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The main shaft is sunk to about 370 feet below the tunnel and in the 
bottom there is broken country indicating proximity to the great fault 
which has displaced the reef. This fault is met with in the tunnel at 
150 feet from the end. The strike of the fault is S. 25 deg. W., dip 
45 deg. south eastward. North of the fault the country consists of dark 
coloured slate with nearly vertical dip. A crosscut at 50 feet north of the 
fault has been driven 50 feet to the east, where the fault was again touched, 
and 30 feet to the west. The direction in w r hich the lost portion of the 
reef should be looked for is to the north-eastward, but the extent of the 
throw is not known. 
There have been three principal shoots of auriferous quartz worked in 
the reef channel south of the fault. No. 1 shoot was worked south of 
the main shaft, and Mr. Oates, the manager, informs me that the average 
thickness of the quartz was 3 feet, and the yields ranged from 2 to 3 ozs. 
of gold per ton; No. 2 shoot was worked to the north of the main shaft 
and the quartz averaged about 3J feet thick and yielded- about 1 oz. of gold 
per ton; No. 3 shoot was on the north side of the shaft and below the main 
tunnel, and was worked dow r n nearly to the level of the fault. The quartz 
was 2 to 3 feet thick and profitable to work. Altogether during the last 
40 years a very large quantity of payable auriferous quartz has been won. 
Portions of the reef south of the fault are still unexplored. The No. 1 
level should be extended in a northerly direction to the fault, and No. 7 
level should be extended southward to explore the channel of the reef in 
that direction for new shoots. The recovery of the faulted portion of the 
reef would have a most important bearing on the future of the mine, and 
it might possibly be more economical to prospect for it at the surface than 
underground. So far no attempt has been made to locate the lost portion 
of the reef beyond the tw r o short crosscuts in the tunnel. 
The reef conforms to the bedding of the strata and may therefore be 
classed as a “ leg.” The channel of this reef is very continuous and of 
permanent character. In the channel the shoots of quartz are of fair 
thickness and in parts these shoots have yielded very profitable returns. 
On the north side from the main shaft in the tunnel the quartz and mixed 
country rock is 20 feet wide at one place, and it carries a little gold all 
through. Nearer the surface and north of Burke’s shaft the mixed quartz 
and country w^as stoped for a width of 40 feet and crushed with a small 
margin of profit. 
Favorable conditions exist for economical mining at this locality and 
a ten-head battery driven by steam a few hundred yards away and lower 
down the slope is used for crushing purposes. There is a fair supply of 
fuel and abundance of mining timber close to the mine. 
From this locality to Twist’s Creek, a distance of about 3 miles in a 
northerly direction, is a tract of country deserving attention from the 
prospector. In the immediate vicinity 1 of the Homeward Bound reef there 
is also country that deserves attention as shown by the recent discovery of 
a rich shoot of quartz near the Kerry Eagle mine. 
The Kerry Eagle Reef. 
This reef is about three-quarters of a mile a little west of south from 
the Homeward Bound reef. The tunnel is about 400 feet higher than the 
Homeward Bound tunnel. It is 1,400 feet long and cuts the country 
