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were driven through, each containing gold, but insufficient to warrant its extrac 

 tion in preference to the main lode. 



The train-way from the mouth of the mine to the reduction works has been 

 completed, and is three-fourths of a mile in length. It is carried over two inclines 

 of eight hundred and twenty-seven feet in length each, and has cost for its com 

 pletion, $5,400. The running time for 1855 has amounted to eight months only, 

 the balance of the year being lost from insufficiency of water for power in part, 

 and necessary improvements. 



RECAPITULATION. 



Number of men employed, 12. 



3 Miners, $90 per month $270 



2 Battery Tenders, $60 per month 120 



1 Superintendent, $150 per month 150 



4 Stokers, 50 " 200 



1 Blacksmith, 70 " 70 



1 Cook, 60 " 60 



Incidentals, 50 " 50 



$920 



Ore reduced per month, 117 tuns. Average value, $24 62 per tun. 

 Aggregate ore reduced for eight months, 936 tuns. Aggregate value, $22,132. 



Dead Work $6,090 



General Expenses 7,360 



$13,450 

 Balance in favor $8,682 



CONDITION OF MINE WORKS. 



Feet 



1 Level , 522 



1 Level 222 



1 Level . 97 



Total Levels 841 



Fathoms. 



1 Shaft 30 



1 Shaft 12 



1 Shaft 23 



Total Shafts 66 



Depth below water line, twenty-two fathoms. 



