CARRICTON.

Dunstan Times, Issue 508, 12 January 1872, Page 3

CARRICTON.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

O— January 9, 1872. The holidays are over at last, and we have started both machines again- and want onlv two thinps. a fair amount of gold and a larger quantity of water. The Elizabeth has been obliged to rig pumping gear to rt turn the water passing over its tables for second use. This machine, though not very unaptly compared to a Geneva watch, is now running better than heretofore. and puts through somewhere about sixty tons per week—seventy or seventy five being i f s supposed maximum. In the drive from the Company’s shaft going North at a denth of one hundred feet, along the face of their lode the reef had pinched out, running to a wedge, but has again opened, and it is now well defined and some eighteen inches 'thick. There is not doubt in my mind, but that in a blank place, or some fault, the reef has been passed over in the long tunnel driven by the Company. The most singular thing about this lode is its direction, it runs nearly North and South, while all the others I have as yet noticed, tend some forty five degrees to the East and AVest. I hear a new manager is appointed, Mr. M'Ardell from the Arrow. In the joint battery sometimes ten stampers are going—at others five, all dependent on the amount of available avater. Considering how precious the commodity, it is a matter for avonder and speculation how it is not better conserved. In its passage to the dam it is allowed to soak away and evaporate—when the dam is any avay full it is allowed to leak and overflow, and allowed to leak and evaporate from the dam to the machine. It wants to he boxed and covered in through the whole length of the race. The shaft in the Star of the East and Oak boundary is sunk to a depth of one hundred feet—the deepest shaft on the hill—carrying the reef some eighteen inches thick an I containing payable gold still down. It is contemplated at present—perchance already arranged—to avork both from the lower tunnel of the Star. There is no doubt of the advantage of so doing, ami the boon the Oak shareholders will obtain by so doing. The Star has been worked in its ■ arly days, .as though it were sought to work it to a full stop but it is now- getting put into proper trim by the manager, Mr. Tinpetts, who I really do believe is on? of the few m n n on the range that ever saw a lode before. A shrewd Connemara man has commenced sinking for the underlie of the reef at the Oak boundary. He calls his claim “ the Welcome,” and 1 believe that in two hundred fee*-, should its present ang'e of inclination continue he will cut the reef The Rob Roy, and Duke of CumberIn 1 may enlighten us during the current year where tha rear c mti’.vioi ; uni! Thou 'v; may in this line rest in peace. The Black IT irse is still sinking, an I will strike the reef in the Greek Kalends. The Terror, St. Clair, Excelsior, Victoria, and several other wide misses on this range are in Mata quo, and will continue mournful reminiscences of great expectations. One other claim on this spur and I have finished m.V say. The Nugget convened a meeting of shareholders last week, to select a site for macuinery. I made throe attempts to go and see it before I mustered sufficient resolution to do so. It faces on Smith’s Gully—some three hundred feet above the avater level, not far from the Border Chief, and as far as can be continous. It is a reef some eighteen inches thick, of a mixed character dipping to the East at an angle of forty five degrees, thickening as it descends, opened in a tunnel some thirty feet, and must yield good prospects and obtain good faith to ensure the erection of machinery in its present condition. The Caledonian is at work hut Ido not hoar of shares rising. The Golden Star is crushing, the Dawn of Hope going to do so, and the Black Horse idle, like a divided household. Going to P peclay, the Nil Desperafidum Company have had their machine site surveyed by Mr. SinythieS, their avater right ■ ranted, and are only I presume availing the a ivent of machinery to test their stone an I fill their pickets. They are at present engaged laying out their road up the Pipeclay spur for coal and machine purposes. North of the Nil Desperandum is the Robert or Bobbie Burns. There is a lawsuit on in this claim noav, by avhicli one party wishes to refuse to sell his interests, and another wishes to compel him to do so. No compulsion it appears, only you must. I have Keen some a-ory good stone and some very good prospects out of this claim, hut it avants care and skill in opening. South of the Nil Desperandum is tavolve hundred feet of groun 1 hell by the Golden Gate Company, .an 1 applied for as a iease. The prospectors of the Nil Desperandum having traced the reef into the ground held by the Golden Gate Company ; their undertaking seems a certain speculation, and when the tunnel contracted for is driven, if the reef should be proved at a depth to he payable, this portion of the range will perchance present as busy an appearance as any other. Ou top of the same spur is the John Bull, a flat rich leader, as yet, only imperfectly opened, but prospecting well. The shaft in the Young Australian is down to a depth of forty feet, two auriferous leaders having been cut. The stone is payable, and should it thicken descending it will prove a valuable property. The outward and Visible sight of Hudson’s hotel is manifest. The garnishing and plenishing will collie perchance in due time, should it not get blown away ad interim. Ilorregan and Ayer’s are still embryonic in their character, but advancing speedily towards complo.ion. Harding'S will be xwmmenced about the date of this present issue, hj mson is building an iron addition to his store, and purposes laying in a stock to mi uis tor to our wants and comfort, i