VICTORIA.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3531, 20 April 1880, Page 2

VICTORIA.

The directors of this company at a meeting held yesterday appointed Mr James Mcllhaney mine manager, and we understand work will be commenced with three shifts at once, in accordance with the report of Mr Bayldon, surveyor, which we now publish:—" Grahamstown, 17th April, 1880—To the Directors of the. "Victoria G.M. Company (limited).— Gentlemen,—l have the honour to furnish you with the following report, accompanied by a mining plan of your property. The plan shows clearly the position of the Victoria claim in relation to adjoining mines; it also shows the height of the different workings which were formerly carried on in the ground now in your possession. The principal workings, as you will observe in the plan, hare been on the "Vale of Avoca" reef, which traverses the whole length of your property in a north and south direction, and dips west. The reef averages about three feet in thickness, and is highly mineralised with iron and copper pyrites, which is always considered a most favorable feature in the reefs on this goldfield, all the richest reefs being heavily charged with these minerals. The reef was formerly worked on by the Vale of Avoca Company with very favorable results, but the deeper the reef, was worked the more: mineralised it became, and consequently the gold was very difficult to save with the appliances then in vogue. Experience has proved that with stone of the description contained in this reef, particular care is required in its treatment, such as it did not receive at the battery, where it was crushed. I have marked out a point which I think will be the most favorable for commencing work; which is on the

level of the Waiotahi road; it will almostl immediately strike the reef where driving can be continued on it to the northern boundary, a distance of about 890 feet. The-(hive, will pass under where the Vale of A voca Company obtained their richest gQld at a depth of 289 feet. Several small drives have been put in, and the reef cut, but no work of any consequence has been done, except in the Vale of Avoca. In all the drives the reef looks well, and has the before-mentioned characteristics, and is I think a very fair and legitimate mining venture. At the present time Ido not think it advisable to commence prospecting in any other portion of the ground, as the Columbia pompany will in their drive from the New, North Devon prove the course of thp-Bons of Freedom and other reefs on yonr w.estern boundary.—l am, <fee, D. H. Bayldon, Mining Surveyor." , ' -