MURRAY CREEK.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 59, 24 August 1877, Page 2

MURRAY CREEK.

[FBOM O,UB JOINING REP.pETEB.J NIL PESPERANDUM. "' Wednesday, August 32. Th.e. worka ifl the shaft are bfing steadily continued, and although u,p to the present no.thing in the. fo,rm of a defined lode has • been struck, BsiU there is reason to belive from the, appearance of- the face that a defined hpdy of stone does exist, and every foo.t that the. level is. driven gives more promising iodicalion of a solid and permanent reef beiag shortly interse.c.ted. Tlie distance that the level has been opened^ from, the top pf the shaft is 110 feet, whiph wo,u,ld giv.e that amount of back*, the wb,ole. of the ground a,bov© b,emg ip, its natural forn\. The level is now in from tb,e shaft abou,t 14 feet, carrying two. excellent walls with block.B of quarU showing o.xcellen,t gold, and, as much as two, feet in, bu,lk. Sincq. last week another very important work has. been started on. tbo old Hercules lave], 9,0, feet south of the turntable, a rise has been taken up about 16, feet carrying also two excellent walls with about 2 fee.t of pug and quar,tz, and which altogether bears s,o favourable an appearance that a good clean booty of stone might be expected to present itsejf at any moment. At this particular part of the mine there is 170. feet of solid ground overhead to the surface, and wliitjli, is really worth, the expense of prospecting, ever,y particle of quartz appears to carry good, gold and is of precisely the same, grain of stone as.the old Hercujoa block. From the indication wo have both .north and south of the , turntable, it is a reasonable assumption, to gay that stone, in. payable quantity mu,st be pijoved shortly.