QUARTZ MINING MEMORANDA.

Otago Witness, Issue 1148, 29 November 1873, Page 9

QUARTZ MINING MEMORANDA.

(Cromwell Argus.) BENDIGO.

The Cromwell Quartz Mining Company finished a crushing on Friday last of 116 tons with the result of 245 ounces. Nearly seventy tons of this parcel was what is known as the "good " stuff, the balance being a very poor lot. The company, as reported last week, have got on the good run of gold in No. 1 shaft, but have not yet reached it in No. 2. The sinking in the latter proves very hard, and is consequently very slow. There is a rumour that it is intended to register the company under the Mining Companies Act of 1872, but it is not certain that such is the case.

The working manager in the Lucknow Company's claim is now eight feet past the perpendicular line of the reef, and judging from previous rates of progress, the rock must be very much less difficult than it has been before. Messrs Hazlett and Colclough will make a visit of inspection to the reef some time during the week.

The Eeliance Company is promising very well. The reef found in their shaft is between eighteen inches and two feet wide; but it has not yet been properly tested to see whether it contains gold, and to what extent. The Directors of the Company — Messrs Loughnan, Wilson, and Mitchinson — intend to make a visit ot inspection to the mine on Saturday, 22ud inst.

An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders in the Aurora Quartz Mining Company will be held next month, to decide whether to further prospect the mine or wind up the Company.

CARRICK RANGE.

Mr Colclough reports that " the Directors and Legal Manager of the Elizabeth Company inspected the mine and works of the Company previous to the change contemplated in the mine management, consequent upon Mr Towan's resignation. The result of the inspection was highly creditable to the retiring Manager, and the prospects generally appear more hopeful now than for some time past." The cost of coal should have been 23s 6d, not 27s 6d as reported last week.

The manager of the Caledonian reports that the low drive is going in fast, the rock being good for blasting. The depth of the drive does not seem to make any difference in the nature of the rock between this and the upper workings, and the tunnel being in the same line as the upper tunnel, there is every probability of it being withm a foot or two of the reef. It is not considered necessary at present to trouble about putting in a cross-drive to cut it. The Secretary to the John Bull Company reports that they started crushing last Tuesday, and abeut fifty tons have since been put through. It is intended to -wash up twice during the crushing. The first cleaning up will be in about ten days. The tables already look well. There are six men at work on the claim, with room for two or three more good men, if they could be got. The cross-drive has been driven about forty feet. For the last ten feet the reef has been pinched up, but is now opening out, being a foot thick in the face.

From the Star, there is nothing new to report. The battery is still at work upon this company's stone, and will keep at it for a fortnight yet. The Young Australian Co. have not made arrangements yet to have their stone crushed. "Several men are engaged on the ranges prospecting for new reefs.

The Liverpool Albion remarks :—": — " Mr Bright, in the early part of his career, displayed most of the outward and tangible signs of Quakerism — now, alas ! we hear of a black silk velvet court dresa, and, we hear, silver buckles also."