GOLDEN FLEECE EXTENDED.
Few driving wheels a-e being fised to the battery, the tables are being extended, and other improvements and repairs effected which it is expected will be completed by the end of tbis week. The paddock is full of stone in readiness for another start. There are still about 60 feet of backa upon the present block ; the last 600 tons crushed averaged an ounce and a half to the ton. Tbe reef on No. 5 level north of tbe shaft is five feet thick, and preparations wiil now be commenced again to be in readiness for opening up this level by the time the present' block is exhausted, INDEPENDENT. No work has been done during the holidays. A very strong body of stone is shown to exist in the shaft, several feet having been Runk through with no appearance of tbe foo'twall.
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Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 60, 5 January 1877, Page 2
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145GOLDEN FLEECE EXTENDED. Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 60, 5 January 1877, Page 2
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