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1879. VICTORIA. OF THE MINING SURVEYORS & REGISTRARS. QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879. PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES 'OJ!' PARLIAMENT BY HIS COMMAND. tip autbontp : JOHN n:RRES. GOVERNMENT PRINTER, MELBOURNE. No. 83 •.

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Page 1: MINING SURVEYORS &REGISTRARS.€¦ · Table showing the Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz raised during the Quarter in some of the Deepest Mines in Victoria; with Depth

1879

VICTORIA

OF THE

MINING SURVEYORS amp REGISTRARS

QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OJ PARLIAMENT BY HIS EXCELU~NCYS COMMAND

tip autbontp JOHN nRRES GOVERNMENT PRINTER MELBOURNE

No 83 bull

aPIROXDlaTE COST

Prepllrntion-Kot given Prlllting ampe (1575 copies) pound103 0 0

INDEX

Summary-Gol(l Mining Statistics for the Quarter ended 30th September 1879 Table showing the Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz raised during the Quarter in some of the Deepest Mines

in Victoria with Depth of the deepest Shafts Levels Cross-cuts ampc Estimated Yield of Gold and Quantity of Gold Exported during the Quarter ended aOth September 1879 p 5 Gold received at and issued from the Royal Mint during the quarter ended 30th September 1879 p 5 Summary of Yield of Gold from Quartz Quartz Tailings ampc crushed during the Quarter ended 30th September 1879p~6 Summary of Yield of Gold from Washdirt and Cement washed and crushed during the Quarter ended loth September 1879

p 17 Number and Distribution of Miners on the Goldfields of the Colony 30th September 1879 p 20

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT Ballarat Central Division Mr D Christy Mining Registrar i 14 16 17 20 24 Ballarat Southern Division Mr George Perry Mining Registrar 7 17 19 2024 Buninyong Division Mr Robert MHarvey Mining Snrveyor and Registrar 72025 Smythesdale Division Mr J ohri Iyneh Mining Surveyor and Registrar 720 25 Creswick Division Mr James Stevenson JunMining Registrar bull 7162026 Gordon Subdivision Mr Thomas Cowan Mining Surveyor and Registrar 8 20 26 Steiglitz Subdivision Mr D =gtIurphy Mining Registrar 814 16 19 20 27 Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain South Mr John ] Hansen Mining Registrar 8 162027

S u bdi vision BaHan Subdivision bullbull Mr John ] Hansen Mining Registrar 2027

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT Beechworth Division Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar 8 14 16 20 27 Yackandandah North Subdivision Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar 28 Yackandandah South Subdivision Mr J Smart Mining Hegistrar bullbullbull bullbull 8 16 20 28 Indigo Division Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar 814172028 Buckland Division Mr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar 92128 Wandiligong Subdivision Mr T C Kaighin Mining Hegistrar bull bullbullbull 9162128 Alexandra Subdivision Mr A B Ainsworth Mining tiurveyor and Registrar 9172128 Dry Creek Subdivision Mr J Pemberton Mining Registrar bull 102129 Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar 102129 Woods Point Subdivision Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar 102129 Big River Subdivision Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar 102129 Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar 142129 Mitta Mitta Sonth Subdivision Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar 102129 Jamieson Subdivision Mr W H Edwards Mining Registrar 10 2130

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT Sandhurst Division Mr N G Stephens Mining Registrar 11162130 Kilmore Division Mr James W Osborn Mining Registrar 11 21 31 Heathcote Division and Waranga South Sub- Mr E C Bell ~Iining Registrar 11 15 16 21 31

division Waranga North Subdivision Mr Henry Hicks Mining Registrar bullbullbull 11 192131

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT Maryborough Division Mr P Virtue Jun Mining Registrar 11 16 17192131 MajorCfL Subdivision Mr Virtue Jun Mining Registrar 2232 Amherst Division Mr J Smitb fining Surveyor and Registrar 12 15 17 22 32 Avoca SUbdivision Mr D OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar 12 17 22 32 DunoHy and Tarnagulla Division ~fr W G COllchman Mining Surveyor and Registrar 1215162232 Inglewood Division Mr W H Coffey Mining Registrar bullbull 12 22 33 IVedderburn Division Mr J teach Mining Registrar 2233 Redbank Snbdivision Mr D OIeary Milling Surveyor and Registrar 122232 St Arnaud South Subdivision ~fr W G Couchman fining Surveyor and Registrar 12 152233 St Arnaud North Subdivision Mr IV G Couchman Mining Surveyor lnd Registrar 12 22 33

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT Castlemaine Division Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar 1215 16 22 34 Fryers Creek Division Mr Mark Amos Mining Surveyor and Registrar 12 18 1922 34 Hepburn Division Mr Thos Hale Mining ltegistrar 13151618192234 Taradalc and Kyneton Subdivision Mr S Dorman ltUning Hegistrar 13 18 22 35 Talrangower Division Mr Hobt Nankivell Mining Surveyor and Registrar 13 182235 St Andrews Division Mr Alfred Armstrong Mining Surveyor and Registrar 1315 18 2335 Blue Mountain North Subdivision Mr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar 23 35

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT Ararat Division Mr Thos Foyster Mining Registrar 2336 Pleasant Creek Division Mr H C Bate Mining Surveyor and Registrar 13 15 192336 Barkly Division Mr II C Date Mining Surveyor and Registrar 2336 Raglan Division Mr C W Minchin Mining Registrar bullbull 13 18 23 36

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT Omeo Subdivision Mr J odell Acting il-lining Registrar bullbullbull 142336 Mitchell River Subdivision Mr John Grimes Peers Minillg Surveyor and Registrar 2837 Boggy Creek Subdivision Mr J Fletcher Mining Registrar 2337 Crooked HiverDi vision Mr Ed Harrison Mining Registrar 142337 Jericho Division Mr R J Donaldson iining Registrar 2337 Donnellys Creek Division Mr O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Registrar 14 15 23 37 Stringers Creek Division Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar 14 162337 Aberfeldy Subdivision Mr M Nugent Milling Hegistrar 142338 Russells Creek Division Mr C H William~ Mining Hegistrarbull 2338 Bendoc Subdivision Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar 2338 Tarwin Subdivision Mr H M Murphy Mining Registrar 2338 Traralgon Subdivision Mr C Denis Mining Registrar 233S Appendix-Observations on new Vegetable Fossils of the Auriferous Drifts (continued) Baron Von Mueller 3940

A2

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ESTHfATED YIELD OF GOLD AND QUANTITY OF GOLD EXPORTED

FROM information obtained by the Mining Surveyors and Mining Registrars from Gold Buyers and others

the TOTAL QUANTITIES OF GOID got respectively from ALLUVIUMS and QUARTZ REEFS are as foll0Y-

Alluvial Quartz Total

oz dwt oz dwt oz dwt

Quarter ended 30th September 1879 74536 10 1151l2 4 189648 14

THE QUANTITY OF GOLD the produce of this Colony EXPORTED according to Returns furnished by order of the Honorable the Commissioner of Trade and Customs is as follows shy

oz dwt

Quarter ended 30th September 1879 64131 17

NOTE-In addition to the above gold specie from all sources was exported to the value 01 pound350101

