Posted with permission of the transcriber, 'Ann' Geo. The West Cumberland Times, Saturday, Oct. 18, 1884 - EMIGRATION FROM THE CLEATOR MINING DISTRICT. Emigration from the Cleator Mining District seems to have almost stopped. Poor people experience the greatest difficulty in obtaining the needful for it, whilst those a bit better off are content to stay in their own country and put up with the inconveniences of bad trade. Knots of men continue to find street corners a fitting place for discussion of the question of their forced idleness. Employers of labour, large and small, are practicing economy in its strictest form to allow of a small margin of profit. Mine owners hardly seem disposed to sign contracts for the purchase of iron ore produce over lengthened periods, and the price remains about the same - 10s 6d per ton at works. There is a deal of poverty in the district at the present time, and various devices are being resorted to to get a living. ~~~~~~~~~~