BENDIGO GULLY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 454, 30 December 1870, Page 2

BENDIGO GULLY.

Know OUR OWN COHiUJSPON nF.XT. Lugan-town, Dec. 2L Although there is nothing extraordinary unless the erection of the quartz crushing batteries may be considered so taking place in this locality, some of your readers may want to knowhow things in general are looking on it. Well, : s it is Christ mis time 1 naturally start upon sports, which I am sorry to say, we will have to go from home to see. I am sure, how ever, that had the publicans (who are the aristocracy of this place) put their shoulders to the wheel, and drawn up a programme—if the prizes offered had been ever so small—numbers would have remained at home, instead of going to other pieces to have amusement.

On ColclouglUs claim everything in connection with the mill, with the exception of the tables,Ac ,is completed. I am informed that they intend to commence crushing on Boxing Day. There is overtwo hundred tons of stone on grass, which is expected to go three ounces to the ton. The mill is one of the finest of its size in the colonies, and the style of its erection does great credit to Mr. M‘Queen, who superintended it.

The machine on the Alta reef is as far advanced as that on Colclough’s. The working of this clain is being energetically carried one under the able superintendence of Mr. Robert Reid. The tramway for convening the qiwitz to the mill is nearly completed. There was some good, stone struck in the claim last week. In the upon cutting, where the workings are at present going on, the reef is over five feet wide, with good gold throughout. The race contractors have been at a standstill for the past week for want of timber, but they will have concluded their labors some time this week, and I believe that crushing will be commenced somewhere about the beginning of January. Three hundred and fifty tons of stone are on the top, and, if the piosent width continues, the quantity will soon be doubled.

Work is suspended in the Aurora Reef until there is u general meeting of shareholders. Richmond and. Munyo’s Kept has beeu tekeu up by sonic of the origin*!

shareholders, and they arc getting out some very good stone.

Tiie last quarts crushed by the Cromwell Company was taken from the Golden Link, and I believe it was g'od for the quantity put through. This is the best proved reef in the and the regularity of the crushings shows its value. It is the intention of the Company to give th emeu in the employ a week’s holiday at Christmas. The first accident in the claim occurred about ten days ago, when a man named Nicholas Power sustained some injuries by a wheelbarrow which was being lowered becoming detached from the rope and tailing down "the shaft upon Va. Power was conveyed to the I).install District Hospital and is now beyond all danger. Tim contractors in no. 1 Logan’s are busy sinking a shaft on their boundary, next to the long lease, but up to date have struck nothing to speak of.