REEFTON MINING REPORT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 284, 11 October 1878, Page 16

REEFTON MINING REPORT.

The following few items of mining intelligence may not prove unin£3^s? StS t0 Ishaiell1 shaiell ? ders . a **& number of whom reside at DunedTa and other places where the Tablet circulates. They may be relied iffib^STffi 7 ' aS theJ r6SUIt ° f PCr ' SOnal cx P erience « Welcome which is now so far proved, that the proprietors may congratulate SKSTiffi holdm , g - PP + r ° perty °l a ? eT ? s « b^^l character, and c " at ? » certainty on a distribution of a sum of £8,000 or f 9,000 m dividends during the next three months if they can retain the battery for that period. The amount of amalgam for the last fortnight s crushing being 1380 ounces from the blankets only They are working from the same level as the Hopeful, No. 5, along which dividend They have still to drive 900 feet before they reach the northern boundary toward the Occidental Company's ground The whole area consists of 29 acres. b^uuu. -me . . Keep it Dark. n *,;?"?? g 1 S?-H vel Itun1 tun - r ? 1 el and 6^ to strike the re ef in less than a fortnight. This level will, give 160 feet of backs, and is expected to (SITS 1 F I***1 *** *> * he batteryfor the next two years, yielding reguSL *?7? 7 dlvldends > making it a safe and desirable property. At present there are ten stampers employed for the Nil Desperanduin Independent Is opening out on a large reef twelve feet thick. Shaft down 150 feet on the reef, which is the same as has been worked on by the Wealth of Nations .and is driven on for CO feet on the low level! Intend to start crushing m six weeks at Anderson's, with fifteen head of stamper* The stone will average from ten to twelve dwts. to the ton s&s^Tor to ffl^r tt^" pen^ thenj wiu be a consider - Vulcan SYhetS^ a"^ 3 feet thiok ' Whicll WiU aTCrage an ouncG and a " balf