sunk a winse 19 ft deep on the reef old worklugs, and srp driving towards "distance" of about 30 feet, of which 17 have been accomplished. As soon sit is reached" we shall stope the reef: out by underhand støping, and run no to foul air then. The roof is age a good two feet wide; and shows * It is apparantly the best stone we at present, and easy to take out
BANK GF ENGLAND MINE,
The South drire is in 23 feet with more stone showing in the face, bint we have stopped this Work socording to your instructions, and con- fing ourselves to stoping at present.
Leading stope on small good reef driven 30
Becond stope is in 9 feet. Third stope just started: The reef is on the average 13 inches wide, ws"good gold; but seems to split into ag re at intervals.
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been sunk and timbered to a depth of 9 ft. at which depth the w
́water becaine strong for manual labour. We shall have to put pamping machinery in the shaft before we can sink deeper, this I hope to have at work in three or four weeks.
In the
workings we are driving south of the course of the lode from No. 1 north air shaft, the lode shows fair gold in the stone in breaking.
I am also putting in a crosscut from the main level halfway between the engine shaft and No. I south air shaft, this is in 15 ft. in quartz carrying goud gold. Prospects of the mine are very good.
Bukit Koman Section. The most important developments during the month in this mine have taken place in the south end No. 1 level. In this level for the last 200 ft. we have had little or no lode, only a well defined formation on_the_footwall with occasionally a little ore | and gold. At 1.210 ft. in from the crosscut a fault ont out the formation which we had been large"feel" will be carefully prospected following. I decided to come back to 1,100 ft. more work is done upon it, as it appar and put in a cross cut east to see if I could pick antly contains only very little gold, which alsoap the lode in that direction. After driving will account for the poor yields from this claim 15 ft. we out the lode 4ft, thick of solid stone so far, as the bulk of the crashing stuff was carrying fair gold. From present appearances composed of this very large lodn.
the lode appears to have made a heave over to the east and we have been following the tail end of the splice. This is an important discovery as it proves the lole to be continuous going south.
-CALEDONIAN MİNE -
The engineer has arrived to put up the poppet legs and the winding plant, which latter has not been ordered yet. We are looking out for s' second-hand winding engine to carry us down to 4 good depth if required. The old shaft, which has to serve as an air hole, it being re- paired prior to sinking a winze on the reef. A trualline will lead from the brace of the poppet legs into the ore floor of the battery; which is barely one linndred feet away, and work from this mine consequently should be
BATTERY.
Crushing with ten" head was resumed on the 22nd May, but as the shoes and dies had worn very low, the battery was not working well, and ae besides the stemper shoes were showing signs of being filled with lead and as our spare set of shoes on examination proved to be in the same
ay the battery was stopped and cleaned
up
the arrival of new shoes from another hich have been promptly ordered, the others have been returned to the aker.|| 97 tons gave 214 ounces of retorted
very poor result, but the pans con- lained a good deal of sickened silver, which we have no appliances to deal with at present The tailings both for this pud the last crushing sssay over three dwt. per ton;
in
The old tailings from `orushings before our time seem to be very poor, as the pan
hich they were tried yielded only very little amalgam, which was put in with that from the
ore:
KAUB
The Manner's Report for the month of Jvibre:7-1899):4
|| Raub Hole réction.-I am very pleased to say that some very good gold bearing ore hast bean got in the north and at the bottom of the winze sunk below the 22 ≤ ft. level. This winze is ãu ft, below the level, making; the total depth from the surface 270 ft. The gold bearing part of the lote in small, 3 in to 4 in.; some parts of it are pronomenally rich 1 lbs. of ore crushed in the mortar giving at the rate of 1.010 ozs. Per ton of ore, but this was an exceptionally rich piece of ore. The fellow piece that it was broken from was sent to the Singapore office. We have now driven about 20 ft. on the gold bearing stone. This find is of considerable importance as it shows that good gold lives in the deep ground If further development should prove it to be permanent make it will add considerably to the value of the Com pany ♥, property Before this can be worked the Main Engine Shaft will have to farther depth of 200 ft. the present
props
125 ft
ssont going East from the 220 ̄ft. lovel
in 235 ft., the face being in hard black At about 220 ft. in several quarts lenders passed through, a little gold was in one but nothing of a payable nature.
Section. The new Main "Shaff 14 ft. by 5 ft. clwar of timber lika
In the No. 1 Level North we have made a start to clean up the debris from the last burst of water we had in this one. Extreme care has to be taken in doing this work.
No. Winze North.-This is sunk to a depth of 33ft, the bottom being in hard black slate.
No. 2 Winze South is down 63ft. with good gold showing in the bottom. This winze has been sunk all the way in quartz and carries good gold the whole distance. There is still 33ft. to go to break through to the No. 2 level,
Stopes. With the exception of No. 1 stopes. all the stopes over this level are showing large bodies of crushing stuff, especially Nos. 5, 6, 7, and 8. In these stopes the crushing stuff is
from 20ft. to 35ft, wide the whole of which is sent to the mill. A great deal of it is small leaders and slate which crumbles to small stuff when broken. Some of these leaders are ex- tremely rich. The bulk of the last crushing came from these stopes.
