OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4456, 17 April 1883, Page 2

OUR MINES.

KURANUI HILL.

I The manager reported yesterday :— " The Wheel of Fortune lode has been opened up for a length of 160 ft, and is now I available for stoping for that distance. 90ft is seaward of the slide, - and 70ft hillwards. I mentioned before my intention of rising on each side of the slide as the most expeditious and probable method to drop on something payable. Rising is progressing very well, and a.little gold is visible each breaking on the hill side' of the slide. The leader is becoming more compact owing to the country assuming a more settled nature. The hard sand* stone boulders which heaved it about have given place to more r'egtlar formation, and gold is traced for a greater length from the slide than in the drive. The lodo is looking better than it has ever done before. On the sea side do gold has been seen yet, although it is much stronger on that side and looks well. Cook's leader is opened up 76ft., and is^in good country, but so far no gold hag been seen. The crosscut is in 56ft., and Petroe's leader may be intersected any

m ment. The battery started on Friday last, 30 head for the company, the remaining ten on tributers' quartz. I cannot say much about the crushing, as the battery has so recently started. So far it has i>ot shaped very satisfactorily and Cook's leader is very poor indeed up to the present.—Thos. H. CBAWFOBD." I HA, MBS WINDING ASSOCIATION. Since Thursday last the men have be^h busy re-fasteniug the guides, replacing them with new ones where the wood had become rotten, and in otherwise making the shaft secure.- - Tl»i» has-been- doa»*in : >r the northern compartment of the shaft ■ down to the surface of the water, a few feet bpjow No. 4 level, while in the southern compartment the work will" be 1T* fibishi 1 to-morrow. The manager finds that the guides have disappeared below the surface of the water, so he has hung loose guides for a length of 30 feet. These will answer the purpose, though more care will have to be exercised in lifting the tanks at the start. It is not intended to start winding water at ouce, but the mullock accumulated at No. 3 level will first be hoisted to the surface to allow the men to proceed with ihe>3 cleaning out of the old levels.. DART. The manager telegraphed yesterday to the effect that he bad cut No. 1 reef in the crosscut at the bottom level,; but, had not broken into it. " ? U\l