Identifier: griffithsguideto00grif (find matches)
Title: Griffiths' Guide to the iron trade of Great Britain ... an elaborate review of the iron (and) coal trades for last year, addresses and names of all ironmasters, with a list of blast furnaces, iron manufactories, and other statistics and information respecting iron and coal ..
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Griffiths, Samuel, editor of "The London Iron Trade Exchange"
Subjects: Coal trade Iron industry and trade
Publisher: London, Published for the Proprietor
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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The Whitehaven District is on the borders of West Cumberland, about thirty miles from Barrow, and contains about thirty-six blast furnaces ; the Cleator Moor and Workington having six furnaces each, being the most famed for quality in the Frizzington district. The Dutton furnace, belonging to Harrison, Ainsley & Co.is the oldest. Most of these proprietors have valuable hematite mines at Millom and Frizzington, where the best mines in West Cumberland are found; among which we may mention the Salter and Eskatt Park, which is far superior in its revenue to any gold mine.Mr. Thomas Browne, managing director from its commencement. We have often felt relieved to find our advent accomplished at Whitehaven railway station. This railway is the property of the Barrow Steel Co. The last thirty or forty miles from Carnforth traverses the haematite district, being over a monotonous country, which soon convinces the traveller that the traffic in minerals and pigs is of no ordinary kind, and must of necessity require great care and expense to keep the railway in efficient working order. The Millom mines and furnaces on the left, and nearer still, the College of St. Bees, the latter educating, the former
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■a os I- 3 CC -3 O § C 1-1 WHITEHAVEN DISTRICT. 131 being a practical illustration of the development of the power of human intelligence over inanimate matter—are the first real indications to the traveller of an early advent to Whitehaven ; omnibuses meet the trains from London. Mr. Moats Globe Hotel is comfortable and well-managed, and, for a visitor, the best in Whitehaven. Private rooms and beds all that could be desired, menage of the very best quality, served up with quiet and genteel propriety. Although the amiable hostess is not often seen, her watchful management is felt, in the prompt acknowledgment of the sound of the bell, and all other domestic ministrations in this homely establishment. Horses and carriages always ready at the shortest notice, the coach-men are well up in the district, and can tell you the name and fame of all the mines in the distance, as youdiive over the fissures and pockets in this mountain limestone formation, into which the precious metal was injected from lower deposits in remote and early ages. How this strong solution of haematite ore found its way ab initio into the lower strata of the earth's crust must be left for geologists and natural philosophers to explain, being unable ourselves to penetrate farther into the arcanum in arcana of nature, with the view of discovering how the ore was consolidated ? How long since the injection ? and the various causes which cemented it together in unum corpus, at the point of contact of the metal with the walls of limestone, which sustained the solution of Iron before the heat of the crust of the earth upon the metal evaporated the water in solution, leaving the

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