MAY QUEEN EXTENDED.
The ground in the north crosscut is good solid sandstone, and during, the past fortnight the contractors' have made good progress. A distance of 40ft has been driven from the shaft and the manger expects any time to , get the Creek Reef. As stringers of quartz were passed through for 70 feet in the shaft it would indicate that this reef is a large one. occidental. The drive on the Hague-Smith reef is in 470 feet, and the country is now of a little firmer description. During the last week mineral and quartz veins have been met with, and the drive is now getting clear of the break. IRON CAP. When the ground in the crosscut has been secured with timber driving, on the reef westward at the low level will be resumed.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 210, 4 September 1900, Page 2
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