WAIOTAHI ASSOCIATION.
The manager, Mr Smith,, continues driving and sloping on the droppers from the footwall leader; He is also stbping on : r the footwall leader in the block just be(hind the point at which it fan off into a ; clay seam. The stuff being taken out is being put through the mill* and; shows up very well on the plates for a payable ) yield. A parcel of five tons have been taken out of No. 2 leader, which, as will he remembered, was intersected in driving the tunnel to connect the two shafts, and ; the manager now hai five head of stamps : : engaged on '•"■lt.' The show on the plate 3is not such as to warrant the idea that the return will be payable, but there is no telling what may be in the blankets. However,;a general cleaning ■up will take place on Saturday, and then the result will" be known. Operations ■will commence in No. 2 shaft, on the : Manukau lode, nest week, arid the tunnel will then be put to the use for which it was made. " ;.- J ■'•'"■ ..'"'-'' v-.''•
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1993, 25 May 1875, Page 2
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182WAIOTAHI ASSOCIATION. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1993, 25 May 1875, Page 2
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