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TONS. Knaresbro' and Scriven with 11,000 Tentergate, including lime-kilns and bleach-grounds Brearton 100 Flaxby 50 Goldsborough 100 Haverah Park 25 Killinghall 350 Plumpton 100 Harrowgate and Bilton 3,000 Ribston 150 Scotton 200 Stainburn 200 15,275 Birstwith Township 500 Hampsthwaite and Felliscliffe do. 600 Clint do. 260 Darley do. 400 Hartwith do. 450 Thornthwaite do. 200 Dacre do. 500 Bewerley do. 1,600 Bishopside do. 50 Updale do. 1,500 Pateley Tonnage 6,060 Knaresbro' do. 15,275 Total Tonnage of Coals 21,335 From good authority we are informed that Kippax and Haigh-Moor coals can be delivered at Bolton-Percy for ten shillings per chaldron, or 8s. to 8s 6d. per ton.; and if any back carriage could be procured they would be delivered for less, hence the advantage of taking yarns, &c. from Knaresbro', and the neighbourhood of Pateley-Bridge to Barnsley, and bringing coals back; but independent of such an advantage we are able to prove the great saving named before in these coals: Pounds _s._ _d._ Cost per 0 10 0 chaldron of the Kippax, or Haigh-moor coals, at the end of the Rail-way, at or near Bolton Percy, is Removing do. 0 0 9 into the waggon, (if not landed 4d.) Rail-way dues, 0 3 0 18 miles, at 2d. per ton, per mile Waggon dues, 18 0 2 3 miles, at l.5d. per ton, per mile 0 16 0 The present cost by way of Boroughbridge, is one pound five shillings, and hence the saving to the public on every ton, or chaldron of coals, will be nine shillings, except the merchants' profit. By the foregoing statement the tonnage of the Knaresbro' and Pateley-Bridge coal, when it reaches K
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