February 2, 1898.]
Gold Mining Company is now in possession of a lease from the Govrement of Pahang for a term of years similar to, and running concur- rently with, the lease of the Company's mining concession, and this includes permission to erect power generating stations, and to make cable tracks therefrom to the Company's mines.
The rights conveyed by this lease of water power, are considered ample not only for pre- sent requirements, but also for future develop ments.
The following is the Acting Mining Manager's Report for the four weeks ending on 13th January, 1898
Raub Hole Stopes.-As I advised you in my last report, the payable ore is now worked out to the intermediate level. This ore chute has ex- tended fully 700 ft, with good payable gold the whole way. The ore still continues south but is not payable. It is my intention to further prospect this with the object of picking up an- other chute of payable ore. I have a party of coolies employed repairing the old drives and opening out on some of the gold bearing leaders in the 120 ft. level:
Main West Crosscut.-This has been extended 29 ft. making the total distance from the Engine Shaft 435 ft: During the month we have passed through several small quartz leaders in which no gold could be seen. There is no change in the country here.
Main North Drive. This has been extended 12 ft., making the total distance north from the crosscut 292 ft. The lode continues as usual, but is more irregular, occasionally making larger and then pinching again. At present there is a bunch of quartz in the face about 1 ft. thick, but no gold can be seen in it.
Bakit Koman 140 ft. Level North Drive.- The lode in the face will measure about 6 ft. of nice solid quartz in which fair gold can be seen in breaking down the ore. The drive has been extended 19 ft., making a total distance north
from the crosscut of 593 ft.
West Leaders.-I have stopped stoping on these for the present as they are making in `to- wards the main lode and can be worked to better advantage later on when stoping the main lode.
In the Main North Drive about 100 ft. north
of these leader workings I have opened out west and am driving south on another leader. It is fully 2 ft. thick, of nice solid ore in which fair gold can be seen on breaking the ore.
Winze No. 1 North.-This down a total depth of 41 ft. Very slow progress is being made with the sinking as it is in solid quartz all the way.
South Main Level. The lode has pinched again, there being only about 15 in. of fairly solid stone on the footwall west side of the drive,
the rest of the drive being in clean slate.
Stopes-The Leading. Stope over the Main South Level continues small, there being only about 1 ft. of low grade ore on the footwall side. This is payable and has to be taken out to work the other stopes to advantage.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
North Drive. The lode in the face is about i 6ft, wide of solid ore in which nice gold can be frequently seen. The drive has been extended 10 ft. making a total distance of 210 ft.
Bukit Jellis. Very good progress continues to be made with the sinking of this shaft, which is now sunk to a total depth of 178 ft. A quartz leader about 1 ft. thick has been cut. It is nice looking stone but no gold can be seen in it.
At present we are putting in a second draw- lift pump to take the water from below the 150 ft. level. All the material is ready and a start will be made in a day or two to put the pump in the shaft. The winding machinery referred to in my last report is now at work hero. This will greatly help the sinking, as it was getting too deep to haul out of a big shaft by manual labour. This shaft will be sunk another 72 ft. before opening out and crosscut- ting for the lode.
Battery-On Monday, 3rd inst., we had a clean up for the past eight weeks' work, when 2,026 tons of ore yielded 1,623 oz. 1 dwt. 0 grs. smelted gold, being an average of 16 dwts. per ton of ore crushed. This is a better yield as to tonnage and time work than we have had since I took over the management of the mine. From the appearance of the mine I have every reason to expect that this average will be kept up, if not improved on, in our next crushing. The fol lowing are the particulars of the ore crushed:
Bukit Koman
1,9571 Raub Hole...
Total
...
68
2,026 Tons
After effecting some necessary repairs crush- ing was resumed at p.m. the same evening and has continued steadily since.
Electric Installation. This work is being greatly hindered through the exceedingly wet weather we have had and also owing to the sickness of Mr. Walker, who is in charge of this work, he having been laid up with fever for ten days. Coolies will not work in the rain, but go back to camp, and should it clear
there is some one to drive them to it. The up in the afternoon will not resume work unless weather has now apparently taken up and I am in hopes that hetter progress will be made. The cart road is practically completed from Sempam Gap to the power station.
There is also over two miles of road, about finished between Tras and the Sempam Gap. A party of coolies are now at work levelling the pipe line, which is already cleared of standing timber. Another is employed felling the timber along the cable track.
rained almost daily, yesterday being the first General. During the past four weeks it has day it did not rain some time during the 24 hours. At the beginning of the month it rained almost all day, not enough to make a flood, but a steady rain. The weather appears to have taken up, as we only get occasional showers now. I am glad to say the continuous rain has not done us any damage more than giving us extra water to pump. It has however, almost put-a
No. 1 South Stope.The lode here is fully 12 ft. wide of bunches of quartz and quartz leaders intermixed with mallock, almost as much mal-stop to our firewood supply, as coolies will not lock as quartz: The leaders and quartz carry really splendid gold and as it is impossible to separate the ore from the mullock everything from this stope, including the mnllock, is sent to the mill and crushed:
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No. 2 Stope-At No. 4 South Air Shaft the lede is fully 10 ft. wide of fairly solid ore in which good gold can frequently be seen in breaking the ore,
No. 3 Stope. The lode is about 8 ft. thick of solid oce
in which fair gold can be seeni. No. 4 Stope-This is a new stope just
started going north from the No. 3 South Air solid ore which carries good gold. The lode is Shaft. The lode will average about 4 feet of small at present but ought to increase in size as we go north.
