MINING NOTES.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 1072, 19 June 1890, Page 3

MINING NOTES.

NENTHORN CONSOLIDATED CO.

• J] 16 r , e P° rt from the Nenthom Consolidated Q.M. Co.'s mine appears to he a good deal more favorable than usual. The mine manager's report for the week ending 16th June states:—"! have been busy ou the west side of the company's claim known as Wilsons lease, and have baled out the 50tt. shaft and started sinking. After go incr down about five feet, 1 struck a good well" dehned lode of fully Ift., and carrying fair gold which I expect to improve before my next weekly report. Tnere is not at present much water to contend with, and if it keeps down 1 expect to have a-more satisfactory report to lay before the directors at their next meeting." BREAK O'DAY COMPANY. I This company can be looked upon as one j of tae most economically worked claims at ' Nenthorn, and it is confidently expected ! that stone from this property will give returnsjjqual to any ou the field. There is now 200 tons of good ore at grass, and it would be well to have this crushed immediately, so that shareholders might have an opportunity of judging the value of their property As it is expected that'the Consolidated Battery will be kept busy for some time with Victoria Co.'s stone, it might be advisable (although the Break o'Day hold a third interest in that battery) if the ore were reduced at the Public Battery, which is much nearer, and arrangements could be ! made to have it reduced at once at a moderate figure. It is expected the result of ths .crushing will be extremely.gratifying. MT. HIGHLAY CO., MAREBTJRN. This company's mine is said to be looking very well, any amount ol stone being iu sio-ht estimated to yield lOdwt. per ton The manager (Mr. M. Thomas) has recently put through some 70 tons, the greater part being low.grade ore which had to be got rid of

NOTES FROM NENTHORN.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

t- u ■ \ R nWlc , meeting held in Maloney's hall last baturday eveniug, a Miners' Uniou was formed and officers appointed. Perhaps of the many varieties of industry which are now united for mutual guidance and defence, the gold-miner may be thought to be amongst the most incongruous—erratic to a proverb independent to a fault, it is certainly quite a novelty to see. the gold-miner joining in the great labor movements now so general over the extent of Ahglo-Saxou colonisation. If mining is to be/ conducted on the lines of public companiefe, of course thesocialpositiou of the practical miner must change to that of a, man, in which case a Union is quite a necessity, and the incongruity vanishes ; aud it certainly seems as though all gold-mining in this part of the country was destined to be so conducted. However, the miners of Nenthom are (so far as I know) the first gold-miners who have thought it necessary to join in the mutual protection provisions adopted by other branches of industry.

Ihe Surprise Company are carting; stone for crushing at the Public Battery, and the work in the claim is being pushed on creditably. About 100 feet of drives have been advanced from the shaft east and west—3o feet in the former, and about 70 feet in the latter direction—and stopin? is going on in the 70ft tunuel at present." There is probably 40 tous of stone at grass at present, and it is expected to give a good account of itself at the mill.

The Jacob Company, whose crushing of SS ounces of stone yielded an ounce to the ton, are calling tenders for driving. The tributors of the Prospectors cla'm are still getting out stone, and it is hope I they have prospects which will yield their venture a little better return fjr this parcel tha;j they obtained last time.

The Ocesus Company are iri f nil working order, as repurted in last week's issue, and the battery is working on the stone, so there is some prospect of Che shareholders in this claim having something better to hear About their claim shortly than has been reported to them for a considerable time back. It is reported here that the Gladstone is let on tribute to a party of six miners, who go on to work at once to develop this company's property. Th 6 Public Battery has been delayed in starting to crush stone by some unsatisfactory machinery ; but.it "is expected they will be ready to start crushing this day, whence, it is hoped, they will proceed without any more hindrance.