KEEP-IT-DARK MINE

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 May 1914, Page 3

KEEP-IT-DARK MINE

VISIT OF INSPECTION. A reporter of the "Tnangahua Times" visited the Keep-it-Dark Mine on Wednesday, and was most courteously shown over it by the mine manager, Mr. John Ellery." The chief interest in the mine at present is centred in the intermediate between Nos. 8 and 9 levels, for here is to be found that big block of stone from which most of the handsome return of £1,900 odd last month was obtained. Getting out at No 8 chamber, the representative of the journal was shown, some 510 feet from the shaft, a crosscut put in some ten or twelve feet in order to connect with the rise from the intermediate, which was being put up from the bottom. The sound of the Horsefield machine in the stones below could be plainly heard, and another forty or fifty feet will make a connection. Then by means of the winze in No 8 the party crept clown to the stone. Here a glorious sight awaited them. Before them were piled nvts-ses of magnificent stone, the reef being 20 feet wide with stone on he;;d and at foot. Great chambers had been cut out cf the gleaming quartz, and it was being shovelled away as fast aa possible. It was just after crib time, and the stone lay broken after the firing. This was an encouraging sight, but a few yards further on we came to an even better one. Here the great wall of stone lay. There were walls of it, roof of it,_ floors of it. The machine was working into it with good will, and the most pessimistic director would have been encouraged by the sight. The future of the mine, concerning which many must have felt doubtful, is assured, and hearty, congratulations must be extended to the mine manager and the directors.