CARRICK RANGE

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 222, 10 February 1874, Page 6

CARRICK RANGE

Star of the East.— : This Company is now crushing. The washing up will take place in about ten days from this date. Heart of Oak. —The drive is now in aboui 140 feet. A cross-drive has been started, and will be continued till the reef is cut". The Elizabeth.—The- manager regrets that he is Unable to' supply any report of the workings this week. An accident took place on Thursdav last, whereby one of the workmen, named Harry "Wiokstron, got seriously injured. A piece of rock slipped from some of the soft, greasy joints which are met with in all the Carrick reefs, while he was working close to, or underneath it. The poor fellow was promptly removed from his painful position, and afterwards taken to the Dunstan Hospital, a distance of thirty miles. The Hospital surgeon reported him on Saturday last as being seriously injured internally. United Company.—The tunnel, which will catch the Caledonian line on the other side of the spur, is now in about fifty feet. The result is looked forward to with great interest. 200 feet, it will be remembered, was contraded for. The Caledonian.—Mr Colclough reports that as this claim is about to be thrown into a" public company, it has been deemed expedient to suspend active operations in the tunnel, and two men have been placed in the upper workings, where favourable prospects are being obtained. The provisional directors have induced the proprietor, Mr Stephenson, to offer moi'e liberal terms than those stated in the prospectus lately issued, and consequently a-new prospectus will shortly be published. In the meantime, intending shareholders may know that, excepting 500 fully paid-up shares, Mr Stephenson will stand on a similar footing with other shareholders ; in other words, he will hold 1000 shares liable to the same calls as other shareholders.

■ Amateur Claim.— One of the proprietors of the Amateur Claim reports of this claim, which was lately known as the Kohinoor, that it is situated on the Old Royal Standard spmy and nearly one mile south of the John Bull, and due north from the Young Australian. The surface stone has heen traced 200 feet up hill, and varies in thickness from, one -to three feet. The prospects go from 1 dwt. to lOgrs. per dish. One level has been put in for forty feet, but as the reef was not underlying so much as expected, a still lower level is now being put in. It is now in abotxt 90 feet. Tt has not yet cut the reef, but it is being driven in the direction of a shaft on the reef. The advantage to this claim in putting in the lower level is that it will give them about 400 perpendicular feet to work at, which they will be able to take out qrtite dry. Nearly a cradle-head stream of water is coming into the tunnel, and this is accepted as a proof, or rather as a strong indication, that the lode continues through the hill. .■ ' •Colleen Bawnt.—The shareholders in this company held a meeting on Saturday evening last, at. Carrickton, at which it was resolved to again suspend operations till all the calls were fully paid up. Those present did not feel that they should be called upon to pay in advance of their neighbours. Royal Standard.—A long tight (legal) has lately taken place between Saltoun and party and Thomas Rail for the possession of this claim. The. dispute all took place on the question whether the line which Hall had jlegged out was the Royal Standard line or not.,. It was conclusively shewn by the Surveyor's plan that Hall had pegged out his claim, 100 3 300, in such a way that the diagonal line; about 315 feet, covered the linej known as the Standard reef, on which Saltoun wished to peg off a claim. Hall declared that! there was no such reef, but that one ran i through the centre of his claim, i.e., 100 feet. The evidence, however, was in the opinion of! the Bench favourable to Saltoun's view, and i the decision was given in accordance therewith. If Hall, in his Wav of pegging off his claim, i really meint'to include the Royal Standard, it was rather a neat way of doing it, and is ! a wrinkle to quartz reefers worth making a memo. of. The Warden's opinion was pretty j well indicated when he saddled Ha.ll with the j coats, and ordered him to accept the line of the Standard as the line to go by. A joke, however,'lies concealed behind this decision, ; for if' Hall really was before on a reef, al-though-'lie'will only have 100 feet of the; Standard, he will also have his own line on i the diagonal of the claim, 1.e., 315 feet.] Both parties, strange to .say, profess them-j selves equally delighted with the decision,