Ajax Gold Mining Company.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2157, 2 December 1875, Page 3

Ajax Gold Mining Company.

. The following report has been received :-—" To the directors Ajax Gold Mining Company, Limited.—Gentlemen, —■I beg to state that during the past fortnight the several works on your mine have progressed most satisfactorily. The contractor for the upper and lower tunuels has completed the respective distances let in each case. The contractors for the erection of the battery have also pushed their work well ahead, and the boiler and engine site is now completely ready. No machinery has as yet arrived on the ground, and I would impress on the directors the advisability of pushing the contractor for the carriage thereof as much as possible, otherwise the contractors for the erection will be brought to a standstill. I have much pleasure in informing the directors that the reef has been cut in the lower level, showing a fine body of stone. I put a man on yesterday when the contractors had left, to try and ascertain the thickness, but he was unpble to get-the foot wall. He penetrated a distance of over eight feet towards it 5> but has not as yet reached it. The reef is of a splendid friable nature, most easily won, and I am happy to be able to report, highly auriferous. I washed good prospects from the hanging wall side all the way across as far as penetrated, and crushed some of the solid stone (about 14----lbs), the result of which\l forward. I purpose next week commencing the formation of the tramway from the mine to the battery site, so as to enable me to have a place to stack the quartz when the low drive is continued on the reef. I have also during the fortnight been enabled to procure some three or four tons of firstclass clay for boiler purposes. I forward herewith pay sheet for fortnight, and I have the honor to be, gentlemen, your obedient servant, Thos. Gr. Kennan, Engineer." ',