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FREYSTROP COLLIERY.

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FREYSTROP COLLIERY. WORKS IN AN ADVANCED STATE. PROSPECTS OF THE INDUSTRY I PROMISING. I The works at the newly-opened colliery at Freystrop are now in a very satisfactory state of progress. The company have laid down the latest machinery and have spared neither trouble nor expense in providing the best possible plant available. The main shaft, which has been sunk in the centre of their taking (extending from the Freystrop road to the railway line at Johnston) has now been brought down to a depth of over 50 yards. For 35 yards of this distance an excellent brick lining, with occasional patches of concrete where extra strengthening was required, has been laid on the sides, but, as the rock has now been reached, there is no necessity for continuing it further. The men are at present en- gaged in pumping the water out of the bottom of the shaft, and it is expected that, in a few weeks, they will be in a position to start digging the coal, which is anthracite of the finest quality. The water is brought up in huge buckets, holding over 300 gallons each, and shot into a neighbouring field, whence it finds its way to Merlin's Bridge. As the work goes on night and day, several hundred thousand gallons of water have been pumped out, and, even now, the quantity brought up is enormous. About 60 men are employed, and the company have built offices. blacksmith's and carpenter's shops, magazine, engine shed, furnace, etc. The Babcock and Wilcox Water Tube Boilers, which generate the power for driving the engine by which the buckets are hauled up from the bottom of the shaft, are well worthy of in- spection. They are the only boilers of the kind in Pembrokeshire. The engine, which has a double action, is a very powerful one. A complete system of signals has been established between the engine shed and the mouth of the shaft. The coal, used in the furnace, is anthracite, dug in an adjoining field, and it gives every satisfaction. The Company have still a great deal of work to do before all the preliminaries are finished. The prospects are very promising, and, as even the present operations mean the payment of about £ 100 in weekly wages, the enterprise is one in which much local interest is naturally taken.

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