CROWN PRINCESS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2071, 24 August 1875, Page 2

CROWN PRINCESS.

The work of stoping is being steadily carried on from the bottom level on No. 2 reef, which presents a fair body of stone,varying in size in its course, but averaging about 15 inches wide, in fair working ground, giving occasional specimens and picked stone. This leader has . b,een driven on to the Exchange boundary, and presents a good-lookmg body of stone, which would well, repay that company for taking down, and to the ; slide, which has not yet been cut through, t ' "it is intended to rplace men on to break through this bar, and will doubtless lead: to picking the reef up again in a short distance. No 3. has also boen worked to advantage, and is now being driven on towards the specimen leader, from which it is evidently not far distant, and .is expected to intersect in the course of a few feet. The specimen leader is: being driven on, and probably will continue its course through the length, of the claim,, it is running in a parallel direptifln to tb,e clay sljde. Qn the'hanging wall lode, about 12 feet from the f^ce of specimen drive, the fact of a few leaders showing induced the manager, Mr Daniel, to dig out a small portion of the wa.ll, which has revealed a soft mullocky leader inter-

spar^diwitb^a qdftU, fc&iyWgid with mundic, and showing gold (rmvf-i the sizerpr^^o^s^rofs^sjfiiid cannot rightly be estimated^jet, but is cot less than 18 inches.-in.the,^part oganed, 'The whole of the level hafi" been well opened 'to supply' sufficient' crashing vsWn nnul the new level iis feady/' Tenders for sinking the shaft liaVinp beeniTorWAfed to the directory,! net time will?Hs4 lost in lowering the shaft'to 310 feet, andfrcm appeararice,si ipdes willilJ^ of^^icrßased size. and. in fair ground for progreßS. Preparations are being made for sinking winSeVitrsffiOT' mFvsnim-wfm ren.Ay r fg^ opening out, by th», =! .tiine the shaftl is"'downl the -reqttirecEcaWpth. - A toft. aarceL of_quartz anf 4 fe| n*cu mens are now m hand Towards tbe next crushing, cwjiiphTteUL^^rfinnied next Monaay. ._ „ _