MINING NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1453, 6 October 1884, Page 2

MINING N EWS.

i «• [FROM OUR MINiW T V -o^'-rtx] Saturday, R»nt.m-ni">r 27, j The following are the baU^y returns for tlie past week : — Welcome. — 61?oz of amalgam. KErp-iT-DARK.~ ITOri.-! nf amalgam. FiriY Cko^ Extended. — 288oz of I amalgam. ! Tnkehman- — 210055 of amalgam. | Hot r.t" ctl Extfnotjd. 3 15<>z of retorted guld fir.m S7 tons of st inc. GOLDEN TREASURE. The directors have decided to defer ; for the present the acceptance of a tender for constructing tunnel to con- ; nect with the winze now <roing down, | the mine manager not being as yet j prepared for tht starting of the work, j In the meantime, however, the sinking of the, winze is being proceeded with at a fair rate of speed and will he out of , hand prohably some time during the i current week. FIERY CROSS. I The battery work for the week : shows a healthy improvement, and as there is abundance of stone available : in the mine the crushing will he con- j tinned for some time yet hafore a general cleaning up takos place. NO. 2 WELCOME, The resumption of work by th? Boatman's Low Level Tunnel Cora- j pany brings the name of this venture 1 once more prominently into notice, as | the course of the low level tunnel runs right through the No. 2 ground and is already a considerable distance in. The lease is thus being prospected at i such a depth that should any run of pnvahle stone be met with the property will bf-come of great value. According to compass bfiarincrs taken upon the surface the face of the tunnel should h<> now within a. very short distance of the run of gold-bparinor stone found some time ago on the West Welcome lease, so that the shareholdei's in this, ns wpII a<* the adjacent leases are on the gui vivo. The other companies whose interests are affected by the operations of the Boatman's- Low Level Tunnel are the Comstock, N« rth C'lfopatm, Endeavour, Homeward Bound and one or two others. IMPERIAL. The n flairs of this company are still unsettled, although the hope is entertained that the company will eventually repurchase the ground and proceed systematically to work. The great depression current in the past has, however, impeded a settlement, but as sums are not wanting of a turn in the f.irlo it is probablp that something definite will be done, before the end of the year. BOATMAN' B LOW LEVEL. The contractors have driven about fifty feet since starting. The progress it not quite what wns exneefced, for flu- time, l>ut a good deal of rlflay was due to stoppages in connection with thp rook boring machinery. The contractors have now decided to dispense altogether with the use of the boring mac.hinorv, and to propped with the work hy hand labor, believing they .can make greater headway than they have, done hitherto. HOPEFUL EXTENDED. The crushing of the tributers wa

occluded on Friday last, the i". snlu being 115oz of yetortcd gold fro.n 87 tons of s'one. The cleaning up is not yet completed as a few ounces additional will be obtained.