The crushing stuff available in this section of the mine is far greater than estimated.
deal broken up at present but I have no No. Level going North.-The lode is a good doubt will soon make solid again. It still car- ries fair gold.
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[July 29, 1800.
s return of 2.101 ozs. 1 dwt. 12 grs, of smelted gold, being 17 dwts, 34 gra, per tou. The following are the quantities of ore crushed from the different mines:— Bukit Koman Bukit Hitam Raub Hole
2,403 tons.
33
15
2,450
After effecting some repairs to the machinery orushing was resumed the same night,
Electric Installation, Sempam Section. The principal work done on this section during the month is putting up the posts to carry the main cables. About 24 miles of the posts are erected and a little over 2 miles of the main cables are placed in position. About 1 mile of telephone posts are placed on the track ready for erection. This work is proceeding slowly owing to good deal of sickness amongst the co liesas
The bungalow for Resident Engineer and quarters for the staff are finished. Nothing farther can be done at the Power Station ull the electric machinery arrives or on the pipe line until the balance of the pipes arrive from England, this part of the work being very much behind.
At the Raub end of the cable track about 1} miles of posts are erected and about another mile laid on the track all ready to put into position.
Now 40 Stamp Mill-The work of erecting this is pro-eeding steadily. The buildings for housing the machinery are well on towards completion as also are the lioppers for feeding the mill.
The bank to carry the railway to the stone crushers is almost finished. The water lobby and battery supply pump are connected with the dam.
New Dam to supply the mill with water is almost finished. There is now 4 feet of water in it
Taking the work all round fair progress is being made considering the difficulties to he overcome in carrying on extensive works in a country like this, and the class of labour avail.
able to do the work with.
WM. BIBBY,-Manager:
CORRESPONDENCE,
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PIRACY ON THE WEST RIVER:
TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY. PRÈSS.”
SIE. The recent daring very dariig No. 2 Level Sonth.-We are still cross-cut-piracy of thes.s. Tuiping within hail of Konymoon ting east for the lode.
No. 1 South Engine Shaft. This has been sank and timbered the required depth to open out to meet the No 1 south lare! Bukit Koman, The frame for the opening set has been placed in position at 109 feet and a start made to out the plat 14 fot by 9 feet. We will have 80 feet to drive to cut the No. 1 level Bukit Koman, which we will break into at 1,150 feet south
from Bukit Koman shaft.
No. 1 North Engine Shaft ft. by 5ft. clen of timber. I have located the site of this shaft on the north side of Bukit Jallis Ketchil 1,160
ft. north of Bukit Koman shaft. A start bas been made to sink and 18 ft. sunk and timbered, 10 ft. has been puddled around the top of the the shaft has been placed in position and we are shaft to keep ont surface water. The Collar of
now erecting a shed and fixing the windless.
A start will be made at once to erect pumping and winding machinery over this shaft.
acity of these river pests; for did they not seize points to two facts: (1) The increased atid-
a launch and board from outside in broad day- light? (2) The very inadequite policing of these
waters
H.M.S. Sandpiper has been placed upon the parvo-is not Sir Boyle Roche's bird. She can West river for police duty; but that' multum in
not be in two places at the same time. The pirates muster in forts between Samshuf niid Wnohow.u, as well as in the Kumchuck and Kongmoou districts of the West river.
I would suggest that H.M.S. Snipe be put in commission at once, and for the following ren- sons: (1) She is of more use afloat than lying in sections at the Nuval Yard, and she was sent working together, they can relieve each other out here for use. (2) If the two sister ships ure
in the upper reaches of the present cruising ground, and the boat that has had say a month between Samshui and Wnohow can take the next month's duty upon the lower reaches, where the fresh sea breezes, so urgently needed by the the green water.—Yours, & c., crew of such a closely packed oraft, blow in from
pumping for a month that one 8 in. pump made 150 ft. level, so a second 8 in, pump was put in little impression in lowering the water at the the shaft and we have now got the water below that level.
Bukit Jellis Section.-It was found af e
The rush of water is coming from a big vag in the west crosscut 150 feet level. This has drained our old prospecting workings. As soon as the east crosscut is in far enough I will make a survey 'and connect these workings with the 150 feet level and see if we can trace the gold from them
Battery-The general clean-up took place on Monday last, 10th instant, for the months of May and June, when 2,450 tons of ore gåve
PILOT.
THE PEAK TRAMWAY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAŁY PRES
SIE, The Peak Tramway has been i so many years with so few accidents or mishaps that I am loth to say anything in criticism of the management. But lately we make
have had quite a series of little misfortunes, and if these continue I fear the confidence of the public
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be shaken in the absolute safety of thin