THE BRIGHT SMILE.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1767, 1 September 1874, Page 2

THE BRIGHT SMILE.

The site for the new battery has been purchased—it is situate just below the Vanguard shaft. There will be but little ! difficulty in sending stuff from tho mine !'tp the im" 11, the distance being so short. I fancy that a §elf-acting tramway would answer. The principle reason assigned for the erection of a battery by the Company is, that the mine contains thousands of tons of stuff, that would pay well for raising and crushing, but, will not stand the expense of carting, and so much handling. At about six o'clock last night a heavy inflow of water broke into "the main shaft as it is being sunk ; it was so strong as to drive the sinkers up; the ' pump was pat on to thirteen strokes a

minute, and by six o'clock this morning, had in a measure broken the main force of the water, still the pump is going at the rate of eleven strokes per minute, throwing a largo stream of water. The men are now down forty-five feet in sinking the shaft. Thero are also three winzes going down, two of which have been sunk tw,?nty-five feet each, the other about ten feet. The lode's carried down with them are strong and healthy looking. Mr. Bennejj, the mine manager, is of opinion that the influx of water last night occurred • from some reservoir having been cut, and that the annoyance will only be temporary.