THE GOLDFIELDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8035, 24 August 1887, Page 5

THE GOLDFIELDS.

[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. Thamks, Tuesday. Cambria. — The 501b of specimens from No. 7 leader open up a fresh prospect for the mine. So far as Is known tho leader does not correspond with anything tound at No. 2 level. The lode is about four inches wide.

The Saxon mine has followed the lead of the Cambria in requiring its employees to be insured in an accident society.

Cambuia. —The mine manager reports that the leading etope west on the No. 1 footwall leader at No. 3 level is along 58 feet. In the face of this etope the leader is about one foot in thickness. Gold ia being seen through the quartz when breaking down the leader. The leading stope east on the No. 1 footwall leader is along 30 feet. In the face of this etope the leader is about four inches in thickness. Gold is Been freely through the quartz when breaking down the leader. The drive on the No. 5 leader at No. 3 level is in a distance of fifteen feet. The loader in the face of the drive ie aix inches in thickness. There are also a number of small stringers in the face of the drive in which gold is being seen. The leading stope over the drives west on No. 4 and JSo. 5 loaders, at No. 3 level, ia along fourteen feet. In this stope it ie being broken down for a width of ten feet, there being atringero of quartz through it in which gold is seen when breaking them down. It is all picked over before being sent to the battery. Ten pounds of epecimenecauie to hand this morning from leading etopes on γ-o. 5 leader. The drivo on No. 6 leader at No. 3 level ia in a distance of 21 feet. The leader in the face of the drive is four inches in thickness. Gold is being seen through the quartz when breaking down the leader. I have stopped the drive on the six-inch leader, which ie striking into the footwall of the No. 1 footwall leader in the weetern drive for the present, and put the men that were working hare to open out eastward on the two small leaders that were cut in the end of the croascut at No. 3 level, and which will be No. 7 leader, No. 3 levol. Dabs and colours of gold were seen freely through the quartz when breaking theleador down to day. 79 loads of quartz have been crushed during the week for the return of I7loz of amalgam. The battery is in good working order, also the winding engine. Mr. R. McDonald Scott received the following telegram yesterday from the i, ine manager : -—" 501b specimens from No. '* leader, eastern drive, No. 3 level." Trenton. —The agreement with the Saxon Company has been completed on satisfactory terms, and the joint arrangement to drive on the lode to the Trenton boundary is now in full force, and the drive is being pushed ahead with all speed. No great time will therefore elapee before the boundary is reached, and as the lode improves hillward it is reasonable to expect a heavy deposit in the Trenton, keeping in view the fact of the claim being on the liue of the gold between the Cambria and Queen of Beauty claims.