OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4862, 9 August 1884, Page 2

OUR MINES.

: :;; ■ ■ :'• ;■ beight smile. ; ;- The manager has about 13 lbaidsl of general dirt, and 45lbs of picked stone/oni hand, and will start crushing at the Qneeri of Beauty on Monday. :Tho intermediate level on the footwall leader has lately been passing through hard ground, which pinched the leader very small, but better sandstone i 3 now coming in, and the quartz shouldjopen out..; One stope is in hand above this drive, and is yielding payable quartz. ' THA. MES GOLDEN jCE-OWN.; t Tenders were opened this afternoon as follows^ for driving on; the hanging wall leader at the 100 ft. level jGraham (accepted), 16s lid; J. Corbet*.;i9ii r A, Rowe; 19s Mi !A, Brown; 22i| W' Livingston, 22a1 ;^ and ;255; The manager has been working,on thig; leader for "some ;timei,land the present [contract willcarry the face in to the ilide I near the Waioiahi^boundary.-; Portions of the mine are offered on; tribute, and the manager notifies tb at public crushing^ can be treated'^at the; ; battery.._ ■-,;■ ■'■'.'. ■/'.^•^■v.^'-;/.'

NEW EUREKA (OTUNCT*.

The manager reported this morning \as follows for the past;:fortnight;:^;Yo,ur men have been employed on No":1 reef- (in the low level), wii'cli lis : ndw7ft--vfide, and, shows^ gold freely. , '-. Wo haveyet 50ft.tb, drive before reaching the boundaryj and ■'■;. thequartz from this part of the mine is worth an ounce per load. Two men have been employed on No. 2 reef, driving ;bbth ways; going eastward the reef; is: 3ft. ;: wide, and produced lOlbs. of picked stone: last breaking down. Ini the westerni driTei the reef has opened out to 18 inches, and is in splendid country. Two men hare been employed in the upper level-sipping on No. 1 reefy I have crushed 60 tons of quartz from all parts of;the mine,-.for the good yield of 81 ounces meltecl gold. I am sorry to informyou that the road: is now impassable, and^in consequence I will have to suspend >11 work in :th« mine after to day.—Thos. Black." The mine is now well opened up, and eight men. could keep, the mill employed were the road in good order. : .. ' : \ MARTHA EXTENDED (WAlHIj.< The Martha Extended is now putting in-a low level tunnel, which will greatly facilitate and cheapen the work of getting quartz to the battery. In the course of driving better;gold has been got than any heretofore seen in the ground.—Tribune.