TOOKEY.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1706, 22 June 1874, Page 2

TOOKEY.

The 300 ft level along the course of the r«ef is now in 180 ft to the north, and at present is running through an extremely hard dyke, the contractors having during the last fortnight only driven 4ft 9in. About 20ft from the face a cross-cut has been put in on a small leader, in which no gold has as yet been seen. The shaft is down within 17 feet of the drive put in by the United Pumping Association, at their 400 ft level, but sinking had. to be stopped in consequence of the water accumulating in the United Pumping Association's shaft and workings. As soon as the water has been pumped out active operations will be at once commenced in the Tookey mine. Eight or nine days' work—Mr. Dewar thinks—will be sufficient to complete the communication between the Tookey shaft and the drive from the Pumping Association's shaft. When this is completed a good current of air, it is thought, will flow through the mine. The drive on the 400 ft level will be pushed ahead beyoni the Tookey shaft with all possible energy. The thorough draught which msut ensue when the drive is in from the big pump shaft will, it is hoped, raise to the surface a large portion of the fatal chokedamp, which has been so long and patiently, yet expensively combatted in the Albion, Tookey and Caledonian mines. Some experienced miners doubt this, but it is probable that the holing through to the Tookey shaft will give such a draught that pure air will run through all three mines, especially as there is always a waterfall in the Association s shaft.