OUR MINES.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4913, 8 October 1884, Page 2

OUR MINES.

NEW PRINCE IMPERIAL.

At No. 6 level the winze on No. 2 reef is going down through an excellent class of couurty, through which a little water is beginning to ooze. The reef in the bot« I torn is a fine body of stone about a foot wide, and what mineral is observed is of a very favorable description. A little work has been done in the eastern end during I the week, on what appears to. be" the hangings-all portion of the reef. Quartz is found carrying ahead, but it ia mixed with clay, and though in good country, is not so favorable as in the winze above where there is a strong body of likelylooking stone. From the western stopes above No. 6 payable dirt continues to come to hand, with occasional small parcels of picked stone and specimens from the higher ones, near the footwall leader. The back of the last stope is within about Bft of No. 5 level. Westward of the break, the men are driving on the hangingwall leader from the Cross winze, so as to open up the block for stopiug. CAMBRIA.

The crosscut at the 230 ft. level is at a standstill for the present, the ground having become tighter and the contractors refusing to continue at the same price. The crushing at the Queen of Beauty mill is shaping for a payable return. DEEP LEVEL CROSS.

The south crosscut at No. 5 level having reached the Cross boundary, this company is now continuing it. The face is at present within 100 ft of the position of the lodes at No. 4 level of the Crown Princess shaft, and as the crosscut is a good deal below No. 5 level; the underlie of the reefs will carry them considerably to the northward,-and any day may now see one of them coming to hand, while the favorably nature of the sandstone augurs well for the quartz being gold-bearing. ALBURNIA.

This claim was bought at auction a feir weeks ago by Mr J. H. Smith, and that gentleman, with some others have taken up shares, is now working the mine privately. Holt and par.fey, tributera, to* day banked Boza 4dwta gold. GOLD RETURNS.

Smile op Fortune (Owharoa).—Farmer and party and McConnochie and party to-day banked the.respective yields of 27ozs. 2dwts and loz sdwts gold. Moanataibi.—Leech and party have crushed 2 tons for 4ozg. 18Jwta. gold.