BRIGHT SMILE.
Crushing for this Company is now carried on extensively at thlir new mill, the chief. sources iof: supply, being^frpm No. 2 lode, which has spUtrMp }nto<2 branches about 9 feet each, and from the shaft lodes on both of which driving and Jtaping are effected. r ? No. 1 lode hw been driven on. to the Queen of Beauty boundary* Jbut does not show more than 7 to 8 feet wide, the. main portioii of the reef.is about, 40 feet off, and it expected to be reached with 10 feetmor« driving :on the.,cross-cut put in; for = the j ; purpose of intersecting it, and probably will be found identical with iHoi 3 lode already partially worked; preparations are now complete,; and^topin^on ' I*K o. 1 will shortly commence; VOrtdnsing on the footwall of No. 2 lode, the leader met with in the upper level has again been metj thesizeisnqt so large, but may alter, in this respect^on ifcsj being driven on. The Vopply "of stone is ample for "requirements at the mill, which will prbve its value. Sinking the main shaft still progresses, contractors being 'clown 49 ,feet; the .water bemg' scarcely jsomneh as expected and completely under coi* troi. . >; : j;
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2075, 28 August 1875, Page 2
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200BRIGHT SMILE. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2075, 28 August 1875, Page 2
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