GOLD RECEIVED AT AND ISSUED FRO THE ROYAL UNT

STATEMENT of the Gross Weight of GOJD received at and issued from the Melbourne Branch of the ROYAL

MINT during the Quarter ended 30th September 1879

Royal Mint V DELVES BROUGHTON Melbourne 6th October 1879 Deputy Master

RECEIVED

Gross Weight 01 Rough Gross Weight of Gold Gold Bullion

oz oz

3085739 12153240

ISSUED

Gross Weight of Coin

oz

15589720

Gross Weight of Gold Bullion

oz

589294

STATEMENT of VICTORIAN GOLD received at the Melbourne Branch of the ROYAL MINT during the

Quarter ended 30th September 1879

Gross Weight of Rougll Gold Gross WeIght 01 Gold Bullion

oz oz

1068734 9548664

NQTE-The Mint has no evidence heyond the statement of the depositors that the above is Victorian gold

Royal Mint V DELVES BROUGHTON Melbourne 6th October 1879 Deputy Master

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SUMMARY

GOLD MINING STATISTICS FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30th SEPTElIBER 1879

- shy TABLE SHOWING APPROXIMATELY THE NUMBER OF MINERS EMPLOYED THE MACIIINERY IN USE AND ITS VAlJUE ON THE SEVERAL GOLDFIELDS--~

Quartz Miners Alluvial

Miners

1shyDISTRICT DIVISION

AND

SUBDIVISION ~ bull ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 2 S ~9 ~~__Il_ 6

BAtURAi Central Division 400 210 1675 Southern Division 534 255 140 1 Buninyong Division bullbull ltO 50 300 50 my~hesdale Division 630 190 27

ok Division bullbull 665 170 890 ] Subdivision 6 354 39 ~z Sttbdivision 40 100 vood Division and nl~~ 100 330 ntain Bouth Subdivisl( Subdivision bull bull 12 8

[ 2497 1710 3814 95Totals

DEEOHWORTH 718 I 138 106 shy

ykaiidiidh So~th s~ubdi~j 225 160 - 60 shyIndigo Division bull 3~2 06 82 Buckland Division 82 amp13 180 2 Wundiligong Subdivision 20 30 120 Alanura Subdivision 116 22 68 shyDry Creek Subdivision 21 40 32 3 Benalla 8nbdivision _ _ _Galfneys Oreek Subdivision 44 8 69 _ WOOfPS Point Subdivision bull 5~ 2 113 TI_ n ~_ 0ubdivision 65 _ 28 _

North Subdivision _ _ 200 _ South Subdivision 76 59 40 _

oubdivision 1UO 20 160 shy

Totals bull lW 1978 1278 -5

SANDTIURST Sandhurst Division bullbull 955 180 3750 30

30 12 94KlImare Division bull ~ bull 155 40 390Heathcote Division and WarangeSouth Subdivision

Waranga North Subdivision 87 40 105

IN THE COLONY OF VICTORIA

(Gompiled from Ute Mining Surveyors and Reqistrars RepoTts for tle Quarter ended 30tlt September 1879)

MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN ALLlTVIAL MINING

Steam Engin~s ]

N~~~~r employed i~l Wmdw ~ rti E ~ of mg Pumpmgampc ~ ~ ~ ~ bull ~

lWners a ~ I ~ ~ ~ s ] ~ g rA ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~QS ~S ~ ~S w ~ ~ to t ~ ~~ ~ ~~ g ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ a j ___ --z-- ~iiamp al ~ 1lt Ii is I Il ~ ttl~ I

2 285 34 1910 23 19 15 14 18 18 930 2 30 1 12 3 6 35 1 5 510 10 190 6 19 9 2 17 8

1447 3~ 860 44 14 7 23 10 1125 26 595 27 32 12 800

399 190 610 450 20 15

20

811~ 108 101 -- -00 46 24 -9- 43 15 10

1062 19 210 3 520lJ 30 14

465 -2 10 2500 3 24 21 460 9 249 11 6 9 39 7

1107 _ 4450 48 48 170 280 206 1 10 4 26 130 96 250

_ 121 _ 120 8 167 _ 126 9 33 _ -- 120 8

200 _ 115 - shy280 - 450

5lC2 31 479 12 = 14 15 13655 _9_ 139mshyo

5515 6 115 56 36 6 65 I shy136 - shy585 40 10 30 50 -

232 27 - shy=i 1227 ~ _ 4339 ~~ 6 i 115 __ 123 4 10 66 56 -- _ (5 shyTotals bullbull

MARYBOROUGH Maryborough Division 1535 310 950 10 2835 35 1151 32 1 160 34 12 4 2 36 126

122 9 144 10 1 9 10 10 7Majorca Subdivision bull 110 12 489 4 60 8 1 21 8 26 36 40 20 12Amherst Division 199 180 110 905 2 30 - 100 34 17 4Avoca gubiliviRion bull bull bull bullbull 300 527 18 1480 4 no 42 6 5 4 30Dunolly and Tarnagulln Divisions 34() 200 910 30 Inglcwf)od Division bull 400 240 lfJO i~~ 3 90 xi 15 18 Wedderburn Division bull bullbull 171 26 518 18 6Redbank and St Arnaud South 289 193 29

Subdivisions 435 8 5St Arnaud North Subdivision

7771 51 1611 50 375 6144 --s4 n -3- 92 185Totals ---I---I-------I-I-- ----

OaSmiddotrLEMAiN]~ I ICastlcmlline Division 360 280 354 994 1 20 65 - 128 6 5 Fryers Creek Division 730 600 200 1530 4 78 41 6 15 306 25 2 2 24 Hepburn Division bullbull bullbull 365 290 361 1019 13 3 1 60 75 4() 3 1 TaradaJe and KynetonSubdivision 200 136 110 446 64 11 8 1 6 1 Tarrangower Division 38 161 298 515 15 - 2 17 9 21 St andrews Division bullbull 196 54 142 39~ 10 2 6 9 8 30 10 4 Blue Mountain Nrth Subdivision 73 73 _______ _____1__

Totals 1980 1521 1468 10 172 6 151 28 Btl 562 18 83 11 25 24

ARARAT 215 315 30 560 4 25 11 3 30 12 4 15Ararat Division bull

Pleasant Creek Division sectt~ 2~ 801 3 lmi~ 1~ 1~~ ~ 4 2~ 23 iamp Barkly Division Raglan Division 445 114 11 570 1 125 10 9 10

1323 766 842 3 2934 22 318 8 30 16 67 13 32 95Totals

GIPpsLAND Oooeo Subdivision 408 263 1 8 679 1000 2 22122Mitcbell Ri ver and Boggy Creek 230 30 9 319 49 shy

