ENNERGLYNN COAL MINE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 171, 17 July 1918, Page 4

ENNERGLYNN COAL MINE

PROPOSAL , TO RE-OPEN.^.

I Mr .A. H: Hpunsell haaisenlt a let-'"- / to the CawfchronJ Trustees in referr «•<•■( to a proposal ; to reopen the Ennergl"';vi coal mine. He po?ilrsj& out that ini "v : «vv of the present .utt-tees of coal the yrv; ppsal has an added .importtawce. He. ■*• 1-o suggeslts (that any work ' for decid'".'"' the question as* \ipfe itihe contin^anc<■ , o* the coal measures outcropping oil t!»s Eastern side of .the Waimea, basini +- ■ "■? within the powers vested ia the 8t..r""1.

"Professor Park and others," be says, ''express opin£c>n that i.W' Waimea Plain "is a "' synclino, »nd that on the eastern boundary ithe measures' have not only been tUfted/ up, but *•.!>:»-' ed over; leaving -them/with a high inclination to the suggests, they resume '•a. horizontal- riosition at a lower depth,. * highly \r\porfcanjfc fact would bo established., rs ii would be fair to assume if the' ,r*'-•»-'.■ piires turned over to .the westward, the Waimea Plain iteejf might prove a. ~ > » .s.t; coaj-producing v area;- which oH-- M, | alone would fully your Bi.-"d lin , assisting any development in Ihis 1 locality." ' Mr Hounsell states further that hehas been reliably informed that the 'e>»tcrop' at was traced' f r half a mile (40 chains) on the eurf;« "».. You will observe on the section submitted that at a depth of 160 ft, 12ft of coal was; pixived l . Thais was driven on and worked with payable resulte. U»fortunately, through spontaneous combustion, the mine took firel :t jfffd it becamo necessary to flood the; work i"tcv after which the property was abandonedt. By sinking a winze on the (•"am sft of_ coal was found to exist at This is (the greatest depth to which prospecting has been carriedi, and' it ■i« between ithe old 160 ft level and the 330 feet depth that immediate operalioJiß are suggested ; eventually, however, it is intended to , prospect' deeper and prove the country thoroughly. The proposition is now before local capitalists, and it is fujjgested that under the powers vested in your Boaixl, you might favourably consider the ouestion of assisting any local' effort to the cst tenit of subsidising it» £ for £, say up to £1000; tliis sum to-be repayable by the company, should operations •pi'ove successful, at the rate of, Bay; £2OO per annum phis init.ei"€«t charges^"