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In Wakefield, when it comes to securing your property, enhancing privacy, or adding aesthetic appeal, one name stands out – A&A Fence Construction. With years of experience and a commitment to quality craftsmanship, we are your go-to Fence Company Wakefield for all your fencing needs.

At A&A Fence Construction, we understand the significance of a well-built fence. It's not just about marking boundaries; it's about creating a safe haven for your loved ones, protecting your assets, and adding value to your property. That's why we take pride in our workmanship and attention to detail, ensuring that every fence we build exceeds expectations.

Our range of fencing solutions caters to diverse needs and preferences. Whether you're looking for classic picket fences to add charm to your front yard, sturdy chain-link fences for security, or elegant wrought iron fences to elevate your property's aesthetics, we have you covered. We offer a variety of materials, styles, and finishes to match your specific requirements and complement your home's architecture seamlessly.

What sets us apart from other fence companies in Wakefield is our unwavering commitment to customer satisfaction. From the initial consultation to the final installation, our team of skilled professionals works closely with you to understand your vision and bring it to life. We prioritize open communication, transparency, and reliability throughout the entire process, ensuring that your experience with us is nothing short of exceptional.

At A&A Fence Construction, we believe that quality should never be compromised. That's why we source the finest materials and utilize proven techniques to deliver durable, long-lasting fences that stand the test of time. Whether it's extreme weather conditions, regular wear and tear, or unforeseen challenges, you can trust our fences to maintain their integrity and performance for years to come.

In addition to our unparalleled craftsmanship, we also offer competitive pricing to suit every budget. We believe that everyone deserves access to high-quality fencing solutions without breaking the bank. Our transparent pricing policy ensures that you know exactly what you're paying for, with no hidden costs or surprises along the way.

Customer satisfaction is our ultimate priority at A&A Fence Construction. We take pride in our reputation as a trusted Fence Company in Wakefield, built on integrity, professionalism, and superior service. When you choose us for your fencing needs, you can rest assured knowing that you're partnering with a team that genuinely cares about your satisfaction and the success of your project.

So, if you're searching for a reliable fence company in Wakefield, look no further than A&A Fence Construction. Contact us today to schedule a consultation and take the first step towards enhancing the security, privacy, and beauty of your property with our premium fencing solutions.

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A & A Fence Construction

Address: Wakefield, MA 01880, USA

Phone: 781-587-1851

Website: https://northshorefencema.com

A&A Fence Construction is a company that specializes in building durable and aesthetically pleasing fences for both residential and commercial properties. With years of experience in the industry, they have developed a reputation for their excellent craftsmanship and attention to detail. Our team of skilled professionals uses high-quality materials to ensure that each fence they build is not only durable but also visually appealing. Whether you’re looking for a traditional wooden fence or a modern aluminum fence, A & A Fence Construction has got you covered. We work closely with our clients to understand your needs and preferences, and we offer a wide range of options to choose from. A & A Fence Construction is committed to delivering top-notch services and ensuring complete customer satisfaction.

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How will robotic warehouse automation systems be enhanced in 2023?

During the COVID-19 pandemic, enterprise warehouses struggled to keep up with the tremendous growth in internet buying, but 3pl warehouse automation robotics may help. Intelligent warehouse robots bridge the gap between automated material handling systems and more adaptable manual fulfillment methods. Warehouse automation robots assist humans in tasks such as choosing things, moving shelves, loading pallets, and inventorying tall shelves. A new breed of warehouse robotics meant to augment operations and work with people is driving this interest. Industrial robots have been around for decades, but their capabilities have typically been limited and they have been fenced off to protect workers and equipment. AI is being used by emerging warehouse robots to navigate a facility, pick things, and organize collaboration with humans. 

Robotic warehouse automation company accounts for a modest fraction of total warehouse automation spending, but it is steadily expanding. According to Interact Analysis, the mobile robots market might rise from $3.6 billion in 2021 to $18 billion in 2025. The number of warehouses employing mobile robots is expected to grow from 9,000 in 2020 to 53,000 in 2025. Furthermore, Interact Analysis predicts that 2.1 million robots will be in service by the end of 2025, with 860,000 of these being supplied in that year alone. 

For the foreseeable future, fixed automation systems such as automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS), conveyor belts, and sorters will outperform alternative forms of automation.

The labor market picture in 2023 is bleak. Some analysts expect that unemployment will remain at little over 4% in 2023, while others predict that it will rise to more than 6% due to inflation. In any case, Distribution center robots or DCs are increasing their dependence on automation to lessen their reliance on human and uncertain labor. Warehouse automation company allows warehouses to protect themselves against shifting labor pools while improving overall performance.

It's 2023, and same-day delivery has become a standard expectation for city dwellers. To meet these increased expectations, several merchants are changing and physically moving closer to their urban clients by investing in DCs in urban regions.

It's a two-part strategy. On the one hand, firms are constructing entirely new DCs in densely populated urban areas. As a result, companies will be able to have things delivered the same day by local delivery vehicles at a cheaper long-term cost. DCs, on the other hand, will continue to use existing physical and mortar shop sites for fulfillment in 2023. These renovated retail spaces provide many of the same benefits as brand-new DCs, but at a smaller initial investment.

Warehouse space in North America has never been more scarce or expensive. According to the Cushman and Wakefield Marketbeat Report, the industrial vacancy rate in the United States will hit an all-time low (3.2%) in 2022, while industrial rent will reach an all-time high of $8.36/square foot. The picture for 2023 isn't much better, with vacancy rates predicted to remain around 4% throughout the year, while rents continue to rise. Building new isn't any better, since demand for new industrial space will continue to outstrip supply until 2023. Rising costs, low vacancy rates, and a lack of new industrial space will force DCs to continue the "building up" trend that began in 2022.

While capacity issues remain at the forefront of warehouse managers' considerations, third-party or on-demand warehousing will witness an increase in 2023, particularly in urban regions. Third-party (3pl) warehouse automation provides a unique option for firms to keep additional inventory – facilitating a "just in case" strategy – and manage greater growth while avoiding the risk of permanent space expansion. DCs will not only be able to store more goods with third-party warehouses, but they will also be able to store their inventory in more places, allowing them to control more of their own supply chain.

Most people have heard the statistic that "at least 30% of all things ordered online are returned," however that figure is 21% higher than the return rate at physical locations. Whether you like it or not, the pandemic's expansion of e-commerce shopping has fundamentally transformed customer expectations on returns, and those expectations are here to stay.

Returns have become such a problem that large merchants have very dramatic return policies - as in "don't even bother returning it, here's your refund" dramatic. To remain competitive, retailers and distribution centers must be prepared to manage returns and invest in reverse logistics operations; otherwise, they will continue to incur losses at ever-increasing rates as e-commerce grows.

