January 9, 191 J.

THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN.

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OBITUARY.

We regret to record the death, at Llandudno on New
Tear’s day, of Mr. James Cope Cadman. Mr. Cadman
had been in failing health for several years, so that his
decease did not come as a surprise to his friends. He
■was the son of Mr. T. F. Cadman, of Chesterton, Staffs,
■with whom he served his articles. For seven or eight
years Mr. J. C. Cadman was surveyor at the Apedale
and Silverdale Collieries. On the Bntterley Company
taking Over the Silverdale Colliery, he was appointed
manager, but shortly afterwards, on the invitation of the
late Mr. Francis Stanier, he became general manager of
his Apedale and Chesterton collieries. Twenty-five
years ago, Mr. Cadman became general manager of the
Bntterley Company’s collieries and ironworks at Silver-
dale, a position he held until that company’s 21
years’ lease expired in 1902. Then the deceased
gentleman removed to Madeley, Salop, where he
practised as a consulting engineer, besides acting
as general manager of the Madeley Wood Collieries,
Shropshire, an appointment he held until about three
years ago, when he resigned owing to ill-health. He
was also consulting engineer to the late Sir Alfred
Hickman in connection with an ironstone property
in Wales, and acted in a similar capacity for Sir
Hill Child, Bart. Owing to the state of his health he
went to reside at Llandudno some three years since. Mr.
Cadman was one of the original members of the North
Staffordshire Institute of Mining and Mechanical
Engineers, served on the council of that institute for
many years, and was elected its president for the years
1898-1900. He was also president of the Institution of
Mining Engineers during the institution year (1903-04).
He was formerly president of the North Staffordshire
Coal and Iron Masters’ Association.

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The Late Mr. James Cope Cadman.

The funeral service took place at St. Tudno’s Church,
Great Orme’s Head, Llandudno, on the 3rd inst., and
the deceased gentleman was buried in the churchyard,
which is situated at the summit of the Head, overlooking
the sea. Amongst those present were Mr. Cadman’s
three sons—James, Charles and Richard—Miss Amy
Cadman, Mr. Cook (Nottingham), Mr. Percy Strzelecki,
representing the Institution of Mining Engineers, and
Messrs, A. M. Henshaw, E. B. Wain, G. P. Hyslop, and
A. J. B. Atkinson, representing the North Staffordshire
Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. A large
number of wreaths had been sent by friends, including
those from the president, council and members of the
Institution of Mining Engineers, the president, council
and members of the North Staffordshire Institute and
the North Staffordshire Coalowners’ Association. The
deceased gentleman was 62 years of age, and leaves a
widow and a family of eight sons and daughters. Dr.
Cadman, Professor of Mining at Birmingham University,
who is a son of the late Mr. Cadman, is at present abroad.

By the death of Mr. Arthur Hartley, of Swinton, a well-
known figure has been removed from the mining world in
the district. From his youth he had been connected with
the Thrybergh and Warren Vale Colliery, and for 30 years
he held the positions of deputy and under-manager. During
the last two years he was in the employ of the colliery
company he occupied the position of manager.

A prominent Redcar personality has passed away in the
person of Councillor Samuel Cash Sherwell, coal merchant,
of Middlesbrough. The deceased was 60 years of age, and
built up a highly successful coal business at Middlesbrough.
He resided at Redcar, and took a great interest in local
affairs, being a member of the Redcar Urban District Council.

NOTES FROM THE COALFIELDS.

[Local Correspondence,J
Northumberland and Durham.

Registers under the Eight Hours Act—The 1912 Strike
and Poor Relief—A Successful Ambulance Team.

An important prosecution was heard by the Bedling-
ton magistrates, on Friday, January 2, when Anthony
Scott, manager of the Netherton Colliery, was charged
on three counts with breaches of the Coal Mines
Regulation Act 1908, section 2, subsection 1, by not
keeping a register on June 16, June 30, and July 16,
1913. The prosecution was under the authority of the
Public Prosecutor, on information laid by Mr. J. R. R.
Wilson, H.M. inspector of mines. Mr. Clark, for the
prosecution, said the three cases were identical. The
management had a duty cast upon them by the Act,
which required that they should keep a register
containing particulars with respect to the times when
men were lowered into the mine and when they were
raised from it, and the cases in which men were below
ground longer than the time allowed by the Act, and
the causes thereof. In that case there had been some
attempt to keep a register, but it failed in what the
Director of Public Prosecutions advised the Government
was a very material part of the Act, and which the
Legislature had said had to be done. That was that the
provision was a useful and essential part of the Act
where it used the words “ and the cause thereof.”—Mr.
Lambert, on behalf of the defendant, admitted the
offence. There were, he said, so many Acts of
Parliament in connection with mining work, that one

really did not know where one was. That applied
particularly to colliery managers at the present day.
The various duties he had to perform were so enormous,
that the Legislature really looked to the managers to do
more than was possible on their part. Although Mr.
Scott had entered the particulars at times, in various
cases the cause had been omitted. Since the matter
was brought to his attention by the mines inspector,
Mr. Scott had done his best to see that this was carried
out to the letter of the law. He had a thousand
different things to attend to in the mine, and he really
must rely upon the banksman or some other person to see
that this was done, although he was primarily responsible.
—The Chairman (Mr. J. G. Weeks) said, to some extent
they were all practical men on the Bench, and fully
conversant with the working of collieries, and it was
satisfactory to them to know that that charge was not
one that affected the safety of any particular worker.
They took it that the whole object of the prosecution
was to give publicity to the fact that some portion of
the Act, and the working part of that clause, should
be recorded in the registers, which otherwise seemed to
have been properly carried out. That being so, the
Bench thought those proceedings would give sufficient
publicity to the wish of those who were responsible
for the prosecution and who were responsible for
seeing that the Act was carried out. The court were
bound to convict, but the conviction carried not the
slightest shadow of disgrace in any shape or way.
With regard to the offence on June 16, they had come
to the conclusion to fine the manager of the colliery £1,
including costs. They would dismiss the other charges
on payment of the court costs.

