BENDIGO.

Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 312, 3 November 1875, Page 6

BENDIGO.

(from our own correspondent.) October 30, 1875. A considerable quantity of rain upon tlio low ground and snow upon the high lias fallen this week, and there is abundance of water for sluicing and crushing purposes. One half of our crushing power is now engaged in the work of reduction, viz., the Cromwell and Luckuow batteries. The latter since being repaired works well and is capable of reducing about sixty tons per week. The stone looks payable, but beyond this 1 should not like to vouch. A clean up will probably take place in a day or two, when the result will be definitely known. Stone is being carted from the Hit or Miss to the Aurora battery. About thirty tons is now at the mill and crushing is to be commenced about Monday or Tuesday. So much has been written about this mine that further comment is needless until the machine has had a week's run. There is little doubt but the Hit or Miss cake will considerably swell the month's escort from Cromwell. Only one. battery will remain idle, the Alto, but this state of things is not to remain much longer. The race, etc, is now undergoing repairs to enable the battery to crush for the Coromandei, (Daniels').' On the wholo tbo district contrasts favourably with the corresponding portion of 1874. A considerable amount of interest has been centred in Besanko's find, which \vas disclosed by three Chinamen, who were sluicing below tho Lucknow Co.'s ground. They evinced no small surprise to see another claim marked off embracing part of their own. The course of the lode is east and west, underlying to tho south, and running parallel with" the Lucknow lode. The lode is about a foot wide, has well developed footwall, and shows a fair sprinkling of gold throughout. It was rumored the Reliance were about to stop work, but as far as I can learn this is without foundation. It would be very in-

judicious just at tlio present time to suspend work after the company's very large outlay. In the Great Britain, gold has been met with farther along the reef to the westward, and is considered payable. It was also reported the Band of Hope were to suspend operations, but I cannot authenticate the report. The Cromwell company are steadily crushing and the manager has his work to keep the mill supplied with stone. The Deep Level contractors are still making good progress. There seems to be a strange fatality attached always to a third party. The first and second party lost money by their contract, but the third so far are doing well out of it; one of the party, after pocketing the profits of the month, sold his share in the contract for twenty odd pounds. The spirited proprietors of the Eureka are pushing their work ahead, no doubt to take advantage of the coming summer. Excellent progress is being made with the tramway from the mine to the Alta mill, under the supervision of Mr G. B. Douglas. The claim adjoining the Eureka's western boundary has also started to work by putting in a tunnel to intersect the reef. It is thought the tunnel will have to be driven from one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet before the reef is met with. In the Great Extended, sinking on the lead is being prosecuted.

The population is increasing in Upper Bendigo ; this will be good news for the people of Tinkers and Drybread who are endeavoring to get a road through Thomson's Gorge to secure some of the traffic that would otherwise go through Clyde and Cromwell.

Step 3 are being taken to get this district provided with a schoolroom and an athenaeum. The former would no doubt have been erected long ago but for the overwhelming majority of bachelors here resident. A certain amount of rivalry seems to exist between those for the school and those for the athenseum. Both are sadly needed, and it is to be hoped one party will not checkmate the other.