At that time the south drive at the 250-ft. level was in 25 feet from the 
cross-cut, and the face showed a reef-formation of mineralized and laminated 
quartz with footwall spurs, making a width of 4 feet in all. This reef dipped 
77° W. in country dipping 70° W. Shortly after my inspection the drive 
was discontinued at 38 feet, as prospects did not improve. 
Deeper Levels. 
After work was suspended at the 250-ft level, the main shaft was re¬ 
timbered to the 330-ft. level and further sunk to a depth of 407 feet (including 
the well). 
The 330 -ft. level .—At the 330-ft. level the old company had cross-cut 
28 feet to the reef, which was 2 feet wide and laminated on the hanging wall 
side. The reef at this level dips 80° W. and the beds 80° E. A drive extends 
110 feet south, and has proved a fairly strong reef-channel contained in walls 
sometimes of slate, but mostly of sandstone, the hanging wall alwavs beino- 
well defined and regular, but the foot-wall more or less irregular. * The old 
company started to sink a winze south of the cross-cut, and this was con¬ 
tinued by the pre¬ 
sent company, who * 
followed a shoot of 
gold-bearing quartz 
on the hanging wall. 
From this a crushing 
of 1 ton yielded 17 
dwt. 20 gr. of gold. 
This block of quartz 
was taken out for a 
length of 14 feet. It 
gave out at 20 feet 
in the winze, but 
above the winze the 
reef shows strongly 
and is about 2 feet 
wide, 10 inches of 
which on the hanging 
wall is reported to 
carry payable gold. 
It was being risen on 
at the time of my in¬ 
spection . The in¬ 
tention of the present 
management is to 
have further crush- 
ings from this level 
on the erection of 
the battery, which is 
now in hand. 
The gold-bearing 
quartz may continue 
upwards to the 250-ft. level, and, if so, it would be carried on the pitch to 
the south of the south face at that level. 
The 4:00-ft. level .—-At the 400-ft. level the cross-cut east intersected the 
reef at 11 feet from the shaft, and proved 1 foot of quartz carrying pyrites. 
This quartz dips 80° W. across beds dipping 80° E. A small slide carrying 
flucan and crushed rock, and dipping 33° E.,went underfoot in the cross-cut 
just before reaching the reef. This cross-cut was extended for a further 
