Our Mining Reporter.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1748, 10 August 1874, Page 2

Our Mining Reporter.

THE CROWN PRINCE. This mine has lately been ad often reported that I have in a measure let it alone, knowing full well that it needed no " hush to hide its merits. This morning I went underground with, the manager, Mir. Beeche, and, in the first place; I must compliment him on the way he has anticipated tHe time when angine power would be required foe.:' the more fully development of the mine. The .way the works have been carried out go far seems to me to have been true almost to a line, the whole, so to speak, dove-tailing one with another so admirably. The run of the lodes may in a measure account for this; they are running their course so truly. I will take them as they come. The first is No. 1 reef, it looks like a reef every inch of it, standing out boldly and lying in a good, .well-defined, yec easy country ; at the adit level it is fully four feet thick, and in the winze sunk on the same lode it is, I am informed, fully sjx feet wide and sliewing gold. -A shot had just been firad during the time I was down, and the smoke prevented me from going further. No. 2 r«ef—l shall call it a leader—is about a foot through. It may be a separate reef, but it will have to strengthen a little before I can dignify it by the name of reef. Still it looks very promising, being full ol those metals that are in our best mines such close neighbours, yet so utterly antagonistic to gold, at least in its saving processes. No. 3= is a good bold lode, about four feet thick, and promises well for the mill. Take the mine altogether, it shews well for its future. Ido not altogether like the gearing of the new engine.: it has no break on, and as it is much above the present work required of it, it works too quickly for my fancy. That is, perhaps, a matter for the Inspector of Mines, but as I in my travels only hear of that official after a fatal accident, I am half afraid I am trenching on a kind of " Tom Tiddler's ground."