GOLDEN CALF.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2037, 15 July 1875, Page 2

GOLDEN CALF.

: The prospects of this r mine have certainly improved, and judging from the quantity and quality of the stone now breaking out, should enable the Manager, Mr Thorns, to secure continuous crushings, and judging from the last, should speedily place the Company in the desired list of dividend payers. The position of

the present work may be inferred from the following. The shaft is down 350 feet, from; which extends a main drive 290 feet westward, where a leader was struck .at almost; right angles, and followed with; but j poor results for 130 feet, the lode theii dividing, the hanging wall side, hugging round to the N.E.j and -the foptwall lode shearing round in the opposite "direction. ; The latter^ has been followed, and proves to be a distinct welldefined reef, 9 feet thick, with gold occasionally to be seen in the face; the whole of the stone broken out is crushing ,stuflY. o The. v^ into the Otago claim, distant 80 feet, with a bank of 80 feet for stoping; rlt is supposed that the same reef has been worked in the upper-270 feet levels but of this there is a doubt, while towards the N.E., the same lode points^to continue fair through the entire length of the company's ground some 700 feet.