SuhdiviRlol1sCrookcd Hiver Division 117 33 23 233 240 12 11 Jenaho Diviion 78 56 G 140 90 20 20 Donnellys Oreek Division 40 2 31 73 10 30 - I Stringers Oreek Division bullbull 90 343 433 -Aberfeldy Subdivision 52 10 64 126 30 8 8 ltusRolls Oreek Division 81 4 85 12 _ 1

~~~~r ~~~gft~ ~~ 1~ 10 f~ 2 18 8 3~ g 5 I 10 Trarajgon Subdivision 81 81 ____1_ 16

1327 458 426 2283 3 23 11 6 1507 2 70 67 11 2Totals 137i9 9128 14681 180 37703 237 6298 178 792 214 17294 39 475 210 158 390 II

GRAND TOTALS

MAOHINERY EMPLOYED IN QUARTZ MINING

t 17

60 1334 shy11 200 shy9 200 shy6 100

34 112320 606 shy4 51 shy24middot 511 9

20 shy

sect ~~ ~~ W-0 ~0 ~-

~il01 g~

466 70 90 46

282 118 24

270

i cl

~

1 --

25

--

8_

170 4145 9 I~~

7 115 5 75 shy

4 71 - 44 3 4 06 - 36

10 93 6 111 1 9 130 5 121 6 135 1 80 shyI 10 1 14 shy

-4 64 12 172 1

11 172 S 203 2 3 36 ~ 30 shy6 45 - 20 1 15 1 11 shy4 47 3 74 shy

70 991 42~ ~

211 3940 1- 1260 3 30 2 30

19 374 129

10 180 79

243 4524

25 596 194

7 85 20 5 88 73

39 773 245I l~g ~~ 4 76 22

19 319 134

107 2132 --~ 4

32 538 228 3 19 509 150 4 28 473 210 8 220 SO

30 602 202 11 130 4 62

128 2422 932

4 92 36 1415 346

1 12

44 1519 390

1 11 21 2 16 8

8 137 4 126 3 35 37 3 58 3 6~

17 355 1 126 4 65 1 35

30 i 1~ _-__ shy I-=shy

39 103 12 412 3

ti ~~ ~ ~ 21 ~ ~--

bull Ilt

ii 32 2 4 2 2 2 2 1

13 1 1 1

16

77 14

2

4

3

==_11 9 - shy

180 190 2

7 20

12

190 224

28 21

6 16 4 4

21 12r 1 2

17 22

85 90 - shy

22 27 1 9 15 3 26 38

28 6

91 80

2 3 48 10

51 15

__-__ ___ ___ _ - - 1

801 16506 69 -6387 I-SO --9- iii5 43l 11

Sqre 1 distinot Price of Gold-Value Miles of Quartz per DUnefAuriferous Reefs0( actually proved to be

upun IAurife-middotmiddotmiddotmiddotmiddot~

1_-1 I~I_~ pound s d pound s dpound 420 4 2 9

16500 14 19 120400 39 24

410 4 2 6 4 1 0 426

22000 18 12 30000 16~ 13

400 430 104000 13 16 400 430 24131 3~ 19 3 16 0 4 0 0 2800 50 210 3 17 6 4 2 3

60000 4h 31 3 17 6 400

3 IS 0 318 0600

38073-1--1--1-14-~-----34-7

3 IS 0 4 2 637320 47 105 310 9 4169150 15 95 4 0 0 42027118 8 26 318 0 40014125 53] 196 3 16 0 42016000 26 16t 3 16 6 4 1 01915 35 74 315 6 400

10 3 2700 1~ 2

3 16 0 4 0 017330 24 19 3 2 6 410214)0 18 95 3 17 0 317 63488 33 14 31 0 315 017700 36 24 2 10 0 312 62LOO 18 12 314 0 318 316000 9 27

196246 340 ____

451000 2150

26392

24 29 81

325 117 204

3 18 317 3 IS

3 D 0

318 3 3 18 9 400

11055 11 126 310 4 1

490597 772

135859 8995

12845 7259

90360 10m

5k 2 5 1~ 16 g

170 1

30 40

185 7~

400 4 0 0 316 0 400 315 0 319 0 318 9

4 2 0 414 4 2 0 400 420 4 0 0 319 0

6OBB HI 28 315 0 400

44186 10 315 4 0

311109 122i 604

6006474527 32078 1800043246 8183

9 28 82 20 44

15 4

103 37 88 19 76 77 4

3 17 0 317 6 3 18 6 319 0 318 0 317 3 317 0

4 0 0 318 0 400 319 6 4 1 0 400 317 6

164 404

6810 156~~~

28 3~

3 16 313 4 0

400 430 406

7000 5 4 0 4 2 0

1__17_0_7_14_1 __-_1____

I 390 3 16 64680 12 23 317 0 311 644() bull 23 23

312 0 3 18 632280 49~ 352 315 0 317 64300 26 33 310 0 40012160 6h 18 310 0 40046430 7 13 315 0 317 611000 20 6 310 0 3 18 026 35 ]6 3 12 0 315 0 315 0 317 63~g 2~ 1 316 0 319 6 ___~ 1 1

115332 209

)208827 1182

THOS COUCfUIAN SecretarY for Mines Office of Mines Melbourne 15th ctober 1879

No 83

y

NAME OF REEF

Clunce

Cluncs

Sultan nnd others

Reform Jgtlyrtleord

Pride and

Land TlX Bllckeye Tiddlemiddotilcmiddotaddelde FDrlorn Hope Buckeye

Whistlers

Church Hill bullbull

Goldsborough Moliagul

Jersey Greenock

BriStol Chrysolite

Richmond

Cohens Aberfcldy

I

Feet

450 to 950 278 112

100 to 000

240 to 1105

210 to 770

460

100

400 150 220 310 150

100

200

200 to 260 150

140 150 to 200 100 to 380

270 200 300

SO

50

343 to 623

150

Quantity Crushed

Tons

1500 2117 1520

13910

2457~

1623

1063

139

258 19

205 23 64

60 110 900

480

4443 1510 2208 1802

22

144

3701 713

1471 119

63 45

530 1419 6310

100 945

96 177

17

5034

650

o 6

o 1 8 14 9 5 6 1 12 4 1 19 4 3 13 10

o 6 16 o 10 0 041

o 10 0

1 10 1 3 21 o 11 0 o 7 2

8 3

2

012 0 0 1 19 o 7 16 o 1 19 o 18 I o 17 8

o o

7 2 2 23

076 o 7 6 o 3 3 o 8 0 o 1 13 4 4 15 5 10 16

4 2

18 19

o 6

10 0

2 0

o

1 3 2 0 2 6

6 0

2tolll 0 1 6

1 to 3 0 10 0

In to 8

o 10 0 5 0

1 0 8 0 7 0 3 0

12 4

o o

Irregular 5 6bull 3 0 5 0 2 6 2 0

w W80middot

E

NW30 Vertical Dyke

Vertical

E

W4I)

E 86~ W75 W75

N S

W75

W7 W80

E

12 0 I W80 60 Elftln2tt

Dip oftha Shoot

01 Quartz

N S

N

N

Varies

S

NW24

S S N

s s

S35

Nl inS W40

Vertical Vertical

N30

Good Hope

( j~mg Tunnel t Wlllla

NAME OF REEF

Clunes

Clunes

Sultan and othors

Excelsior Wooragee bullbull

Homeward-bound

Victrnin l-iwltlers Harden Gully

Western

Churchill

Jersey Reef

Eaglehawk

c 1 ~ r

285 I

-(

1~O i i

1

t 2225 1940 166 1468 1313 1262 1210

1230 1117 1052 101

middot1 ~ 7QO

VICTORIA WITH STOPPED EfC

1879)

1105

800

180

420

1200 800 854

500

250

277

160 175 410

1120 1070

800 1000

50

1100

723 58~

1090

1105

