BENDIGO REEFS.
(From a Correspondent.) The Ben ligo Company have engaged additional hands at their reefs, and have two more carters employed. The three teams now at work are fully occupied in conveying stone to the machine. The battery (ten stampers) is in first-rate working order, and over 130 tons per week is being put through. The result of last eleaniag-up is stated to have been highly satisfactory to the shareholders. In the Morning Star claim, the contractors have sunk the shaft to a depth of 130 feet. In the adjacent claim, No. 2 West, the contractors have commenced sinking. The Aurora Company have again commenced crushing, and additional hands have been taken on for the night shift. Five stampers only are at present crushing at this company's claim. Messrs Kelsall and Wilson (No. 2 west of the Aurora), a.'e about placing a wire rope across the deep gully between their claim and'the Aurora battery, with the objeet of conveying to the latter about thirty tons of quartz as a trial crushing. Colelough's Reef. —ln excavating for the erection of the machinery, a new reef was discovered. It runs parallel with the prospecting claim, and about 230 feet north of it. »r. D. M'Loughlan's reef looks promising. Stone is being got out for a trial crushing.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 45, 21 September 1870, Page 5
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