NEW NORTH DEVON

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3806, 10 March 1881, Page 2

NEW NORTH DEVON

The weekly report of the mine manager is as follows : —" 70 Feet Level: Six men are constantly employed driving east. The reef, if anything, is improving both in size and appearance. Stoping is still being carried on by six men. Winze: Work here has been temporarily suspended, and the men are employed in stoping as above. There being no prospect at present of any battery working continuously, I could not, with advantage to the Company, continue so much dead work, viz., driving 70 feet level, sinking winze, and driving 160 feet level. I have therefore suspended work in the winze for the present. The winze is now down about half-way, and it will be necessary to continue the drive on the 160 feet level about eighty feet to communicate with the winze when sunk I purpose, however, resuming work in the winze, so as to have it completed by the time the drive below shall have been driven far enough to meet it. 160 level. — Contractors have driven a distance of about 10 feet since they started, but have not broken down the reef to the footwall as yet. Until they do so, I cannot form a correct opinion of the size of the reef. Battery.—The battery has been working barely half time during the last week. There is no change in the appearance of the general stuff.