800

310

600

250

271

1pound0 175 500

1000

2002 1510 1500 1020 1000 1202 1200

700

Inclndlng pyrites

Including pyrites

REMARKS

bottm level with gold visible in the quurtz

It is intended to open oul another level at 900 feet

Not Sinking Not sinking Sinking

shaft

bull The width vaJies frolll 6 inches to 80 feet

Still sinking

Still sioking

sinkinf sl1Klng

Below ndilleycl

THOS COUCHMAN Secretary for Mines

T A BmiddotL E THE DEPTH OF THESHOWING THE YIELD OF GOLD FROM CERlAIN PARCELS OF QUARTZ RAISED DURING lHEQUARTER IN SOME OF THE

DEEPESI SHAFTS WHICE ARE NOW BEING SUNK OR THE SINKING OF WHICH HAS RECENTLY

( Compiled from Returns made by the fffining Surveyors and Registrars for the Quarter ended 30th

Strike of the Reel

(Bearing)

N and S

N 10 W

W15

NSE

NlOmiddot W

Northerly

NIO E

NE

N24Wbull NIlnctSbull N3SW

Ennd W

NlSW Nl W NIS W

NISW

N N

N14W N)O E

N18W

N15 W N16W

~

NW19

N 25 W

NAME OFCOMPANY

Port Phillip

New North Cluncs

Sultan bull

Dale and Co

and Clinga~

J

LonseUs No 180 Grea Extenrled

Carlisle Nodh (j ly and 1as~by

Bristol Hill

Union

J orsoy I1eel Q M

Eaglehawk Union

~ shy~

DISTIUCT DIVISION

AND NAUE O COMPANY SUBDIVISION

BALLAHAT

Central Division SOllthern Division BU1l1llyong L Smythesdale

Crewick Division

and Blue Mountain I Sultan

IHECHWOUTH

Beechworth Yacknndallliall YllCkUIHlatlllah Indigo Divisioll

Buckland Division

SANDIIURST

Sandhurst Division

Kilmore lIethcote ilivislolJ and Varanga

Subdivhdoll WaJmiddotnnga Normiddotth Subdivision

11 AltYpoundlOIWUGH

Dunollyand Taruagulla Divisions

Inglewood Diyisioll

and st Arnaud South SuUdI-

St Arnaud North Su bdi vision bullbull

Wedderburn Division bullbull

CASTLEIIAINE

Cast1~mninc IJivis10n bullbull

Fryer Creek DivisIon

Hephulll Tllra1ale KY1tctonmiddot8ubdlvision

Tarrangowcr Division bullbull

I Jersey neef Q M

Subdivision

ARARAT Ararat Division

Pleasttnt Creek Division

Barklv Raglan DivisIon

Omeo RubdhiSlIin JltclwtJ jUver amp Hoggy Ok SubdivIsions Crooked Uiver lJ J ericllo Di v i~ion J)ouuellys Ureek Diisiou

Stringers Creek Divislon bullbull

Office of Mines Melbourne 15th October 1879

No 83

Reform

Grumbriage and Co

Union

The Victory

I Long Tunnel James Rices Lea8~

Oz dwt gr

o 2 15 o 2 0 o 6 2

o 16

o 7 1

o 19 17

Width 1Dip of the leef

W 3i1 In 6ft

[

W70middot E66

30 30

W80 varilS

~ride

y

hi

1 1

j

6

QUARTZ QUARTZ TAILINGS PYRITES ETO

SUMMARY

THE following information has been obtained relative to the QUANTITY OF QUARTZ QUARTZ TAILINGS

and M ULLOOK Crushed anu PYRITES and BLANKE1IN(S operateu on during the Quarter and the

GOLD obtained therefrom shy

Average Yield of 01 Gold1romQuantity Crushed ~UNING DISTRICTS Gold per Ton Crushed

Quartz tons cwt o~ dwt oz dwt gr

Ballarat 91198 10 0 5 27188 7 23 Beechworth 15774 18 0 11 9257 17 19 Sandhurst 63695 0 0 8 26456 5 12 Maryborough bullbullbull 11639 11 0 8 4294 2 2 CastlemaiTie 8109 0 0 H 6045 17 9 Ararat 22705 19 0 II 12650 8 12 Gippsland 6783 1 3 7931 10 0deg

Totals 217905 18 0 8 93824 9 5

Quartz 1ailings and Mullock 4050 0 0 1 344 1 0Ballarat

0 1 87 14 (1003 0Beechwolth 0 2 87 0 0250 0Sandhurst 0 1 61 2 0702 0Maryborough

3629 0 0 1 226 10 12Castle maine 0 2 4 9 1835 0Ararat

40 0 2 0 4 0 0Gippsland deg 0 1 1381 764 17 69709 0Totals

Pyrites and Blanketings operated on

Ballarat Beechworth

Sandhurst M1tryborough Ctstlemaine Ararat Gippslaml

Totals

350 114 789 28

139

26

15 0

10 11 0

3

1447 19

3 10 1628 1239 10 12 0 16 S68 93 5 6 1 16 356 1443 8 0 1 16 899 51 18 12 1 11 2261 222 0deg 2 2 1213 55 12 ()

2 2 262 3105 14 6

NOlE-This Summary docs not show the total quantities of quartzampc crushed or operated on but only the yield of certnln cruahlngs ampc respecting- which the ~Iining Surveyors and Registrars have been able to obtain information Owing to the circumstance that mnny Of the machine owners are unable to give 01 are precluded from giving information it is impossible to get c-omplete returns froID every district and in considerillg the relative jmportance of each district as regards quartz mining ampc the tables relatipg to machinery should be examined and compared bull

Office of Mines TROS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

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7

JIINING SURVEYURS AND REGISTRARS RETURNS

QUARTZ

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars lelative to the QUANlITY OF QUARTZ Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GoLD obtained therefrom

Divislon ~nd Subdivision I Average I T IYi Remarks relative toti and WheTe Quartz was obtained Quartz Crushed Yield of Gold ta ld of Depth at which the

Name of Companybull per Ton Gold Quartz was obtained amp0 ~-----------------I--------7--------I-------~-I------------------1-----------------

