VICTORIA.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3702, 5 November 1880, Page 3

VICTORIA.

In respect of the recent crushing this compiny, the (question of the necessity of the introduction of an American wagon for use on.^he Waiotahi road again arises, and I heir that the Victoria %ith the Lucks All v and'other Puoga Flat companies intend:agitating the' County Council for a subsidy to purchase one to enable thetn to' get down stuflF at a reasonable co«t. I atn informed that the purchase' of >he wagon and the cost of cutting dowri thd sharp corners of the road woald'nbtexceed £200, while pros* pecting would be encouraged, and these mines now,on gold would N able to send down larger quantities of dirt. In the mine the principal work lately has been the cleaning out and repairing of the old Yale of Avoca company's low level, on which in the early days the reef was driven on for a. distance of two hundred feet. Driving on the ■ reef at low level continues, the lode being at present six feet thick; OLD OOLDEN CALF. The fade of the drfte at present is in alidy country, and the reef has been out oJF by a head or slide. Some little prospecting mil need be done to pick it up •gain. 7 5 .. '' ",'.. .. . Ct/BE.

The crushing for this company of 40 loads is at present showing np for about an ounce per load. CALEDONIAN.

The usuar weekly report of the manager is as follows:—Driving south on the hanging wall of the lode, No. 1 section, No. 3 level, was suspended on Thursday for the purpose of taking out a trial crushing of the mineral stone reported in ray las X I have about five tons in the)hopper ready for the battery; it has sbown heavy blotches of copper, and bright,, silvery, iron pyrites, through the taking down. I purpose breaking no more of it before the battery trial. I have again started in the face, in a splendid-class of country; No. 2 section, No. 2 level-: There are 1 over 40 tons of Suartz in the hoppers from here; the attery stfrts on it to-morrow morning. The lode in the face and in the stopes has shown a few blotches of gold, but there has been but little to pick out. The lode looks well in the face to day.