Green Hurth Mining Co. Ltd.

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Remarks as to Employment.

I much regret to have again to report both a decrease in the number of men employed and the quantity of mineral raised at the mines under these Acts, and more so, because I fear the prospect for the future is not a very bright one.

Last year I mentioned in my report that one of the oldest firms, the London Lead Company, was giving up the working of the mines in Teesdale and Weardale, and I am sorry to say that the mines worked by the Green Hurth Mining Company, and Messrs. J. Cameron Swan & Co., have also been abandoned and dismantled, and as they were in the same district as those abandoned dismantled by the London Lead Company, it means a great loss to the workmen and their families. I hope, for their sakes, the mines or some of them may soon be restarted by other firms, but the prospect of this happening, at the present time, is a remote one.

Metalliferous mining, as I have said before, is diminishing year by year in this district, and I am afraid it has not yet reached its lowest ebb. Poor mines and low prices are the cause of this.

Source: 1903 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2119), Durham District (No. 4) by R. D. Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.