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GAS COAL. BUNKER COAL. Dl^iESTIC COAL. Shipments are made at cither Sydney or Louisburg, both in Cape JBreton Island. SYDNEY HARBOUR. Shipping Pier in 25 feet watox'. LOUISBURG HARBOUR. Shipping Pier in 28 feet water, Patent Tip Shoots at both Piers capable of delivering One Thousand Tons of Coal per day. Extra facilities at both Ports for despatch of Steamers calling in for Bunker Ooal. Louisburg harbour is open and free from ice. all the year round. I ( 7, 5,V. Pp? { ,# 1^ h M Important to Owners of Steamers Coaling at North American Ports. THE SYDNEY & LOUISBUEG COAL & BAILWAY COMPANY, LIMITED. DIRECTORS. G. W. MEDLEY, Esq., Chaiman. 7AC0MB HOOD, Esq. i CHARLES SCHIFF, Esq. .rOUSTUS MONGREDIEN, Esq. I E. M. UNDERDOWN, Esq. SECRETARY. LONDON OFFICES. 0. C. BOWLBY, Esq. 43, LOTHBURY, E.G. A<.cefcmed by all who have tried it. For the last eight years the French Navy have used that in preference to any other Neva Scotia coal. It is considered 5 per cent, better than the best Newcastle steam coal. I Despatch. The ample accommodation for loading three ships at once at the Company's piers, and the abundance of the coal, which is run from the pit's mouth to the pier on the Company's own railways, aiford the means of coaling vessels with excep- tional despatch. The endeavour is to enable \essels which come in to the Company's pier in the morning, to proceed (after coaling) with their voyage in the afternoon. The tip- shoots used by ihe Company are found to be very successful in delivering the coaii^ into ve seb with the least possible breakage. Prices. The proximity of the collieries to the shipping ports, as well as the great facilities afforded by the Railways for the conveyance of the coal direct from the mines into the coaling vessels, enable the Company to supply their coal at a very cheap rate, and low prices form not the least of the various advantages secured by resorting to their shipping ports. The present prices * are — At Sydney— Cargo Coal $ Per Ton, free on board. H Best Bunker Coal Per Ton, trimmed into bankers. At Louisbueo— Cargo Coal $ Per Ton, free on board. „ BeHt Bunker Coal Per Ton, trimmed into bunkers. I u si J Option of Shipping Ports. By the accompanying sketch-maj/, it will ho seen, from the relative geographical position of the Company's two shipping ports, that for vessels trading between Eu"ope pnd the Gulf and River !St. Lawrence. Sydney ?3 the most con- venient port for coaling. It is more ithin their track ; and, except it,.« closure bv ice during the winter months, there are no dr .wbacks from he merits as a loading and coaling port. But for vessels engaged in the immense traffic between Europe and the United States of America, Louisburg is by far the most important intermediate station of any. It presents the following advantages : — 1- — It? harbour is open and free from ice all the year round. Sydney is closed from December to May. Even Boston and Halifax, though several degrees more Southerly, are not free from occasional inconvenience in severe winters caused by floating ice. Louisburg with ra:*e and brief exceptions, is kept open during the winter by the unceasincr restlessness of the Atlantic waters which feed its hi.rbour, \'hilc the St. Lawrence and other float- ing ice is deflected by its impact with Scatari Island, which impels the ice in a Southerly direction. 2. — It is the nearest open port on the American Con- tinent to England avA Europe. Its distance from * All information ae to oh^jgea in prices may be obtained on applica- tion to the Company. 6 the nearest English port, Millbrd Haven, is 2055 miles. It is nearer to Europe than Halifax, on the line of a great circle, by 196 miles, and than New York by 780 miles. 3. — It offers to coaling vessels the best steam coal, at the cheapest price, and with the quickest possible despatch. 4. — It is about half way bef^ een Europe and the shipping ports of the Southern States. Therefore a stean:er with a cargo of cotton, &c., from New Orleans, or other Southern port, can carry a much larger cargo by taking half the necessary coal at port of departure, and replacing it by the other half obtained at Louisburg. 5. — This economical process of replenishing with coal half way, is now partially carried on by refilling the bunkers at Halifax ; but as the cost of coal at Halifiix is very much higher than it is at Louisburg, while the despatch is not so great, the superiority of Louisburg as a coaling station is manifest. ill {). — Louisburg is .situated in lat. 45^^ 54', and long. 59° 57'. Its harbour will be found to be safe, capacious, easy of access, and capable of accom- modating the largest class of vessels afloat. The soundings show a depth of water varying from 24 to (iO feet, with good anchorage. A carefully compiled Chart of Louisburg Harbour is prefixeil to these pages. 7. — From its position as the most easterly port of the North American Continent, it is Avell fitted to become the recipient and warehousing depot of American and Canadian grain and other produce ulteriorly intended for European markets. For, as its communications seaward arc open all the year round, the shipments might be eft'ected thence at any period, and to any point, as markets migiit offer inducements. 