IRON
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COAL
AND
COAL
Dowlais Iron Works, April 4th 1857
There will not be any men working in my department tomorrow.
The Colliers of Rhes-las pit who are out on strike have not commenced work; there are 49, including boys, in all, out, which will entail a loss in the quantity of Coal of about 140 tons daily when in full work. The [name illegible] level men that are out are 29 or 30, including boys. The loss in Coal per day will be about 45 tons when in full work. I am forcing the other portions of the colliery to make up this deficiency. I expect that after they have had a few days play after the pay a number of them will be glad to go to Work. It is a well known fact to the Colliers in general that work in the Rhes-las was superior to anything in the Colliery; I have been talk ing to some of the most reasonable of them, and they acknowledge it to be the case, and I have no doubt such men would have gone to work at once had they not been intimidated by the roughs.
Further information require
Pits No1 & 2 (operational on OS map dated 1884 and OS map dated 1901 2nd Edition)
A Dowlais Iron Company report dated 10 July 1863 compiled by a W Jenkins, advises that the average length of underground haulages from pit bottom to the collier’s working faces was 990 yards for No1 pit and 935 yards for No2 pit.
Another D.I.C report dated 21 August 1863 advises that the vertical height of the pit of No1 pit was 218 yards (654 feet)and the vertical height of the pit and drift of No2 pit were 237 yards (711 feet) and 16 yards (48 feet)respectively, giving a total height of 253 yards (759 feet).
Another D.I.C report dated 21 August 1863 advises that the vertical height of the pit of No1 pit was 218 yards (654 feet)and the vertical height of the pit and drift of No2 pit were 237 yards (711 feet) and 16 yards (48 feet)respectively, giving a total height of 253 yards (759 feet).
Further information required
Four Feet Pit was sunk to a depth of 276 yards in 1850. It was flooded on 3 June 1868 and the labour of clearing it proved too difficult and involved a considerable outlay. (operational on OS map dated 1884 and OS map dated 1901 2nd Edition)
A report dated 10 July 1863 compiled by a W Jenkins, advises that the average length of underground haulages in the Lower Four Feet pit was 46 chains. However, this was revised in a letter dated 21 August 1863 such that the average length of haulage from pit bottom to the collier’s working faces was 82 chains.
Another D.I.C report dated 21 August 1863 advises that the vertical height of the pit was 187 yards (561 feet)and the vertical height of the drift was 882/3 yards (266 feet) giving a total height of 2752/3 yards (827 feet).
The Gelligaer Parish Production Lists only list one entry as Pantywaun Lower Four Feet Pit as being in production in 1881.
The Gelligaer Parish Production Lists only list one entry as Pantywaun Lower Four Feet Pit as being in production in 1881.