tons owt qr j oz dwt gr I oz dwtgr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Band and Albion Consols Ballarat West bullbullbull 3269 0 0 0 13 776 2177 15 0 1250 feet Black Hill Ballarat East bullbull 3358 0 0 0 5 1236 925 19 20 Surface to 500 feet Llanberris bullbullbull Ballarat East bullbull 2435 0 0 0 2 1599 324 12 12 300 feet Temperance Little Bendigo 1500 0 0 0 7 2227 594 12 0 430 to 950 feet Serjeants Freehold Endeavor

Ballarat West Specimen Gully

270 603

0 0

0 0

0 11 2295 0 4 421

161 8 125 18

6 0

280 feet 100 feet

Britannia Duchcss

bullbullbull bullbull

Specimen Gully Ballarat East

457 913

0 0

0 0

0 0

2 440 7 1953

49 17 21 356 14 4

165 feet ISO to 300 feet

Parade Ballarat East 230 0 0 0 15 448 174 13 0 400 feet Countess Ballarat East 90 0 0 0 4 1373 20 11 12 70 to 150 feet Canadian Canadian 1925 0 0 0 5 l1S3 52S 15 0 SO to 140 feet Baker and Co bull Mount Clear 1250 0middotmiddot0 0 8 1217 631 14 0 Surface to 100 feet Hanthorn and Co Mount Clear 145 0 0 0 6 082 43 15 0 80 to 150 feet Black Hill Lnited Ballarat East 132 0 0 0 19 1889 129 4 10 400 feet New Dirnocks Little Bendigo 2160 0 o 0 3 266 336 0 0 260 to 860 feet North Dimocks Little Bendigo 708 0 0 I 0 3 823 liS 7 0 300 to 400 feet New Koh-i-noor Ballarat West 190 0 0 Band of Hope Quartz Ballarat West 1104 0 0

Public crushings bull Ballar~~~~d wes~ 2

SOUrUElIN DIVISION

Speedwell Tribute Staffordshire Reef 1090 0 0 Hopewell Tributers Staffordshire Reef 50 0 0 New Kangaroo Kangaroo 2117 0 0 Williams Fancy Kangaroo 900 0 0 Nil Desperandum Kangaroo 511 0 0 New Try Again Kangaroo 400 0 0

Totals 5068 0 0

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Imperial Q M bull Hiscock Reef bull 1520 0 0 Olle-and-All Hiscocks Fairweather 1379 0 0

0 8 757 79 0 0 280 to 300 feet 0 8 558 454 8 18 300 feet

~~19~2 1 1 ~ IVarious depths 11

o 2 751 126 I 10 150 feet 4 feet wide o 6 012 15 0 6 121 feet o 2 004 211 18 0 278 feet 8 feet wide o 3 1028 154 5 18 130 feet 6 feet wide o 2 185middot 70 16 0 120 feet 8 feet wide o I 1269 30 11 12 130 feet 4 feet wide

---- 0 2 964 608 12 22

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0 6 204 462 9 6 1I2 feet 0 Ill 99 103 8 2 80 to 200 feet

1Reefs Tributers Olle-and-All Public crushing~ I Various depths up to

150 feet Llewellyn Magpie Ranges

486 0 0 0 II 1213 279 11 18

180 feet

Totals ~~-+I ~23middot 9 ---1-----shy -------SIYTHESDALE DIVISION

720 0 0 0 1 166 60 17 11 264 feet Bristol Linton Ranges Srnythesdale Consols German Reef SrnythesdaJe

7 10 0 150 feet30 0 o 0 5 0

750 0 0 0 I 1974 68 7 11Totals

CRESWICK DIVISJON

1396 0 0Port Phi Ilip Clunes reefs o 4 1573 32419 12 100 to 990 feet12514 0 0Port Phillip Tributcrs Clunes reefs o 5 159 3170 1 12

New North Clunes Clunes reefs 394 0 0 o 2 962 47 6 12 240 to 1105 feet2063 10 0 725 10 0 South Clunes Clunes reefs New North ClunesTributers Clunes reefs o 7 076

812 2 03119 0 0 o 5 497 70 to 600 feet8486 0 0 2]03 0 0 New Lothair Clunes reefs South Clnlles Tnbuters I Clunes reefs o 4 2295

1340 0 0 o 5 1525 264 to 564 feet United Spring Hill Reef

377 12 0 194 0 0 o 5 162 55 1 0 70 feet

Working Miners Georges Reef 320 0 0 o 3 20middot97 70 feet61 19 15

Totals bullbullbull 29826 10 0 0 5 355 7677 12 3

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Division and SubdiviSion Average Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of and Where Quartz was obtained I Quartz Crushed Yleld of Gold Depth at which theGoldName of Company pel ~ron Quart was obtained ampcbull ---- shy -----_ ------------ shy

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr oz dwt grGORDON SUBDIVISION

Black-horse United Egerton 400 to 600 feet7356 0 0 0 3 239 11469 16 0 The Egerton Limited Egerton 500 to 758 feet10104 0 0 0 6 9833238 3 14 Parkers United bullbull Gordon 60 0 0 0 5 235 17 18 18 ioo feet IUnited Miners ~orth of Gordon 150 0 0 0 3 0 22 10 0 Surface to 20 feet shy

Totals 17670 O 0 0 5 899 4748 8 8 i STEIGLITZ SUBDIvisION

Minerva Elaine I 5 133 23 0 o Ibull i 18 0 0 Elaine 52 0 middot0Watson and party 0 5 1846 15 0 0

Copperwaite and party Elaine o 18 02 0 6 0 9 0 Wee Speck Elaine 0 3 023 0 0 3 8 0 Mortimer and party Elaine o 17 III 24 10 028 0 0 Dunlop and party Elaine 4 4 45721 0 0 88 8 0 Dennis and Co Steiglitz 16middot 0 O I 2 12 18 0 0 Herring Steiglitz 2 14 96 13 12 05 0 0 Morris and Co Steiglitz 4 12 016 O oj 0 5 18 Barrett Steiglitz 1 13 o i4 0 0 0 8 6 Seott and Co New-ehum I 9 343 30 12 021 0 0

1

BLACKWOOD DIVISION un) BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH

Totals

206middot 0 0 1 I 1712 223 13 01

SUBDIVISION Sultan Barrys Reef 1623 0 0 o 19 1798 1602 13 0 270 to 770 feet Moullter Bros BarryS Reef 99 0 0 o 17 ll88 86 12 0 400 feet Big Hill Simmons Reef 1800 0 0 0 1 680 1I5 10 0 50 feet Cornish Simmons Reef 450 0 0 0 1 643 23 10 15 100 feet

rownC Simmons Beef 250 0 0 0 2 2221 36 II 9 150 feet N~orth Star Union Reef 30 0 0 0 8 16 13middot 0 0 110 feet Victoria Yankee Reef 207 0 0 0 5 116 52 5 0 40 to i5 feet N I ~orth Britain da Wrights Reef

Wrights Reef 380 0

167 0 0 0

0 0

2 158 8 2i3

50 10 67 15

4 0

110 feet 280 feet

