2-40 Mines and Mineral Statistics, 
before referred to on this property. The furnaces were only 
working continuously for the last three months of 1874. The 
following is the quantity of regains from the Cow TJat Copper 
Mine, and copper ores from AV^iseman’s Creek, near Bathurst, 
and a mine near Groulburn, which have been smelted during 
1874:— 
tons 
Eegulus from Cow Flat Copper Mining Company, 
about 420 
Copper ore from Wiseman’s Creek, near Bathurst IGO 
l)o. do. near Goulburn 15 
The Manager informs me that the output of refined copper for 
the last three months, ending February, was 181 tons, or 14 tons 
per week, the whole of which has been forwarded to Sydney for 
shipment to England, in parcels of 20 to 30 tons. The works 
have been erected with bricks made from clay on the Company’s 
land, but there is far better fireclay to be found on this property 
and adjoining the part leased to this Company. Mr. Brown has 
contracted to deliver coal to the furnaces for fifty years at 2s. 6d. 
per ton for small coal and 6s. for round. 
Iron Smelting. 
One iron smelting furnace is now in course of construction on 
100 acres of land leased from Mr. Brown, by Messrs. Hughes, 
Sutherland, AVilliams, Butherford, Denny, and Kelly, and fire- 
brick works have also been erected. The smelting furnace is 
being erected on the rock lloor of the thick seam of coal, and is 
in close proximity to Fanner’s Creek, where there is a never- 
failing supply of water. The foundation, and a portion of the 
brickwork, was in February last completed for a furnace 50 feet 
in height and 12 feet across the boshes, which Mr. Hughes cal- 
culates will produce 120 tons of iron per week, and that they 
will be making iron about next September. There are numerous 
bands of argillaceous iron ore oii this property and that of the 
other collieries adjoining, similar to that found and worked in 
England, and Mr. Hughes informs me that some of it which he had 
testtd in Bathurst yielded 39 to 49 percent, of metallic iron. 
It is proposed to bring magnetic and brown hydrated oxide of 
iron ores from Mount Lainbie, where the Company have 200 
acres of land on mineral lease, and mix it with the clay band iron 
ores. They also intend to bring red hematite from their 60 acres 
of land at Mount A^ictoria, and limestone Avill be brought from 
Blayney or Piper’s Flat, near Wallerawang. Mr. Hughes has 
erected a brick-kiln capable of burning 25,000 bricks, and fireclay 
of a very excellent quality is procured from a bed 6 feet in 
thickness on the land where a Chilian mill has been erected for 
grinding the clay. The brick-shed is 120 feet by 25 feet, iu 
