RED QUEEN.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1405, 26 May 1884, Page 2

RED QUEEN.

I Work lias Wen continuously and prosperously carried on in this valuable mine. The Directors having determined to convoy the quartz to the battery by a wooden, instead of an ■ aerial, tramway (as at first proposed), have accepted a tender for constructing the same and also for shoot and paddocks. The contractors have set iv to work, and the contracts are to be out of hand within 10 weeks from signing contracts. As the Molrihinui water race is now completed, and the machine and battery will he finished during June, the Red Queen Company

':':■;. 'il>l he crushing in August next, ,i 1 ai every prospect of rich rew- is. fhe Company will commence crushing entirely free of debt, Tho Mine Manager makes the following report of the works completed in coa-iH-ctio.) with the mine, both out and inside, since the 18th November 1888. Four men have been employed during thai. time. TaeNo. 2 Level has been extended a distance of 112 feet through exceedingly wet and hard country. Owing to the great body of water we had to contend with very slow progress was made during 'that time. An uprise was commenced to meet the winze and con'iejt the two levels, and was compl.L.-d on tue 30th April — 72 feet. J-iis^ie work has been as follows : Getting umber for the mine, excavating storage i >oin for the quartz, laying oft iiul siii. vey ing two tramways — one iv rial aad one ground — over very rough country. By going up with the uprise the. same body of water and "hard country continued a distance of 15 feet. The stone was also very poor for Lliat distance, wheu the cuu'utry changed. We lost the water, and a very superior quality of stone was met with, and contiuued all the distance? until the winze was broken into. The reef will average about 1 loot in thickness all through, containing a great per ceutage of loose gold, independent of gjld in the stove.- I would advise tiie extension of No. 2 Level a distance of (JO feet, waen, accordiug to the dip hi the uprise, I expect to meet the same rich body of stone. From what I have now seen of the mine 1 have lio hesitation in congratulating the shareholders on their fortune in possessing one of the best properties ia tho field. i GUIDING STAR. Work iv his mine contiuues to be carried on steadily, and the tunnel on tlu; Mokihiuiu Company's ground has been driven a distance ol! 254 feet and the winze to connect the two levels sunk a depth of 60 feet. The Director* will commence crushing stone immediately after the machine is ready. The Mine Manager thus describes the past half-year's work : — I continued driving the tunnel from the Mokihinui Company's ground until I was in over 245 feet, when not having cut tho reet at this distance I deemed it advisable to sink a winze from the upper level, so as to find out which way the country was dipping and take correct hearings. This winze I have sunk 90 feet, cutting through one or two blocks of stove, I have now gona back into the tunnel, and am driving to connect winze with tunnel. The distauce will be about 130 feet to the bottom of the winze and I will then havo to uprise 20 feet 1 am now in 26 f«ct with this cross tunnel, The country through which I am now driving is brokcu with blocks of stove.