THE WILLIAM TELL.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1475, 26 November 1884, Page 2

THE WILLIAM TELL.

Owen and party have been the successful tenderers for the tunnel. There ia a very healthy desire manifest just now to prospect. The board of directors are determined to avail themselves of every resource, aud do everything possible to prove the payable quality of the mine. In addition to the tunnel which has been already commenced aud which must he finished within a month under a .severe penalty, Messrs Moran and Gagliardi proceed to-morrow to take and padaock all tbe available surface quartz, and have it put through the battery before Christinas if possible. The result of these two operations must exercise a very decided influence on the fu tin e not only of this claim bnt on all others on the field, and will be looked forward to with much eagerness. If the rich reef be intersected in the level of the tunnel, which will give about 200 feet of backs, the courageous sellers cannot purchase back the shares at the Hdicnlcnsly low prices they sold for lately. If anything is able to galvanize an incredulous public into faith and ere dulty with regard to the stadility of the field. I suppose striking the reef at two hundred feet of a depth, and a satisfactory crushing ought.