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counter-lode, and will be below the point where gold was left underfoot 
in the 200-ft. level. The extension west of the cross-cut from the shaft 
at the 240-ft. level should, within 20 ft., intersect this line of reef at a 
point 100 ft. south of where the drive suggested above would prove the 
lode. From the north face at the 240-ft. level a rise on the lode track 
would be good prospecting work. Developments at either of these 
suggested points will prepare the way for a definite development scheme 
which the prospects warrant, but which, with the present resources of 
the company, might be held over for the present. 
So far as opened up, a shoot of gold-bearing stone over 120 ft. in 
length has been proved, but neither the northern or southern limits can 
be said to have been reached. Owing to the large quantity of mineral 
present at times, the gold values may be obscured, and a sampling of the 
reef might be undertaken with advantage. 
With the exception of the works proposed above, operations within 
the resources of the company are proceeding upon good lines, but further 
prospecting is desirable, as, with a small lode development, work can 
easily overtake the ground opened. 
It is rather unfortunate that a sink of only 40 ft. was undertaken 
below the 200-ft. level, as the amount of cross-cutting, &c., was not 
warranted, but I would suggest that the 240-ft. level be made the main 
level for prospecting, and the 200-ft. level abandoned for the present, 
and, if prospects warrant, a new level might be opened at 120 ft. in the 
shaft, 
[21.5.15.] 
hTEW KED, WHITE, AND BLUE UHITED MUSTE, BEISTDIGO. 
By II. S. Whitelaw, Field Geologist. 
The conclusion I have come to, after studying Mr. W. H. Cundy’s 
plans and spending the best part of a day in each of the mines, is that 
the Hew Bed, White, and Blue United Company (afterwards to be 
called the Blue United) has not yet seen the main west back, on which, 
at and above the 1,790ft. level, the Horth Bed, White, and Blue Com- 
pany (afterwards to be called the Horth Blue) has been working, with 
payable results, for several years. 
The Horth Blue and Blue United mines occupy positions on the 
Sheepshead line, similar to those of the Great Extended Hustlers and 
Hustlers Beef mines on the Hustlers line. The Great Extended 
Hustlers and the Horth Blue shafts are sunk on the northern rim of the 
crown of the respective anticlines—just where the country rock and the 
reefs commence their northerly pitch. In both of these mines the reefs 
m centre country are massive. In the Hustlers Beef mine to the north 
of the Great Extended Hustlers, the reefs—continuation of the Great 
Extended Hustlers reefs are much smaller, and there is good reason to 
believe that the big reefs exposed in the Horth Blue workings will be 
found of smaller dimensions, not necessarily of poorer value, in the 
For a long time the main objective of the United Company has been 
the northward extension of the Horth Blue l,7l0-ft. reef, the neck and 
cap of which reach from the l,7l0-ft. to the 1,363-ft. level in the Horth 
