The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-21 00:00:00

GLAMORGAN CENTRAL MINERAL RAIL-
WAY.
PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
CAPITAL ,C 500,000, in 25,000 Shares of £2O each.
DEPOSIT, £2 2s. per Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart., Glen-Uske, Monmouth-
shire and Cefnydfa, Glamorganshire
Sir Robert Price, Bart. M.P., Foxley, Herefordshire, and
Tondu, Glamorganshire
The Hon. William Dawson Darner, Parkston Lodge,
Poole, Dorset shire
John Bennett, Esq., Laleston House, Glamorganshire
John Wick Bennett, esq., Clifton, and Laleston, Glamor-
ganshire
Nash Edwards Vaughan, esq., Rheola, Glamorganshire
Rev. Robert Knight, Tythegstone Court, Glamorganshire
Walter Coffin, esq., Landaff, Glamorganshire
Morgan Price Smith, esq., New House, Glamorganshire
David Thomas, esq., Pvvl-y-wrach House, Glamorgan-
shire
William Jones, esq'/,Pyle, Glamorganshire
William Llewellyn, esq., Court Coleman, Glamorganshire
Rev. Edward Dorldridge Knight, Tredegar, Monmouth-
shire
William Henry Buckland, esq., Cadorton-place, Glamor-
ganshire
John Hewitt, esq., Tyr Mab Ellis, Glamorganshire
Henry Stothert, esq., Perrymead, Bath
William Stothert, esq., Southeot House, Bath
John Rowland, esq.. Neath, Glamorganshire
Llewellyn Llewellyn, esq., Margam Tin Plate Works,
Glamorganshire
Joseph Martin, esq,, Glyncollen, near Swansea
Leyson Hopkin Davey, esq., Sarnfawr, Glamorganshire
Henry Wyatt, esq., Farm Hill, Stroud
Jacob Ricketts, esq., Brislington H all, near Bath
Hanbury Pargeter, esq., West of England and South
Wales Bank. Bath
John Halcomb, esq.. Hungerford
Jetikin Thrmas Jenkins, esq., Gelly, Glamorganshire
Gwillim Treherne Jenkins, esq., Duffryn, Glamorganshire
Edward Thomas. esq , Braich-y-cy mmer, Glamorganshire
John Wink worth, esq., Milsom-street, Bath
George Edwards, esq., The Uplands, Stroud
David W. James, esq., Merthyr Tydvil
Thomas Stanley, esq., Swinnei ton, near Stone, Stafford-
shire
John K. Welch, esq , Berners.street, London
Richard Thomas Gore, esq., Queen-square, Bath
Richard C. Gale, esq., Winchester
Joseph Rusher, esq., Glynleiros, Neath. Glamorganshire
William Brunton. esq Cadoxton Cottage, Glamorgan..
shire
Henry Verity, esq , Bridgend, Glamorganshire
Francis Perry, jun., esq , Pyle Iron Works, Glamorgan-
shire, and 5, Austin Friars, London
George Halket, esq., Wain Skeet, Glamorganshire
James Hodgkins Allen, esq., Forth Cawl, Glamorganshire
George Wood, esq , Daniel-street, Bath
John Cottle Spender, esq., Gay-street, Bath
John White Little, esq Bath
Charles J. Hampton, esq., Maesteg Iron Works, near
Biidgend, Glamorganshire
James Brown. Esq., Tondu Iron Works, Glamorganshire
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
London :—Messrs. Jones, Loyd and Co.
Cal cliff :—Messrs. Towgood and Co.
Neath and Swansea : —The Glamorganshire Banking
Company
Bridgend,
Bristol, }The National Provincial Bank of England
Bath,

CONSULTING ENGINEER.
Joseph Locke, e,,q. F.R.S.
ENGINEERS.
J. Scott Russell. esq. F.R.S. ED.
Messrs. George and William Lawford
SOLICITORS.

London :—Messrs. Rowland, Hacon, and Rowland, 38,
Threadneedl'•s►reet
Bridgend :—Mr. William Lewis
SECRETARY pro tem.
Mr. John Henry Rowland.

TEMPORARY OFFICES, 38, Threadneedle-street.

PROPECTUS.

