MURRAY CREEK.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 19 July 1880, Page 2

MURRAY CREEK.

(feom oue mining beporteb.) LOW LEVEL TUNNEL. The survey of the Tunnel line, under Mr Surveyor Sham, is being pushed ahead as fast as the weather, the roughs ness of the country, and the nicety of the calculations required, will permit. The work is a far more extensive one than perhaps most people are aware of. A line nearly a chain in width had to be felled right through from the starting point to the Left-hand Branch, a distance of over two miles, necessitating the felling of numerous monster trees. Then again clearings for station sites had to be made

at advantageous points, a mile or so off the line. This work necessitated a deul labor, and travelling to an fro. The line h«s been marked throughout with huge hewn pegs, Wn. square, and sunk two and three feet into the ground. The survey has been carried right through, and is now being checked back, which will take a fortnight or three weeks to finish. The distance from the starting point to the Aj-ix shaft is one hundred chains, but the line will pass some thirty feet awoy from the line of the shaft, on the south, or Murray Creek side. This enables the line of the tunnel to be nearly straight. The distance from the Aj.js shaft to the Left-hand Branch is about a mile.