WAIOTAHI ASSOCIATION.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2028, 5 July 1875, Page 2

WAIOTAHI ASSOCIATION.

The manager ha 3, for a few days past, been driving "on the three-feet reef. This reef, which narrowed-to.ainerevein;when followed up on first opening th'c bottom level, had not been worked upon for a considerable period until operations were resumed recently;, in fact, though at first measuring three feet (whence its named was derived) the reef varied much ii size as far as. it was driven upon, until it contracted as above stated, at the same time swerv|ng in the* direction of the]" hanging Wall, aud .had the; appearance of a : branch, lead; Some; eight feet have been driven since opera-; tions were resumed, and it'.l3 satisfactory to find that the lode has increased in size to four feet, and that it has resumed its original course, being, moreover, encased in fine sandstone walls. The reef gi-res promise of behaving better in the future; than it has done in the past. The manager has not taken away the men employed: in the face of the Mariukau-Jode to work on the three-feet reef. He purposes continuing work in JN"o 2 shaft, so that operations are now being carried on in; three portions of the mine,- the footwall leaders being worked with satisfactory results. We shall in all probability hear of a crushing from the three-feet reef ere long. ;