MURRAY CREEK.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 10 August 1881, Page 2

MURRAY CREEK.

(fbom otjb mining bepobteb ) THE WERE. GOLDEN TREASURE. Satubday, August 6. This company completed a very successful crushing, and cleaning up during the week obtaining 339ozs6dwt of melted gold. The mill was again started on Friday morning, and is doing good work on stone, which had accumulated to the extent of 55 tons during the time of cleaning up. The work in the mine is also progressing satisfactorily ; the bottom level having reached a point about equi-distant from the winze it if intended to connect. Fair gold is showing in the faces, and the reef is increasing in proportions, measuring from three to eight feet in the stopes, so that it would be an easy matter to keep the full power of the mill going were it not for the difficulty existing in raising the stone, which now can I c done by hand power only at the rate of eleven tons per day. j This will, however, soon be remedied, as it is intended in the first place to substitute a whip instead of present appliance?. This again will no doubt make room for an .engine at a later date. Tenders have been called, and were opened this evening for extending the main level 50 feet. Messrs Wills and Eirbv were the lowest at 19s 5d per foot, and their tender was accepted.