OUR MINES
BOATMAN'S.
(fbom'oub mining eeporter) WELCOME. Moki>at, November 8. This company has about thirty bands employed on the different works in connection with the mine. The output of stone is estimated at 60 to 70 tons weekly The intermediate between Nos. 5 and 6 levels is being extended north with all possible dispatch on a well-defined reel. Three shifts are kept constantly at work. The stopes show a fine body of stone of more Hum average qua'ity, also in the No. 6 lerel three shifts are kept driving on a well-defined reef of eighteen inches in thickness, thit is estimated to yield two ounces to the ton. The company have commenced to send down stone to the machine paddoek, and I may here state that the distance from the workings to the company's battery is threequarters of a mile. A substantial tramway has been laid down, with iron rails, and conappearanee, the battery will be completed and everything iu order to commence crashing in two weeks from the present dale. The battery of 10 hoa<h of stamps will be most complete in every detail.
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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 10 November 1880, Page 2
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185OUR MINES Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 10 November 1880, Page 2
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