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Six months ago Osborne and party took up the ground, and decided to 
sink a new whim shaft 70 feet to the south of the old windlass shaft. ' This 
shaft they sank 150 feet, timbered it closely in three partitions, and erected 
a whim, intending to cut the reef on its south pitch, and stope up to the old 
workings. 
Fig. 19. — Transverse Section. Scale, 40 feet to 1 inch. 
Their cross-cut at the 150-ft. level failed to cut the reef, and continuing 
on they passed through a slide to the east of where the reef should have been, 
so a.rise was put up at 40 feet to the north-east of the shaft, and the reef found 
on the slide at a point about 30 feet above the 150-ft. level, thus allowing 
them very little of the reef to stope out. 
The reef strikes W. 40° N., underlies 70° to the west, and pitches to the 
south-east at an angle of 60°. The slide strikes N. 1° W., and dips 60° to 
the east, so the intersecting angle of the reef and slide is about 30°, causing the 
appearance of a wedge, where the reef cuts off to the south-east on the slide. 
The beds which can be examined above the slide appear to dip 70° to the 
west in the north-east cross-cut 15 feet from the rise, but where I could note 
them elsewhere they had a dip of 60° to 70° to the east. 
