TOOKEY COMPANY.
The three-hundred feet level has been driven northward along the course o# the main reef 136 feet, the last 20 feet being entirely in country, the reef having beared to the eastward. The level has been kept straight with the view of cutting it in advance. From this lead, 80 feet from the entrance, a cross-cut is being driven on a leader which has enlarged as the cross-cut advanced to two feet six inches. The main shaft has been sunk to 350 feet, leaving only 60 feet more to sink, a part of which will be done by rising from the level put in from the United Pumping Association shaft now directly under the shaft on the 400 feet leveL The sinking of the shaft has been stopped for a few days to make some repairs to the air courses and to enable the out-crop shaft on the hill to be timbered and a brick chimney to be built on the hill—the upcast shaft to be turned temporarily into the old Belfast shaft, all of which work is intended to be finished before the connection with the Unite^. Pumping Association's 400 feet level is made, and then the up-cast air will be turned in this direction.
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Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1676, 18 May 1874, Page 2
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208TOOKEY COMPANY. Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1676, 18 May 1874, Page 2
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