QUARTZ MINING MEMORANDA.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 207, 28 October 1873, Page 6

QUARTZ MINING MEMORANDA.

BKNDIGO, Mr Cololough reports that the Lucknow tunnel is now within six feet of the perpendicular of theteef. It continues as hard as ever. Much difficulty is experienced by the working manager in procuring men suitable for the work of hard blasting, it being a description of work not usually met with hi this province. Men competent for the work would find ready employment. The Aurora tribute company is not yet properly wound up, as the legai manager has not yet put in an appearance for that purpose. It is not known whether the original company will work the ground, or whether it will be taken up by anew tribute company. '(The legal manager went up to Bendigo yesterday for the purpose of closing the accounts of the late company, and to arrange about further operations of the company.) The Cromwell company have finished driving westward from the main shaft, (the one in the centre of lease No. 1,) and have commenced stoping. In the shaft No. 1 westward from the main shaft, there is still about Hixteen feet to sink before reaching the drive level. Tn it, however, there is a good payable reef all the way down. When it is finished, there will be a clean working space between it and the main shaft of 140 feet. In shaft No. 2 west of the main shaft they are still busy sinking, and through very harcl rock. In No. 2 the heaving-up is done by a windlass, but in No. 1 and the main shaft whips are employed. The company's machine is still engaged crushing the Link stone. It is expected to clean up in about eight or ten days. The Reliance company's men are busy sinking now, as they have finished trimming the shaft. In the shaft there is a leader about a foot in width. The stone is very Bimilar in appearance to that which appears cropping out on the surface on the opposite side of the gully in the Cromwell company's lease No. 1. None of it has yet been tested in any way, however. The company, it is understood, have applied to be registered under the Mining Act of 1872.