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The 62-ft. shaft has been approximately located on the sketch plan 
by several compass bearings from known points. It has now fallen in at 
the bottom and only 45 feet of the drifts and clays are exposed. From 
top to bottom I procured an average sample right down the side of the 
shaft. (Assay No. 20.) The other samples taken from this shaft were as 
follows: — 
Assay No. 21.—From nice white drift on dump (stated to have come 
from 60 feet deep). 
Assay No. 22.—Average around the dump (this would mostly be from 
the deeper drifts). 
Assay No 27—Taken from fine white drift, showing much tourmaline. 
(Mr. Graham, who sunk the shaft, informed me that this was from a depth 
of 55 feet, where the drift showed thin streaks of tin oxide.) 
The section exposed in this shaft from the top downwards is as fol¬ 
lows :—Light-brown drifts containing tourmaline, titaniferous iron, and 
some zircons; then stiff white clays of varying thickness and barren of tin 
oxide, followed by whiter drifts with rounded gravel containing more tour¬ 
maline, and, I am informed, richer in cassiterite. 
. From this shaft a few large concretionary iron nodules- similar to those 
occurring in the drifts at the Franklin Hydraulic Sluicing mine were 
obtained. On fracturing some of them they proved to be composed of 
iron pyrites in the centre. 
The 80-ft. shaft is 3J chains up the hill, and bearing S. 44 deg. 
W. from the 62-ft. shaft. This shaft, although sunk deeper, does not 
show the drifts at as low a level as the 62-ft. shaft, where the surface 
level is 35 feet low T er down. It has more close timbering, but has also 
fallen in at the bottom. The 62-ft. shaft was therefore the best to go 
down. Samples taken from the 80-ft. shaft were as follows :— 
Assay No. 23.-—Samples of brown drift from the dump, showing a little 
tourmaline. (I was informed that this came from above the stiff pug, 
between the surface and 30 feet deep.) 
Assay No. 24.—White drift from dump, said to have come from 
00 feet, 70 feet, and 80 feet deep. 
Three and a-half chains further on and on a bearing of W. 17 deg. S. 
a shaft has been sunk to a depth of 33 feet, I am informed. 
It is now full of water within a few feet of the top, where it shows- 
nice drift. 
Assay No. 25.—Samples taken all round the dump. 
Another shaft about 25 feet deep was sunk 1 chain to the north of the 
33-ft. shaft. This is also full of water and not far from the Jurassic bedrock. 
Proceeding south-west a deep scrubby gully is met which crosses the drifts 
nearly at right angles ; then on through Johnson’s allotment 17A the drifts, 
clays, and gravels show for a greater thickness up the spur. In this allot¬ 
ment there is an old shaft now filled in to within 6 feet of the top. 
Assay No. 26.—Samples from side of this old shaft. 
In the area applied for by Messrs. Greville and Griffiths 
there are extensive deposits of drifts, clavs, and gravels some¬ 
what similar and continuous with the deposits now being worked 
by the Franklin River Hvdraulic Sluicing mine, but whether 
they are as rich in tin bearing drift has yet to proved. The 
