MINING ITEMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 74, 31 March 1892, Page 2

MINING ITEMS.

(Beefton Guardfon and Inangahua llerali 28th March.) Last week's battery returns, whioh w publish to-day, amount to the vory aatisfac tory total of 276Uoza of amalgam, Tho re turns are all good ones, those from th Globe and Cumberland being especially rioli A dividend of one shilling per share was de clnrei in the Globe on Saturday. The re turns afford good evidence of the faofc tha mining matters nro improviug- in the dis triot, and with the present favourable pros peots of a continuance of tho presont en courogiug yield of metal business matten in general should soon begin to aasunn a brighter aspect. Several lines have beer enquired for from outside. The mining managers report on tho following :— Thi reef in the General Gordon is 18 inches ir width and the total distance driven is 5j feet. The stone in tho face of No. 3 leve of the Progress i3 8 feet wide and of good quality. The total distance driven in ston* is 160 feet, The stopea aro lookiug well There has been no work done in the winze of the Big Iliver for the past nine days owing to tho bad air, We commenced cutting out tho Chamber on Wednesday morning with three shifts of three men on eaoh shift, as wo had to haul tbe mullook by hand foi the first set of timbor. Very little Btouo hu been broken out at the lukerman, as all hands have bj L <a umployed repairing damages caused by the surfaoo Blip mentioned laal week. The mine is now scoured and roa ly for breaking out stoae, and there is a larg< reef to operato upon. Wo had to ator. crushing yesterday, but will racommence on Monday or Tuosday. Now that the Ladj Louisa reef is opened sufficiently to start crushing, work will be resumed ia the old mine by stoping out the reel sunk on below No 8 level. Although the roof is smell it is of very good.quality. The reef iv the face of the drivoin the United Alpine at present is 16 feet wide and shows fair gold from hanging wall to foot wall, The men iv the drive have been timbering up for the greater part of the weok ; there is a distance of 108 feet opened up on thia block. There aro 12 men employed in the stopss over No 7 level, eight men iv the stopea south of ooutraotora p.isa, and four men north of pass. The reef is looking well,