156 
per ton, but the return for working the full thickness was only about 
3 dwt. per ton. Water level is reported to be about ioo feet from the 
surface, and a io-in. lift pumping 3 or 4 hours a day controlled the water. 
This Prince of Wales Co. had its own battery for some time, but the 
earlier crushings were made at Cosstick’s battery about 2 miles distant and 
at the Craigie battery 4 miles away. Mr. Ohlsen also informs me that 
the reef was stoped in places between the 140-ft. level and the 240-ft. 
level, and that the stopes at the 140-ft. level broke through to Busch’s 
claim on the north of the gully. 
To the north and just across the gully from the main engine shaft, 
there are the old workings of Busch and party, who mined a highly pay¬ 
able shoot to a depth of 130 feet by a whim shaft. Here the stone was 
4 feet wide, and a large quantity of ore was crushed for yields up to 1 oz. 
and more per ton, stone of that value going into the Prince of Wales Co. 
No definite information as to the length of Busch’s shoot can be given, but 
surface workings and stopings exposed at surface show that it was at least 
40 feet long. Authentic yields are appended. 
Further north was the old claim of Fentel and party; here the work¬ 
ings show that a shoot 70 feet long was mined. These, together with the 
adjacent stopes of Busch’s claim, indicate that a shoot about no feet long 
was worked and it is said to have been taken; out to a depth of 130 feet. 
Yields from this claim, taken from the Talbot Leader , are appended. 
Further north again is the claim worked by Lubie and Party in 1876 ; 
it yielded over J-oz. of gold per ton and up to 1 oz. In 1877 this claim 
was purchased by the Perseverance United Co. 
The Perseverance United Co. held a 10-acre lease in 1876, just north 
of Lubie’s claim. The main engine shaft (7! feet x 4 feet) was sunk to a 
depth of 225 feet. Contemporary notes in the Talbot Leader show that 
at 130 feet the reef was mineralized, and 4 feet wide. In 1877 the shaft 
was 185 feet deep and the water making at 100 gallons per hour. At a 
depth of 225 feet a crosscut intersected the reef at 25 feet. The reef was 
here 2 feet wide and gold-bearing. 
In July, 1878, the half-yearly report of the company showed the stone 
to be 3 feet to 4 feet in width, and the yields up to 10 dwt. per ton. 
Dehnert and Party, who had a tribute in 1879, worked just south of the 
Perseverance shaft, in a vertical shaft for 38 feet, when they cut the reef 
and followed it in the underlay. Here the crushings were 10 dwt. and 
15 dwt. per ton, small crushings from a reef 2| feet wide. At the same 
time (1879) a trial crushing from the bottom level (225 feet) did not pay. 
Dehnert’s last crushing was 4 dwt. per ton. 
In May, 1880, the Perseverance Co. closed down, and a new company 
known as the Talbot Quartz Mining Co. formed. In the prospectus it was 
stated that 1,600 ozs. of gold had been obtained from the Prince of 
Wales reef. 
In 1881 this company unwatered the shaft again and drove south at the 
150-ft. level to a point 247 feet from the shaft, and at the same time 
they put up a rise which broke through at 30 feet into Lubie’s old stopes, 
but no crushings are recorded. 
It therefore appears that only one trial crushing was taken from the 
bottom level (225 feet), and that at the north end of the workings very 
little, if any, developmental work was done below a depth of 150 feet. 
Again in 1883 an attempt was made to float the mine, under the name 
of the Mount Emu G.M. Co. 
The last work on the main portion of the reef line, between the Prince 
of Wales main shaft and the Perseverance main shaft, was carried out 
in 1881. 
