QUEEN OF THE MAY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2629, 12 June 1877, Page 3

QUEEN OF THE MAY.

The sinking contractors are making fair progress, and have now put down the shaft 28 feet, though there is no change and contrary to expectations the shaft is quite dry in the country. In the drive in the footwall lode no quartz has been broken down since about the middle of last week and at present there is 5 or 6 feet stripped ; what can be seen of the lode looks well. The water is coming ia^ as strong as ever in - the footwall side of the drive for a distance of about 20 feet back from the face, but as yet there are no signs of the supposed reef. It is probable that the lode is not running in a direction across the drive, but it may be running almost parallel with it, and gradually approaching it. If this be the fact there would be a considerable distance to drive, pursuing the present course, to - cut it, and I think that if a small cross-cut was put in from the hanging-wall side of the drive it would soon prove whether there is a reef there or no. In the drive on the hanging-wall reef the country continues good, and the reef has a promising appearance. Stoping operations are going ahead as usual. I forgot to state, when writing of the shaft, that it is intended to open out the new level at the same depth as the City of London intend to d 0—540 feet from surface.