WATCHMAN.
The contractors for driving the company's low-level cross-cut are making fair progress. The tunnel is how in about 60 feet, and" it is expected that another 150. feet or so will see the lode worked by the tributers intarsected. There will be good long backs and a long course of the reef in the company's ground, so that if the reef is even as good as where worked by George and party, a new era of prosperity may be expected to dawn on the Watchman. The- crushing which was referred to on Monday i& considered highly satisfactory by the tributers, and, indeed, stuff that will yield lfozs to the lodtf from a three feet reef is. not to be despised. The quartz is easily taken down, as it is chiefly riibbly stone, though fine solid gpecirren veins rim through it. The quartz shoot' from the low-level to the Sons of Freedom tunnel will be finished in eight or nine days, which will greatly facilitate the transit of quartz to the mill, and the tribulers expect shortly .to be able to resume a continuous crushing at the Prince Alfred battery.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2921, 26 June 1878, Page 2
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190WATCHMAN. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2921, 26 June 1878, Page 2
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