A single line of railway for the conveyance of minerals
worked by horse-power has been for many years in use
from the top of the Duffiyn Llyuvi Valley to the port and
harbour of Porth Caw!, in the county of Glamorpn, a
distance of about eighteen wiles. This railway is the pro-
perty of "The Dufflu Llyuvi and Porth Cawl Railway
Company," a company incorporateul by an act of parlia-
ment passed in the year 1825, entitled "An act for making
and maintaining a railway or tram road, from or from near
to a certain place called Dutfr n Llynvi, in the parish of
Llangu oyd, in the county of Glamorgan, to or near to a
certain bay called Pwll Cawl, otherwise Porth Cawl, in
the parish of Newton pottage, in the same county, and for
extending and improving the same bay by the erection of
a pier and other suitable works for that purpose."
The Duffryn Llynvi Valley is only o, a of several adja-
cent mineral valleys abounding with coal and iron ore
(both argillaceous dnd carboniferous, or blackband► that
remain unworked for want only of a cheap communication
with the sea. Porth Cawl is the natural outlet fur the
whole of these valleys.
It will afford some idea of the richness of this district
when it is known that the coal alone which it contains is
estimated to exceed one thousand million tons, which
would not be exhausted in less than five hundred years if
thi ee thousand tons per day was shipped, and a like quan-
tity consumed hi the manufacture of iron.

The numerous seam: of coal differ in quality, and are
.well adapted for domestic use, steam power, smelting of
iron ore, and gas light and manufacturing purposes. The
distance of the coal field from the shippkg place is nut
more than two-thirds of the distance of Newpm t and Car-
diff from the coal fields which supply those ports; it is
therefore obvious that nothing is waisted but a commodi-
ous harbour, in i,nder to secure a large portion of the coal
trade of the Bristol Channel.

The recent discovery of the BLACKBAND IRON ORE in
!his district has greatly added to its importance. The fa-
cility with which that ore, as well as the coal, is obtained,
enables the manufacturer to produce iron at a much lower
cost than in any other known locality. Theron made with
this ore combines the fluidity of the Scotch iron with the
strength of the Shropshire These peculiar advantages,
when ni,re fully devel,ped, will naturally attract atien-
ion to this district, nun' it becomes one of the principal
seats. it not the chief seat of the iron trade.

The discovery of the Blackhand Iron Ore, as well as the
increasing demand fu sea borne coal, have already so
greatly added to the traffic on the Dutfry Llynvi Railway,
a.: to render it quite inadequate to the present require-
uscalla Vr tliC 11611 C.
Impressed with these circumstances, the Duffryn Llynvi
and forth Cawl Railway Company have determined to
make their own railway the basis of a much more extended
scheme, including the whole of the important district
above alluded to, and under the more comprehensive
name of the "Glamorgan Central Mineral Railway."
This extended line of railway will embrace the richest
mineral field in the principality, lying chiefly in the hun-
dreds of Newcastle and Ogmore, comprising a district of
nearly one hundred square wiles, abounding with coal and
iron ore.

It is intended to raise an adequate capital for construct•
ing in the most efficient manner, to be worked by steam-
power, a branch line of railway up each of the mineral
valleys into which the district is divided; to connect them
with the original trunk line into one general line of double
railway, near Bridgenu; and to enlarge the harbour at
Porth Cawl according to the plans of Mr. Scott Russell,
who has lately surveyed it, and reported its capability to
be inferior to none in the Bristol Channel.
It is also intended, for the convenience of passengers, to
connect the main line with the South Wales Railway at
two different points, which will also afford facilities of
shipment at Port Talbot, Briton Ferry, Neath, and other
ports accessible by the South Waits line.
There me fourteen B!a,t Furnaces at work and in course
of erection now in the Duffryn Lis nvi Valley alone, and
it may be reasonably expected that this number will he at
least doubled by the time ,he whole of the contemplated
lines are completed.
The traffic of the Glamorgan Central Mineral Railway
has been carefully estimated on the basis of the traffic
now existing on the Duffryn Llyuvi Railway, and making
a fair allow.ance for the certain increa-e of that traffic.and
the probable additions from tie proposed branches, it is
found that the clear profit horn minerals and heavy goods
alone will, at a very mndorate charge for conveyance,
afford a clear dividend of eight per cent. on the whole ca-
pital of the undertakiiw. This is exclusive of passenger
traffic, which may he expected to yield a considerable and
progressively increasing reventie.
By far the greater number of vessels freqnen'ing the
ports of Cardiff and Newpo..t pass the has boor of l'orth
Caul, which is situated about ;midway between Cardiff
and Swarts”a.
The capabilities of Portir Cawl for the accommodation
of shipping of the largest class, may be gathered from the