MINING NEWS TALISMAN

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 58, 5 September 1914, Page 8

MINING NEWS TALISMAN

REPORT TO THE DIRECTORS. On behalf of the local board, Mr. R. B. Jackson visited the Talisman mine* recently, and he found the plant and everything working quite satisfactorily. The big Cornish pump in the Woodstock section is now constantly at work, and limning, quite smoothly, lifting all water, and only working up to onefourth of its full capacity. In the Woodstock section of the mine at the random of the fourteenth level, the cross-cut is out about 460 ft, and a further 200 should probably * reach the Woodstock reef. This will take some two months. Going north the drive is out 275 ft. No values have yet been met with, but some 700 ft Or 800 ft * have yet to be driven before getting under the section carrying values over-head. Going south, 350 ft has be ,driven, between 150 ft and 170 ft, and payable Values came in for some 25ft. "At present," Mr. Jackson sta-tes, "we are trying to pick up the vein south of the main fault, and this should come to hand any^day where overhead some 500 ft tho original Woodstock Company stoped the ground. "„ Since his last visit, Mr. Jackson found that No. 12 winze has been sunk to the random of the fifteenth level. The first 120 ft went down with consistently high values, the last 30ft only being low grade ore. From the bottom of the winze drives have been put out 00ft each way. Going south the values have been erratic, on the whole, with low values at present. A crosscut from v the face is now being driven eastward, which has intersected about sft of quartz, the finst three feet being payable. At the time of his visit the assays for the last two feet were not 'to hand. Going north, there have been several short runs of payable ore. and, taking it as a whole, the 90ft will show payable values. The general appearance of the country and vein now is more favourable than it hfis been since the low grade values came in when sinking the winze, and there is no reason so far in the work being done to show why No. 15 level should not open up as good as levels overhead. The water has increased in No. 12 winze workings, and this should soon drain the water now standing in No. 6 and 19 winzes in th» fourteenth level, and when this happens sinking at these points will be resumed. In conclusion, Mr. Jackson states that there is absolutely no indication of change of country in depth at the lowest Workings of the mine, and in the absence of change it was naturally expected the same conditions would be met with as overhead. WORKSOP DREDGE. The weekly return of the Worksop dredge, as telegraphed to the Stock Exchange, is 58oz 6dwt for 117 hours. The fourth special lecture on prophecy will be given in the Carlton Hall, Marionstreet, to-morrow, at 7 p.m., on tho subject "A Refuge from ihe Storm."-

The prize of £100 offered by the MusicaJ Association of New South Wales for the best musical setting in song-form of words by Arthur H. Adams has been won. by Mr. TlTeodore Tourrier, 3. Melbourne musician. The Australasian observes that it is impossible to say ■whether the purpose the Sydney society bad in view —the making of a song expressive of Australian patriotism—will be achieved by thus presenting it to the people. Past experience indicates that such a process has only small chances of success. But it should be said that Mr. Tourrier's song is, in its own popular way, a capital piece of work. The melody (in march time) is a good one, and one easily to be grasped after a. single hearing. The emphasis of the words (an important point) has, on the whole, been well cared for, and th© general spirit of the song, if not original, is vigorous and healthy. Its progress as a "national song" will certainly be watched with interest. '' Rev. \V. E. Souter, of the Scottish National Bible Society, from Chungking, West China, will give the address at Y.M.CJA. Men's Meeting to-morrow, at I p.m. A notice to the sth (Wellington) Regiment is advertised in this issue. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, la 6d t —Adjt,