-----shy--- shy ---- shyTotals 5006 0 0 0 8 489 2053 7 4

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

I I BEECHWORTH DIVISION

Rocky Point 1 460 0 o i omiddot 7 6Homeward Bound Tribute 166 15 0 600 feet Shakspeare Reef Stanley bullbullbull 43 0 0 2middot14 1283 117 5 0 50 feet

shyHurdle Flat 800 0 0 014 225 563 15 0 90 feetWallaby Tribute Marco Polo Hurdle Flat 95 0 0 o 17 1l37 83 0 0 90 feet Sunday Beef Three-mile Creek 39 0 0 2 4 1169 86 15 0 120 feet Reform Myrtleford 1063 0 0 0 6 591 332 0 0 450 feet Nil Desperandum 11yrtleford 196 0 0 0 6 1175 63 12 0 100 feet Carthew and Co Myrtleford 16 0 0 0 4 0 3 4 0

------ shy --- shy ---__- Surfaee

Totals 2712 0 0 o 10 1067 1416 6 0 YACKANDANDAH SOUTH ------ shy ---- shy ----- shy

SUBDIVISION

Bigelowe and Clingam Hillsborough 130 0 0 0 8 8 54 3 6 40 feet Pride and Stringer Baek Creek 130 0 0 1 6 0 169 6 0 100 feet Iron Hand Twists Creek 35 0 0 0 2 14 4 10 8 20 feet Schnackenberg Bros Sandy Creek 60 0 0 4 10 0 270 0 0 60 feet Crowe and Farrell Sandy Creek 22 0 0 o 18 436 20 0 0 36 feet Patrick McClinehy Sandy Creek 6 0 0 II 13 8 70 0 0 30 feet

INDIGO DIVISION

Gallagher and CoshyDe lI1amiel and Co

Totals

Not known Golden Bar Reef

383 0 0 ------- shy

6 0 0 8 0 0

I 10 1687 587 19 14

1shy 9 = 1 II 2 Surfaee to 40 feet 0 16 18 6 14 0 30 to 40 feet

Hellyar and Co Indigo Reef 3 0 0 0 14 13 2 3 15 20 to 28 feet Pomeroy and Co Banners Reef 15 0 0 017 U2 13 2 0 60 feet Williams and Co Not known 20 0 0 o 16 18 16 15 0 Not known Spearing and Co Demon 28 0 0 1 15 171 49 2 0 60 to 80 feet Barras rind Co Caledonian Reef 48 0 0 o 17 235 43 3 0 100 feet Trevillian and Co Indigo Lead Reef 45 0 0 o 18 2134 42 10 0 138 feet Buehan and Co Pass-by Reef 13 0 0 17 18 II07 233 0 0 175 feet Archer and Co Touehstone Reef 12 0 0 I 4 0 14 8 0 Smfaee to 2(1 feet Laurie and Co Golden Bar 8 10 0 1 10 1411 13 0 0 30 to 80 feet Eustace and Co Bradys Hill 13 0 0 o 13 2033 9 0 0 Surface to 20 fcer Bigby and Co WaHaces Gully 10 0 0 2 15 0 27 10 0 80 to I00 f~CL Burton and Co Eureka Heef 25 0 0 o 14 0 17 10 0 60 to 80 feet Various companies Various reefs 19 10 0 o 14 1969 14 9 0 Various depths Hooly and Co We Speek Reef 25 0 0 1 10 0 37 10 0 60 to 100 feet Lord and Co Campbells Reef 24 0 0 4 5 10 102 10 o I 80 to 90 feet Brown and Co Garibalui Heef 12 0 0 o 17 4 10 6 0 60 to 70 flof

----- shy --- shy --- shyTotals 335 0 0 I 19 1247 661 19 3

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crllshed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

AverogeDivision and Subdivision Yield of Gold Quartz Crushedand Where Qnartz was obtained

per TonName 01 Company

BUCllLAD DIVISIOY

J A Wallace Jones and Co Dl-vies and Co

o

o

H arrietville Land Tax Rcef Buck-eye Tiddle-de-addle-de

Gillies and Co The Admiral Douglas and Co Anderson and Co Stephen and Co o

H Curry and Co O Anderson and Co Boss Cockies Shippen and Cobullbullbull King and Co Clemens and Co Radcliffe and Fowler Brady and Co

Bucldand o bull

lt

bullbullbull

Davies and Co Maguire and Co Harp of Erin Co Maguire aud Co Beveridge and Co Coxon and Co Grennep and Wilson Honeychnrch and Co

Frecburgh Oriental Hill Three Stars Tramway Heef Three Stars bullbullbull

Oriental Hill Reliance Reef Lisbon Reef

Maefadzean aud Co J Butler and Go

Bright

Belle of the Ball Stackey Gully

The Hope Q M Running Creek

Happy Valley Reef Root Hog and Die Running Creek

Totals

WANDILIOONO SUBDIVISIO

Prince Arthur Mill Williams and Co Tributers Williams and Co Tributers Davies and Hearn Tri-

buters Birthday Mill

Three public crushings Queen of South Mill

Two small crushings Hit or Miss Mill

Harrietville Oriental Mill

Nine parcels for public Try Again Mill

Hood and Contts Frasers Mill

Myrtle Co London Co James and Co Londonderry bullbull

Prince Arthur Lease Anstralasia Lease Prince A Lease

Various

Buck-eye

Try Again Myrtle Reef London Reef Londonderry

Native Industry Reef

and Co Attridge and Co Native Industry Symes

Old Albion Never 100 Late Mill

Stephens and Co Pride of Kildare Gregory and Co Louisa

Forlorn Hope Vale and Co Wbo Knows

Home ~fill Hazeton E M Gill Home Reef

Stephens Mill Mills and Co Advance Australia H Mitchell HM Reef J Phillips New Years Gift

tons cwt qr

258 0 0 19 0 0

205 0 0

156 0 0

90 0 0 16 0 0

13 0 0 12 0 0 35 0 0

4 0 0 7 0 0

14 0 0 40 0 0

6 0 0 7 0 0

54 0 0 34 0 0

100 0 0 40 0 0 5 0 0

11 0 0 17 0 0 17 0 0

49 10 0 19 0 0

312 0 0

3 0 0

oz dwt gr

1 8 1451 9 5 632 1 12 468

o 10 2154

1 7 1866 1 10 0 5 4 l477 1 11 16 0 7 1028 1 6 6 2 1 1886 2 17 1029 0 4 72 4 6 16 1 7 0

2 2 2311 210 0 o 18 0 o 17 0 1 3 0 1 10 0 1 0 0 4 14 282

o 14 1309 o 15 189

0 1 2331

I 8 0

1543 10 I 3 2124 __ o i

28 0 0 I 13 0 16 0 0 o 17 12 77 0 0 7 0 686

85 0 0 0 9 1552

11 10 0 1 5 0

64 0 0 3 13 105

376 0 0 0 4 963

150 0 0 0 7 48

780 0 0 0 4 16 42 0 0 0 8 228 24 0 0 0 7 12 33 10 0 I 17 211

13 18 0 3 7 2089

24 0 0 1 o 20 28 0 0 I 3 1371 23 0 0 1 19 313 43 0 0 I 1 949

0 4 1294178 0 0

