UNITED ALPINE.
Friday, Decemb er 14. Stone of excellent quality continues to be broken from the reef in this company's low-level, some specimens brought to town on Thursday being thickly studded with the precious metal. Opening out north is being continued, the reef shows a tendency to ■still widen towards the hanging wall. Its thickness being now about nine feet. Survey of site having been completed, tenders will be immediately •balled for erection of shoot and paddock and laying of ti*amway, to connect No. € level with the battery. There will be about 10 chains of tramway — five from level to top of shoot, and five from paddock to connect, with the company's old lower flat tramway above the lower incline. The shoot will be about 261 feet in length, and the paddock will be capable of holding perhaps 120 or 130 tons of quartz. The work is to be completecl in three months from signing of contract In a very short time this company's workings vKjll once more present. a scene of great Activity.
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Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1338, 19 December 1883, Page 3
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174UNITED ALPINE. Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1338, 19 December 1883, Page 3
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