NEW NORTH DEVON.
Last evening the manager commenced to crush. 30 loads of stuff from the main reef at the Moanatairi battery, but up to the present the show on the plate* .hag been indicative of a poor' yield.' At the mine the lode is about seven feet thick —all solid 'quartz. The contractors have given up the job, and the manager is now pushing on the work with wages men/and this, drive is the only, work now in progress, stoping haying been suspended,, After this crushing the manager/ intends to, break out two trial;parcels of'lo load* each—one from the hanging wall and .the other from the foot wall of the reef—with, a view of discovering which portion «*a be the most profitably worked/ '~
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2987, 11 September 1878, Page 2
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124NEW NORTH DEVON. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2987, 11 September 1878, Page 2
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