In response to labor constraints and increased customer expectations, warehousing robots adoption expanded tremendously in 2022 and is expected to continue in 2023 and beyond. Up to 50,000 robotic warehouses automation companies could be built by 2025, with 8 million robots delivered to users by 2030. In 2023, distribution centers will continue to investigate the usage of order fulfillment robotics in the warehouse, such as robotic cube storage and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). To maximize efficiencies, DCs will try to deploy cobots (collaborative robots that can operate with people) in conjunction with a space-saving automated storage and retrieval system.

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The Stone’s Toll Chapter Two

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“Mrs. Randall, ye have a visitor.” Claire stared at the nurse, curiosity plain on her face. 

 She left and softly closed the door behind her. Minutes later, Claire heard the click of the lock again and strained her neck towards the noise. 

 Graham smiled sheepishly as he shuffled into her room. He held a small bouquet of heather, thistles, and gorse wrapped in twine. 

 “Hello miss, tis lovely tae see ye again. I picked these just this afternoon on my way here. I was lucky they were all so close together.” The boy searched the room and put the flowers in the empty vase on the table to her right. “I don’t know if ye remember, but I found you up at the standing stones. Well my mam always said to watch out for the faerie hill but I was a wee bit curious ye ken. I’m glad I took a wander over because… sorry miss my mam always tells me how I go blethering on about nonsense and such so that’s just to say I hope you are feeling better miss..?” 

 “Claire Fr.. err Randall.” Claire couldn’t help the smile at the young man's youth and almost naïveté, it was a breath of fresh air compared to the ordeals of the past months.

 She reached out her hand for him to shake. 

 “It was very kind of you to come visit Graham. Thank you.” He blushed at her compliment.

 “Well I brought some cards because I ken how boring it is to be locked up in one of these rooms. And the radio is a pounding nuisance sometimes as well. Last year I stumbled on one of the fence posts I was putting up when I was helping down at auld Hamish’s. The nail went straight through the leg and I ended up here a day. Mam was absolutely furious at me, boxed my ears till they rang for weeks. My mam’s a nurse here so it’s no trouble at all that I’m here right now visiting. I guess I get special insider privileges. I come here after school to do my schoolwork and she says I’m no bother. That’s what I was just doing before I decided to pop in here Miss.”

 Claire welcomed the ramblings of Graham. It was a nice distraction to the morbid thoughts that lay festering below.

 “Well I appreciate the company. My… husband just left to prepare things for our short stay here. I’m sorry I’m rubbish at most card games, but I’ll go my hand at it.” 

 The two chatted companionably and he even managed to pry out a laugh or two from her. Claire pushed down feelings of familiarity of Fergus and the boy before her. He couldn’t have been more than a couple years older than the boy she had just left behind hours ago, with the same long-lashed dark eyes and dark hair. Tears sprung at the thought of her son and she turned out of view to wipe them away. 

 “Do you have any fours?” Graham interrupted her thoughts. 

 “Ach! It feels like I’m being cheated here.” Claire flashed a smile and pushed forward the two cards on the table between them.

 “Hello darling. It seems you’ve made a new friend.”

 Claire stiffened at her husband's entrance into the small hospital room. Graham flicked his gaze between the two of them, sensing the tension. He awkwardly picked up the game in front of them and shoved the cards into his pocket.  

 “Yes. This is Graham Munro, the one who helped me to the hospital.”

 “Thank you for bringing my wife safely back into my custody Graham. I’m sure she has lots to tell me, and would appreciate time to rest.”

 Graham cleared his throat. “Well Miss Claire, I wish ye a speedy recovery. Twas a pleasure to meet ye.” 

 “You as well Graham. Thank you for the flowers.”

 The boy reached out to squeeze Claire’s hand and smiled warmly. He turned on his heel and raced out to the corridor. 

 Moments later, Frank shoved the table to the side and knelt by his wife’s side. He reached out to hold the hands that rested on her lap. Claire flinched at his touch once again and Frank furrowed his brow. Frank felt a squeeze in his hand and smiled up at her. She put on a strained smile as she stared down at him. He finally noticed the silver that encircled her right ring finger and made to take it off. She pulled her hand violently from his grasp and guarded the jewellry to her chest. He pushed off the reaction to the shock the doctor had described. He just needed to be patient. 

 “Darling, everything is prepared at the manse for our arrival. You’ll rest here tonight, recover, heal, and then I’ll bring you over in the morning. I left your suitcase there and I’m sure you’ll have enough to get you through our stay.” He walked over to a chair near the window while he spoke and placed her stays in his hands. 

 “Alright.” Her gaze was transfixed on her fingers in her lap. 

 “This is… remarkable Claire, where on earth did you find these?” 

 “Hmph.” Claire offered as a reply, almost mimicking the Scottish noise her husband always made.

 “Right I’m to leave with Reverend Wakefield to visit over some archives again. You’ll be in good hands here for now.” 

 A nurse wheeled in a cart and instructed Claire to rest. She gathered the sterile bandages from the metal tray and pulled back the cover of Claire’s hospital gown to display the burns flicking across the cream skin of her stomach. She winced as the nurse applied the salve against her sore skin so she took pity on her poor patient. The nurse pushed a syringe into her IV line and Claire’s limbs instantly relaxed. Her head filled with cotton and she wasn’t able to hold it up herself, until she let go of the tension within herself and slumped down on the stiff mattress. 

 It was cold and she was only in her shift, a white shawl draped across her shoulders. Piles of men dotted the ground and a bunny twitched its nose at her before sprinting away. There, underneath the corpse of his enemy, lay her husband. His body was covered in blood and crusted with dirt and deep scratches marked his body: the result of war. 

 “Are you alive?” She stretched her hand out towards his cheek.  

 Her hand cupped his stumbled jaw and his skin blazed against hers. The fever shook his body and sapped his energy. What little he had left was spent twisting his neck in her direction. A light dusting of snow covered the bloody grass of the moor. All too soon, she was pulled away and the sight of him faded from her grasp. 

***

The hours passed and the logs burned to small sticks, Frank replacing them every so often with new wood. He turned towards the table that held a half-empty glass, plying himself more and more with alcohol as the glass drowned in the weight of the drink. Claire worked tirelessly the precious few days where her husband hadn’t yet pressed her for an explanation, flipping through all available resources to find any trace of Jamie. Mrs. Graham had been a wonder in helping Claire but her attitude regardless would not have changed anything. The search was futile and failed to bring what she wanted. She couldn’t look for the family that was alive that she had left behind. The sacrifice and promise she made meant nothing with the outcome that soon became her every thought. She abandoned them all for a thought of a future, not even a live, breathing one.

 She spoke of her time with Jamie, reluctantly giving only the necessary pieces of her life, an outline that she would be able to view events from outside. She stepped out of her life and watched herself ramble on, an outsider and onlooker to a tragic event. That wasn’t her, those things couldn’t have happened to her. Claire finished her final thoughts in a daze, looking anywhere but Frank. 

 “Give me-excuse me please Claire I need some time to think this over.”

 Claire poured another glass for herself and slammed the burning liquid back along with a large pill from the hospital.

 Frank returned a few hours later, having thought in great depth. Claire’s thoughts were muddled. She couldn’t remember how many glasses she had.