35 0 0 3 I 1714 49 0 0 o 16 1763 99 0 0 0 Ii 109

Remarks relative to the Total Yield of Depth at which theGold Quartz WJ obtained ampc _-----shyoz dwt gr

369 O 0 400 feet 176 0 0 150 feet 330 0 0 220 feet water leve

100 feet 85 0 0 150 feet

125 0 0 60 feet 24 0 0 20 feet 68 0 0 80 feet 19 0 0 Surface 13 0 0 20 feet 5 5 0 40 feet

14 12 12 40 feet 40 4 0 50 feet 8 12 0 35 feet

26 0 0 Surface 9 9 0 25 feet

116 0 0 SO feet 85 0 0 50 feet 90 0 0 120 feet 34 0 0 60 feet

5 15 0 Surface 16 10 0 40 feet 17 0 0 Surface to 10 feet 80 0 0

36 0 0 30 feet 15 0 0 50 feet

30 15 0 300 feet water level 100 feet

4 4 0 Surface

1843 ( 12 ----shy

46 -1 0 Surface to 40 feet 14 0 0 Surface to 40 feet

540 2 0 Surface to 40 feet

41 0 0

14 7 12

235 0 0 150 feet

82 15 0

100 to 300 feet54 0 0

450 feet 17 0 0

182 0 0 300 feet

9 0 0 170 feet 63 10 0 70 feet

43 0 0

middot25 0 0 33 0 0 45 0 0 310 feet 46 0 0 90 feet

40 8 0 120 feet deep

108 0 0 30 feet 41 0 0 50 feet 27 0 0 5 to 60 feet

Eleven small parcels Various 153 0 1

0 9 1082 72 6 0O

1779 12 12 Totals 2332 18 0 o 15 616

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION

The Try Again Paps Reef 2 0 0 1 8 0 2 16 0 Surface to 50 feet Peter Mannoni and party Durham Gully Reef 14 0 0 9 10 0 133 0 0 Snrface to 40 feet Selby and Johnson Candlelight Reef 25 0 0 0 7 48 9 0 0 Surface to 50 feet

--- shy -- shy ----- shy ---- shy -Totalsmiddot 41 0 0 3 10 1522 144 16 0

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QUANTITY of- QUARTZ Crushed in eacK Division and StiMivsioriJduring the QUfiiter Iampc-colltinued

Division and Subdlvlson 1 I Average I l Remark~el~tfveto the t and Quartz Cru~hed i YieldOf Gold TotaGrl~d of

Nameof Company bull per Ton bull

-----------I--to-n-s-cwt--q-10p -o~ Dny CnEElt SUBDIVISION

R G Meade Une~(Quattz Table ipoundiIiabiy Creek 350 0 0 0 23 Claim

-~~ t71~ 1- -~

GAFFNEYS CnEEllSUBshyDIVISION

Al G M Tributers I bullbull Castle reefs 400 00 o 13 1626 Rose of DenmarkTributers Eureka Heef 1 i 60 0 0 o 6 Hi Wallaby Tributers - WallabyReef bull f600 0 0 o 15 1244 Sundry lots ~i ~ bullbull Homeward Bound Reef 1)400 0 0 o 018

~-----shyTotals bullbullbull

WOODS POINT SJJBDIVISIONbullbull

The Revival (Fords Tribute) Sir Tohn Franklin reefs Lady Franklin Tributers bull Johnsons Reef Morning Star Prospectors Mornini Star Heef

Tributers North WaverJy~ i Waverly Reefmiddot Axton and Ryan Morning Star Reef

Totals

BIG RIVEn SUBDIVISION

Londonderry S M bullbullbull Hailway Heef Lucks All Q Mmiddot I WarnersReef i

Totals

MITTA MITTA NORTH SUBshyDIVISION

Happy Go Lucky ~rount Firebrace Prospecting Mill I ~ Cotton Tree Hore and Co -CottOn Tree bullbullbull Coleman Cotton Tree Philip bullbullbull Cotton Tree Gregson Cotton Tree PeadoIiBrothers Cotton Tree Clarke Brtithers bull Qotton Tree Padgett Cotton Tree Peach and party CottonTree n

Sutherland Cotton Tree Christy and Co CottonTree Frazer and Co Cotton Tree Miller and Co Cotton Tree Lee Cotton Tree Doctor and party Cotton Tree Flag Staff Compo Bethariga Trewalla Compo Bethanga

Totals

MITTA JliIITTA Scn)Tii SUB- DIVISIN

I

Enterprise bull Junction Mitta Mitta Christmas Tunction Mitta Mitta Christmas (2nd lot) Junction Mitta Mitta Welcome Tunction Mitta rfitta Yellow Girl Junction Mitta 1l1itta Watson and Scalesmiddot I Granite Fiat ~ Littlejohn and Williams b t Granite Flat A Hodder Granite ]Iat Empress Granite ll1it Empress (No2) Granite Flat Jtichards Bros Granite Flat llose of Kilkenny Granite Flat Pioneer Juncti~n Mitta 11itta

Totals bull

JA~IIESON SUBDrVI8ION

Ventu~e ( Macks Creek Sailor Bill ( tiailor Bill Greek

Totals

2460 0 0 0 6 1436

800q 0 o 8 21)-72

130 0 0 o 2 1366 800 0 0 03 072

1400 00 0 3 924

)t60 0 0 I o 4 4

d 40J 00

273 ll 0

20 ) 0 465 1gt1 0

52 10 0 -----shy

811 12 0

I

354 IPIS 16 14 0

121 4 0

)67 1~0 10 ~ 0

Depth at which the Quartz was obtained ampc

---------shy

About 70 feet T

About 200 feet About middot100 feetmiddot About200 feet

~ i ~~~ j 0

Ahptlt 200 feet f~ r About 100 feet About 70 fcet

Aboutl30 feet y Surface 7

2190 0 0 o 1 511 I 572 12 18

co i

900 0 0 o 4 16 183 0 0 I About 300 feet ~~~172 0 uO 1 21223 c190 0 0 About 250 feet

1072 0 0 0 6 2301 373 9 0 ---- shy _---shy

_ 300-0 0 o 10 192 162 0 0 295 00 o 13144 200 12 0

32- 0 0 o 12 0 19 4 0 16 12 Omiddot27 0 0 o 12 711

4 10 0 o 9 266 2 I 0 I300 1 3 8 3 10 0

6 4 9

0 0 0 0 00

o iI 16 o i 0 o ~5- in 33

3 100 216 0

213 0 6 0 0 o 5 16 I 14 0 9 0 0 o 10 8 13 0

6 0 0 o 15 16 41~ 0 500

22 00 o 9 144 o 19 0

280 20 la 0

11 12

0 0 00 i

o 16 o 7

218 8

8 17 4lt 8

0 0

186 0 O o 10 1853 100 314 83 0 0 o 11 1424 48 2 6

1020 100 0 11 2235 608 15 20 1

12 0 0 o 1 20 I ) 0 12 0 0 o 5 20 3 10 0

700 o 8 2057 3 2 0 50 0 0 o 544 14 10 0

o 14 0 14 o 0 c i 20 Q 9 o I 6 0 F2 12 10 Q o o 3 343 j 2 14 0~ 14 Q o o I 18 0 7 0400

38 0 0 o 9 503 17]00 o 4 1664 11 14 16 50 0 deg 700 Vb2171 8

16 O l o 8 45 6 0 I r J

15 o l 0 o 3~3 deg2 l deg ---- ~ - I ltshy

