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- [CORNWALL.] 680 [POST OFFIC}! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BOTALLACK MINE fathoms. Oross-cuts were extended, both north and south 128 fathoms. In the north cross-cut two of the above, east Is in the parish of St. Just-in-Penwitb, situate 7 miles and west lodes, are now proving very productive. 'I'he from Penzance, which is the nearest railway station and mine has been worked by a steam engine pumping from a · shipping place. The mine is held under lease of 21 shaft 120 fathoms deep. Returns about £20,000 worth of years, granted by Viscount Falmouth, at a ro,Yalty ofl-24th copper ore, and some 1ead ore. on tin. There have been twelve shafts sunk. Boscawen, which is the principal working shaft, is sunk 250 fathoms, Agent on the Mine, William B. Callom and levels extend from it under the sea for about 500 Purser, John Bayly, esq. solicitor, Plymouth fathoms. A skip, running on rails at an angle of 32! CALVADNACK TIN MINE degrees, is uFed for conveying miners and visitors down Is in the parish of Wendrun, 4~ miles from Redruth, the this shaft, and many distinguished persons have visited it, nearest railway station; the shippin~ port is at Porthl~ven. amoug others, their R.H. the Prince and Priucess of Wales. It is worked for tin by a costbook company in 256 sharts, The mine is drained and worked by fourteen steam engi~aes and is held on a 21 years' tease from 1873, granted by the (pumping, stamping, and drawing). The average produce Duchy of Cornwall and T. H. Edwarrls, esq. at a royalty uf of this mine is 400 tons of tin ore per annum, and the 1-20tb. The country is granite travrrsed by elvan courses. profits divided by the pre11ent company, since its establish­ There are 10 known lodes in the sett bearing enst and we;;t, ment in 1836, have been about £12tJ,OOO. The company is underl~·ing- north and south from 1 to 3 feet. T.R~ company on the costbook system, and consists of 200 shares. are working four lodes. There are six working shafts with Purser~ ~[annger, Stephen Harvey James, St. Just and from 9U to 40 fathoms level. There is a steam stampiug Accountant, Arthur H. James engine with ~8 heads of stamps attached, a water whed Captains, Francis Bennetts, Francis Oats, Henry Hocking working 16 heads of stamps, and good appliancts for tin & Nicholas Hocking dressing-. Engineer, John Rowe Purser~ 1.lfanager, John Tonkin, Poole, Camborne THE BowiTHICK SLATE QuARRY Resident Agent, John Cock Is in the parish of Larteglos. Slate shipped from Port CAPE CoRNWALL MINE William, 1 mile distant, Port Gavorne 6 miles and Boscastle Is in the parish of St. J ust-in-Penwith, situate on the cape 4 miles. Launceston and Bodmin Road are the nearest from which it takes its name, 1 mile north-west from ~t. railway stations. The quarry has been worked half a Just and 8 from Penzance, which is the nearest railway century, and held by the present company since 1868. station and shipping place ; the mine is held under lease of .J.llanager, George Rickard 21 years at a royalty of 1-24th. The engine shaft is sunk Secretary, Henry Sewell Stokes, solicitor, Bodmin 100 fathoms from the surface. The mine is worked and drained by a steam eng-ine of 36-inch cylinder. The com­ BRYNN RoY.ALTON CoNsoLs TIN MINE, Roe HE, pany is on the costbook system. Post town and railway station, St. Austell. Worked by a Purser, Henry Lewis Phillips, 23 Broad street, London limited company, in 5,000 shares; depth 25 fathoms, 12 Manager, Richard Pryor, of Trefula, Redruth persons employed. Chief Agent, John Davey Secretary~ Purser, H. F. Whitefield, St. Columb J.llannger, Thomas Parkyn, Roche CARADON AND PH<ENIX CONSOLS COPPER .ANlJ ZllSt! Engineers, J. Hocking ~ Son MINE, LINKINHORNE, Parish of North Hill. BuDNICK CoNsOLS LEAD AND TIN :MINEs, Pur11er, Charles Pearson PERR.AN-ZABULOE. Chief Agent, James Kelly Scorrier is the nearest railway station. St. Ag-nes and Truro