BENDIGO MINING NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 83, 13 June 1871, Page 5

BENDIGO MINING NEWS.

( From a Correspondent.)

The protracted period of dry weather which heralded the approach of Winter still continues, with but slight intermission ; and although sluicing- operations in the district have been somewhat retarded by this cause, the gold yield has not in any degree retrograded, as will be seen by the escort returns, 2136 ozs. being comprised in the last parcel forwarded to Dunedin.

Many applications for extended claims are constantly brought before the Warden for adjudication, and on the whole, the mining prospects of the season may bo pronounced of average' healthy condition, with a favorable tendency to progression as the open period of the winter-tide further advances. No particularly new stir has taken place in reefing matters at Bendigo, lately. The Cromwell Quartz Mining Company, (Logan's Reef,) recently had a crushing of over 300 tons of stone, we have not ascertained the yield, but believe it to be of usual average quality. This company can manage to put through the battery, from a 100 to 110 tons of stone weekly. A change in the management has just occurred, Mr Logan, who resigned, being succeeded by a Mr Rerkie. Machine and claim in full working order, and going a-hcad steadily. The prospects of the Colclough reef, which some time ago were slightly clouded, have again shone forth in hopeful brightness, stone of more than ordinary richness having been hit on in the lode, they are bringing it to the surface with re-cnovated energy. Shares have an upward bearing, and are being enquired for. The Alta Company, which some time last year got off the lino of reef owing to a fault in the stone, thereby causing for a period a suspension of mining operations, having again tackled the old adit were agreeably surprised by coming across the erratic dyke about three weeks back. It appears there was a break somehow in the reef, it having suddenly dropped over. The drive from where the lode was lost running parallel therewith, until having put in a cross cut before abandoning hope altogether, they, after a short distance of exi>loration, struck a good body of stone, varying in width, from two and a-half feet to seven feet; prospects are again in the ascendant. About, 250 tons of quartz are at grass, (better oft", I ween, than j the Cromwell bovines) but the hard frosts in j the ranges, where their race takes its rise, ; prevent a sufficient supply of water being I brought to the machine, crushing must therefore lie over till the arrival of general | springtime. Cross sections of the reef have j been sent to Dunedin. Economisation of labor has been carried to much perfection in j connection with the workings of this comI pany, a tramway leads from the tunnel to j the battery, down an incline, and is so conI structed, that the full trucks going clown I bring the empty ones tip to the face of the workings, one man can tlras run 25 tons a day, and keep the maching ceaselessly going. Since the starting of the claim the actual working expenses have not amounted to more than a third of the yield. A sweeping change in the general management is on the ! tapis, and the office of the Company, will, I iii all probability, be transferred from Clyde to Dunedin.