PRINCE IMPERIAL.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2831, 12 March 1878, Page 3

PRINCE IMPERIAL.

It is expected that the new crank will be completed to-morrow, and winding operations resumed on Thursday next. In the meantime the machinery is receiving an overhaul. Down below, owing to there being no mcan3 of getting the stuff already broken disposed of, no quart* of ray consequence has been broken lately, most of the hands being employed strip* - in? the reef. The drive on the branch ioader it proceeding in a northerly direction, and shows that the lode is about eight or nine inches thick. There is not much gold showing in it just now, but the mineral and other indications may be considered favorable. The stone is of a rather crystallised nature. This drive is now in some 20 feet from the drive on the main lode. The latter is proceeding without much change to notice, and in the stopes, ditto. A little picked stone has lately been obtained, but nothing of any consequence. The manager has a party of contractors sinking an old winze from the No. 2 leyel to connect with No. 3. It is considerably to the eastward of the shaft, and, when finished, will j»ire good ventilation, and afford facilities for stoping out another block of quartz. It is intended shortly to alter the present perpendicular ladder way to one divided into sections.