BROKEN HILL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 209, 4 September 1899, Page 3

BROKEN HILL.

By the outgoing San Francisco mail ( Mr E. McDonald Scott, under instructions from the directors of the Broken Hill Gold Mining Company, Waiomo, forwarded through Messrs John Burns ; and Co. two bags of ore for Mr Luck- ; hardt of California. The covering j letter stated the ore was from the | Broken Hill mine, Waiomo, and was i sent to be treated, it being considered j highly of, but could not be successful- , ly treated in Auckland. The letter j adds "It is considered to be refractory ' ore, and at any rate nobody here can ' treat it, but as Mr Luckhard has a re- j putation for being able to do so the ( parcel is sent to be forwarded to him i in order that this company may know i the result." i KHARTOUM. The managing director reports: — During the past fortnight the level j has been extended 20 feet, making its j total length 151, and this leaves 9 feet of driving to be done in order to i reach under the shoot of rich ore dis- j ; covered some time since on the sur- j face. Within the last few days the lode has improved considerably, and fair dish prospects of gold are now , obtainable from any of the ore on the hanging-wall side. The enclosing i country rock is also becoming of a | more favourable description for the existence of the precious metals in ! payable quantities. i MAROTOTO. : Mr J. McCombie, managing direc- ■ tor, reports: —The winze at No. 1 level '< has been sunk 3 feet, making its total i depth 43 feet. Here the lode is be- ! ing- broken out to an average width jof 3 feet, without any sign of the | footwall, and the average assay value j iof the ore is £0 5/ pf ton. No. 2 j j level has been driven a distance of 10 j I feet, making its total length 571 feet, ! J and, according to Messrs Adams and j Harding's survey, this leaves 20 feet of driving to be done before the line of the winze now in progress below No. 1 level is reached. The level is I being turned gradually in the direction of the hanging wall, which, how- j ever, is not yet in sight, but it should I be to hand very shortly. Here a steady improvement is noticeable in the ' character of the lode, as work is | continued upon it southwards, and the ore carries a little gold through- ■ out. BUNKER'S HILL. The manager reports that during I the week a'small chamber has been | formed in the south side of the winze, ! flat sheets laid, and the requisite timi bering accomplished. A leading1 stope has been advanced eight feet in that direction and the quartz taken down. The leader looks well but exposed no gold. No. 2 stope north is along 17 feet. Here the leader at present is small, but continues to show gold in the quartz taken down. In the north j drive the country is interlaced "with | mineral and quartz veins, and the leader is composed chiefly of pug, but continues to show nice gold in the solid stone. PROPERTY SALE. A largety-attended sale of valuable city property was held to-day by j Messrs S. Cochrane and Son, auction- | ■ eers. Two shops in Karangahape • Road (occupied by Messrs Morgan and Levi), with 30 feet 6inches frontage, were disposed of for the sum of £1525. An allotment and shed in Hobson-street (29 feet frontage) was sold for £362 10/. A section in Hep-burn-street with two cottages thereon realised £185, and another allotment, with cottage, in the same street, fetched £180. A section in HaydnRtreet, iwith dwelling-Jhouse erected thereon, sold for £270, and two cottages in Cook-street found a purchaser at the sum of £170.