are the shipping places. It was formerly worked CARCLAZE MINE with success for many years, and has now been continuously Is in the parish and within the mining district of' St. Austell, working since 1869. situated on an elevated tract of land about 2 miles north of Secretary, John Wright, 2 1\Iichael's house, St. llicbael's the town. From the summit of this rising ground the mine alley, Cornhill is sunk, open, somewhat in the shape of an enormous bowl, Manager, John Rawlings the surface of which measures upwards of 12 acres; its circumference more than a mile. It is supposed to l1ave BURRA-BURR.A TIN, COPPER AND BARYTES MINE, been in working more than 400 years, and until about 1851 Pa1 ish of Kenw·yn, opened several years ago and ahandoned, for tin exclusively, but is now worked for china-clay, of reopened in May 187~. 20,000 £1 shares (limited). which an immense quantity is washed from the decomposed granite of which its strata consists. Secretary, J. A. Muspratt, 175 Gresham house, London Purser, J ames J ohns Managers, John Lovering & Robe1·t :Martin, at tlie mine Manager, James Brown Captain, Thomas J enkins CARGOLL LEAD AND SILVER 1\IINE, In the parish of .N ewlyn, has been successfully worked for BURROW .AND BUTSON COPPER, LEAD .AND BLENDE 16 years • .MINE, Purser, Ed ward M itch ell, Truro In the manor of Withian, St. Agnes,3~ miles from Scorrier lJfanager ~ Captain, John Grose, Fiddler's green, N ewlyn station. Shipping places, Trevannance Pier, Hayle, Port­ reath and Truro. 30,000 shares of .£1 each. Scorrier is the CARN BREA MINE post town. Is in the parish of Illogan, within the mining district of Chief Agent, Engineer t Purser, David Rogers, Strick­ Illogan, 1! miles from Redruth. The nearest shipping land place i~ at Portreath, 3 miles from the mine, and the nearest. Sub-agent, John Christopher railway station is at Pool, ! mile from the mine. The mine Offices of company, 47 Finsbury circus e.c is held under a lease for 21 years, from 1872, at a royalty of l-24th, granted by Gustavus Lambert Bns!'l't, CALSTOCK CONSOLS :MtNE esq. of Tehidy. The country is granite and slate. The Is in the parish of Calstock, and mining di~trict of Calling­ minerals found in this sett include copper, tin, and arsenic. ton, 4 miles from the market town of Ca!Ungton, and 15 This mine was first opened in 1832; it is now work eel for tin from Plymouth. The mine is hounded on the east by the and copper. The produce in 1872 was 573 tons of tin ore, river Tamar, wl1ere there is a wharf for shipment of and 1,293 tons of copper ore. The company is on the cost~ minerals. The mine is held under a lease from the Duke of book system, and consists of 1,000 shares, with £35 paid, Cornwall, the Right Hon.Baron Ashburton, and the Earl of revresenting a capital of .£3.5,000. The dividends, in 1872, }Iount Edgcumbe, at a royalty of l-15th. The mine was were £15,500, or £15 10s. per share. worked in 1846, under the name of Danescombe, by John Purser~ ~fanager, ·wmiam Teague, Truro Bayly, esq ., of Plymouth, and others, and is now worked Captains, William Teague, jun.; William Polkinghorne; by the name of Calstock Consols, by John Bayly, esq., John Thomas ; J ames Quintrel; William Henry Teague solicitor, Plymouth, and others. It Is divided into 12,000 Clerk, Richard Paull sha1-es, The known lodes in the sett are eight, running east nnd west, three of which underlie north, and the other CARN CAMBORNE l\liNE five underlie south. The country is killas, and the cleavage Is in the parish and mining district of Cam borne, within the the same; as the lodes underlie, one of the above is a bounds of the manor of Gustavus Lambert Basset, esq., flucan lode. On ooo of the above lodes a level has b£"en and Sir Richard Vyvyan, situated ! a mile from Camborue, driven east into the hill trom the valley, upwards of 150 which is the nearest railway station. Tl1e nearest sl1ipping .
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