Quartz Reefing at Tuapeka.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 120, 27 February 1872, Page 7

Quartz Reefing at Tuapeka.

I(Tuapeka Times.) GABKIELS. ' 'he tunnel in the prospecting claim is now ' about 50 feet. We notice that live sixnth shares are for sale in this claim. In Clayton and Co.'s claim the shaft is down about 45 feet. The workmen have come to a reddish kind of rock, and from indications expect to strike blue slate in a day The Amalgamated Companies during last W eek made ail open cut on the southern boundary of the prospecting claim. They found .what they term a " reefy rock," about two feet in thickness. This reef has a defined foot and hanging wall, and runs in the direction of the Blue Spur, and is evidently a leader. Good indications of the proximity of a reef were obtained at the surface, but the quartz ran out, and in trying to find it again thev struck tlis leader above referred to. Five tons of stone from Mears and Co. 's claim, No. 2 reef, are to be tested at the O.P.Q- Co.'s battery, Waipori. WAITAHUNA. Thirty hundredweight of quartz from the ■reef in Old Identity Gully, of which "considerable hopes were entertained," (vide Mr Warden Simpson's report,) was crushed at •the Table Hill Co.'s machine last week, and -yielded only about two pennyweights of gold. The claims on this reef (Julius and party and Phillips and party) have since been abandoned. ; There are at present but two parties workInf on the Junction reef, viz., Hansen and party (prospectors) and Watson and party. The "former have commenced to drive for the Teef at a forty-live feet level, and expect to I out it this week. The latter have as yet but! Blight indications of the reef in their claim. The Alexandra Company have, at a new lewl, cut the reef, which is about four feet six inches wide, and is looking well. They are at present engaged in raising stone, and will commence crushing as soon as the supply of water permits. The Ocean View Company are driving for I the reef in their new shaft, which they have j sunk to a depth of seventy feet. The nature ; of the stuff through which they have to drive H order to reach the reef may be judged Spin the fact that the sinking of the last sft i of the hole occupied nine men for a week. ... i