MINING MATTERS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1856, 4 July 1874, Page 3

MINING MATTERS.

DAUNTLESS AND . SINK-TO-BISB TBIBute.—Sawyer 'and -party have been again fortunate in their tribute. Another nice parcel of 601ba of specimens came to hand yesterday, and a further lot was expected last night. There 'will probably Jbe another crushing for'those tributersin the coming week. Tooot—Long's Tbibute.—A parcel of stuff weighing :25 ( tons ; has been crushed at the Prince, Alfred battery 'for L'on'g and party, 'tributers of the Tookey J mine, and was finished The yield was 26oza_7dwts : gpld, which,included, the result of a small parcelof picked stuff treated about a fortnight ago. -Tgmping rjThis company's pumps are now throwing: a splendid stream, or rather, a perfect river of water, and is rapidly reducing the quah- . tsy in the mine'. : Yesterday afternoon' it had been reduced 40 feet in the shaft, besides clearing out the-Albion drive. Should everything continue" •tbi , - i -work i • satisfactorily, as there is every likelihood of their doing, the whole of the mine will •be. clear of water by .Tuesday next. •The remaining' lengths bf.the old column which could ; no't'.•'■be!conveniently got at 'befqre the reduced,/were being lifte'd .out of the shaft yesterday : with 'the capstan. .'■'■■ •'- :: -- 1 - •;•'••'/ • -"• ■■'■•'•■ ; I^nitbd.— A'crushing::fprthe i: 'United shareholders 'has;■-be'ea' -cbmmen'ced at'-' thoi Prince Alfred battery but the fun' has not been sufficiently long jet! to enable the manager to judge definitely as * :, to' '-the- -result. l '' The : ; claim now held'as thetJriifed'b'y'Ahdrew-i 'and; party' was formerly owned, by the ;Durham Ox VCompany.' 11 The-present shareholders.have-bpened'up'.'a promising lo.de in an upper section of their mine, 1 .and from this* 'th 1 © 1 ' crushing" waß ; i taken. Suffieierifcigold showed in breaking thejstuff to warrant the expectation of%'' igo'od payable result, but the stuff has been -forwarded with considerable difficulty, as it'had.tp be conveyed in sledges over the 'the! mb'st difficult 'pbrtibh''of ; the i roa ; d— ■from the workings in Canadian Gully to 'the ;Monataiari Tramway. '"'- I '^ J ' Jik ' ~ City of London.—The crushing now going on atthe Moanataiari'battey'is inakjing: a richer show than any stuff ever :i ta;ken out of the same mine. It is ex- • clusively from the cross-reef against the •■has; been taken out entirely during the 'last! 15 feet/of driving'bn ihe'course of the l 'lode, and yesterday, after 20 hours'run ;wjth 10 head of stampers, there was more 'kmalgam to, hand than there often has Jbeeh. with nearly a run on stuff payable. 'The-' plates also presented a,;,riph.. ap.- ( peapanoe .after a few iburs^run, 1 and; it l eyidenl(-, i .%ey ji iWpre i -forming amalgam'very fast. /in/limine,' !al* the face of the City of York boundary -'il/cannot yet be said that; five whole of Jhe reef is to hand. Wnat appears to be one, wall,is, visible, ( ,but' there-is ,no c ! trape v , of; 'tie''.qtHer, jalthough IthiiffM. a-, face of quartz 6 feetiu width. On the least and wesfc'» r ci , bsa ; -l6ide^there r 'has *-not' • been much work doncduring,thelaKt few days, but the manager is now'havjng the'. i drive timbered up, and will immediately start on its course to its junction with th'e No. 1 reef. It appears that the No. Treef has n'dt J with.' ; :,i Ac-' "cbi'ding to the'rdirii'ug surveyor's estimatethe junction of; the old; 1 cross-lode with the No. di-feet inside, the 'boundary',] 1 but tliw,' cal'culaiiou was.mad.ft'btt.thel'suppQsition that 'it j would maintain.. a>, straight; course,' ; ; which it do'esnot appear tb have done, so' tliaV the juuction must now be in the. "City of York mine, and not in the City of ;topdon.. By driving on the course of .the east and west cross-reef the manager expects that in 40 feet of driving he will reach the No. 1 reef within 50 feet of the City" of York boundary. There will require a drivo ou the course of the No. 1 /reef back to the old | which l may be estimated'/at feet,, but. with driving' going on frojm both ends the distance would be, accomplished in less than a month. This connection will -not onlyy/ventilato ithe] wljole of the workings, 'bub'i(r' : will4ffcird J a s>aighn run for stuff through the. drive ;on| No. 1 jiack jo shaft, aud'jth'uij, reduce (jhe,' length ~of, trucking from -700' feet" to 350 feet. /The, present level and workings would in this i cab be available for York! Cqmpany, who could carry on their works through it without interfering r at ; all-with ■ this operations of the City of Londou, provided of course that arrangements wore, made between the'directors' of the'' twpcompanies for the lisV"of the level./ 1 We/ •have good reason to believe that'the ! 'r£' iquisite permission would be granted on easy terms by tho City of London ; .,Com : l pany, and it would prpye:; an immense advantage to j'jthe City; of York.;;. The: amalgam resulting from the-trial crashing, from the winze on No. 2 reef was reported yesterday, but it turned out'le'ss .'gpld than was'-expected. There-were lCJ7ozs of amalgam; which'only'produced 24|ozs of gold, and it. is 'estimated-that the quantity crushed is "85 tons'." To-day thje crushing to which;.we allude.above will be completed, and the'amalgam reported. ' ■',"•■.'

