MURRAY CREEK.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 47, 27 July 1877, Page 2

MURRAY CREEK.

discovery it is generally believed that in the course of a few days it will be definitely shown to be the continuation of the Her" cules reef. It will doubtless be remembered by those who are acquainted with the early opening of this claim that the reef in the upper shaft pinched out at a point about thirty feet from the present level. It is exactly at this particular spot 'that a block of stone of precisely the same grain and gold bearing character is exposed about four feet to the eastward of the old reef. It is therefore only reasonable to assume that, the stone being picked up in such close proximity to where it was first lost, that on further penetration it will prove a highly important discovery. A cross-cut is now being driven from the level, some distance farther north than the perpendicular line of the stone referred to, and from what is known of the old workings above, it is confidently expected that at about thirty feet a block of good payable quarts will be met with. Independently of these works, active preiaratious are being made to start work in the lower shaft, the result ot which is looked forward to with the utmost confidence of success. In the event of a good lode being met with it is contemplated to erect a whim for winding purposes. The position of the works, already constructed would admit of all winding gear and api pliances, to place eyery thing in working order, being obtained at a cost of something under a hundred pounds. The mine upon the whole promises to be a good property. Keference having been made in the Herald of Tuesday last to the restriction placed upon shareholders from visiting the mine. In justification to the mining manager, it may be stated that tnere ha. s not been the cai^se for such complaint, every attention being shown to any person visiting the mine; when their presence would not retard th§« progress, of the work. It is certainly rather inconsistent to expect a mining manager to dance up and down a shaft forty or fifty times a $ay when his time is required for a more important purpose. From personal experience, I must acknowledge the extreme attentiop shown by the manager on e^ery occasion 1 have visited the claim.

[FROM OUB MINING EEPOBTER.] NIL DESPERANDUM. Wednesday, July 25. Towards the latter part of last week a block a stone was discovered ia the old Hercules shaft, and on being, br,oken into the quartz having such a remarbable re* semblance to the stone* taken from the good block which yielded thirty-two dwt. to the ton some two years a!so, that an immediate ndvsnce in the price of shares took place, and from the situation of the