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terrace run of wash. The adit was discontinued at 140 feet in hard 
quartz-mica-diorite, and for some inexplicable reason the last 25 feet or so 
was gradually raised at an angle to the proper level, so the bottom will 
have to be straightened up before any further work can be dbne. This 
work was carried out while Murray Brothers were receiving Government 
assistance, but the deep ground was not reached, as work was. abandoned 
when the Government grant was exhausted. 
The present prospectors have taken up the ground as a prospecting 
area of about 500 square yards, and have already done four months’ good 
work in cleaning up the adits and shafts, cutting a race, &c. They have 
also sunk a shaft to 30 feet through sand, clay and a few loose boulders 
of basalt, apparently the fringe of the basaltic formation; the last 7 feet 
of the shaft had to be closely timbered. A prospect from the headings 
showed a sample of flattened gold. 
Up the hill, 288 feet further south, there is another shaft, now partly 
full of water, and I am informed that there was a thickness of 18 feet of 
sands and clays, and then solid basalt; total depth, 22 feet. 
Future Work. 
The prospectors intend to test the place where the inflow of water 
is in the lower adit; then to work in the No. 4 adit from a point 
some distance back from the present face, and go in a south-westerly 
direction, so as to try and avoid the broken ground, and, if possible, operate 
on the wash, and finally straighten the lower adit, and continue it to the 
deep ground. 
Conclusion. 
The inspection shows that there is auriferous wash dipping into 
the hill under the basalt, as proved by No. 4 adit ; and the prospects 
are sufficiently good to warrant further work being done to prove the deep 
ground by means of the lower adit, as was the original intention. The 
deep channel may be as shown in trend of bedrock A 1 , on section (see 
Plate XXVI.) as the inflow of water in No. 4 adit is very strong, indicat¬ 
ing, perhaps, that the gutter is not much lower; and, if so, the lower adit 
could be safely extended and rises put up at suitable intervals after boring 
up to the wash. But then, again, the ground might dip on past the level 
of the lower adit, as shown in trend of bedrock B 1 (see Plate XXVI.). 
Therefore, before further work is done in the lower adit it would! be more 
satisfactory to prove how the bedrock does trend, and this could be done 
by further sinking the 22-feet shaft, say, another 100 feet, or less if the 
bedrock rises ; or, better still, to have a few hand bores put down to define 
the bedrock a^d deep channel. The basalt might be 50 feet or so in thick¬ 
ness. Even if the deep ground has the assumed trend of bedrock A 1 , the 
adit would have to be driven at least 150 feet, and would probably cost 
a foot. Timber is plentiful, but has to be carted a mile. Water is 
sufficiently plentiful for all reauirements. 
[Report sent in 24 th August, 1904.] 
