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western leg of a .saddle formation. This leg, where found in the cross¬ 
cut, was only about 8 inches in width, but it continued to widen out to the 
south owing to its getting nearer to the cup of the saddle, which pitches 
south. 
In the present face, this lode is about 12 ft. 6 in. wide, with inclusions 
of sandstones, and looks as if it was almost on the roll of the saddle, 
with a body of stone continuing overhead from the hanging wall. 
The reef contains a good deal of pyrites, some of which is of a very 
fine nature. 
A crushing of 102 tons from.this lode gave a return of 46 oz. 1 dwt. 
of free gold. 
The hanging wall of this leg is a well-defined sandstone bar, whilst 
the foot-wall is a nice slate. 
At 83 feet from the shaft the cross-cut passed through an eastern 
make of quartz, about 6 inches thick, which appears to be the eastern 
leg of the same saddle. Again, at 98 feet, about 1 foot of quartz was 
tound in a stratum of black slates dipping about 70° to the east. It 
probably forms the eastern leg of another saddle reef. At 185 feet, 
another make of quartz, 1 foot wide, occurs interbedded with the strata; 
also, at 211 feet, there is a big lode formation, whilst at numerous places 
along the cross-cut small veins of quartz are seen in the bedding plains. 
At 99 feet from the shaft, No. 2 drive north was opened, and at 
16 feef in this drive, a rise with an easterly underlie was put up 50 feet 
in spurry country, and a cross-cut driven to the west from the top of the rise. 
At 10 feet, the cross-cut intersected a lode about 1 foot wide in the bottom, 
and apparently widening as it rises, and conforming with the strata, which 
dips 8o° eastward, and at 40 feet it cuts old stopes with a slight dip to 
the west with the country, these two formations apparentlv forming east 
and west legs. 
At 41 and 58 feet in the main cross-cut, two formations also- occur in 
beds of nice dark slate. The first is about 18 inches wide, and carries 
•some nice laminated quartz. These beds dip to the west at about 8o°, and 
are again found in a similar manner in the lower level. 
At the 400-foot level, the cross-cut has been driven 948 feet to the east 
In this cross-cut, two well-defined anticlinals are passed through, the 
first at about 95 feet, and the second at 625 feet. At 73 feet from the 
shaft, a main drive southwards follows a west leg, which has averaged 
about 4 feet in width. At 102 feet south there is a cross-course which 
shifted the lode some distance to the west. This break was followed for 
57 feet before the continuation of the lode was again picked up. The 
length of this drive, to date, is 182 feet, and the lode in the south face is about 
4 feet wide, and dips about 70° to the west, with a well-defined sandstone 
hanging wall and a slaty foot-wall. 
The quartz is of a bluish tinge, with small inclusions of slatv material, 
ana contains a considerable quantity of pyrites, and nice samples of gold 
can be seen at times. 
A crushing of 80 tons, taken from the north side of the break, resulted 
in a yield of 7 cz. 10 dwt. 
At about 120 feet in the cross-cut, a short drive has been opened to 
the south, on a lode which underlies to the east. 
One hundred and fifty-two feet in the cross-cut drives have been opened 
to north and south on a big make of stone. 
Again, at 796 feet, a drive to the north cuts a series of quartz spurs, 
which vary in width from 3 inches to 1 foot. All these pitch to the 
soutn at about io°, and underlie slightly to the west, cutting across the 