The effect of the general coal strike of 1912, on poor
law administration, is shown by the report of Mr.
W. P. Elias, inspector of the district comprising
the united counties of Durham, Northumberland, and
the North Riding of Yorkshire. He states that the
extra cost of the strike to the Middlesbrough Guardians
was £2,274 18s. lid., being the value of out-relief
to 5,749 persons and their dependants.

The Dawdon Colliery Ambulance Brigade of the
St. John Ambulance Association have an excellent
record for 1913. During the year the Dawdon team
won the championship of the Durham mines inspection
district, carrying off the Donald Bain shield, and their
first officer, Mr. W. C. Pigg, was judged the best man
on the field. In the brigade competitions the Dawdon
brigade won the bronze shield, which made them
champions of the county of Durham. They followed
up that success by winning the silver shield, which
made them champions of Durham, Northumberland,
and the North and Bast Ridings of Yorkshire, or of the
No. 6 District. At the final for the Dewar shield, at
London, they were sixth in the whole of England.

Mr. Isaac Taylor Cheesman, of Throckley Colliery,
has retired from the management, after a service of
nearly 43 years, in addition to which he has been agent
for six years. Ill-health is the cause of his retirement.

Mr. John Carr, Barrington Colliery, has been
appointed under-manager at Newbiggln Colliery, and
the mining students of Barrington Colliery have
presented him with a barometer in appreciation of his
services to them. Mr. Carr is a King’s medallist.

Mr. John Croft Nattrass, who has been under-
manager at Morpeth Moor Colliery, has been appointed
to a similar' position at Newton Cap Colliery, near
Bishop Auckland. The lads of Morpeth Moor Colliery
have presented him with a gold-mounted walking stick,
and the officials and workmen subscribed for a gold
watch, suitably inscribed, and gold earrings and brooch
for Mrs. Nattrass.

Cumberland.

Find of Ore at Ullbank—New Seams at Rearham—
Trade of Mary port.

The Millom and Askam Iron Company have located
a very large deposit of ore at Ullbank. The discoveries
there are believed to form the largest deposits of
hsematite ore ever proved in the history of Cumberland
iron ore mining. It is stated that it is one body of ore,
and that, aftei' making allowance for the intrusion here
and there of barren rock, the deposit runs into some
millions of tons. The average analysis of the cores
brought up from the various bores shows the iron to be
of high quality, rich in metallic iron, low in silica, and
remarkably free from phosphorus and sulphur. The
shaft to be sunk will be 1,000 ft. in depth, and will be
equipped in such a manner as to be capable of dealing
with an output which, it is thought, will not be less
than from 5,000 to 6,000 tons per week. It will take,
with good luck, not less than two, and perhaps three,
years io sink the first shaft, and at least one year more
to drive the necessary levels so as to attack the ore at
the most suitable points, and make it possible to win
regularly and economically a large daily output.

Two new seams—the Little Main and the Six-
quarter—containing coal of excellent quality, have
recently been struck at the Alice Colliery, near Dearham,
the property of the Flimby and Broughton Moor
Colliery and Fire Brick Company. The company are
at present drifting from the Yard seam to the Little
Main, and they expect to reach the coal in a few days.
The Six-quarter has been already reached, and
operations are in progress for opening it out. It is
stated that the seams cover a large area, and places will
be found for an additional number of men.

Mr. Thomas Douglas, Broughton Moor, near Mary-
port, under-manager of the Seaton Moor Colliery, has
been appointed by the Flimby and Broughton Moor
Coal and Firebrick Company, to succeed Mr. Joseph
Morrison as under-manager of their Alice Colliery,
Little Broughton.

The half-yearly report of the Maryport Harbour
Commissioners up till December 31, issued last week,
states that the improvement in the trade of the port was
maintained until October. Since then, there has been,
a considerable falling off, with the result that the
revenue for the half-year shows a deficiency of £1,100
in comparison with the previous half-year.

Evidence of the deepening depression in the Cum-
berland hsematite iron trade is furnished by the
damping down of the two furnaces which were in blast
last week at Distington Ironworks. This is the first
time since the coal stri’ e that both furnaces have been
put off blast. At the end of this week, when the
Solway furnace has been damped down, there will then
be blowing in Cumberland only 10 furnaces, compared
with 15 a month ago.

Lancashire and Cheshire.

Further Baths Installations Contemplated—Extensions
of Coking and By-product Plants—Co-operative
Collieries—Partington Steelworks start Work.

A correspondent understands that various leading
colliery firms in Wigan, Leigh, Bolton and Manchester
districts are contemplating putting down baths for- their
miners and other workers. The article in last week’s
Colliery Guardian, describing the baths provided by
Messrs. Fletcher, Burrows and Co., at their Atherton
collieries, has excited much favourable comment in
Lancashire coal trade circles.

Several prominent coalowners in South and South-
West Lancashire are considering the advisability of
putting down by-products plants at their pits during