CALEDONIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4035, 3 December 1881, Page 2

CALEDONIAN.

The manager again broke down the reef in the stopes yesterday/ and was rewarded with about 701b* of picked stone. This morning the me» commenced to carry the stope back to wh«rfbth«, trial crushing, which gave nearly SkMs per load, was taken from. By thee^ afjins he will create a double current of aw and improve the ventilation, which cpnttinues to be bad in spite of the air boxet. 1 - This work will take to about the mid4ie^£ *«t week,so no more quartz* froMi the eastern end of the stope will be; broken tillitntn. There is now about 30 or-40-loads of quartz in the hoppers, and erushilg will he tflarttd as soon as tbtt Herald bafUftyit diwngaged. When once fairly started eraan* ingi the manager things( be will be able to keep the battery employed Tor some time. Messrs J. M. Lennox, Jas. Stodart, and other directora.of the mifle.visited the workings this moaning, and, expressed themselves well 1 satisfied r with its; pros* pects, the latter gentleman 'being of opinion that the .mine "was looking better now than it had done for'some years. The public visiting day - was fixed for Thursday in each week, between the hours of 12 and 1. RADICAL (OWHARQA.) Christy and party, tribnters, who obtained a haul of very rich^specimen stone a few days ago, fihished'a druihing of 24 loads at,the Smile .of Fortune i battery yesterday for the splendid return of 300 ounces retorted gold.