Smith left most of the management of the estate to its staff, which generated £4,500 of income across its core 293 acres holding, of which £3,000 came from the quickly diminishing coal mines and ironstone workings leased on the former farmlands to the Monkland Iron and Steel Co. Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, 1882-4 An 1872 government award of £2,000 for his compass research allowed him to replace the worst houses on the estate with new homes, today known as Compass Cottages in Anniesland Road.