ANDERSONS EXTENDED.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 53, 10 August 1877, Page 2

ANDERSONS EXTENDED.

Mosfc encouraging accounts, were received from, the Anderson Extended mine, in the latter part of the week, and our special r«portor visited tho mjne. The visit was a hurried one and did not allow of the collection, of sufficient data for a full report upon the mine, which must, therefore, be reserved for a future pcca« sion. Upon the upper level the hands are engaged breaking dow.n quartz; both north and south. At the south end of the drive recently opened there is a remarkably fine looking body, of stone, fully six feet in thickness, with good walls making as the. stone is followed. In. tho northern, face the.reef, up to Wednesday morning last, betrayed signs of a break, but later in the day what appeared to-bo the nose of either, another block of stone, or a continuation of the main reef, came in. at the foot of the face, and as the work progressed the stone widened out and- in*, clined towards the roof. Fn to the time of my visit this now bvly of stone hod been exposed for a longlh of about two feet, presenting the appearance of a wedge, the thick end of which is heading north, into fin ontiiely unexplored portion of t'hp company's lens*. The sfone hid not been broken into up to this time, but upon request Mr Beech, the mining manager, obligingly broke off a few pieces which were conveyed to the surface for .inspection, and it is no exaggeration to say that the show of gold throughout the stone was remarkably good. The body of stone from which the pieros, just referred to were, taken, is solid in character and as its courso lays through a part of the company's ground never before prospected, opinion will be greatly at fault i the.discovery does not prove alUimportant to the company. A large quantity of stone is upw exposed in various parts of the mine, but whether it is all of payable quality, that is a question, which/the batlery alone can. solve. When, however, it is considered that stone from, what may be termed the same workings has yielded as high as 2oz to the ton, and this taken with the. undoubtedly payable character of the stone just exposed, can. leave no reasonable doubt as to the future of the ;company. Sufficient stone is now cx« .prosed to justify the company in starting to I crush right away. That Anderson'b hill 'is rich in quartz, whether it be in con* tinuous reefs, or detached blocks, has always been a generally nc« ■cepted opinion amongst persons competent to judge, and that tho present company is now on the right course of- the stone,, can.no longer be questioned;