MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 3894, 17 August 1875, Page 3

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

(From our Exchanges.)

The owners of the well-known Break-em-All claim, Winding Creek, have at last struck the bottom, and are well pleased with the result. The washdirt is six feet deep, and yields gold from a grain to a pennyweight to the dish.

The shareholders in the Arrow Crown Terrace Quartz Mining Company, having proved the reef to be payable at the level fir t driven, have made another call of 80s per twenty-fourth share, and intend testing it at a depth of about seventy feet. They will commence sinking at once, and should the prospects prove equal to those already obtained, they will procure machinery and work the reef.

A company has been started to work a reef in the Arrow Valley, The locality is supposed to be on the line of the Criterion reef, and just above the claims of the Arrow United and Universal Companies. Work will very shortly be commenced, as very rich prospects were obtained there some years Back, when the prospector, Mr Cooper, . fch o promoter of the company, made L 3 per week crushing by hand, while some of the specimens crushed gave a return of 80ozs. of gold to the ton.

The result of the last cleaning-up of the Cromwell Co.’s plates was 4300z5., which was lodged in the bank on the 7th in-t. The cake is, comparatively speaking, a light one, the cause being inadequate water supply to keep the battery at full work. The hard frosts of the last few weeks have had a bad effect on the Arrow river claims, hut now that a change has taken place something good is expected from them —especially the Rule Britainia and Squires and party. News from the Sons of Fortune claim is very satisfactory. The Chinamen who took up tho Rip and Tear claim are doing well, and Messrs Haye and Kirk expect to be opened out shortly. The mining community of Macetown are not doing very well, owing to the hard frosts. One or two of the claims are paying good wages, but the majority are waiting for fine weather. Messrs Hill and-Rest* have protected their reef for another ninety days, and when the favorable weather sets in intend to strain every nerve to work jit. The German Hill reef seems to have gone dead, as nothing is doing in the matter. Tho Universal claim is the picture of industry.