THE BENDIGO REEFS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 23, 20 April 1870, Page 5

THE BENDIGO REEFS.

— o — reef. The long-ponding lawsuit in the Warden’s Court as to the parties forming the company in the prospectors’ daub on this' line of reef has been abandoned, and an amicable settlement of the dispute at length arrived at, .Richmond and Muir have abandoned further resistance to the claims 6f Messrs Loughnan and Maidman by giving them the interest in the reef claimed by each—each paying their own law costs. This claim is considered to be a valuable property, and now that the law proceedings are at an end, work has been commenced in earnest. As the stone is easily got at, it may yet have a trial crashing at the Aurora Co.’s battery before the winter sets in. ALTA REEF. Tenders are called for carting twelve tons of stone from the prospectors’ claim to the Aurora battery, f6r a trial crushing, prior to the erection of machinery. This company are likely t6 have a lawsuit brought against them for the maintenance 01 the creek water in its proper channel, the Warden’s grant of the same (agaiiist the protest Of the miners, in meeting assembled) notwith standing. No. i east.--The contract for sinking a shaft in this claim was completed a fortnight ago. In No. 2 the reef has not been found, and work is stopped. Operations have been suspended in all claims west of the prospectors’, inconsequence of not finding the reef. COLCLOUGII’s REEF. In the prospectors’ claim the work of tunnelling and raising quartz to the surface is carried- on with steady perseverance. The trial crushing from this claim is likely to turn out exceedingly well, as the stone appears to be of first-rate quality. Work has not been suspended in No. 1 east on this line, as recently stated by a local contemporary. The tunnel in No. 2 is being pushed forward vigorously, and the prospectors (Messrs Wilson and Carpenter) expect, from present indications, to strike the reef very soon. /t# _ No. 1 west, lately occupied by tvVo miners from the West Coast, has been again abandoned, owing to the difficulty of finding the reef. THE BEN’DIGO REEF. >, Logan and party’s last washing-up was between 120 and i3O ounces. The only claims at work on this at present are the prospectors’, Nos. 1 and 2 west, and Nos. 4, 9, and 10 east, in each of which prospecting is carried on pefseveringly. AURORA BATTERY. The stone from No. 10 east (Messrs Reed and Lough nan’s claim) is now going through the mill, and this trial crushing is almost completed. Quartz from the prospecting claim of Colclough and party, now being carted to the battery, will next be put through. Mr M'Loughlan’s (from the Victoria lease) will then follow ; and afterwards Messrs Broadfoot and Kelly’s, i The last named party have just completed the formation of their dray road, and have commenced carting. ifi ■■ Q SLUICING CLAIMS. ' j In the upper portion of Bendigo Gully, jtofahrds the Branches—-a part of the gully heretofore scarcely touched hy the digger’s pwifepr shovel, —twelve parties have taken up fresh sluicing claims, and the sheltered ■ side 6 of the Deep Creek is now dotted with htil'i and tents; tlie sluicefs having settled do,HP for the winter’s campaign quite content with their various prospects. The I 'Chinese,have not been behind hand, as ilffHe nifties of them have followed up this rugh, and have now camped and set in to ~ wdtk in their respective claims. The opening of those claims (offering sufficient in- • dutferrieilt for about 30 hliners), which will I nqjnbe worked out for the neit twelve i. mppths, proves that Bendigo and its neighborhood; as far as the development of its ; rich, resources is concerned, is only in its \ .ifiiaiicy, •'i . •