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shaft on the western side of the outcrop of the reef was sunk to 173 
feet. At this depth the water, making at the rate of 4,000 gallons per 
hour, prevented further sinking with the present machinery, and, in 
consequence, cross-cuts were put out to the reef at depths of 107 ft. 6 in. 
and 161 ft. 6 in. (PI. YIIl.) 
At the hTo. 1 level, after cutting through 8 ft. of breccia near the 
plat, a west leg 4 in. to 8 in. wide, carrying about 30 per cent, of sul¬ 
phides, and estimated to yield 10 dwt. of gold per ton, was cut at 54 ft. 
from the shaft; and then about 30ft. of spurry country came in (all 
classed by the manager as payable crushing stuff). The cross-cut inter¬ 
sected the wall of the reef at 100 ft. east of the shaft. The value of 
the reef at this point and along the north level for 40 ft., taking it the 
full width of the drive, is estimated by the manager to be 3 dwt. per 
ton. The stone south of the cross-cut showed no improvement on this 
until the level had reached a point 40 ft. from the cross-cut, where values 
rose to 7 dwt. per ton. At between 50 ft. and 80 ft. from the cross-cut 
the reef is reckoned to be worth 10 dwt. to 12 dwt. per ton for a width 
of 12 feet, and between 80 ft. and 90 ft. (the end of the level) about 
5 dwt. per ton for the whole width of the drive. 
Year the end of the cross-cut a rise was put up for 21 ft. on the 
reef, and from the top an intermediate level was driven to the old 
workings from Yaples’ shaft in what the manager describes as 5-dwt. 
to 7-dwt. dirt.” Prom the levels and rise 120 tons were crushed for an 
average yield of 10 dwt. per ton. 
The longitudinal section of the workings shows the shoot to be less 
than 20 ft. in height, with a pitch of about 1 in 4 to the south. 
In the shaft just above the Yo. 1 plat, a^ west-dipping ‘^leader” 
was cut, and as it carried gold a cross-cut was driven west at the bottom 
level to intersect it. It w^ould appear from the manager’s record of the 
dip of the vein that the cross-cut, now 40 ft. in length, is out beyond 
the point at which the continuation of the leader should be found. 
Pnder this quartz vein is a bed of breccia 8 ft. wide com230sed of quartz 
grains (some of them partly rounded and as large as peas) and black 
slate, coursing through which there are several auriferous quartz vein- 
lets. The eastern cross-cut at this depth (Yo. 2 level) is out 87 ft. 
from the shaft. In it the breccia, west leg and spurry country seen in 
the cross-cut above were passed through at the calculated distances, 
and at 80 ft. what was reported as the Lord Roberts lode-track was met 
with. 
At both levels the track is an ironstone casing ” dipping at about 
80° west, and that at the Yo. 1 level closely resembles 'that at the 
Yo. 2 level, but, after a careful examination of the inclosing beds and 
of the plat of the section of the mine, I am not at all certain that the 
one track is the continuation of the other. At the Yo. 1-level the 
footwall rock is a 5-ft. soft yellowish-brown band, while at the Yo. 2 
level, only 54 ft. below, the rock under the track is a 2-ft. solid, quartzose 
band in no way resembling that at the higher level. I have little doubt 
that the rock under the track at the Yo. 1 level is a decomposed dyke, 
and that it has not yet been disclosed at the Yo. 2 level. To determine 
whether this is the case or not, the cross-cut should be extended. In 
