MURRAY CREEK.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 96, 30 March 1877, Page 2

MURRAY CREEK.

[FBOM OUB MINING* BEPOBTEB.] INDEPENDENT. Wei>nesday, March 28. The contractors engaged sinking the trial shaft bare about aaother ten feet to sink, and will then bare reached the specified distance and fulfilled their con« tract. When this is accomplished the eastern lode will be proved in depth for about 85 feet. The construction of a new low level tunnel, referred to last week as being merely in contemplation. I learn has now been decided upoa, and immeiately that that the present hands bring ' their work to the point of completion tenders are to be invited for the com* own cement of the above work. The level upon which this tunnel is to be taken in will be 200 feet perpendicular measure* ment from old upper tunnel, and allowing for the angle of the lode it will command, at the least 250 feet of backs, It is calcolated that the western lode will be intersected about 50 feet below the bottom of the trial shaft, and as a most favorable looking body of stone Bas been disclosed in the shaft for 150 feet, it may be reason* ably assumed that the reef will be eat in the tunnel at the point anticipated, As far as ascertaining the exact length of the two different blocks of stone which exist , in this Company's ground beyond what is shown in the adjoining company's mine, no specified distance can as yet be mentioned. The construction of the tunnel referred to will give some adequate idea as to the amount of stone at command, and from the general character of the reefs in the Inangahua it has been shown that the reefs on all the lower levels have vastly improved in form and quality comparatively to the surface blocks. This company have therefore every reason to be sanguine of meeting with success in their undertaking, and it is even further contemplated in due time to construct a water"race from the opposite side of the river, and to erect machinery of their own. It is to be sincerely hoped that on the completion of the long tunnel their prospects may be such as to warrant the carrying out of the above project, and really it may be said their efforts deserve to be crowned with something more than ordinary success.