SIR JOSEPH PORTER.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3676, 6 October 1880, Page 2

SIR JOSEPH PORTER.

Such is the name of a new piece of ground pegged out by Gibbons and party, late of the Little Sissy. They hare been at work a few days and have already a

trial crushing from the old Dayspring lode to grass, which was being carted to the mill today. In the early days a drive running at right angles with the creek was put in and several lodes were intersected, but apparently only the faintest attempt at following them up was made. The Dayspring lode is near the mouth of the drive, and having become overgrown with moss and fern, its discovery was the result of the merest accident. This reef contains 3 feet of solid quar'z, and on each side there is a mass of small leadm-and stringers—feeders to the main body. < Should this trial prove payable—and lOdnrts per ton will remunerate them handsomely—it is the intention of the shareholders to carry an open face along, when they will be able to keep five or ten head of stampers going with ease. The prospects so far obtained have been exceedingly encouraging. The two lodes further in the drive are :small. but look promising and would I think repay prospecting. As they underlie toward! each other they should junction before the surface is reached.