OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3959, 6 September 1881, Page 2

OUR MINES.

CALEDONIAN. For some time past the prospects of, this mine have been improving, and" especially during theUast two or three weeks Since the manager cut the No. 1 reef in tie cross-cut at No. 1 level, he has had hopes that the old mine would yet come to the fore agaiu, and now he has"no doubt but that his expectations. J will shortly be realised,.. It will be 1 remembered thai about a fort- ' night ago we chronicled the fact that gold, had been seen in the hanging-wall portion .of the reef in the east, drive at; No. ' 1 level, and the manager then at once sent ' a parcel of two loads in company with* several other parcels to the Herald mill to test its value. It' yielded ■ about 3£ots ' gold, but this was.so much better thau he anticipated thut' he was loth' to believe that it was true, and thought ■ the parcels must have, by some means, become mixed. During the last three or ' four days, however, the lode ba» improved • so much in quality that he has taken the men away from the other parts of the mine, and started them to break bat the" reef. As yet only a piece about three feet thick has been taken out,, bat on looking over, portions' of this ' it was found to show .• gold very freely. Some pieces wer|K shown toi* me to day which were broken out this v, morning, apd though, they ,%>uld weigh about a pound each gold was freely seen : right through theni—they were, in fac|, specimens': Two shots-^rere firetP'la-^tie " reef at the time of my visit thiaW^lttdpo^ stripping off a good portib^of^qwrt*,-*? and the ai^thin7t,JpoKlM^er £ thka ever, and is onejmas* &T~ WMJK^^ffifj^. mundiic . and antitri opy/*Oenß^TO^kest.'!^ Before these shots. '^^fok^SflmMo>tik & of stones,'were hroken^oill^n^o^npo^^^ them over a number shjwjadjkodlprg aad ,', dabs of the precious, mejiju'ipmtpicked a oat. This quartz is^kiir^ l|f ;crust* ■ much better- than 'it looks: at? present,--, a goodly 1 r percentage .of goTd'being cbn«t> tamed in the mineral, but tbis) iritlbe'-' found!out when the quartz is put through* '< the mill. A crushiug will be- got out aa r soou . as'j' possible. The ' manager* telegraphed the news to the directors this ' mprniug., ■? .-. - '"•." ' n<