THE MINES. Notes from. Macetown.

Otago Witness, Issue 1640, 28 April 1883, Page 14

THE MINES. Notes from. Macetown.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPOKDBKT.) Arrow, April 19lh. Although frost has imdo ita appearance at Jlacetown already, it is not to bo presumed that it will result in tho immediate stoppage of any mine. Tho Tipperary will start 10 clean up next week, when another handsome cake may bo expected. The coming cake will be a good test of the mine, as tho quartz which yiolds it has boen taken from a number of faces widely apart and from different levols. The Ladye Fayre struck the reef last Friday, and are now driving for the winze sunk from the old level, where they hope to strike the shoot of gold which yielded the former satisfactory returns. The Maryborough are putting out stone which promises to go from one to one and _ a-half ounces to the ton, and, it is understood, will have a crushing as soon a? the Premier are through with their atone. The Gla* stone are getting some very fair stone out, aud it U computed that they havo over 200 tons at grass The Trcoauro have about 60 or 60 tons reaoy for the mill, some of which ia very rich, and all of it highly payable. The Premier are still busy getting out stone, but it is expected that they will finish crushing next woek. This depends, however, greatly upon the slate of tho weather, for a continuance of the frcst 1 wil make water very scarce. The Keep-it Dark are packing down the remains of tho stone fro v whi»,h they obtained their good cake a short time ago, and in addition some of the quartz raisedfrom theirshaft The reef is about 2ft wide betweon the walls. The Mountain Maid have nearly all the stone they are going to crush packed down to the Homeward-Bound machine, which will make a start with crushing shortly. The Garibaldi, also, will commence crushing as soon as the Tipporary have washed up. Tho All Nations Company, in cleaning up, discovered a leak in the

ataniper-box, which previous to tho prosont crushng has been unused for about four yearn Thi* leak iccou-its for the small quantity of auialgatn obtained from the plates, which wa<» much bolow what was exeuted from th« appearanoo of the s'.ono, and a'a > accounts fr>r the loss of quicksilver. It may porha^s 'ie neuos^arv to take down the nttchino to recover the lost qulckbilver and gold

Arrow, Avril 23rd,

Tho Premier cake came down on Saturday niuhfc Ft weight was 2120z, from 185 ton* of stone Mo. 1 rei'f is four feet wide, and shows gold hrou hunt, and the prospects of tho claim are ver> satisfactory.