 “Claire I can accept that you’ve had this… relationship with this man. I will never understand your feelings for him, but I can accept that you had this experience, and that leaving him broke your heart.” 

 “I don’t think you understand. I was with a man for two years, and I loved him deeply as his wife.” 

 “A point you’ve made several times and which I’ve said I understand. Now let me tell you this. I love you Claire, unconditionally, nothing you could do could stop my loving you.” 

 “Darling I’ve been offered a position at Harvard. I was thinking we could move to Boston together. Start over. Leave all...this behind.”

 She didn’t care. He was dead. She might as well have been too. Frank could do as he bloody well pleased. Her mind focused on the patterns of the carpet below her, forcing out any other thoughts. Her finger swirled in spirals in one spot on her thigh, mimicking what she saw.

 “Alright. ” 

 That was the first time Claire had looked into his eyes since her disappearance. His brown eyes were soft and crinkled in an attempt towards a smile to his wife. She couldn’t find the malice she desperately searched for. She needed the anger, the sharp coldness. It was too much. Frank kneeled at Claire’s feet and he reached to pull her down into his embrace. He brought her down to his chest. She stiffened. 

 “Claire, you've made me so happy. I know we’ll be happy. Together.” 

 “T-together? You mean for me to come along?” 

 “Of course, darling. I wouldn’t have it any other way.” 

 Claire only nodded in response. She knew she’d never be happy with Frank anymore, or anyone for that matter. She didn’t intend to live long, but what option did she have to resist a husband? Frank kissed her curls and pulled her head to his shoulder. He sniffled and pulled back, placing both hands gently on her face. 

 “But we must put the past behind us. You must promise me. No more searching for him. Let him go.”

 “Yes. That’s what he made me promise.” She was reminded of another promise she had broken and another pang stabbed her already distressed heart.

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Wednesday 28 January 1835: SH:7/ML/E/17/0155

8 20

12

No kiss. fine morning tho’ rather hazy and dull - F43 ½° at 9 ½ am - Looked over from p. 25 to 69 end of De La Beche’s geological notes – breakfast at 9 ¾ - to 10 ¾ - then out with Charles H- doing top cornice for north passage – then with Pickels at the dry-bridge - Holt at the drift – came in with him at 11 50 and he staid till 1 ¾ - the deed made by Stansfield and Thompson ready for signing Mrs Machin’s coal 14DW to Mr Rawson for £200 - but 7 people concerned mother and children and......  the sadler at Northgate bridge having married the oldest daughter and not being consulted would not let his wife sign and promised to bring all the rest over to sell to Holt – valued at £40 per DW but Holt thinks he can get them to agree for £300 down – said I should be glad if he could – but he must give £350 rather than miss the bargain – in short he must buy the coal – then speaking of Spiggs he had told William what I had said about the deed from Wilkinson and said he (Holt) should be here this morning and expected William K- to come here and meet him and bring the deed  - said I should now 1st see about settling this matter about the deed - and that I did not care about agreeing with the Spiggs company for that I understood the K-s were indemnified by the 2 Clarkes (Tommy and his brother) of whom they bought their share - asked what Holt valued the Spiggs colliery at as it stood - £1000 - very well, said I - we shall see - if I open this Shibden colliery it will be my interest to stop Spiggs altogether - why! yes! said H- it would - his cousins Holt had agreed to sell their ½ share to Stocks; but when I bought Staups, Stocks would have nothing more to do with Spiggs - he would have loosed Northowram coal (Swain’s coal) Spiggs thro’ by Staups - Stocks has only ½ of Swaine’s coal and the two Clarkes have the other ½ - and Stocks will not care much about loosing it till he has it all - Wilson quite fast - cannot stand many months longer - I could loose Stocks (Swaine’s coal) and 2 few acres of upper brea top land by my water wheel at Tilly holm still if I liked - but I loose neither him nor anybody else unless I like - said I had made up my mind to loose my coal and set up the water wheel at Tilly holme style and wished to begin of this job - the sooner the better - the 1st thing to do is to begin at Mytholm dam stones, and drive up a drift to Tilly holm still - this at a rough guess, might be from 600 to 700 yards - say at 4/. a yard if advertised might be done for less - might be done in about 8 months - then would have a walled and arched culvert (3x2ft) from Tilly holm still to the end of my library into the brook - say (said I) about 600 yards all labour done at 5/. per yard and stones (field wall stones for sides and parpoints for arching) and carting = 7/. per yard - .:. culvert total cost of per yard = 12/. then put down the water wheel - wheel to be 6ft. broad - put the wheel and engine pit just above the gall (that runs thro’ wellroyde land etc) so that there would only be 14 or 15 yards to pump -suppose the wheel and engine pit cost from £300 to £400.  the 2 coal-heads or drifts (large enough for hurrying gates - going corves along one and returning corves along the other) will pay for themselves by the coal got out of them - that is, will pay for driving but there will be rails to find - those Hinscliffe has just got me from Farrer are to be £8 per ton, 4ft. long rails, of which one ton will reach 80 yards - told Holt my plan of sinking another pit 50 or 60 yards on this side of Walker pit - not necessary to sink another pit - Even if I stopt Spiggs colliery and kept it stopt (for which I should have to raise the water 3 yards) so that Walker pit should be 3 yards deep in water this would not signify - I could chamber the pit just above the water, or fill it up to that height, if I liked, and cut a gallery or drift from Walker pit thro’ the coal to communicate with the drifts (leaving between the pit and drift a yards’ breadth of coal as a landing or fence to keep the water from the drift) - Holt quite sure I cannot stop Spiggs without letting the water 3 yards deep into Walker pit bottom - the dead water stands - that is the water rises as it is, as high up on the coal as the wall at the head of the clough in Trough of Bolland wood - I smiled and said I thought Hinscliffe would have no objection to my stopping Spiggs colliery - which Holt seemed to agree in - I think Hinscliffe is afraid of his trespass being discovered when Walker pit is bottomed - we shall have the phey about 180 yards along the face of the coal in the old works at 3/. a yard for this gate will be good and then about 50 yards forward thro’ coal and then Holt thinks we shall come at the trespass - but the coal will pay when we get to it -

SH:7/ML/E/17/0156

Holt staid till 1 ¾ - then had Washington upstairs in the blue room, Dr Kenny being below at the same time – told W- to look after the tumbled down wall at Staups – A- agreed to excuse him £40 of the £140 he was to pay her for the Lidgate hay, so that there is only a hundred to deduct from the £500 to be paid for his field adjoining Hardcatsle’s -  Glad to avoid Dr K-  so kept out of the way (in my study) – A- and I off at 2 ¾ along the walk and the Leeds and Whitehall road to her fields in Bramley Lane where Robert Scholefield is walling – sometime there and while A- went in to Mrs Draper’s I stood talking to Flather – would not tell me exactly what he sold his farm for to Joshua Keighley but said he had altogether made what I bade him, or rather, the sum I named to him i.e. £800 for he had cut down the wood .:.  wood = £200 for William K- told me his brother gave £600 – Flather would not tell me what he sold the farm for fear Joshua K- should be vexed at him for perhaps I was about making a bargain with JK- no! said I, I am not - In returning A- and I went into the Cliff Hill land to set out holes to be made for thorns to mark the pump and well trough - home all along by the old Wakefield road at 5 10 - some while with my father and Marian Letter left by someone from Mr. W. Brown surveyor of taxes asking if I had not a gamekeeper (Joseph Pickells) and a pointer dog - Dinner at 6 ½ - coffee – with my father and Marian ½ hour till 8 – I then had Eliza Howarth, my sister gauche housemaid aetatis 17 into the little dining room for a little good advice for near ½ hour – mercy upon us, what a girl for housemaid here! then talked to A- and wrote the journal of today – ¼ hour with my aunt till 10 ¼ - she had Mr Jubb ½ hour this evening between 6 and 7 - fine day F43 ½° at 10 20 pm.

