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Subject: [ARMAGH] Armagh Guardian: News - BOND - Mining in Ulster - 20 May 1845
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 09:03:29 -0400


Armagh Guardian: News: BOND ­ Mining in Ulster ­ 20 May 1845

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The following article was transcribed from The Armagh Guardian, by
permission of The British Library.

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MINING OPERATIONS IN ULSTER.‹At a time when the
resources of Ireland are attracting more than ordinary notice, we
feel much pleasure in directing public attention to the lead mines
at Coolastra, in the county of Monaghan, the property of Edward
Wellington Bond, Esq., of Bondville. These valuable and
extensive mines, which are situated about four miles from
Castleblaney, and an equal distance from Keady, have been
leased to an English company, and for some years have yielded
considerable quantities of rich lead ore. The indications of
metallic wealth have recently become so conspicuous as to induce
the enterprising proprietor to erect a steam engine for the
more effectual drainage of the works. The engine is now in
full operation, and the results, we have been assured, are
such as to afford the most cheering prospects of successful
enterprise, and of ample remuneration for the investment of
capital‹rich veins of ore having been discovered, the products
of which are in course of being brought to market. On visiting
the works, the attention of the spectator is at once arrested by
a scene of bustling animation and active industry, well calculated
to elevate the hopes and gratify the heart of every lover of his
country. To the tenants on the estate and the surrounding
neighbourhood the amount of benefit derived from increased
employment, with all its concomitant blessing, is, even at the
present moment, considerable, whilst the prospective advan-
tages can hardly be over-rated. At present we are informed
the average payment of wages is about £200 per annum. The
works are placed under the management of Mr. Skimming, an
active and intelligent person, who has had much experience in
some of the largest English mines, and his opinion, we are
happy to learn, is, that the district in question abounds in
mineral wealth. Under such superindendence [sic] we doubt
not that ample success will reward the efforts of the company,
and a stimulus be thus given to the future investment of
English capital in the country. Incuriosa suarum has long been
the reproach of Ireland, in regard to her literary relics, and the
same may be applied to the still undeveloped resources with
which her soil is teeming. But a new race of improvement
has begun, and the industrial capabilities of our land are at once
encouraging to the capitalist and cheering to the patriot. We
therefore wish all prosperity to the undertaking of which we
have given an outline, confident that it will prove alike
beneficial to the district at large, and to the spirited lord of the
soil, Mr. Bond.‹-Newry Telegraph.
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