8. — A Raili'oad is in contemplation that will connect Loulsburff with the \ast arterial svsteni of rail- road communication that traverses the continent of North America, and will make it the Eastern Terminus of the great Intercolonial Railroad of Canada. The missing link (loss than 90 miles) once supplied, a passenger from Europe landing at Louisburg might step from the Atlantic steamer into a railw'\y carriage which would convey him to any place in North America. This will be accomplished before long, and then Louisburg will form an important point of contact between the new and the old world. Information for Captains. Louisburg Harbour is situate on the S.E. side of Cape Breton Island, to the Westward of Scatari Island, and is very easy of ingress and egress. Be careful to avoid the Nag's Head, a sunken rock on the starboard hand going in, having only three feet on it at low water. There is a buoy placed oitside of this rock ; and, standing on the Point immediately inside of it, is a high flag staff' lately erected and visible from a lonvith snow, it is built square, painted white, with vertical black stripes on either side. A\'hen coming from the Eastward, vessels should bring the light to lear W. by N. or more northerly, before running for it ; and from the Westward N. by E. or more northerly, in order to clear Green Island and the ledges three quarters of a mile S. by W. ^ W. from the light. When in the entrance of the harbour, with the light bearing N. N. E., two or three cables' length distance, steer W. N. W. for half a mile, to avoid the Nag's Head, l)earing W. by N. from the light. Tlie N. E. arm of the harbour affords the safest anchorage. On the loth July, 1881, an automatic buoy was placed 1| miles outside the lighthouse for the guidance of vessels into the harbour. A magnetic course of N.W. by Vi. from this buoy tal- es a vessel through the fairway off the lighthouse into the harbour. Tl'Is buoy is shown on the chart annexed, but does not yet ai)pear in the Admiralty Chart, No. 2692. The Company, as Consignees, Will afford every assistance, and carefully attc^nd to the interests committed to them. Port Charges. The port charges at tSydney are ; pilotage for vessels of luO tons 111, and one dollar additional for every 50 tons. Sick Mariners' fees, 2 cents per ton. Harbour Master's fees, $5 for vessels of 700 tons ^md over. Sick Mariners' fees are paid three times a year, and Harbour ^[aster's fees twice a year. At Louisburg, they are ; Pilotage on steam ships 500 tn 1000 tons, inwards |10, outwards $(>. On vessels over 1000 to 3000 tons, inwards !|12, outwards |8. AVinter pilotage from 1st December to 15th April, 50 per cent, additional to the above. When a pilot is not taken, half pilotage rates will be charged. Any vessel arriving within the harbour limits and not signalled by a pilot, shall pjiy no pilotage. Testimonials. The quality of the coal furnished from the mines of the present Company, and of its immediate predecessors, the lato Cape Breton Company, has elicited numerous certificates of approval from the captains, engineers, and firms by whom it has been used. As however, they are all of them nearly to the same effect, it would be both tedious and superfluous to refer specially to more than a very few. Five only are there- fore appended, as fair samples of the general verdict of the many who have given the Company's coal a trial. From Captain GEORGE L ERATT, S.S. Lady Lycett Novemher, 1879. " I am pleased io say that the Cape Breton Company at their pier can bunker coal with as quick a despatch as can be done in the North of England, or at Cardiff. Their appli- ances are the same for doing so ; they can put them in quicker than it is possible to trim them, their coals are of the same quality as Newcastle, and steamers will not consume more of this coal. I am pleased to recommend them. We have had them two voyages and can testify to the truth of this." From J. SWINBURNE, Chief Engineer, S.S. " Pouyer Quertier." London, January 7th, 1880. " The coal supplied by you at Louisburg I am glad to say has given great satisfaction. AVe fcund it very quick to raise steam, while the clinkers from it are of no consequence and easil;y removed from the bars. The collection of dirt and soot in the combustion chambers was not nearly so great as that from the Welsh coal we had previously been using inasmuch as we never once had to sweep tubes on the passage from St. Pierre to London, whereas before, this had lre([uently to V>e done. I think it equally as good as English coal." f 10 From J. M. BREVIS, Chief Engineer, S.S. "Bedouin." August J 1S80. " Having used the Reserve C'oal supplied by the Cape Breton Company, at Sydney, on our last voyage, I have found them good, no difficuly in getting sufficient steam, with little or no clinker, and not destructive to bars. Havino- previously coaled at other mines ; I can vouch for the Reserve Uino Coal as l)eing sui)erior in every particular." From J. CRAWFORD, Chief Engineer S.S. " Minia." Halifax, 1st Maij, 1881. " This is to certify that the Anglo-American Telegraph Company's Cable Repairing Ship '^ Minia " has been coaled three times from the mines of the Cape Breton Coal Mining Company, Limited, and I have found it to be the best steam- in o- coal I have used this side of the Atlantic, It is clean, very free from clinker, and easy on furnace bars. I may state I hav(> run thirty-six hours without cleaning fires." From Captain GEORGE L ERATT, S.S. Lady Lycett Loidsbnr;/, ISth July, 1881. Having received orders from my owners on my home- ward passage from New Orleans to call at Louisburg, Cape Breton, for bunker coal, I bunkered there. I found it one of the easiest harbours to (Miter, perfectly safe with good anchorage, land locked. I prefer it to Sydney, being only a distance of two miles from the sea, and liO miles nearer route to Europe. Fine convenience for loading the coal from a pier, as it runs into the ship from tips, with the same facilities for dispatch in loading as Cardiff or the North of England. Louisburg is one of the finest harbours I have ever been in. Provisions and commodities are very cheap and reasonable. To steamships in want of coal I would recommend Loui?burg in preference to Sydney, being only 15 minutes distance from the sea, free from d rs." All further infornuition required will be readily afforded on application to the S(!cretary of the (,\)mpany, 43, Loth- bury, London; or to their Agent and Superintendent, D, J. Kennelly, Esq., Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. f