MURRAY CREEK.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 38, 12 April 1878, Page 2

MURRAY CREEK.

(ifRoM OUR ".ir-JINa ItEPOnTKR.) WEALTH Of NATIONS. Thnt portion, of iho reef whiob is boing dnily stoped out, nnd from whence tho supply of stone for iho battery is obtained ia rut her broken, and not altogothar so thoroughly freo from mullock as tho lower part, and this will in a measure acoount for tl.o .elicit in tho weekly yield from Iho plates lor some few weeks past; The chief items of inferos , and touching more upon tbo future of the mm. , nnd which mny be mentioned ure the following operations. The. sui fu'oe block* in tho old surface Enterprise tunnel, nnd wbich wns referred fo some- few weeks back, has boon sunk on for about forty feet, in lhe course of thnt distance the ston* averaged about two fee*, but is in a broken country nnd not, so fur, sufficiently defiin'd to rely upon obtaining any very lango quantity ol stone from if just at iho present lime. 'There is, however, another old tunnel fonly feet below, nn-l which is now to be ifslcntlcd- fo cut the s'o-'e uoon this level I which will 'fieri, admit < fits bei'iv/ driven upon, ni.tl. no.c can In* then nsrertiiined ns to, ils till" t-liaraeler. Another work of a pr. scooting charaefer is the c -nitnon* finis to sink from the pre-ent main work .iiitf l-v*'!' on « hu' has been ifenernllv un-* Idei'slood ns No *J- reef, Thi-. work has '.Keln itCTiJt'^lViis week. Two hinds are .'lxo t<) st.«t*l this we dc ri-n'ttg it on tfie Srst bloeSk of stone ntel with in the new I'.nt.'iTprweJevcl. From the nnmber of diSjerent parts <>f the mine that operations arc iinw I ping carried on, nitre or less stone is bciini exposed, and lr»m what is also known of the character of this hill it must be assumed thnt a flood permanent block of stone exists, nnd only requires a littlo preliminary work to bo done to provo the stunt.'.