THE BRIGHT SMILE.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1663, 29 April 1874, Page 2

THE BRIGHT SMILE.

|The water,.c.ut (l inrthe reef in the, shaft j at a depib: of"281 boMfinttei iti{ free< inflqw,,yl>uj£^l9*':^, ?^!?^^ I^^ to cause; the pump;! more,work than it! i^ tj|iite up to, and' the 1 direc^aii <#''thp company may congratulate themselves 6n . tHe foresight which induced it to puifchase J aa engine with sufficient power an'd pjimps of sufficient capacity todVe^qonifej aiiy difficulty that may arise ,inV their 1 mine. Tho-pujcnp this morning^ alth^o^gh' gifting a large volume'of lwaier, LWki bmy igbing about eight strokes a mnute^vrithi"a six foot stroke, and wats -Iteeping^the ijwater unjiej.[Tfijf^^his reef ?isf| j^ew:lpdft, ;Spile h^y^ .»:'co^B}derablej a^ -value of their property. " The fact "of aood gold, being-;found;on the Thames' m fem^Q^Wsu^Be; Jis frS' tp'r'e# significant item iu the mining world not rojSj to ftie TifliniieS but to th6 cbUmyV Sir fipderick Murchiaon, one of .England's? j bestg^olpgists,, for- J-ears, contended that goi<J did ''n^gp^ijwjn^Mjyjon^e^blef 'depth. We hiye^i^i-the' "another positive contradiction' to this itheory, which should spur our own folk, to further efforts in trying to find it. •What if (and some folk think tho*e(ii n'Ot much " if" about it) Thames mining ;has only been as^yejt mere surftce scra|ch> |ing. The Thames in such -a lease would not only continue prosperous, ; but would from its mining wealth be thdught a very great deal more of by the other Provinces ;than ig done at present. .