ECLIPSE (TARARU)
The tender of Onyon and party at 14/6 a chain has been accepted for iallng and clearing 104 chains of bush where the Aerial tramway, is-to be erected. WAIHI-SILVEETON. During- the month of February the forty stamps ran twenty-one days, and 975 tons of ore were treated for a return.of 5790zs of bullion, valued at £ 1282. The month's output was again greatly diminished by the extra amount of charcoal in the ore which had been sent down from the kilns at the end of January, and part which only came in for treatment at the beginning of Februarj-. It is satisfactory, however, to know that the ore ' milled has maintained an improved value, the average assay for the last two months being over £2 per ton. The north drift on No. 4 level is looking- very well. A rise is being put up from this level to connect with N 0.3. On the surface an old adit at" the foot of the Union Hill has been cleaned cut, and a winze from it is about to be started close to the Union Co.'s boundary, with the object of picking up their reef at a point near where they are said to have mined highly payable ore. The old adit in question was driven in a surface formation, but by sinking it is expected within ■a, few feet to meet th e sandstone, and by cross-cutting in the latter to pick up the reefs.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 55, 7 March 1899, Page 5
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