SOUTHERN CROSS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3605, 16 July 1880, Page 2

SOUTHERN CROSS.

- Late this afternoon it was noised abroad that this company had struck good gold. A telegram was posted at the Corner to the effect that the manager had tele* ' graphed that a.lode had been cut with rich gold showing and a few lbs of- sped* mens obtained. The mine manager has sent the follow* ; ing report to his directors:—The con» tractors hare been getting on well with their contract- Yesterday a obange of ground came in, and; shortly afterwards a fine reef was cut. The stone is' rery compact and solid, the thickest measuring i fire inches. It carries a large quantity of mineral on both sides of the reef. There has been no gold seen in the stone where cut, but I consider the reef, certainly worth driving on. The winze is down about fourteen feet, and gold hiss/ been seen in the quartz throughout the reef sufficient to show gold is going down. The drive on the reef is now in about 20 feet. A hard bar came in on the right side, but did not in any way pinch up the reef. Opposite the hardl bar several pieces of quartz carrying gold were found, and the appearance of the reef is considerably improved, as is also the country, which now requires powder occasionally an the footwall side.—Geobe Black. NEW NORTH DEVON. *. The tributers hare a brushing of 40 loads undergoing process of treatment at Bull's battery, but so far as I can learn it is shaping poorly. In the' mine both driving and stoping.is in progress, the quartz in the former working having decidedly the better appearance., . „, . LVCWBALL. During my visit to the mine to«day, the upper level drive holed through into the •topes from No. 2 level .on the brown leader. The quartz has a likely appear* ance, and the country everything that can be desired, being crossed with amulti* tude of mundie veins. The manager expects to be able to carry this and an adjoining leader in the same drive. . The working is in first-class repair, reflecting great credit on the .management. No work is at present in progress in the No. 2 level, though the other day a valuable discovery was made by ; the manager while fossicking about in the drive, on the*, blue leader. He broke into the hanging* wall, and found that .there existed a mass of small stringers'oontaining fine gold, so that when operations are resumed a much ' | larger body of dirt will be reasoved from 1 this drive than was anticipated; These stringers are probably identical with ft I lode cut in the cross-cut, the oauae of its disintegration being the.met of its jane* tioning with the blue leader.