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1832 Nov., Tues. 6

8 50/..

12 1/2

Fine morning – Fahrenheit 49º at 9 20/.. a.m. – Called up to Wilson the joiner come about the library passage up and down stairs in 1/2 hour – Till 9 giving orders – Then breakfast with my father – Waited for Marian to order about flannel for waistcoats and drawers. Determined to have all ready to be off in January –

Had Washington – To have all the bills next week for wearing, mystal at Southolme etc. etc. – Just saw my aunt for a few minutes – Very kind 2 1/2 pages Letter from Miss McL– [MacLean] (Coll house aros) to say the bay on laurel leaved willows were sent off to Glasgow yesterday week with orders to be forwarded here immediately –

Off at 11 1/4 with Marian to call at the vicarage – There in 20 minutes and sat 1/2 hour with Mrs. Musgrave – Then went with Marian to Walker’s shop to order flannel etc. for things for me in readiness for being off – Hoped I really should be on route in January – Then parted with Marian –

Went to Whitley’s. Bought Hooper’s medical dictionary 25 /. [shillings] published at 28 /. [shillings] and in 50 minutes at Lidgate (at 1 1/2).  Miss W– [Walker] very glad to see me, I having said I should not go till tomorrow – Sat 1/2 hour with her and home at 2 1/2 –

Met Mr. Samuel Waterhouse junior (ætatis 17) at her gate – Stood talking a few minutes while Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood left Miss Walker – Mr. S[amuel] W[aterhouse] just came to her door to ask how she did – She said she should have me to nurse [her] now and really seemed much better and in good spirits. 

Talked of the agreeable surprise of seeing [me] but yet seemed more inclined to talk of business than love. I appeared in more than good spirits. She would think them all put on. And perhaps believe me feeling more acutely than I really did. I kissed her, but in a common way, and she did not push herself to me as yesterday and was more guarded.

She will not give me much reason now either to hope or despair. Her self possession will probably be undisturbed enough. I left her with no pleasant feeling, saying to myself, ‘Damn her. It is an arrow and perhaps a lucky escape.’ I dont think her answer will be yes.  And the more easily reconciled I am the better. Shall I dislike her by and by? At least I shall be more at liberty without her –

Fred Wilson, the joiner, and his man in the library passage at 2 1/2 – 26 or 27 inches lower than my blue room closet but determined not to be beaten with it, and went on – Dusty job to get the studding down –

Had only just managed and given orders what was to be done when James Holt came at 4 5/.. and had him till 6 – Something must be wrong that Mr. Jeremiah Rawson will not let go into their works – Probably they are stealing my coal already – Holt says I should not take less than £200 per acre but if he was in their place he would not give £250 per acre –  

Said I had at 1st asked the price between the 2 leases (£205 and £230) = £217.[pounds] 10. [shillings]. 0 [pence] but had said I should be worse to deal with now – Proposed asking £220 per acre but Holt owned the coal was worth as much now as when sold to Oates and Green and worth quite as much or more to Rawsons than to them (∴ [therefore] I ought to have £230 per acre) –

Owned too that I ought to have more for the coal at the top of the land, for it would make that at the bottom of less value. He thought they had a hundred yards plumbing dip i.e. could get with the water head a hundred yards breadth on this side and alongside the present waterhead driven by Oates and Company – Should shew Mr. J[eremiah] R– [Rawson] the coal plan – Ask him what fields he wanted and might let him Hugh grave field and the coal ungot to the north west of it and to the north east down in a straight line under the cunnery plantation down to the road but not to let him come lower down – 

Owned afterwards it would be as well not to let him come lower than the Cunnery houses, for if he got down to the brook he could throw such a quantity of water upon us – If he did not come lower down than Cunnery houses or the present Wakefield road, I might leave or fence of coal or turn the water, and not be so much injured –

Holt would meet J[eremiah] R– [Rawson] on the ground and see what he wanted – No air pit necessary for the lower bed coal, and not to sell any upper bed but by a separate agreement – Upper bed costs 6 d [pence] a score (corves) more getting than lower bed, and not being able to get it all, obliged to leave posts, makes it not work so much by £50 an acre as lower bed –

If J[eremiah] R– [Rawson] would not let Holt go into his works, I might propose either of the 2 brothers Squire or Tom Lassey of Thornhill, the former steward to Mr. Ingham of Misfield – In making the agreement to have surface measure, and the power to send down people into the works whenever I liked, and to have a clause to prevent J[eremiah] R– [Rawson] damming or turning any water back into the old works after he had got the coal (Had I not better have a bond of indemnity against this?) otherwise he might drown me in water and prevent my getting the coal below where he had been getting and had turned the water –

It was right enough that I should make no allowance for gauls or jumbles or ruttle – Great difference between drawing out at the day and pulling up thro’ a shaft – At their (Holt’s) pit on Swales moor 150 yards deep pulling costs them 18 pence a score; and ropes cost them £15 or £16 a year – One collier may be reckoned to get 25 corves a day for five days in a week – If J[eremiah] R– [Rawson] gets £100 profit per acre it will be quite enough –

Then see according to the following what to ask an acre for the coal –

Making all sufficient allowances there will come out of one square yard 5 corves, which (as J[eremiah] R– [Rawson] sells at 7 d [pence] and 8 d [pence] a corve, average at 7 1/2 d [pence] a corve –

Expense of getting 20 corves (or one score) 4 /. [shillings] to the colliers –

Banksman 1 /. [shilling] a score – wear and tear say 6 d [pence] a score, certainly enough –

Lower bed 18 inches thick – Lightcliffe bed 25 inches thick – Billy stocks paid £260 an acre 5 or 6 years ago for what he bought – This that Hinscliffe is taking must be worth as much – He will have very little to sink – 14 or 16 yards and coals worth less as nearer the surface – But not for being dry – But there is a gaul that throws up the coal near Lidgate (breaks out in the road going up the hill) and there cannot be any coal on this side that gaul near more than a daywork or 2 to get in that field next below the Smith (Hinscliffe’s) –

