Other formats

    TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Allandale Coal Company

Allandale Coal Company , Limited. Messrs James Allen, M.H.R. (chairman), Allan McIntosh (managing director), and William Everest (secretary). Registered Office, Allan-dale Mine, Shag Point. Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand. This well-known mine, which has an area of 1000 acres of leasehold land, was opened up in 1888 by the managing director, after whom it was named. Mr. McIntosh worked the mine on his own account for the first two years, and was then joined by Mr. Allen under the style of McIntosh and Allen, the company being incorporated in 1890. An incline drive 1000 feet in length has been sunk, and three distinct seams of pitch coal, varying from four feet to nine feet in thickness, are being worked; the annual output ranging from 20,000 to 25,000 tons of good marketable steam and household coal. The machinery employed consists of a double cylinder horizontal steam engine of twenty horse-power, and a large Tangye pump at the end of the main adit, which will throw 10,000 gallons per hour, and is capabale of ejecting the accumulated water of twenty-four hours in an eight hours' shift. There is also—for cases of emergency—a reserve pump by Blakey with a capacity of 5000 gallons per hour; but this pump is seldom required. About fifty persons find steady employment at the Allandale mine. A private railway has been constructed from the mine to Bushey station, two miles distant, and the company owns a locomotive and complete mining plant for placing its coal on the Government line, for transmission to the markets.