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happened in the bedded veins, but not in the main reef), the ISTo. 2 
cross-cut be extended to the anticline, and a level driven south on the 
Lord Roberts reef to the continuation of the shoot of gold which pitched 
underfoot at the R^o. 1 south level; that a rise be put up on the west leg 
at 64 ft. east of the shaft at the I^o. 1 level; that the i^o. 1 south level 
be extended sufficiently far to command the system of spurs between 
Frenchman’s Gully and Old Dick’s Gully. 
Indications point to the probability of the anticline being the principal 
reef channel, and later on it may be found to be advisable to sink a new 
shaft or to cut down and make a main of the prospecting shaft now down 
37 ft. Observations taken along the line tend to show that this shaft 
was sunk near the crown of the fold—that point on the anticline from 
which the beds incline to every point of the compass, and around which, 
experience teaches, the greatest development of quartz and, generally, 
the richest yields are to be expected to be found. This spot, therefore, 
is a better site from which to work the channel of saddle reefs than that 
of the present main shaft, and as, at any rate to a depth of 40 ft., the 
axis of the anticline inclines to the westward, the shaft should be on that 
side of it. 
[15.11.13.] 
The North Lord Roberts Mine. 
The North Lord Roberts main shaft is 35 chains north of the Lord 
Roberts shaft, and about 100 feet to the west of an anticline which 
probably is the prolongation of the fold in which the saddle reef re¬ 
ferred to in the notes on the Lord Roberts mine has been worked. 
The reef which it is intended to work was discovered at about the 
same time as the Lord Roberts, and is known, and shown on Mr. Hunter’s 
Daylesford sheet (No. 16 S.E.) as Bell’s Reef. Old reports state that 
it was remarkably rich; that a candle box full of specimens contained 
92 oz. of gold, so peculiarly bedded in the quartz that they were exhibited 
at the 1880 Melbourne Exhibition; that the deepest shaft is 40 ft.; that 
from above that depth 1,500 tons yieded 2,000 oz.; that the last and 
deepest crushing averaged 12 dwt. per ton. 
The new shaft at a depth of 36 ft. reached water making at the rate 
of 120 gallons per hour. Operations were then suspended, and will not 
be resumed until the erection of the machinery and poppet heads recently 
purchased from the Royal George mine, Bendigo. The shaft is in a 
good position for testing Bell’s reef, which may be a west leg, below 
water level, and for working any formations that may be discovered in 
the anticline (centre country). The indications that saddle reefs will 
be found are strong; that some of them will prove payable is likely, for 
the reef channel is in the southward continuation of the Eganetown 
