe > ft 1 'imLULcuiuuuuMiu SnBBBBHHB ^eiBtGHieesitanM iMUIIIUBdAnt 12 ir ON LINE & ■^0' ^■TOm.-.CiK \0lO LE V, TL o 3 . T" ^ ROPOSED uppBr9in.ohhis bectioff. ihc iflwer yiiiib ^ hard Fire Clay. 12in.Crop Coal . This Coal will burn very wuH and -5 is longer in Reid than Slope Coal. It also?J> cail^las well FLO OR Fine Clay ROCK ■ td ol . ks. \^l ?^l ** W 5 "* ^ IS § ^ Vj « <^^l ^ % !5 5a 5 5» ^s^iH »«4 ^1 QC V>>r£/R c \ ^. 7 © 5 -tf- ""■~ »3 \ *5 l^ i ^1 -- - _ I \^\ aJboIutI .4o YARDS. II SECTION OF COAL AND CLAY ;^P. C. M. Sx2bT. ap^ I8S0 * ^ 1 " SCALE OF PLAN 150'- 1 fO, one cubic Fsrr oF air p«r minute passing down Slope . ALEXANDER WEIR, Under Ground Manager. (VIARITIIA STEAM MTU. CO SI. JOHN ^k HALIFAX- rg/R