OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4343, 1 December 1882, Page 2

OUR MINES.

NEW PKINCE IMPERIAL. The drive west at No. 4 holed into the Cross workings yesterday, and the men have since been employed squaring it up, and laying down rails. This'will be completed to»day, and Mr Coutts will start to continue the drive westward in the Southern Cross ground to-night. Mr Clark has not yet started to crosscut for the Mariner's reef, but will do so shortly. The large chamber sets have been placed in position, and the work of sinking the shaft will be commenced without delay. Small parcels of specimens and picked stone continue to be met with in the stopes, and the total amount treated for the month is a ton and a half. The general dirt, of which 270 loads have been treated, yielded 30CDozs amalgam. This was retorted this afternoon, but was not i off the fire in time for to-day's issue. The manager expected between 1000 and llOOozs gold. THAMES DEEP LEVEL TEIBDTE. The reef in the southern crosscut has been passed through, and ascertained to be about 3| feet wide. The country on the footwall side is of a very good class for gold, and the manager has recommended the directors to drive on. the reef as soon as the crosscut is advanced a few feet further.

MOANATAIRL The battery started this morning with the full force of stamps, 30 head being employed on company's dirt, and 10 on tributtrs parcels. 'After this week, however, the tributers will employ 20 head and the company 20. CALEDONIAN. The manager cleaned up and retorted to-day, the weight of the return after melting being 54ozs sdwts gold. In ail 54 loads, of dirt ha»e been treated, but 18 of these were made up of trial lots; 18 loads were treated from the stopes on No. 1 level, and a similar number from the workings on the foutwall specimen leader |at JSo 2 level, both parcels yielding about the same quantity-of amalgam. The trial parcels yielded Sdwts per load, and the rest of the dirt a little over ljozs. The winze on the specimen leader at No. 2 level is down over 25 feet, and the leader looks well, though no gold has been seen in it lately. QUEEN OF BEAUTY. The manager retorted for the month yesterday, and the return was melted today, after which process it weighed 210ozs lOdwts. For this 426 loads of general dirt were treated from the stopes on No. 1 reef, the drive west at No. 9 level, the Queen of the May reef at the same level, and the stopes on No. 1 reef, west of the shaft at No. 7 level. WAITEEAUEI No. 2. The following tributers, returns were banked by Mr P. Kelly to day :—Huntly and party, 73 tons, lllozs gold ; Hollis and party, 48 tons, 75|ozs gold; Comes and party 45 tons, sL|ozs.