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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 653, 26 March 1870, Page 4

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From the Cromwell Argus we take the t following-particulars regarding the reefs jiit; jß«ndigo G\\]iy :— The Anrora -Coni- . "pany's claim" is now "in f till switig,'therb' being over thirty hands engaged in driving . J a tunnel and getting out ' stone.. Their • last crushing of 70 tons yielded 180ozs. of gold-, : and this result .- was in 1 eleven days,' with five heads of -'Stampers'. L The engineer, Mr R. Reid, is, making k every exertion to get the second set of stampers ready for operating, : When this' , important work is: completed; .-ah oppor- - tnnity will bo afforded to the sniTonndiiy <;Uuu)h<jld«is to unike thoir tvial grqahings,

The company has appointed Mr Thomas Hazlett a3 manigeiVin room of Mr E. G. Barnes, who lately resigned. Crushing operations at the battery of the Cromwell Company have been suspended, in consequence of the injurious effects of the sludge brought on to the tables by the tail«water ; and a law auit between the company and Mr Aldridge is likely to he the consequenc. Mr Aldridge and his party recently bought out the Chinamen who were working in the deepsinking ground, and are using the tailwater of the Aurora Company for sluicing the terrace, The water is thus rendered unfit for use at the machine, as in passing [ over the tables it is. said to carry away | much of the gold from the company's 1 quart?; p-revious to the stoppage of the machine, a quantity of very elegant stone was put through the battery, and more of the same quality awaits crushing, The stone is expected- to yield from six to seven ounces to the ton,-^Nb\v that the new machinery is to be immediately put up oh the Alto claim, and that additional facilities are to be given for crushing by the extension of the Aurora Company's battery, active efforts are being made at all the Bendigo reefs to get out atone for. trial cruahings,— *L.ast week, a share in Oolclough's claim changed hands for LSOO, the purghasers being Messrs 1 Holt, of Qlyde, and Mr John Duhyj of the Gorge. About a month since, while on a visit to the reefs at - Bendigo, Mr Warden Pyke picked a piece of stone, weighing about six pounds, from a heap which had been raised from one of the claims on the Bendigo line of reef, and having obtained permission to appropriate it, he did so, and subsequently forwarded it to Dr Hector for analysis, We were j'esterday favored by Ml* Pyke with a copy of the telegram received by him in reply to the letter accompanying the stone:—"Wellington, Bth March.—^Specimen received. Mica schist, traversed by oblique veins of quartz, Con fains of gold 30 to 35 oas. per ton,— Heqtor, Geologist," We un- ■ derstand that there is plenty of the same description of stone raised from the claim whence the piece we have mentioned was taken,