CALEDONIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3610, 22 July 1880, Page 2

CALEDONIAN.

The manager is now calling tenders for driving soutn on the reef at No. 3 level, the crosscut being through the lode. A contract has been let for completing the winze from No. 2 level. In the northeast workings, the lode is of considerable size, and a portion of the quartz will be crushed. The manager, writing to his directors under date July 20th, says :— 'The outside, crosscut (near old Caledonian and Otago boundary) No. 3 level is through the lode in the water course, and continues on the footwall side a distance of about 15 feet. I am calling for tenders for continuing the cross-cut, and am about to drive south on the lode. I have to-day tried a test from a rich mineral vein, which shows between the two lodes in the horse of mullock—about four feet in thickness. The stone showed no gold to the eye, but the test proved to be very rich in gold. I intend driving south on the lode carrying the vein on the face. The winze under No. 2 level continues very hard. I have let a contract at £1 15s per foot for the holing through to the No. 3 level. The lode touched under foot will probably junction with the main lode in the 40 feet along the lode yet to sink. North-east workings.-— I have started to rise on, the lode here, and am saving part of the stone for the battery. The lode is making into a big body of stone, of which the hanging-wall portion will require to be picked out. I have let a contract here to day for driving about 29 feet at 9s per foot for holing through to the Golden Calf workings for air, and am calling for tenders for driving a cross-cut into the heart of the Otago block to intersect the eastern lode.—l am, &c, Thos. James."