Speaking of Godley, wished Holt not to let it go for nothing but said I had mentioned it to Mr. Samuel Freeman – Holt said I could employ no one better – He said it was North £80 a daywork but £ a daywork was the outside – ∴ [therefore] the 20 dayworks = £2000 

Carr has been arrested several times lately – Speaking of the cottages on Godley land, Holt knows that the 4 belonging to his uncle George Holdsworth would be sold – Cost £50 each building and £40 the ground – But might be had he thinks for £ 200 – Will inquire and let me know –

Speaking of his farm, some people might buy it at 3 1/2 percent Rent £66 per anum but it would not suit him to buy land at that price – He explained the manner of working coal pits – Asked him to give me an underground plan of a pit in working and asked him to let me know when I could go down with him into one of his pits. I must understand coal-getting before I have done with it – Holts pit at Binns bottom will be ready for working in 2 months from this and I can go in at the day –

Dinner at 6 3/4 – In 1/2 hour wrote and sent at 7 35/.. 3 pages to “Dr. Belcombe York” or rather 2 pages and 3 or 4 lines to him and the rest to his wife, to be torn off and given to her, thanks for her letter and to say yes! I thought black velvet properly garni au blonde (white) would be very becoming to her –

Told him wished I could give a better account of his patient, but she was not worse on his hands, which was marvellous considering the affliction she had had on account of the sudden death of her most particular friend, the news of which had arrived the day after our leaving York – No pills last Thursday – Begged to have them next Thursday – Ask how long they are to be gone on with without interruption – She thought at 1st, but not afterwards, they gave her much physicky pain in her bowels – These last had behaved very well considering the affliction she had been in –

In fact, she believed she could not have been so well now, had she not had his advice – He is ‘in très bonne odeur’ and his patient has faith enough in him – Mr. Day has been and, I suppose, would not let her believe in her own existence without the use of his ointment but ‘ce nous est égal’ – Ask him to write a letter I can shew. Not to spare a little anxiety and to ask whatever questions he knows will be proper. ‘Indeed not say I have the good of your reputation at heart’ –

John’s son Joseph Booth came over with Scott’s head groom to bring 2 perfect horses to Mr. Thomas Dyson of Willow field – Had him (Joseph B– [Booth]) in and spoke to him – He is grown, and improved – Perhaps I shall take him with me abroad – Then writing journal of today – Had John in – He is much pleased and satisfied with his son – Talked to him about his family – To send Charlotte for my aunt, to hear her read and see her sewing so as to be able to judge what she can do and be fit for –

Then my father and Marian just gone to bed. A few minutes with my aunt – Then came back to the drawing room – Read my letter from Vere dated Turin 24 October 3 pages and ends of small sheet (Frankfort paper) – Very nice chit chat amusing letter –

And read my letter from Lady Stuart (Richmond park) enclosing Vere’s 2 last to her – A kind 1/2 sheet full and a few lines on the envelope (franked by Lord Goderich) from Lady S– [Stuart]. These letters put me in spirits. I am better without Miss W[alker] – 

11 1/2 before I had read my letters and written so far of today –

5 corves at 7 1/2 d pence = 37 1/2 d [pence] = 3 1 1/2 per square yard

One score or 20 corves = 12/6 [shillings/pence] expense of getting which = 4 /. [shillings] to the colliers. 

∴ [therefore] 12/6 - 5/6 = 7 /. [shillings] clear gain per score = 1 /. [shilling] to the banksman or per 4 square yards = ./6 [shilling/pence] wear and tear (quite enough) –

At the forgoing rate, 5 corves or 1 square yard = clear gain of 1/9 [pound/shillings], 1 score (20 corves) or 4 square yards = clear gain of 7 /. [shillings] ∴ [therefore]

1 acre or 4840 square yards = at 1/9 [pound/shillings] per square yard or 7 /. [shillings] p[e]r 4 square yards = £423. [pounds] 10. [shillings] 0 [pence]

Now Holt said this calculation would do, and that £100 clear gain per acre was enough ∴ [therefore] if I have £250 per acre J[eremiah] R– [Rawson] has a profit of 423. [pounds] 10. [shillings]. 0 [pence] – 250 = £173. [pounds] 10. [shillings] 0 [pence]

Very fine day – Went up to my room at 11 50/.. at which hour Fahrenheit 49º

[sideways in margin] Sunday 23 December 1832 vide page 231, suppose Messieurs R– [Rawson] to sell at 7 1/2 per corve or 12/6 per score and allow half for expenses, then 48040/4 or 1210 x 6 shillings x 3 d [pence] = £363 + 15. [pounds] 2. [shillings] 6 [pence] = £378. [pounds] 2. [shillings]. 6 [pence], so that paying me £230. [pounds] 10. [shillings] 0 [pence] per acre then remains to Messieurs a profit per acre of £147. [pounds] 12. [shillings] 6 [pence]

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I contacted the Landreth Seed Company about their African American Heritage Collection, made with recommendations by Michael Twitty. While they no longer carry the collection, they did share this graphic with me so people can still follow these guidelines!

I’ve transcribed the info below in case the image quality doesn’t carry over and to make this more accessible:

Recommendations by Michael Twitty, Culinary Historian of Traditional African American Food Culture

Michael Twitty is a community scholar of traditional African American food culture, a Hebrew school teacher and an independent living history interpreter. For ten years he has been involved in many projects related to exploring foodways from the Smithsonian to Colonial Williamsburg and has presented at conferences related to the subject. His personal initiative is to document the West and Central African heritage in the regions where his ancestors were enslaved. His first book, Fighting Old Nep: The Foodways of Enslaved Afro-Marylanders 1634-1864 is a compendium of his extensive research enriched with recipes which he has collected from the descendants and writing of enslaved peoples.

Mr. Twitty has generously given of his time, knowledge, and experience to assist and guide the D. Landreth Seed Company in assembling this unique collection of heirloom seeds-- seeds that were carried by enslaved peoples from Africa and the Caribbean. The fruits and vegetables harvested from these seeds became the dietary staples of the African American family. On the anniversary of its 225th year, Landreth is pleased to offer this collection for all peoples who treasure freedom.