No. 5 Stope. The lode is very small here, there being only about 2 feet of low grade ore. "I do not expect any improvement in this stope until we get nearer the surface, where we had good ore north of this.
them all day. Even if we had firewood it is quite work cutting firewood with water dripping on impossible to cart it out of the jungle, owing to the state of the roads through the continuous rains. Luckily we had a large stock of firewood the wet. From this stock we have been able to stacked alongside the railway in anticipation of keep the different mines supplied. It is in weather like this that we get the ad antage of mines supplied with firewood and the mill with the railway, as we have been able to keep the ore no matter what the weather was like. This
railway I am afraid our mill would be hung up system of bullocks; in fact if it was not for the for the best part of the month instead of earn ing a handsome profit, as it has done.
GILBERT B. WHYTE.
Acting Mining Manager.
we would not have been able to do with our old
At the general meeting on the 18th January, the Kobe Pier Company declared a dividend at Bottom Level South Drive-The lode here the rate of 20 per cent. per annum for the past is fully 16 feet wide of quartz and quarts half year and carried 13,449 yen to the next leaders which carry fair gold. On the footwall account and 5,000 yen to reserve fund. 89 side of these there is a bunch or horse of slate.steamers used the pier during the six months This drive has been extended 12 feet, making a under review, and landed 67,135 tons of cargo total distance south of 286 feet.
and shipped 6,254 tons,
CRICKET.
CLUB V. A NAVAL ELEVEN. On Saturday, the 29th January, a match was played between a Club eleven and a Naval eleven. This was practically a game between the second elevens and although the Navall side was strengthened by the introduction of Lt. Shelford the Club eleven secured an easy viotory, thanks chiefly to the batting and bowling of Noble, who made 70 runs and took seven wickets for 13 runs; he was let off when he had made 24 and gave another hard chance at the wicket. Capt. Smith kept wicket well in the second innings of the Naval eleven, the catch disposing of Eliot being a particularly good one. For the Navy Eliot bowled very well as the analysis shows.
Following are the scores :—
CLUB ELEVEN.
J. F. Noble, b Meagher.. G A. Woodcock, b Compton F Lammert, b. Elliot A Anderson, b Rawson
H. Twyford, b Elliot
L 8. Crawford, b Elliot....
Capt. Smith, c and b Elliot...
JM. Atkinson, a and b Shelford.. F H. Kew, b Rawson....
D. Wood, not.out
H. A. Lammert, b Compton
Total
Extras
70 49
3
:. 15
1
11
13
.198
Overs. Maid. Runs, Wides. NB. Wickets.
BOWLING ANALYSIS.
H. Rawson...... 10 3 Armstrong..... 4 1 Peile Compton Meagher Elliot.. Shelford
32
15
5
2
23
7.1
30
6. 1
30
19.11
29
9. 3
20
NAVAL ELEVEN.
2nd Innings.
1st Innings. Peile, b F. Lammert Lt Shelford, b Noble
Rawson, b Noble Compton, b F. Lammert. Elliot, b Noblo
5 b Twyford
16 cCrawford, b Twyford 5 01.bw, b Twyford".... 24 4 b rawford
2
Meagher, o Anderson, b
Noble
8 Armstrong, a Atkinson, b
F. Lammert
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Brooke, b Noble Dutton, b Noble Tottenham, b Noble Stokes Rees, not out
Extras
Total
4
F. Lammert Noble.....
Twyford Crawford
Smith, Crawford
5
o Smith, b Crawford '0
0
e Noble, b.Twyford... 1 not out
0 b Twyford..
Extraa
43
Total
58
BOWLING ANALYSIS,
First Innings.
Overs. Maid. Buns. Wides. N.B. Wickets,"
13.3 5 23.
13 4 13 1
Second Innings.
13.2 6 27 13 5 24
ROYAL HONGKONG YACHT CLUB.
MR. WILKINSON'S PRIZE. Sailed on Sunday, the 30th January, 1898, starting at 11 o'clock. The course was from Island, (port) a rock about a mile to the south- the Police Pier, Kowloon, round Stonecutters west of Cowechow (port), Stonecutters Island (starboard); 16 miles.
The wind was from the west at starting, but of Stonecutters. Many of the boats were be got round more to the south after passing clear calmed for about twenty minutes off Yaumati, the Maid Marian, Ladybird, Chanticleer, Sybil, served. Active and Phoebe got away with a fine Erica, Meteor and Seabreeze being very badly lead of about two miles from the above, and Dart,
ever, many changes took place, as will be seen by Payne, and Princess nearly a mile. In the beat up to the south-west mark off Covechow, how- the following times of rounding-
Maid Marian Princess... Erica Phoebe -Ladybird Active Meteor
H.
2
16
8. 20
FEARRSHES-87.
31
32.
Chanticleer Dart
32
36
Sybil Payne
39
47