BENDIGO

Dunstan Times, Issue 487, 18 August 1871, Page 3

BENDIGO

I • COMMUNICATM). - - l At Bendigo a more healthy state of things exist than I have noticed for some length of time past. The Bendigo Company and the Colclough Company (Registered,) -are both in full swing, getting out stone and crushing. The Golden Link, a piece of spare ground between the Bendigo Company's two leases, is in full work, and raising first class stone, I mean up to the average, if not,better than usual. This claim is now one hundred and forty feet deep, and has the'reef at that depth four feet six inches . A whim and also a whip hare lately Uaf been erected to bring the stone and mulloch / to the surface. The great saving effected in both labor and time is fount to be a great improvement on the old anrt primitive windlass hitherto used. Of the Bendigo C >iu- £. pany, from the Western Lease they are raising stone, and are at the present time engaged crushing it. On the Eastern Lease a shaft is being sunk for the reef, a depth of about one hundred and twenty feet has been reached; but, on account of the extreme hardness of the ground, no great headway is made. The Aurora Company tributers have knocked off for a time all work on the reef. They have • een engaged during the ■winter in sinking a shaft i» the tunnel, at i bout one hundred and ten feet from [the surface, they struck a good sized leader of hardMuisa quartz, but notgoldbearing where touched. All hands ; now that the frost is out of the ground, are getting on with the cons'ruction of the water-race across Benh'go Gully. It is intended to take the race on to some small terraces and gullies between the Lindis and Bendigo Gully, which are known to be rich. The Al:a Companv, from its altitude, has been for the past three months in statu, quo. The legal manager visited the ground on Tuesday, and made arrangements for a start to be made at an early date. After machines and water-races have lain idle for aiy length of time a thorough overhaul is necessary. This will be effected in the course of a week, when the work of disintegration willbi p-oceedeiwith. Tiiereave about two hundred tons-of stone alrealy lirVcen diwi, an It reokin fully three or four hnn ire I nu?e in sight. All those who know the Cympany's ground are sanguipe that it will, in the long run. turn out one of the best properties on Ben ligo. Higher un the range than the Alt* the Rise and Shine Sluicing Company are located, anl doing remarkably well. This Company i discovered a reef some few weeks hick I clo eto their workings. At the time quite a ■sensation was create', but from the fact of not having heard anything about it lately, I surmise it is not ".all thar." There are a g.«d few ifcr gglers slu'cing j throughout the district, and f do no' hear of any who are not making wages. I don't desire that a rush should set in, but I must say that I think there is room for a few good, har l-workin", steady men, who have a knowledge of quartz-reefing. j