": jlVlanukau.-— There was a good of gold met with yesterday in : 'the, south face of the drive on tlie reef _ 20 feet south, of., the shaft. The specimen crushing, is jshpwing jip splendidly, but will not be bomplefced until Tuesday noxt. A retorting of 2j4160zs of amalgam which had acorued 'jfijoni the general stu,ff prushod,"took place i last evening at the Tramway battory, and resulted, in a magnificent lump of gold weighing Bo4dzs, the largest single retort full of gold which has been banked, we believe, since- the Caledonian ceased to iproduce its u very n'ch returns. This retorting does not include a single ounce of specimen amtlgam, hut there, will,'.be a retorting of a portion of the latter this eVening. ; Bhight Saiilb.—This company yesterday engaged an extra crushing force of twenty head of stampors: at .the Tararu battery! 'There was a rumour t afloat. that . this was done blecausd; th'e; plant, recently purchased by the company < from ''■ Mr' Vickery had becomo worthless and broken. For thisrumour there has been very little foundation. It appears that for several'days :past only IQlibad[of stampers; driven' by ■water-power, have ■'been l at'work,'but the engine has in the nuantimo been undergoing an overhaul, and the cylinder was" at tho foundry,,to ;,be . bored .put., It was returned "yesterday,.arid was ; fitted ihlo its; place. Thero .'is nothing else wrong with tho mill except a slight injury to the box> of Vthe,; two-stamper battery. The mill ia how in'full work, except the two-stamper battery referred to. That box will also be temporarily repaired in a few days. Crushing at tho Tararu battery will be 'oommonced-on Monday next. '.:'-.,■.■ •■ •> 'AiißuaNU.-The. retorting yesterday tys the Albur,nift w^m

pectationa. It produced 80ozs of gold, which; added to tho 150ozs previously lodged, makes the total yield 230ozsof gold from 11 days' crushing at the company's own mill and about a week's run with 15 head at the Ballarat and Olunes battery. Watchman.—There was a fiud of considerable importance yesterday 'in the Watchman mine when-in a cross-cut putin for the purpose the Coliban reef was met with in the Watchman ground. The lode is from 10 inohes to a foot thick, and there; was. a nice rich show of gold through, some of tho stone broken out while intersecting it. This proves .the theory of the , former manager, Mr | John Goldsworthy, to be correct.' It; was /for a long time supposed that the Coliban ! reef was to hand in the Watchman mine, but from a carolul'examination* of both: mines Mr Goldsworthy came to the conclusion that tbo reef had not only not been found at all, but that the' cross-cut must be continued a further distance of 140 feet before its underlie was cut. 'The result has proved satisfactory so far, and Ve'have ; nd'doubHhe company will reap a substantial roward for their past labours in the discovery of this rich lode. Black- Angel.—ln this,miho,alsp, an iniportanf/diacovery/was "made' yesterday iu. the' largo 'reef at the'bottom .levelj'in which'gold was struck within a foot'or so of the point laid-down as that at which the Tun of gold from the 116-feet jevel 'shoWd dip into the reef at this depthSthat is'at 70' feefc ; from the : crb3s-cufc.. For the last day or two there has been'a 'considerable improvement noticeable in the lode, so that the discovery of gold is not by anyme'ahs uriex.'pectedi' bufc'it' is satisfactory tb find tbat ; 'Hhe 'golden'"shot carries dopihrough the block": from/the '116-feet level to the boltbm'iir the.large reef 'in'such a decided manner. .' Crushing "for'the company was commenced yesterday/' at''ythe' !i Mahukau'battery .With.; "ten'"' J hea'd !of' stampers.''There are ! about 1 200 of "stuff'from I! the stopes on the brown reef above the liefeet level to go through before the crush.ing.is completed, and the stuffis expected 'to yielda'filiraverage returiii'' L! - : '■■'■■ •' -,-. Exchange.—There was no fresh news tb're'pbrt'fromthe Exchangemiaeyestorday. No more stone had been broken down from the reef in which the'gold was' struck on the previous evening, but the lode, is being stripped, and the quartz looks very promising.. It is evidently a lode of considerable Value, < Its' cburs&i's' parallel to those which are now being worked- 'in ; the j <'rbVi'. Prince,- 1 ahdUt !■ is evidently one of the same system of parallel reefs, although totally distinct from any of those opened in the- Crown Princo miue.'; ?./ .;.-. ■ J - ■ :•' Coliban.—Retorting; for the---Coliban .has been.ppstponed, until to-dayj as the b'lahk'olihg'si'^c.,ha'd'iiot all been treated ,in jo, enabtethe, manager to retort las); ;mght.|;<Xhe yield'will, in "all likelihood, be a'very excellent one." ? "."

'■■A i';i! i.:.L\.'.y.,-j...t! . . POLICE .OOUBT.-YEsxKaDAT. '■ '< ." (Before ,W.';IRASEE, Esq. Mil,) '/' !> : '•' Dbunk.enness.—Geo, French, charged with! beiiig'dfunk arid iricapa'bl'ej forfeited bail; and Joe, a native, who was similarly 'charged;' 1 Was''fine'd'i'llta or, in default, 24 hours'imprisonment.