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aggregate an area of about 850 acres, and occupy a length of about a mile 
from the junction of Dead Horse and Falls Creeks, along the valley of the 
latter. The only work visible that is worthy of notice is a shaft sunk (in 
1880 by Mr. Jarrett and his son) on S.L. 2915 on an alluvial flat about 15 
chains wide, about f of a mile from Dead Horse Creek. This shaft, which 
is now fallen in, passed, Mr. Jarrett informed me, at 30 feet through a 3-ft. 
layer of loose, brown, fairly coarse, well-rounded wash, giving prospects of 
£ oz. to the dish of tin, and bottomed at 62 feet, 3 feet or 4 feet of detritus 
on the bottom prospecting \ oz. to the dish. Immediately up-stream from 
this shaft the alluvial narrows, and about J of a mile above, where the 
creek bifurcates into two fairly steep gullies, granite outcrops continuously 
along their beds. At the junction of these gullies Mr. Jarrett obtained, he 
stated, about 9 lbs. of tin and a little fine gold. 
On Foggy Creek, the adjoining up-stream tributary of Dead Horse Creek, 
about ^ a mile from the locality described above, an old shaft, on an alluvial 
flat about 3 chains wide, was pointed out to me, from the bottom of which, 
at a depth of 31 feet, 10 lbs. of tin, Mr. Jarrett stated, were obtained. 
Work was discontinued here, according to the same informant, owing to 
failure to obtain working capital. 
From all the information I could obtain, it appears that the only work 
done recently was by Messrs. McRae and Mackisson, who spent a couple 
of months towards the end of last year prospecting over a radius of several 
miles around the area under special notice. The former stated that he 
obtained good prospects of tin not only in most of the gullies tried, but 
also, in many places, in the loam on the slopes of the hills, and an excep¬ 
tionally good one from the low spur dividing Foggy Creek from Falls 
Creek, on the fall towards the former. 
Prospects from the shallow alluvial in one of the gullies in the Falls 
Creek watershed, above referred to", washed in my presence by Messrs. 
McRae and Jarrett, and also by myself, yielded black and ruby tin at the 
average rate of about 1 lb. per cubic yard. 
Regarding future prospects of opening up a payable tin-field, I can add 
nothing to Mr. Murray’s report of 1890, which expresses the general opinion 
formed by myself. Prospects of tin may be obtained sufficiently good to 
encourage a further trial of the locality, and, at the present price of tin, 
fair wages might be made in places in the shallow ground if sufficient 
water were available, which unfortunately is seldom the case, for sluicing in 
a small way. With respect to the deeper ground, I would emphasize Mr. 
Murray’s remarks, and point out that before attempting operations on a large 
scale it is essential, firstly, that the practicability of obtaining a sufficient 
supply of water at reasonable cost be ascertained, and, secondly, that suffi¬ 
cient prospecting, estimated by Mr. Murray to cost about £200, be done to 
show whether the average contents of the stanniferous drifts are likely to be 
payable. 
I would also direct attention to Mr, Murray’s suggestion that some search 
be made for the matrix whence the stream tin has been derived, as it is 
quite possible that good tin-bearing lodes or a “stockwork" may exist in 
the locality. 
Office of Mines, Melbourne, 16/2/00. 
