THE REEFS.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2147, 24 March 1870, Page 2

THE REEFS.

[From the Cromwell Guardian.) DISCOVERY OF A NEW LINE AT BENDIGO. On Tuesday last a new lode was discovered at Beudigo Gully, between No. 2 -east on Colclough’s line and Richmond’s prospecting claim. Its precise situation is 300 yards below the former, and 200 yards above the latter. The lay is due east and west. In fact, it runs parallel with the two reefs between which it was found. The lode was first discovered cropping out upon the surface, and has been traced along the face of a flat spur for a distance of 600 feet. Its dimensions are stated to be from sixteen inches to two feet broad, and to all appearance it goes down on the plumb. The stone is a dark red formation, described as bearing a close resemblance to that taken out of Logan and Co. ’s Golden Link. Finely distributed gold has been traced in the various specimens taken out. The prospector is Mr David Broadfoot, who was at one time engaged in No. 1 west from Richmond’s. It has abo been stated that the lead can be distinctly seen in other parts of the ground cropping up through the surface. On the application of Mr Badger, as agent for the prospector, a prospecting claim was granted on Wednesday last.

LOGAN AND CO.’S CLAIM. —A GOOD WASHING UP.

Stone for the last week’s crushing was taken out of the Golden Link, a piece of ground situated between the two lease?. The quantity is estimated at one hundred tons, which was put through in eight days. The gold realised weighed 400 ounces, which runs precisely four ounces to the ton. The reef is wrought from an open cutting, with a drive at the upper end. It is a hard solid stone, similar to that found in the adjoining claim, and runs two to four feet thick. About forty tons more of the stone from the same bench had been raised to the surface when the washing took place. It would appear that some improvement has been effected in the working of the battery. We have stated on previous occasions that the bead comprised five stamps, and that the average quantity put through per week never exceeded sixty tons. This last week, however, a hundred tons have been put through The water supply is abundant.

MACRAES FLAT. Fiom the Duke of Edinburgh claim, Macraes Flat, we have received the following information : —The steam battery will be completed and ready for work in less than five weeks. Ten heads of stamps have been placed with bed logs for other five. The engine, which is of twenty-four horse power, is capable of driving a battery of twenty heads, beside doing all the necessary pumping, Two hundred tons of stone have been got to grass. For a few months to come the machine can bo kept with very little difficulty stripping. It is erected on a terrace, at the bottom of which a dam has been made which commands all the available water in the place. From this dam a tunnel has been cut right into the face of the terrace to a point immediately below the machine. The length of the drive will he three hundred feet, and at presept there is not more than sixty feet to cub Through this drive water from the dam will he conveyed to a well at the head of the tunnel, from which it will he pumped up through a shaft taken down from the machine houge, When finished the arrangeraents will bo of a most complete character. Upwards of L3OOO have been expended upon the work. Fuel for engine purposes will be charge, including cartage, of L2 14s per ton. It is estimated that the weekly consumption of coal will be twenty tons, and even at that rate the manager is sanguine that his working expenses will not exceed 14s per ton. The stone, which is of a light color, closely resembling crystalised quartz, carries a prospect of fine gold, pretty evenly distributed throughout.