MARATOTO.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 203, 28 August 1899, Page 5

MARATOTO.

The manager reports that the winze at No. 1 level has been timbered up and sunk three feet, making, its total depth forty feet. The lode here is being broken out to an average width of three feet on the hangingwall side and the ore is all of good quality. During the week No. 2 level has been extended a distance of 10 feet, making its total length 561 feet, and there is a decided improvement in the character of the lode. The deposit of decomposed ore, accompanied by hard boulders, which have hampered the progress of the level for some time v past, has disappeared and in its place there now tis- a comparatively solid body of kindly looking ore, which is being broken out to an average width of five feet without any sign of either walls. This ore carries a little gold, •a.nd the course of the level is being diverged towards the hangingwall, in which direction we expect to meet with the rich ore shoot already exploited at the No. 1 level. Attached hereto won will find Messrs Adams and Harding's report on the No. 2 level workings. , According to -this report the old plan from which we took all our measurements is altogether inaccurate, and instetad of our now havino- only four feet to drive in order to reach under the line of the winze there really is a distance of thirty feet remaining to be accomplished.