MURRAY CREEK.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 1, 19 April 1878, Page 2

MURRAY CREEK.

(FROM OOlt MININO BBPORTHR.) ENERGIO, Wkdnjmday, 17th April, In roportitiK upon tho progress of tho vurious works in oourso of oporatiion from timo to timo, it hao boon fro* 4 qucntly Htntod that to alt npponrnnoo a lodo of very lar«o dimonsions cxi»tod bolow tho ranin tunnol, nnd this nssumpf l,ion was raofrc'y based from what had

I been dit«losod in sinking tho trial shaft. But although tlmf work was carried down for « distance* of ono hundrodand twonty oet during the- whole- of th it dopth tho reef had not boon cut through to ft.l mit of tho exact thioknoss boing ascertained until a fow days ago, Tho prooosa of opening out on th© to lo for tho purpose of driving to moot the main shaft havina: been oororaoiwod tho fu-11 dimensions of tho roof at this lovol is now shown, and it is an itora/of tnmo satisfaction* to reoord that thoro is now oxiposod a spbndid body of stono sixteen feet thick showing far suporiopgold to anythin-jf obtainod on tho uppor lovols. When it ia understood that whore fcUo roo< is shown to bo so. highly auriferous, and so throu«hly well doflned lis about dighly foat bolow tUo bod of Murray Crook, and twonty foot bolow all previous working*. 1?lio oponing up of tho next lovel might bo looked forward to as boing more lucrative in ovory re* spcot than tho njino has proved itself during its past dovolopmont.. Tho prinoiplo of rising; ato«w> from tlw> wina) by n?ottns of a whip and a hovso until tho mai*^|i||||lf^vj»atlitinoß^ gron.ily v fiioili**' tatoffif o and wilPbo-tho moans i>f raising suffinicnt' quarto ia the moantim ) to koop tho ton heavy stampers- going. Williams and party a*o down forty foot with tho Rurfaco shaf,, and Brown is now cutting out tho chamber preparatory to oommouoing to drivo tho lovol. It may bo stated that tho wholo of tho works in ooai'Bo of operation, for tho oponing of tho now lovol are* progressing in a most satis.* factory manner.