GOLDEN CALF.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2081, 4 September 1875, Page 2

GOLDEN CALF.

The crushing for this company has been suspended at the Herald battery; retorting will take place on Monday morning. The- stoppago at the mill is owing to the difficulty in working the ground, not from want of stone, or the quality—the present.and previous crushings having fully demonstrated the payable character of the reef iv baud— but from the insufficient ventilation, rendei'ing the work slow, irksome and dangerous. The drive towards the Otago is being put iv as fast- as possible, but will • occupy considerable time before it is through, and then will but partially remove the. cloud of smoke and darkness pervading thft workings, which arp papable of supplying good stpne for 07c}? 40 stampers. ' The great desideratum in working this property is to do so with the greatest economy, and crushing large quantities. To effect this, however, the manager should be empowered to sink a winze from the upper level, which would not only ventilate the ' entire mine, but open out a large extent of country, sufficient to profitably employ their utmost raising power; one side of £heir fefyaft Toeing continually employed in raising water, proving the existence of very tight country between their shaft and Caledonian workings, otherwise the water would infallibly find the lowest level.