Vegetables

(H) Brown Crowder (A Cow Pea) - Brought from West Africa to America during the slave trade, it was noted in antebellum Mississippi in the 1860′s

(H) California Black-eyed Peas (A Cow Pea) - This prolific cowpea has assumed mystical properties-- attracting money, giving fertility, and bringing good luck on New Year’s Day

Sieva (Carolina) Butter Bean (A Pole Lima Bean) - Called “sivvy” or butter beans by generations of Southerners, and especially loved in the Charleston area

(H) Cabbage, Charleston Wakefield - Used in generations by Black cooks as a base for Low Country “vegetable bunch” soup

Cabbage, Late Flat Dutch - Praised in Black folksongs from Virginia, “biled down” and eaten with hoecakes

(H) Georgia Southern Collards - Captaincies. William Feltman rode through Virginia in the 1760′s and saw enslaved Blacks growing “snaps and collerds” (sic) in their gardens

(H) West India Burr Gherkin (A Pickling Cucumber) - Introduced by Minton Collins in Richmond in 1793, the plant was originally brought from Angola to the Caribbean 

(H) Eggplant, Louisiana Long Green - Introduced by Africans and Spaniards into Southern and Creole cuisine, they were grown in the gardens of enslaved Louisianians 

(H) Gourd, Long Handled Dipper - Immortalized in “Follow the Drinking Gourd,” this was the most common vessel used in the rural South gracing most fences

(H) Gourd, Birdhouse/Bottle - Used to carry beverages to the fields and hung to attract purple martins to deter other birds from the crops

(H) Mustard, Southern Giant Curled - Grown in the Upland South since the 1740′s. Different mustard greens were sown with tobacco in beds to deter pests

(H) Burgundy Okra - A beautiful red okra that turns green after cooking

(H) Cowhorn Okra - The oldest variety of okra grown in the U.S., less mucilaginous, it makes excellent okra soup and gumbos

(H) Jumbo Peanuts - Brought to Virginia during the slave trade, peanuts were called “goober” from the Kimbundu people of Central Africa

(H) Hot Pepper, Caribbean Red (A Red Habanero) - Known as the Scotch Bonnet Pepper, it may have been grown in the South since the 18th century

(H) Hot Pepper, Long Red Cayenne - 1,000 were ordered by Josiah Collins in the 1700′s to season the food of his slaves, brought directly from Africa to North Carolina

(H) Hot Pepper, Fish Pepper - A favorite in Maryland brought From Africa or the Caribbean and used to season seafood, shellfish, terrapin, and chicken dishes

(H) Hot Pepper, Habanero - Another variety of Scotch Bonnet, it’s the secret to perfect Jamaican “jerked” chicken, meat, or fish

(H) Pumpkin, Green Striped Cushaw - Known as the “sweet potato pumpkin,” it was brought from Jamaica to the Chesapeake in the late 1700′s

(H) Pumpkin, White Cushaw - Another variety of “potato pumpkin,” more popular in the Lower South

(H) Spinach, Climbing Red Malabar - The crisp green known as “calalloo” in the West Indies 

(H) Summer Squash, White Bush Scallop - Known as “cymling squash,” this was one of the most common vegetables purchased by the Jefferson family from their enslaved workforce

(H) Tomato, Cherokee Purple - Representative of the great Southern folk tomatoes grown on family farmsteads, cold tolerant and flavorful

(H) Tomato, Purple Calabash - Enslaved Africans were among the first to popularize the tomato in the American South

(H) Turnip, Seven Top - The classic Southern “turnip green,” it produces a woody inedible root but luxurious, self-replenishing greens 

(H) Watermelon, Georgia Rattlesnake - Watermelons were introduced from Africa during colonial times; this variety reflects heirloom varieties grown from the 1830′s onward

Grains

(H) Dragon Finger Millet - Representative of the staple grains grown in West Africa. Millet is a sacred crop used to bless homes. A highly ornamental, yet productive grain used for cereal or flour. The seedhead resembles a dragon’s foot. Plant is 3 ft tall.

Herbs

(H) Basil, Genovese - Grown for good luck and to prevent negative energy near the doorway of the household

(H) Cress, Upland - Known as “creasy greens,” they provided a spicy contrast to other leafy vegetables

(H) Dandelion - Beloved for their greens and the wine-flavoring blossoms

(H) Parsley, Plain or Single - Used by Mary Randolph to top off okra soup and fried chicken in the Virginia Housewife

(H) Sage - Used to season “kush,” an enslaved precursor to Southern cornbread stuffing; also made into a medicinal tea

(H) Spearmint - Used to make mint teas for centuries in West Africa, and iced tea and mint juleps in the South

(H) Thyme - Used as a flavoring herb and to curb the growth of bacteria

Business note: We warrant that our seed conforms to the label description as required by federal and state seed laws. We make no other warranties express or implied, of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or otherwise. Liability for damages for any cause, including breach of contract, breach of warranty, and negligence, with respect to this sale of seeds is limited to a refund of the purchase price of seeds; this remedy is exclusive. In no event shall we be liable for any incidental or consequential damages, including loss of profit.

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Impossible Year - Billy Russo - 2

The reaction to that first part was amazing! I hope you all enjoy this little story of mine! And because I’m so excited, here’s part 2 already!

(Yes, the title of this is from the Panic song but it’s not based off of the song. I just needed a title with Year in it haha.)

Since links are making posts not show up in tags, you can find previous parts on my Masterlist in my about me!

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Enjoy! 

