THE GOLDEN CALF.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1729, 18 July 1874, Page 2

THE GOLDEN CALF.

I went to this mine yesterday, but did not go below as I found that the only work at present being carried on is sinking the shaft, which is now down 316 feet. I should have gone down to have a look at the country the shaft is going through, but had to content myself with looking at the stuff that is being sent to surface from the sinking. It was evidently from a much softer country, and carries a great deal of water, which comes boiling up from the bottom of the shaft in great quantities. The mine manager, Mr. Thorn, informed me, that the great body of water was cut during the last 24 hours ; it certainly comes in, in Sufficient quantities to require constant baling. This body of water should indicate the immediate vicinity of a reef of large size, aud as the Golden Crown has been subjected to a similar influx at a higher level, the probability is that this surmise is correct, and it is also likely that it is only back country water that is troubling the mine, and that as before it will be baled out. This indeed must be so, unless the Golden Calf in sinking have intercepted some underground stream, -running to the Pumping Association's shaft. I hope the water will die away and permit the manager to carry out his original intention of sinking the shaft the depth intended, viz., 400 feet.