QUARTZ MININS MEMORANDA.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 199, 2 September 1873, Page 5

QUARTZ MININS MEMORANDA.

GARRICK RANCH. The manager of the Star of the East reports that the tunnel on the lower level (148 feet lower than the present main drive) has been driven tn the distance of about 148 feet, the stuff getting softer and more easily driven. Tenders are being called for further driving the tunnel 200 feet. The reef which was spoken of last week aS having been found in the shaft sunk from main drive is about twenty-eight inches thick, and divided into two portions by a small bar of milllock. No report has come from the Heart of Oak. The manager of the Young Australian reports that he has struck the reel, about two feet in thickness, and one hundred and fifty feet from the mouth of the tunnel. The reef is slightly underlying. A shaft has been sunk on the underlayabout thirty feet below the level of the tunnel. The shaft carries the reef with it, and keeping the same fair prospects that the claim has hitherto maintained. The reef is thus proved to ekist to the depth of 160 feet. The manager of the Elizabeth (Mr Colclough) reports that “a crushing has been completed at the company’s mill, the proceeds being, for three weeks’ work, 650z 12dwts. The Elizabeth Company expect to pass considerably more stone through their mill for the future, having greatly increased the weight of their stamps. There is no change worth recording in the mine.”. The manager and _ proprietor of the Caledonian claim-rephrts still going on with the ablsinjf of tho shaft an w'sutbtfed last,

ITo has postponed the crushing of his stuff at present cm top on account of the bad weather prevailing during the week and the consequent bad state of the road leading to the mill. The manager of the Garrick Water coinpan v reports that no work has yet been commenced on the Range, the weather not yet permitting the sAmo to be done with advantage. At the adjoUrned meeting of the shareholders held yesterday evening, it was confidently expressed as all opinion that the Company would soon be ill a position to vigorously prosecute the work. A definite answer is expected from the Government, in the matter of the loan applied for in tiie course of the ensuing week. BENDIGO. The manager of the Aurora company reports that the men are still driving on the side of the gully opposite the old workings. Five stamps are busy at work putting through a parcel of 150 tons of stone taken from different parts of thereof. This parcel is confidently expected to run from ten to fifteen pennyweights to the ton. Ml' Colclough reports that the Lucknow tunnel is in 300 feet. The rock is apparently as hard as it is possible for rock to bo. but its very hardness gives hope of improvement in the rate of progress of the work, as it now r blasts out in larger blocks, there being little or lie natural fractures in the rock. The water ill the old workings has been lowered some eighteen foot, being drained by the proximity of the tunnel to the reef. It continues reducing steadily. The Cromwell company are busy raising stone supposed to be as good if not better than the last reported. The working manager believes he will be abm to got between 500 or 60b tons from the same stope. The company’s battery is at work on a parcel of 100 tons taken from the same heap as that last crushed*