Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,346 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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Wheal Reeth Mine is in the parish of Uny Lelant, union of Penzance, Cornwall.
Secretary, Mr. John Barrat, Wheal Reeth. Manager, Captain Joel Higgins, Scorrier. Rock, granite.
Depth of adit, 30 fathoms. Depth under it, 220 fathoms. Pumping-engine, 40-inch. Stamping-engine, 30-inch. Winding-engine, 24-inch. " Man-engine," 30-inch. Landowner, W. B. Tyringham, Esq. Dues, l-18th. 180 men, 30 females, and 30 boys employed. [1]
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