MINERS’ LUCKY FIND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3509, 27 April 1912, Page 10

MINERS’ LUCKY FIND.

X The London Taily Telegraph reports that coal-mining operations of a, picturesque character are taking place at Fail-bottom, a- prcAty ihamlet between. Oldham and Ashton-under-Lyne. On the Oldham side of the River Medlock there are banks over lOOit high, and midway there was discovered early in March several seams of coal, one of which is over 2ft. in thickness. Thirty or forty miners from the "Wood Park Colliery, Bardsley, immediately proceeded vo the locality; and, in companies of half a dozen, commenced to hew the coal from the side of the hill. The position overhanging the river is most perilous, but the men merrily pushed on with their operations, carrying coal in buckets and stacking it on the roadside. Some of tli e lumps weighed half a hundred-weight, and tne coal found a ready sale at 16s and 18s per ton. The land belongs to the Stamford and Warrington Estate, hut no action was taken to prevent the men from taking the mineral. Known as “Owd Bob's Hill,” the site of illicm mining was, several generations ago, part of a small coal mine, ~ho shaft of which was sunk in the garden of “Owd Bob’s” house. Between. 20 and 30 tons of coal were won. by the men in one day.