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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2164, 13 April 1870, Page 2

The Reefs. —The prospector’s claim at Colclongb’s reef says the Guardian , tarns (ut splendid stone, and as they are shortly to have a trial crushing at the public battery, a well founded opinion prevails that fresh evidence of the surpassing richness of the Bendigo reefs will be furnished, A correspondent writes us last night:—“ To-day I saw a prospect from stone taken out of this claim which deserves to be chronicled. It was crushed in a rude manner with a hammer, and the gold was plainly seen in the dish. The quantity became the subject of a L 5 bet, so you may < alculate that a sharp look-out was kept that no undue means were resorted to either for augmenting or diminishing it. The yield was exactly nine pennyweights, out of as much stone as could be broken down at once in a mortar.” No. 1 ea-d have suspended operations till Wednesday next, for reasons not explained. No. 2 are prosecuting work vigorously. They have a tunnel in -10 feet from the mouth. On Tuesday last they got upon a very good leader, and are sanguine of striking the main lead shortly. Five tone of stone have been grassed. At the prospecting claim, Broadfoot, Kelly and party are working into the reef, which varies in thickness from eight inches to two feet. They have grassed 35 tons of stone, which looks remarkably well. Iso claims are wrought on the east. No. 1 west, Muuro and party, have found a very fair leader. Yesterday they set into drive in a southerly direction, in the hope of striking the main line.