UNITED ALPINE.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1411, 2 July 1884, Page 2

UNITED ALPINE.

i :'.id/vy, June Z(. The battery lias been run ii.i:; ten heads steadily oil the vwk for the company, tive till W^d-is-'jIMV, and ten since for the tvihntors. "l.'»o«,!i parties will keep ou uni.il to-mo-voA-night and then have a geue al << aa>-ing-up. The plates look ns "vviH as usual. — No. 6 level.— No'-ih out). \ strong body of clean stone 12'"t tjj.olc in the foot-wall side is being taken out, that on the hanging-wall side is baiovj left for the present, until aooufc th^e.-j sets further a^e driven, and the uprise started. Fine gold shows heve a.nl their in the solid ; which is an e:;oeHe'it indication of the quality of the sk>u.\ — South face — Nothing doing lie<e just now. — -No. 1 Stope — As u\as; epected, according to the irregularity met with in the level underneath, the reef has materially lessened in boUc, and the cross-reef, a hotly of stone three feet thick, cutting sharply acoss the course of the main boiK", be^-i reached ; this is being followed in ihe foot-wall side and taken out. In t!>e hanging-wall side the stone i&tw.j i*e j ■» thick, being squeezed up with a lot oi: mullock from the centre ; as the -evf is expected to come back to ite u i ;n,i,l course and size within a few lVe.i,, iiie full width includiug all the rnnllodc ta being taken out just now. — No. 8 — North face. Taking out a fine widen' of stone, which has suddenly made in the foot- wall side, requiring double timber : the hands will come back and take out what there is of the increased thickness, probably two sets or m r.^. In the south end, the raise for a.-riciier stope ' is about completed, ui)d l-bft reef shows quartz all the way ae-oss. The Mbutors have about h'nUhef' the block below No. 4, whioia tij<-.'-have been working at, and this g.-mfi/al. cleaning-up will terminate their piesent operations.