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side of the shaft dips west at 55 degrees, and strikes about north and 
south. Very large bodies of quartz, varying from. 6 to 8 feet in width, 
occurred at this level on a fault that dips to west at a low angle. 
The No. 2 level is 186 feet from the surface. The main wall is 15 feet 
10 the west from the shaft, with a quartz reef, 5 feet thick, on the eastern 
side of the wall. West of the wall all the country-rocks dip to west. All 
the country-rocks (slate) east from the reef dip east. The eastern cross¬ 
cut is extended 36 feet from the shaft to a wall, or “back,” dipping 
east. Northward the level is extended 300 feet. Veins of quartz are 
abundant in the beds. At 200 feet along this level a cross-cut extends 
eastward for 36 feet, and from the end of this it is proposed to drill a 
hole eastward for 460 feet, so as to cut the Cumberland line of reef and 
any intervening quartz bodies. 
The Cumberland line is an anticline, and therefore to bore laterally 
would be to run the greatest amount of risk of cutting any saddle reefs 
that may exist, while the chance of cutting more or less vertical and 
irregular quartz veins between the two lines would be remote. Horizontal 
boring at this site could not be recommended. 
On the Phoenix line, where the present mine is being worked, the 
country-rocks are of a favorable character for gold, and large developments 
of quartz occur there; 3,132 tons have been crushed for 680 ounces of 
gold, worth ^2,720. The bodies of quartz so far explored are of an 
irregular nature, and are not continuous reefs; they occur along the course 
of a strike fault, dipping west. They pitch to the north and south 
from the shaft. Similar bodies may be found at lower levels, but only 
sinking and exploring would decide this. As to boring vertically for such 
bodies, it would not be a reliable method. 
The Cumberland line, also within this company’s lease, was worked to 
a depth of 150 feet, and is reported to have given good returns of gold. 
A considerable amount of work has been done oru the hill where the old 
engine shaft was sunk. This shaft appears to lie in centre-country, and as 
evidently a great deal of gold has been got about here, this would be a 
more favorable site than even the present workings. There is a belt of 
auriferous country at this site. The alluvial gullies have been very pro¬ 
ductive, and formerly rich yields were obtained from quartz reefs. The 
Cumberland and Phoenix Company is the only one at work in this neigh¬ 
bourhood, and it is a localitv well deserving as a field for mining enter¬ 
prise. Of the two lines, the Phoenix and the Cumberland, the latter is 
decidedly the better line to prospect, and boring from, the bottom of the 
old shaft should be proceeded with. 
The peculiar manner in which the country-rocks dip west from a 
few feet west of the shaft, and east to the east of that spot, although 
centre-countrv does not occur, is explained in the accompanying diagram 
(Fig. 16). In the corrugated Ordovician and Silurian beds of this State 
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Fig. 16. 
