OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4432, 19 March 1883, Page 2

OUR MINES.

NEW PRINCE IMPEBIAL. The manager telegraphed as follows this afternoon :—"Beef in crosscut, N0.4 level, looking well, showing gold freely. Drive, No. 5 level, is into the white sandstone.—G-. S. Clabk."' DART. The shaft is now down 74 feet below No. 2 level, and it is the manager's intention to continue sinking till he has the wellhole sufficiently deep before completing the chamber. The leader has not yet shown any gold, bat continues to look favorable, and the country is a firmer class of sandstone. In the western side of the shaft the quartz is 6 or 8 inches wide, but^ in the eastern it is smaller. The winze from No. 2 level is down about 5 feet; only two men are employed here, so progress is slow. It has been started on the footwall of the specimen leader, at a point about 6 or 8 feet from its junction with No. 1 reef. The latter body is dipping towards it, and will probably be met with about 16 feet down. The specimen leader has not yet been touched, and Mr Stone will not take it down till the winze is a few feet deeper. - - MOANATAIRI. The manager reports for last week: "Homeward Bound section, tuanel level: The lead in drive is quite cut off*, and will not make again before getting into a more congenial class of country. The drive will be continued and communicated, with a crosscut, which is only a short distance ahead, in order to get good ventilation. -When the connection is effected we shall commence to rise and stope from the point where a little gold bearing stone was obtained a short time since, and of which I advised you. 80ft level: The new crosscut has. been driven 19ft during the past forrtnight, thus making 76ft in all since it was started... Quartz has just been struck in face of drive, but I cannot say positively whether it is No.. 2. reef or not. The stone has, so. far as can be seen, a very promising appearance for gold. The face of crosscut is now where I expected to cut No. 2 reef, and it is pro* bable we have a portion -of it. It has only been cut into about 8 inches as yet. Morning Star section.:, .A crosscut has been commenced from intermediate level to be extended to the Junction section. Some small leaders and stringers have already been intersected. Yesterday a dropper was met with, lin. in thickness, from which a small parcel of good picked stone . came to hand. ' The stopes are poor. Stopes in . Heldt's section, above 132 ft. level, hare looked better during the past week, small parcels of picked stone having been obtained. The lead on which we are driving at the 215 ft. level. Nonpareil section, has been disturbed for some time past by means of its contact with clay formation. The lead in stopes below 215 ft. level has produced a little picked stone since my. last.,. P;.S. —I beg to say that since writing the above I have inspected what I supposed to be No. 2 reef, and I am quite satisfied it is no other. Its characteristics are identical with those at and' above tunnel level. Moreover, I had the pleasure of seeing colors of gold in the; stone we broke from the reef. The contract will be out to day, with the exception of lay* ing a permanent«road, and making a drain, but before this work is done I wish to drive a few feet on the course of the reef to see more fully its nature.—J. G-. Vivia-." - •- •: . t GOLD BETURNS. Dabt.—Stewart and party have crashed a trial lot of 13 loads, taken from a branoh of the Tweedside leader, at the Alburoia mill for the yield of lOozs 13dwts re- . torted gold. _.