COROMANDEL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 119, 28 May 1885, Page 2

COROMANDEL.

Tokatka.—The managor reports t-jajL crosscut going in from the Ho. ? W which I have, for the sake of inattoi better understqod, named the ,'iogtSa crosscut,' is now in about 22 feet, vi gradually changing for the bettor etktbfboi it is driven. The heavy faulty gntuid'ii dying out, giving way to a mowtSsii run of country, a (sort of soft sandatwt The leader farther back, which fortienim reason as above I have called the 'Ui branch,' has beon stripped and btokm down for a distance of & feet. ■ It'tjjnin a most likely - looking etone,... faa of mineral, but as yet hw cat shown gold. While opentiou.Vtat to bo carried on such a long dbttuct from the ventilating chambera (ne»Hi 1,000 feet), withthe6airpipe»,wwk4 have to be confined to the one centre, Tb pipes have to be disconnected at tt« Ith branch, consequently we cannot driffak1 the inner drive, which at prweot it tin most important of the two., WkUW contractors commence, they wiUitddh go ahead, and the pipes will tare'to'W carried home to withio afewfwtSiW face, as we can only operate In dm pf tas1" drives, and recommend that ail cat work at present be centred in to footwall lovel. The faulty ccantry Bist has caused such disappointment hcth to the Board and myself may yet prow beneficial to tKs Company. I need not point out that when these faults cat off or I wore the very storehouses of wealth,I''Al( the great finds on the Thauns have jsetk moro or less connected with a fault lnl!s country, even in your Tokatea. vX^Satttfc when working the old ground in.^jptt levels some very extensive fault* tottinr the lode channel about where sop of thS richost patches were obtained. %mm- : mend that this brokoncountrjbfltidrpagllj prospected from both sides of No, IM, Tributes : McNeil's party are on gold k the old suiface workings; ; they^wejboiit a cwt. of stone on. hand. Biek's party j» also breaking but fair stuff,"