***** February 

Billy was tossing a football back and forth with Frank, both of them grumbling about the mission that was coming up. Things had been too relaxed lately and when news came down of a mission, everyone had snapped into professional mode. "Think we're ready?" asked Billy as he tossed the ball at Frank who caught it with a snort. "At least your squad seems pretty tight. I've got Baker and Wakefield who seem so green they are basically blue." Billy could only laugh which means he missed when Frank aimed the ball right at his face. It bounced off and only made Billy laugh a little harder. "Better have Baker and Wakefield on scrub duty man." Frank dropped his shoulders and got into a sparring stance. Seeing the change, Billy grinned widely and did the same. Before either of them could make a move, one of the privates came into the tent with a stack of mail and a few packages. "Mail call," Frank said as he bumped his shoulder against Billy's. "You're lucky man, I'd have taken you down in a blink of an eye." Frank laughed and flipped Billy off as he accepted his mail. "Nah Bill, you woulda been in the sand before you could even twitch." That could have continued and no doubt would have but Billy's name was called by the private. He moved over to accept the package with a smile. There wasn't a stamp from that damn company. Instead the return address and name was from the girl directly. While Frank was busy with his own stuff, Billy sat down on his cot and opened the box up. This time there was even more stuff packed in tight. Toiletries mostly; baby wipes and chapstick and mini bottles of lotion and mouthwash. There was also a good amount of candy like before. There was some licorice that Billy tucked under his pillow with a grin. He was getting a little disappointed at the lack of a letter this time until he saw a folded sheet of paper at the bottom of the box. Dear Billy, I was really surprised to receive a letter back from you, but I'm glad that you enjoyed the package. You were right in thinking that I'd had some experience with these kind of things. I've packed this one with some of the same stuff but a few other things that I figured would come in handy. As for the Marine that offered his hand in marriage? Be sure to tell him that while I appreciate it, I couldn’t possibly accept. My dad and brother were in the Army and I'm pretty sure marrying a Marine would be cause for being disowned. I don't know where you're from, but I obviously live in New York. Not the city, but nearby. I've never been big on huge cities, but I do have to admit that there's something special about NYC. What about you? Where are you from? And what's your favorite place to visit? Do you have any tips about how to reinforce a fence so that my neighbor's asshole dog will stop burrowing over onto my property and ruining my garden? Figured it couldn't hurt to ask. I hope this letter finds you well. If you have any requests for the next package, let me know. Dream big! Be safe, Y/N Billy read the letter a second time with a smile. He wasn't sure what it was about her, but he quite liked this girl. Sure it was just a letter, but there was a lot of personality in the way that she wrote. "What you got there Bill?" This time Billy tucked the letter under his leg as he held out the box. Frank let out a low whistle as he picked through the offerings. "Your pen pal sure knows the way to a man's heart." After he hid the rest of the contents, because he wanted to be able to use them to barter when needed and not ahead of time, Billy pulled the letter back out. So she was an Army brat. That explained why she felt the need to send a care package to a random stranger. It'd make more sense for her to do it to someone she knew, but maybe she had her own reasons for sending it through a program instead. And she lived in New York. Billy had been raised in a group home in Albany and then went to the city as soon as he was old enough to strike out on his own. He'd been in the military for most of his life and didn't have anywhere specific to call home. Closest he got was Frank and Maria's place which was just outside of New York City. They always had a spare bed or couch for Billy to crash on when they were between deployments. Billy glanced at the paper next to the chess table and then glanced around the tent. He'd wait until there was more privacy before he wrote her back. Plus he wanted to get some opinions on reinforcing a fence. ------ "Thanks Molly," you called as your neighbor dragged her dog back across the property line. You frowned at the holes the dog had dug into the snow covered flower beds. Damn dog. You tucked your mail under your arm as you went into the house, your shoes crunching through the snow from your mailbox to your porch. The snow had been a surprise but you didn't mind as long as your heat didn't go out again. You'd slept on the floor in front of the fireplace that first night, wrapped up in multiple blankets as you tried not to freeze to death. As you started to put your mail down on the bar, you hesitated at the sight of somewhat familiar handwriting. You tugged the envelope out of the stack and looked at the return address and smiled when you saw Billy's name and handwriting. While you removed your shoes, you used a letter opener to open the envelope and pulled out the few sheets of paper. With a grin, you settled onto the couch and read over the letter. Dear Y/N, Thank you for the package. You really got this down to an art. It came at just the right time too. We've been unable to get resupplied lately so I'm basically Midas with all this. I'll find a way to forgive that you're an Army brat. As for the marriage proposal, it's good that you turned it down. He's an asshole from California; you can do better. I'm actually from Albany. Well, I was safe havened in Albany and stuck around until I was old enough to set off for my own. I spend a lot of time in New York City when I'm between deployments. One of my buddies here, Frank, lives around there with his family too. I spend a lot of time with them. I'm Uncle Billy to their kids. I don't get to do a lot of traveling. I spend a lot of my time deployed and when I'm not, I'd rather not be traveling. I've been to Europe a few times and I enjoy it, but I'd rather just be home in New York. As for your question about reinforcing a fence? I know jackshit about that kind of stuff, but I asked around. Got a lot of different types here and a few had some suggestions. I've attached a few drawings and ideas, depending on the type of fence you have. Some of them are obscene, you can never know with Marines. Just try not to be offended. You said your brother was Army and you sent him care packages too. He deployed right now? We've run into a few Army grunts; think the world is small enough that I've run into him? I look forward to hearing from you again. Sincerely, Billy Russo Your smile dimmed a bit when you saw him mention your brother, but you sighed and then flipped the pages over to look at the fence drawings. They were all different and ranged from doable to impossible. Was that... did someone actually draw a moat? You laughed and pulled out a small folded piece of paper that had almost gotten lost in the others. The front had Billy's handwriting on it. This letter will probably reach you after Valentine's day. Don't know if you have someone to celebrate that with, but can't hurt. You unfolded the paper and had to smother a laugh. It was a heart made out of drawings of guns and grenades as well as other things of war. It was just what you needed after the emotional bitch-slap of having him mention your brother. With the Valentine in hand, you walked into the kitchen and attached the paper to your fridge with a few small magnets. You weren't sure why you were so amused by the drawing, or why you wanted to keep it somewhere you'd see it every day, but you didn't want to look too hard into it. Instead you moved over to grab some paper and a pen. It was your turn to write again. 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[mooneyedandglowing]

If we were created in God’s image then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions. There are ways around being the go-to person even for ourselves even when the answer is clear like the holy water Gentiles drank before they realized Forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past. I thought those were chime shells in your pocket so I chucked a quarter at it hoping to hear some part of you respond on a high note. You acted like I was hurling crowbirds at mockingbars and abandoned me for not making sense. Evidently, I don’t experience things as rationally as you do. For example, I know mercy when I have enough money to change the jukebox at a gay bar (somebody’s gotta change that shit). You understand the power of God’s mercy whenever someone shoves a stick of morphine straight up into your heart. It felt amazing the days you were happy to see me so I smashed a beehive against the ocean to try and make our splash last longer. Remember all the honey had me lookin’ like a jellyfish ape but you walked off the water in a porcupine of light strands of gold  drizzling out to the tips of your wasps. This is an apology letter to the both of us for how long it took me to let things go. It was not my intention to make such a production of the emptiness between us playing tuba on the tombstone of a soprano to try and keep some dead singer’s perspective alive. It’s just that I coulda swore you had sung me a love song back there and that you meant it but I guess sometimes people just chew with their mouth open so I ate ear plugs alive with my throat hoping they’d get lodged deep enough inside the empty spots that I wouldn’t have to hear you leaving so I wouldn’t have to listen to my heart keep saying all my eggs were in a basket of red flags all my eyes to a bucket of blindfolds in the cupboard with the muzzles and the gauze ya know I didn’t mean to speed so far out and off trying to drive all your nickels to the well when you were happy to let them wishes drop but I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers hoping their grace will get stuck in my shoes. Is that a handsome shadow on my breath, sweet woman or is it a cattle call in a school of fish? Still dance with me less like a waltz for panic more for the way we’d hoped to swing the night we took off everything and we were swingin’ for the fences don’t hold it against my love you know I wanna breathe deeper than this you know I didn’t mean to look so serious didn’t mean to act like a filthy floor didn’t mean to turn us both into a cutting board but there were knives s-stuck in the words where I came from too much time in the back of my words. I pulled knives from my back and my words. I cut trombones from the moment you slipped away and I know it left me lookin’ like a knife fight, lady yeah you know it left me feelin’ like a shotgun shell you know I know I mighta gone and lost my breath but I wanna show ya how I found my breath to death it was buried under all the wind instruments hidden in your castanets goddamn if ya ever wanna know how it felt when ya left yeah if you ever wanna come inside just knock on the spot where I finally pressed STOP playing musical chairs with all your exit signs. I’m gonna cause you a miracle when you see the way I kept God’s image alive. Forgiveness is for anybody who needs a safe passage through my mind. If I was really created in God’s image then when God was a boy he wanted to grow up to be a man a good man and when God was a man a good man He started telling the truth in order to get honest responses. He’d say, 'I know. I really shoulda wore my cross again but I don’t wanna scare the gentiles off.'

Buddy Wakefield, HURLING CROWBIRDS AT MOCKINGBARS (HOPE IS NOT A COURSE OF ACTION)

[veryfineday]

Wednesday 28 January 1835

8 20/..

