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Mr. Osborne informed me that in sinking the main shaft an anticlinal 
fold was cut at 120 feet deep, but the close timbering now obscures this 
from view, although an anticline should occur near the shaft, as there are 
western beds in the gully to the west of the shaft. 
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The slide is strong, having black pug along it and crushed beds above. 
The direction of the movement cannot be definitely stated, but it is 
probably to the east, as a little quartz has been seen near the slide that 
way. 
To the west of where the reef was lost the country has been already tested 
to some extent by a cross-cut, and the main shaft showed nothing below 
where the slide cut through it at 60 feet ; but there is still a portion of the 
country to the west of the shaft of which nothing is known. 
If, as seems probable, the lower portion of the reef lies to the east, then 
it will have to be looked for to the east of where the slide goes underfoot in 
the 150-ft. level, and this would necessitate further sinking of the main shaft, 
and cross-cutting towards the slide again. This would be purely prospecting 
work, as no estimate can be formed of the amount of movement. 
Whatever future work the party decide to carry out in trying to locate 
the reef, they must take carefully into consideration the westward dip of 
the reef, and particularly its pitch to the south. On account of its shortness 
this reef will be much harder to locate than if it' had been in a better- 
defined channel extending for some distance. 
