CALEDONIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3604, 15 July 1880, Page 3

CALEDONIAN.

The manager's weekly report is as follows:—"Since my last report another big lode has been intersected in the outßide. erosS'CUt, No. 3 level. Upon clearing the lode we were then cutting through off the footwall, as reported, a marked improvement showed towards the south side. I then cut into the mullock about 4 feet, and touohed the hangingwall of the lode we are now cutting through. A »«ry large- watercourse intersc,ts it from theibotwsll side, and is cut' off by the hanging-wall. This considerablyifaoilitate* the work of cutting through, but does not allow, of my seeing the nature of the stone in the lode, as it is disturbed at this point. The walls are well,.defined, showing .-the lode to' be 4 i fjMtjij, thickness, and throwing a constant stream of gas in the drives. ' The solid, stone of the lode will be taken down in about two days. I purpose driving on this lode, after getting the cross cut a few feet ahead.!' The. winze under No. 2 level is in'tory hard and difficult country for ■inking. The. lode* reported in my last as touched in the bottom-has been cut into About £ feet, and, show's no signs of being through." The stone comes,out in heavy bldekrof "mineral/ I have not yet found gold in it, but it is a likely lode. There ans about 4 feet of hard mullock between that two'lodes. Most* of the week has been spent in this. The lodes will probably make together. The lode is undo? the east of what was before suppps^d to be the most eastern lode in this line of country, and does not appear to be hare been touched elsewhere. Northeast workings: The ground here is J secured. lam about to rise on the lode, i It will probably be found necessary to I drife^about 25 feet for air. The lodes now 1^ open to the east of what was, formerly supposed to be the main line of lodes dipping out of this company's ground show that from the No. 1 level down through the whole width otathe mine, and at least 600 feet of length, the ' big hard mineralised lodes form a series, sod' are' under the same hill. In these the big finds were upwards, and although Tery expensive the prospects are eneomraging.—Thomas James, 13th July, 1880."