MURRAY CREEK.

Inangahua Times, Volume v, Issue 46, 21 June 1878, Page 2

MURRAY CREEK.

'' (FROM 1 OUII MINING BBPOTBIl,), ! if : .11 >•:<■.. Pr {v.. .; •• j ■ ■ ijpEvmbwT tl [; ' '' ;"' ' WjpN^sDAY, 1Q th Juno, Bpmp .throo, wo'oks'agA'.'p 'blook. of quarta hay.ing.b.oon .mofi. ,in th'o A i now low tunnol- now closo upon pOO foot i in lbbfjUij and ib ooursd'of opnst'yuotjon noariy 12' "months,! if' tvAa" imra.Qdi*t'*/i fbly nssumpd that (the had at^p^th beonMnjtorsdcted, but < hiving provod on fnvllibrpdno'tratioS fb bo only a tioiildoi" i T.ji r it") , " " .* n*ji •; -.■l** , 1 somo.dpMfc wag at .oi^qo, expressed", ns ,l6' whothor tho survoy had-tooon accurately made,' thp samo having boon performed, by 'Mr G. Casoly who is uot a profess sional man in thoso matters, but mcroly a shareholder, and having a largo intorost' in tlio inin'o. Having, howovor, boon decided 'another survoy should bo mado, Mr G. ' Woolloyj oxooutod 'the '. samo on* Saturday. ' I'ast, and now pro** that Mr Cnsoly is perfectly cor* rcct, 'tho faoo of tho tunnol at tho prosont, . timo boing in a direct porpondiculu. Hno i • iV... *-'.'V, '•' s, . » • j .' " '• I- ' ' '

with tho shaft. Tbo fiu-t of tho roof not. being struck at this particular point, and wboro it wai fully oxpooto 1 to bo found gavo rise doubt tho oorrcctnoas of tho first survoy. 'There, hayo boon ao many instances in tho past workings of tho adjoining mines showing in wlia^ closo proximity a lodo may bo to oitlior n drivo or shaft, anc^btjlj tho' work continuo witliohf str^ing 'tho snmo, is a* prosonV nothing to show that tho roof doos not fljro (om to this lovol. Tho works abovo havo alroady diaelosod tho existence of tVb'.dislinot liodios of^jnr^, of no mean (limonsions, a abaft having boon nun^c on enoli for a distnnoo of 150, foot. irar^d%aro novf cpnl\nuit)g tbo ot>st roof shaft ' wliibli qarrioa a fino strong lodo, and a riao has boon "lartod from tho | tunnol below, atul in oio course of a vory ! short lipio thb exact position of, tho lodo ,on this will ho correctly asoortainod.