THE CARRICK RANGE QUARTZ TEEFS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume II, Issue 98, 26 September 1871, Page 5

THE CARRICK RANGE QUARTZ TEEFS.

N'Tho township at tlio foot of the Garrick Rahgo is rapidly increasing in size and importance. Mr M'Cdi’Klick’s hotel is a neatlooking, substantial, and well-arranged build-

ing, and possesses accommodation of a very I superior character. The proprietor intends at once erecting a spacious billiard-room and ftdmmber of additional bedrooms, the whole (df’which will be completed in the course of jjjEyee'wecUs. A blacksmith’s shop has been PjphvMessrs Sutherland aiid Co.; adjacent l||jo jdie hotel ; and a number of sites, taken ijfpg}der business licenses, have been pegged outdoetwocu the smithy and Messrs Gossar and-Beruiett’a store, by Messrs Shanty, Lindsayty Whctter, and others. On the other

! side; Mr La wrence (late of Bendigo) has i built a range of stabling, and his private rc- ■ sidppee is now in course of erection. The r||loyal Standard Crushing Machine has been ]mfull operation since Wednesday, on a parsixty t6ns from the Heart of Oak claim, (lilies arfjjpOsled the stuff will yield sozs to the dr 3ozs will more probably be Ipfff actual result. >j»ipphVfirat. : quai*tz claims soon on the road up tße ; mountain are the Koval Standard Co.’s that taken up by Duff and |;pirty. .‘-.-Both are situate about a mile and a rejuarter from the Standard Battery. The new ißttyah Standard has been prospected for the fost four weeks. About sixty feet of iJsSef is laidflharo at different levels—not yet Biwtoer tllan twenty feet from the surface. rt&dtetor:bpen cutting is the mode of working jMtepfeed-rby the prospectors in opening out [Hhis claim. The reef so far as it can be seen, 1 is-’of a : broken, mullocky description, with a of twelve or fourteen i inches; at the lowest level;. ■ gylnitheiGolden Star claim, situate on the r left-hand as you ascend the road, and about 500 yards above the New Royal Standard, a I, shaft'of>• about thirty-live feel in depth has been sunk, with fair prospects; tjfThe adjoining claim—the Caledonian—has. a shaft down seventy or eighty feet, from Tekifeh a drive of sixty to seventy feet has cut along the, course of the lode. This aipq recently sent down a small trial crushg, the result; of which was very satisfactory. Un the opposite side of the gully (the Icftshdjjn’anch of Smith’s), and on the top of i almost perpendicular cliff, at an elevation ;f#;ileast 000 feet above the new Royal ■andard, is tlie Border Chief claim. A ceffttyr ashing of tons from this claim feMed over 41 ounces of gold. The quarts packed along a track cut for the Wgppe down the side of the cliff. Wo are Bpnfed that this company, after paying all I incurred since the discovery of the ( claiin, lately declared a dividend of £6 or | £7" per share. |vPrpcoeding up the road leading to Carriekj,iq}vn, ;i several prospecting-trenches arc passed, gjut nono are at present being worked. At a cptyntaboiit two miles from the base of the iteaaratain. and where the main gully dwindles numerous small brandies, is the of the small towiiship. above menfennel) consisting of a store (Mr Mansdn’s) •and; fourteen or fifteen small houses or huts, the latter occupied chiefly by the men work-ing-ill the Star of the East, Heart of Oak, .and. other claims. Beyond the township, anclclose to where a small rivulet crosses the .road, is the site chosen for the erection of the Elizabeth Battery, the machinery for which ta.duo'v on the way from Dunedin. After the machine site, the road follows the course of a branch gully, and leads simulitartepusly to the boundaries, of the Star of and Elizabeth claims —the .main of the forpigp being on the right, and of nearly 000 fe v et, but the conttacobUged to suspend further ’lipfid'tiVnii in the meantime, owing to the '(foulness of the air encountered in the drive. A shaft sunk from the upper side of the claim, penetrated the reef to a depth of 100 . feet, and a drive was put in some distance along the course of the lode, but had to be abandoned owing to the wet nature, of the | ground. The main drive is expected to ctit : the reef at a depth of 150 feet from the top of the shaft. We shall be in a position to furnish some further particulars regarding I this and other claims ill our next issue. -af -The Star of the East tunnel runs into the distance df about seventy feet, carrying (jf.jjgeaf fr'dni twelve to eighteert inches in thickness the whole distance. There are se- * jgesal adits in various parts of the hill above , Hme tunnel, and a thirty-feet shaft has been ; sunk in close proximity to the Heart of Oak : .shaft, the stone from which lately yielded | yen- excellent results. The reef also extends j .from top to bottom of the shaft.. Mere than i pne lode exists within the boundaries uf tins i; claim, but the company are at present directi ing their energies to the development of one j.pnty. The Star of the East is a full-sized ■ imspecting claim (1230 feet), and about 303 JK'of its length overlaps the Heart of Oak |ypltjudary. u . f the Start ’.of Oak. dadtltyfere dre{yr& I rbofs, we'U^benfed' rip,’ and bbtfv ikhavo PgQTjSfe ,h-e xemSmk fatr idqes, s»tj^ey^lye'faeVq..u^ydff in «'.4 fcv 3°* ■ pal,4kepti<»'tlwpftih^(the.cKim/hfakmg, hpgently, into the Duke of Cumberland, :. iiyhkh flanks the western boundary of the of Oak in the turn* maririeV « Ipphir of the Bast flanks n portion of ilv» ■ aasfsrri boundary