CALEDONIAN.
There is nothing by any moans startling to record in connection wijh the operations of this mine. The manager reports that the eastern cross-cut i>> now in 138 feet, and the ground more favorable, than, formerly, having been exceedingly hard. The western cross-cut at the No: 2 level is in 20 feet, the ground here also has changad considerably for the better. In the north cross-cut the ground is very hard: hard, basaltic rock is met frith, and in this direction little or no progress is being made. N0.2 reef is now four feet thick. The.stone looks .well;- but is poor. Work is proceeding much the same as usual~rernoving mullock, old timber &c. The manager states that what is got in the shape of payable stuff conies from the old workings chiefly;
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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1756, 19 August 1874, Page 2
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133CALEDONIAN. Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1756, 19 August 1874, Page 2
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