BROWN AND MUIR’S COAL LEASE

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 March 1911, Page 3

BROWN AND MUIR’S COAL LEASE

[to the editor.]

Sir. —It may interest your readers to hear a little more concerning this very important discovery. It is now something over two years since I took Mr Brown up Bray’s Greek and showed him two very nice outcrops of coal, the one showing six feet of a soft nature, the other fourteen feet of a hard nature, and he has been doing the principal prospecting part now and again ever since, until tie has made the discovery of twelve different outcrops. Some of them are on Bray's Creek side and some on Soldiers’ Creek side. I can.confirm what your Blackball correspondent stated, that the distance proved by the various outcrops is something like two miles in length. It is one of the best coal fields on the West Coast, and what is more, a continuation of the old Brunner seam. I can only describe it as a veritable mountain of coal. Mr Brown deserves great credit for the way he has persevered and brought to light such an extensive coal field. He has spent all his spare time upon it, and more, has asked the powers that be to assist but without avail. He has shown the young men of Blackball what pluck and perseverance can do. He is now on his way to the Old Country to confer with a gentleman of means respecting the purchase of lease and development work. I expect a coal mining expert here any day from South Africa to report on it. There are several views photograffiphed by Mr I. Dives, of the prospects at various out crops which will appear shortly in the Auckland Weekly, I am, etc., JAMES MUIR. Blackball, March 20, 1911.