12

+  Vc  U  V  L

no kiss 

fine morning tho’ rather hazy and dull - Fahrenheit 43 1/2º at 9 1/2 a.m. – looKed over from page 25 to 69 end of De la Beche’s geological notes – breakfast at 9 3/4 – to 10 3/4 –

then out with Charles H-[Howarth] doing top cornice for north passage – then with PicKels at the dry bridge – Holt at the drift – came in with him at 11 50/.. and he staid till 1 3/4 – the deed made by Stansfield and Thompson ready for signing mrs. machin’s coal 14 DW [Day’s Work] to mr. Rawson for £200 – but 7 people concerned mother and children, and ....... the Sadler at North bridge having married the oldest daughter and not being consulted would not let his wife sign and promised to bring all the rest over to sell to Holt – valued at £40 per DW [Day’s Work] but Holt thinKs he can get them to agree for £300 down – said I should be glad if he could – but he must give £350 rather than miss the bargain – in short he must buy the coal –

[margin: mrs. machin’s coal]

then speaKing of Spiggs, he had told William what I had said about the deed from WilKinson, and said he Holt, should be here this morning and expected William K-[Keighley] to come here and meet him and bring the deed – said I should now 1st see about settling this matter about the deed – and that I did not came about agreeing with the Spiggs company for that I understood the K-s[Keighleys] were indemmified by the 2 ClarKes (Tommy and his brother) of whom they bought their share – asKed what Holt valued the Spiggs Colliery at as it stood - £1000 – very well, said I – we shall see – if I open this Shibden Colliery it will be my interest to stop Spiggs altogether – why! yes! said H-[Holt] it would – his cousins Holt had agreed to sell their 1/2 share to StocKs; but when I bought Staups, StocKs would have nothing more to do with Spiggs – he would have loosed Northowram coal (Swain’s coal) by Spiggs thro’ Staups – StocKs has only 1/2 of Swain’s coal and the two ClarKes have the other 1/2 – and StocKs will not care much about loosing it till he has it all – Wilson quite fast – cannot stand many months longer – I could loose StocKs (Swaine’s coal) and a few acres of upper brea top land by my water wheel at Tilly holm Stile if I liKed – but I loose neither him nor anybody else [?] unless I liKe – said I had made up my mind to loose my coal and set up the water wheel at Tilly holm style and wished to begin of this job – the sooner the better –

[margin: Holt’s value of Spiggs colliery  I can loose StocKs’s Northowram coal by Tilly holm water wheel]

the 1st thing to do is to begin at mytholm dam stones and drive up a drift to Tilly holm stile – this at a rough guess, might be from 600 to 700 yards – say at 4/.[shillings] a yard if advertised might be done for less – might be done in about 8 months – then would have a walled and arched culvert (32 feet) from Tilly holm stile to the end of my library into the brooK –

[margin: Estimate of expense of Loosing coal at Tilly holme Stile]

say (said I) about 660 yards, all labour done at 5/.[shillings] per yard and stones (field wall stones for sides and parpoints for arching) and carting = 7/.[shillings] per yard - ⸫[therefore] culvert total cost of per yard = 12/.[shillings] then put down the water wheel – wheel to be 6 feet broad – put the wheel and engine pit just above the gall (that runs thro’ wellroyde land etc) so that there would only be 14 or 15 yards to pump – suppose the wheel and engine pit cost from £300 to £400.  the 2 coal-heads or drifts (large enough for hurrying gates – going corves along one and returning corves along the other) will pay for themselves by the coal got out of them – that is, will pay for driving but there will be rails to find – those Hinscliffe {has just got me from Farrer are to be £8 per ton, 4 feet long rails, of which one ton will reach 80 yards – }

[margin: cost of rails etc.]

told Holt my plan of sinking another pit 50 or 60 yards on this side of WalKer pit –

not necessary to sinK another pit – Even if I stopt Spiggs colliery, and Kept it stopt (for which I should have to raise the water 3 yards) so that WalKer pit should be 3 yards deep in water, that would not signify – I could chamber the pit just above the water, or fill it up to that height, if I liKed, and cut a gallery or drift from WalKer pit thro’ the coal to communicate with the drifts (leaving between the pit and drift a yard’s broadth of coal as a landing or fence to Keep the water from the drift) –

Holt quite sure I cannot stop Spiggs without letting the water 3 yards deep into WalKer pit bottom – the dead water stands – that is the water rises, as it is, [?] hight as high up on the coal as the wall at the head of the clough in Trough of Boll[an]d wood – I smiled and said I thought Hinscliffe would have no objection to my stopping Spiggs colliery, which Holt seemed to agree in – I thinK Hinscliffe is afraid of his trespass being discovered when WalKer pit is bottomed – we shall have to phey about 180 yards along the face of the coal in the old worKs at 3/.[shillings] a yard for this gate will be good and then about 50 yards forward thro’ coal and then Holt thinKs we shall come at the trespass – but the coal will pay when we get to it –

[margin: distance to      } where the dead water now stands

         phey and forward }

Holt staid till 1 3/4 – then had Washington upstairs in the blue room, Dr. Kenny being below at the same time told W-[Washington] to looK after the tumbled down wall at Staups – A-[Ann] agreed to excuse him £40 of the £140 he was to pay her for the Lidgate hay – so that there is only a hundred to deduct from the £500 to be paid for his field adjoining Hardcastles – Glad to avoid Dr. K-[Kenny] so Kept out of the way (in my study) – A-[Ann] and I off at 2 3/4 along the walK and the Leeds and Whitehall road to her fields in Bramley Lane where Robert Scholefield is walling –

some time there, and while A-[Ann] went in to mrs. Draper’s I stood talKing to Flather – would not tell me exactly what he sold his farm for to Joshua Keighley, but said he had altogether made what I bade him, or rather the sum I named to him, i.e. £800; for he had cut down the wood  ⸫[therefore] wood = £200 for william K-[Keighley] told me his brother gave £600 – Flather would not tell me what he sold the farm for for fear Joshua K-[Keighley] should be vexed at him for perhaps I was about maKing a bargain with J.K[Joshua Keighley] – no! said I [never] have I any thought of [?] [?] I am not

[margin: Flathers’ farm]

in returning A-[Ann] and I went into the Cliff land, to set out holes to be made for thorns to marK the pump and well trough – home all along by the old WaKefield road at 5 10/.. – some while with my father and marian – Letter left by someone from mr. W. Browne surveyor of taxes asKing if I had not a gameKeeper (Joseph PicKells) and a pointer dog –

dinner at 6 1/2 – coffee – with my father and marian 1/2 hour till 8 – I then had Eliza Howarth my sister gauche housemaid aetatis 17 into the little dining room for a little good advice for near 1/2 hour – mercy upon us, what a girl for housemaid here! then talKed to A-[Ann] and wrote the journal of today – 1/4 hour with my aunt till 10 1/4 – she had mr. Jubb 1/2 hour this evening between 6 and 7 – fine day Fahrenheit 43 1/2º at 10 20/.. p.m. –