VICTOR EMANUEL.
The prospecting level started by this company some time since is driven a distance of about 80 feet. The reef was intersected at 30 feet, so that it has been followed for 50 feet. There is a very good show of gold in the stone (a few tons of which are stacked at the mouth of the tunnel), but the reef does not yet maintain a defined appearance, frequent "bulges" of several feet in thickness being met with, the lode again immediately narrowing down to seven or eight inches. The countiy now being driven through, however, is much improved, and there is a well-defined track of reef over 2ft. wide between the hanging-wall and the run of quartz, which may at any moment open out into a reef of large proportions. The actual distance between jhe hanging-wall cdfhpany were unfortunate a short time since in losing one of their levels by a large slip coming down and burying the tunnel. In this level, which was about 50 feet below the present workings, the reef was exceedingly well-defined and permanent, and it is to be regretted that the loose nature of the surface will not admit of the debris being cleared away, and the level again utilised.
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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1082, 3 May 1882, Page 2
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208VICTOR EMANUEL. Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1082, 3 May 1882, Page 2
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