COAL BENEATH CITY

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 117, 11 February 1936, Page 9

COAL BENEATH CITY

Discovery at Glasgow

Coal deposits, said to be worth £7,000,000, have been discovered beneath Glasgow—the second city in Britain. The coal is beneath Nether Pollok estate, near Pollokshaws, in the southwest, where the corporation is planning to build 3500 houses and a £300.000 ho# il.

The corporation has been waiting only for an adjustment by arbitration of the price to take over the estate from the owner. Sir John Stirling Maxwell.

The discovery was reported on January 7 to the corporation’s street committee, which received an application for a lease of the estate to work the coal.

It is claimed that mining of the coal would give work to 900 men for 40 years, and would involve the expenditure of £200,000.

Experts believe that there are 14,000,000 tons of coal in the seams, and two companies ask for permission to start boring operations to obtain the necessary information for the sinking of shafts. Sir Arthur Rose, Scottish Commissioner for Special Areas, is interested in the scheme, it wa s stated, and Is pre pared to make an unemployment relic’ grant toward it.

In view of the dislocation of th: city’s housing scheme, which would be caused by mining the coal, a conference of corporation committee representatives Is to be held.