NEW WHAU.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3509, 24 March 1880, Page 2

NEW WHAU.

The following is the mine manager's/ usual weekly report:—" Gentlemen: X have to report ,ori/ the work now in progress, namely, the, sinking of No. 1 winze. This winze at present is down 18 feet on the reef, and the late crashing of lOcwtof specimens arid 6cwt of picked staff has been ; taken from this wimie 8440zs of retorted gold. There is about 25 tons of general dirt in the jijppjieiv which should crush welirUTo-dS^jfom*:: stripping down? the Eastern 1 vend':'BjFvthe:"' Winze? to the boundary. In doing -«b I will get about l|cwt of good specimens and about lcwt of. picked isttitfl I anr glad to say there; is a great improvement in the last breaking down; in the winze; about 40 or 501bs of good picked stuff waß taken from the Very bottom, and the heavy mineral appears to be making agaio. At present lam taking about 4 feet wideof the reef^ It is my interition-'to; ■ gain $I6a:;. the reef in sinking, and get through to the footwall, as there is gold both on foot add hanging wall sides of this-reefi*'-Thereis-a Very promising:lookingf leideiy afymt ' <£ inches thick, coming in from the hanging wall. In breaking it dow^nifc^ jbii^c^^ 'of. gold hare been seen in the.'s^e^wi^ , from its -present under!ie, it shonlii janotion with the reef about 6 feet deeper—ri Yours, &c, FbancisDatkin, MirciiiSS3; ■1880." ■' :V y :" :■:-<■■ -y-}\^:mM.