QUEEN OF THE MAY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2776, 7 January 1878, Page 2

QUEEN OF THE MAY.

The water in the No*l winze has been baled out, and the manager has started driving from the bottom of it. It is about 25 feet deep, and what little quart* has been taken down shows gold pretty freely, and the manager estimates that some of the quartz in sight must be worth four or fire ounces per ton. It is intended to under stope out the upper portion of this block from the No. 1 winze to another winze 200 feet distant, where some first*rate stone has been obtained. This points to the inference that the quartz in this stretch of the lode will prove remunerative, while the manager states that the present is better than any of the old ones. The little hole sunk at the junction of the main lode with the branch leader, and which gate some splendid specimens, is to be baled but, and it is likely that some good gold will be obtained from there. Of course at present the necessity is to get out as nrach rich stuff in as short a time as possible, to try to meet the judgment, which could easily have been done if this work had been started a month ago. It is satisfactory to know that the water has at last been tapped, and is decreasing slowly, at the rate of about 2 feet per week.,. Writing of this it may be mentioned that considerable expense might have been saved to the company at the time they were endeavoring to reduce the water by bailing, if, instead of winding the water right to surface, they had simply wound it to the No. 6 level chamber, from which a system of wooden culverts extends right through the intervening mines to the Piako shaft.