Sheffield Weekly Telegraph – Saturday 11 October 1884

Hull and the Yorkshire Coal Trade

During the month of September the total quantity of coal sent to Hull from the Yorkshire collieries reached 133,808 tons, as against 118,064 tons forwarded during the corresponding month of last year, this being an increase of 15,744 tons. For several months past the Hull coal trade has been drooping, and for the first nine months of the present year the returns show only 968,352, as compared with 1,003,932 tons for the period January to September, both inclusive, of last year, or a falling off of not less than 35,580 tons.

Prominent among the South Yorkshire collieries are the following:—Denaby Main with 11,304 tons, as against 10,947 tons for September of last year; Shireoaks, 7,248 tons, as compared with 4,928 tons; Manvers’ Main, 6,776 tons, and 6,760 tons for the corresponding period of 1883; Houghton Main, 5,032 tons, as against 3,304 tons; Elsecar, 4,190 tons, as compared with 4,416 tons; Monckton Main, 4,770 tons; Thurcroft Main, 4,128 tons; Edmund’s Main, 2,776 tons; Roundwood, 3,432 tons; Wathcliffe Silkstone, 3,568 tons; Cortonwood, 2,680 tons; Oaks, 2,844 tons; Wombwell Carton, 2,468 tons; and Carlton Main, 2,352 tons.

With very few exceptions the West Yorkshire collieries occupy an improved position in the returns, the railway rate from that district being somewhat easier than from South Yorkshire. Allerton Main keeps up its position very well, having sent last month 10,824 tons, as against 10,666 tons for the corresponding month of 1883; whilst it is closely followed by Fryston, with 9,566 tons. Other collieries send the following:—Whitwood, 6,600 tons; Woolridge, 4,104 tons; Hemsworth, 2,880 tons; Huddleston’s Victoria, 2,432 tons; Allerton Bywater, 2,368 tons; Acton Hall and Featherstone Main, 1,614 tons; Ackton Hall and Frickley, 1,344 tons; and Garforth Colliery, 944 tons.

A slight increase has also taken place in the quantity of coal exported during September, the total being 56,142 tons, as compared with 61,967 tons during September, 1883. Taken altogether there is some cause for encouragement to be found in these returns of Hull coal trade, but the tonnage that will be forwarded during the present year can scarcely be expected to reach that of 1883.