777 ft- 5 in. Level.—About
60 feet to the north of the shaft, in die drive between the Nos. 1 and
2 shafts, the cap of the saddle is 7 feet high. The cap of the reef is
12 feet above the saddle, and from about this point northward the
anticline pitches to the north, and southward, it pitches to the south.
From this point southward the reef has been worked on the saddle and
legs for 350 feet in length, and from. 15 to 30 feet in depth.
Northwards it has been worked for 400 feet on the saddle and on the
western leg down to 40 feet; also from 300 feet down to the back of the
882 ft. 2 in. level, with good ere, from 3 feet to 4 feet thick. Mr.
Bell, the manager, told me that where the centre-country pitched to the
north the best ore was on the western leg-, and where it pitched to the
south the best ore was on the eastern leg. This has been the best
saddle-reef worked in the mine. The line of centre country is seen in a
crosscut 180 feet to the east of the No. 2 shaft, but there has not
been much work done on it there. At 480 feet to the south of the No. 2
shaft a large fault was met with and driven on for 200 feet, at about
35 degrees E. of S. I think it has caused reversed faulting in the
strata by shifting the centre-country on the northern side farther to
the east.
The Energetic Anticline.
This
saddle reef can be seen on the southern side near a prospecting shaft
of the No. 1 South Russell's Company 1,720 feet to the south of the
shaft of the South Russell's Company. In the No. 1 South Russell's mine
this anticline was worked at 139 feet from the surface by a rise from
the 186 ft. 2 in. level, but was not payable; while from 347 feet, at
the cap of the saddle, 510 feet to the west of shaft, it was worked
both north and south for about 100 feet by a rise from the 425 ft. 9
in. level, but was not payable.
The
reef cannot be seen in the workings of the South Russell's mine, but in
the Russell's Reef Amalgamated mine it has been worked, at 367 feet
from the surface, by a rise from the 487 ft. 9 in. level off the No. 1
shaft, at about 420 feet to the west of the shaft; the workings were
from the cap of the reef downward for 18 feet on the western' leg for a
distance of 130 feet to the north and the south. The saddle reef worked
shows a pitch to the north of 6 feet in 80, or 4 degrees 18 minutes. I
was told this reef was not payable. This same line of centre-country is
seen in the 247 ft. 6 in. level from, the No. 2 shaft, 400' feet to the
west of the shaft. About I mile farther to the north the Energetic line
of reef yielded gold to the value of over ,£100,000 to the several
companies on the line, not one of which was working at the time of my
survey.
No. 2 Shaft.
The
No. 2 shaft is situated on the opposite side of the Colihan River, on a
bearing of N. 8 deg. 27. min. W., and distance of 1,476. feet from the
No. 1 shaft. Four levels are worked at 247 ft. 6 in., 447 ft. 6 in.,
706 ft. 11 in., and 776 ft. 3 in., the last being connected by a drive
with the No. 1 shaft.
247 ft. 6 in. Level.—This
level extends 1,010 feet west of the shaft, and at 400 feet passes
through the Energetic line of centre-country. Between the
centre-country and the end of the level, the strata all dip to the
west. Close to the shaft, on the eastern side, there is a syncline
showing, and the crosscut has been carried only for 20 feet further to
the east.
447 ft- 6 in- Level.—This
level extends eastward from the shaft. From 40 to 68 feet it is in
solid quartz, rising in the eastern face on an elevation of 27 degrees
for 20 feet, where the quartz is 2 feet thick. This I believe
