BIRD IN HAND.
The development of the lode in the new or 290 feet level is proceeding rapidly, and within a week the- manager anticipates that 15 stamps at the Imperial Crown battery will be employed. The average width of the lode on both sides of the cross cut is fully 18 inches, in a good country, and favorable to the speedy out-put of quartz. Very little is known as to the quality of the reef in this new level, as the contractors cannot afford to examine the quartz when broken down, but judging from what gold the manager saw this morning in the stuff being sent up from the S,W, drive, it bids fair to crush well. The cross-cut towards the leaders that lay further in or ovra .is the Bright Smile Company is iv 15 feet beyond the main lode, and the country favorable for driving.
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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1782, 18 September 1874, Page 2
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148BIRD IN HAND. Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1782, 18 September 1874, Page 2
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