255 middot0 0 0 6 1538 ------ --__shy

600 b 0 0 3 256 93 14 0 100 feet Fmiddot

480 00 0100 240 O 01 40()feet 1

o ~ o1080 ~ 0

11

Total Yield 01 Reruarksrelatve to the Gold Depth at which the

~_____ Qn~r~~ T~~ Obtp7dbullampe

tons oz dwt gr

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHUllST DIVISION Albert Beehive bullbullbull Bendigo and Melbourne Birds Reef Catherine ReefU C Garden Gully United bull G G Consolidated Great Extended Hustlers

Reef Great Britain bull bullbull Great Southern Hercules and Energetic bull Johnsons Reef G M bullbullbull Lazarus bull Louisa Metropolitan bullbull Marong CrushillgWorksl New-chum and Victoria Newmiddotchum United New Kelson bull Old Tom J V)~ipstick Shenandoah Victoria Conaols Victoria Reef G M _ Vilsons Reef

KILMORE DIYISION~ Crown Doyles GoIden Crown Beaconsfield bullbullbull Red Rover Loudon and party Trezise and party Overlander Doyles Battery robins neef bull

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND VVARANGA SOUTH

SUBDIVISION Alison

Collins

DIVISION Good Luck Nobull1 Hgpe o(Denmar~ ~ Lost Love Taylorand Crowe Cambridge and Warwick West Growlers TaylorBros __ Marsland and Co Holmes Lease King Billy Francis and Co Rowan and Co Hodge Bros Loughlin Jose and Co WnistIers OBrien and Co Telford and Co

Diamond tIilt E~glhawk bullbullbull Kangaroo Flat Kangaroo blat

Eaglehawk Garden Gully Reef Golden Gully bull Hustlers Reef

Golden Square Garden Gully Reef Victoria neef bullbull California Gully

New-chum Gully Eaglehawk GoIde-q SQllare I I yenarong bullbull - Ironbark New-chum Gully KeIson Reef bull

Newmiddotchm Ililcf Victoria R~ef

Totals 1

Doyles ned Doyles Reef GCrown Reef i Magenta Reef Upper Reedy London Reef bullbull Russells Reef Overlander Reef I Various places Sunday Creek

529 00 o 6 1279 5360 0 0 o 91855

389 00 o 6 283 o B 206I 1389 OJii

3196 0 4441l0

I 1078 O bull 258 0 bull 1170 0

3783 0 3994 0 6980 0 4362 0 1789 0 141~ 0

237 0 il189 0 1773 0 1927 0

1 240 0

_ 2i32 0 r 2554 0 1

VictoriaRlcf 4330 _0 Marong 305 0

i------ii

o 5 1825 0 0

1 1 056 0 o 4 1206 0 o 8 947

o 0 5 372 o 0 61l47 o 0 5 1202 o 0 4 912 o 0 9 1372 o 0 6 1321 o 0 4 2332 o 0 5 966 o 0 8 ijs 60S 94deg 0 6 163i 0 0bull 186l

o 0 4 2219o 0 2 132 o 0 8 389 o 0 7 2289

280 0 0 4 0 0 190 0 0 1 15 0

13 0middot0 1 10 0 --20 0 0 0 15 0

15 oj 0 0 10 0 5 0 0 1 0 0

12 0 0 2 14 0 16 0 0 0 8 0

0160 0 0 5 0 6 0 Oimiddotl 0 0

)

dii5 23 2619 4 0

119 0 0 56111 12 920 11 i

4670 8 0 242 14 I

1083 15 0

507 16 deg 1225 7 0 1098 11 0 1528 14 0

2~~ i~ g 362 9 0

6314 12 2151 2 0 743 19 0

643 12 0 16middot6 12 623 10 iJ 325 ui 12 1767 0

121 6 0

00 332 10

19 10 0 0

1120 0

15 0 00 Kll b 1 el7 1 ~ a ove water- ev

3~ i g ~~ ~resent

15 0 0 rJ J 6 0 0

Totals 617 0 0 2 10 13 15596 0

Lower Costerfield 48 0 0 1 ii 0 48 0 0 Redcastle 343 0 0 0 14 2365 257 0 0

Totals li~~3_~_1_0-0-l-_0_15gt1_4_4-2 1_3_05_0__0_

Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth Rushworth

Rushworth

Rushworth Rushworth Whroo Whroo Whroo Wllroo

Whroo Coys Diggings Coys Diggings Coys Diggings

Totals

54 0 0 0 3 2266 29

9 0 0

0 0

1 1 579i 12 16

2 0 0 3 13 12 40 Ii 0 0 5 1335 29 0 0 0 I H17 -5-middot0 0 L3 0

5 19 30

7 13 9 2

5 22 12

6

0 00 7 96 0 0 0 4 deg 0 0 1 12 if 00 0111714 0 0 0 4 0 0middot0 2 16 12 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 6 48 0 0 I 8 3 1527 0 0 0 4 6 00 2 316

298 O 0 I 1 3 1049

I

I I I

(ifixed lots from va rious reefs See II page 30)

I I

[

J

1I

j 1

10 13 0 I 30 16 0 i4 14 0 770

11 2 6 2 2 12

5150 I1 17 O 3 16 0

30 15 0 Al)above water-Ieve

4 2 0 II2 12 025 8 12 100 1 11 0 I

180 0 0 I 2 11 0 I

13 2 0 J -----s

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT -

MARYBOROUGH DIVIllON Bristol Hill James Kay Reade and 90 bull

Western Reef Bristol Hill Viarious pl~ces

883 10 0 97 00

0 3 1655 o 4 5

163 iO 20 8

0 5

306 to 430 feet Various

(public crushiugs) Waldley and party

Leviathan Reef China 352 0 0 o 13 095

1 229 10 0 70 to 80 feet

mans Wilson and Dark Lord Napier Reef Chinashy 61 0 0 0 7 904 221( 0 11~feetl

mans Fisher and party North German Reefmiddot1 39 0 0 0 5 1538 11 0 0 60 feet

Chinamans

totals

1432 19 0 0 6 557 446 8 5 -

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QUANTITY of QUAlnz Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued -

AYclage 1Division and Subdivision Uemnrks relative to the _and Yioldo Gold 1 Total YIeld of Depth at whIch the

Name of Company Quartz Crushedthere Quartz was obtained

per Ton Gold Quartz was 0 btained amp0

oz dwt grtons cwt qr oz dwt gr

AMHERST DIVISION

Croydon 35 12 18 Laura Reef 230 0 0 0 3 237 40 to 80 feet No 1 South Croydon --

Iaura Reef 0 2 493 15 8 18140 0 0 Surface to 30 feet No2 South Croydon 0 1 20-82 9 6 18 40 feetLaura Reef 100 0 0

288 11 12Union Q M C 200 feet Trickey and party

Church Hill Reef 144 0 0 -2 0 192 9 3 12Dundee Beef 0 2 789 60 feet

Perseveranee 77 0 0

0 8 1111 11 15 6 40 feet Sundries Prince of Wales Reef 27 0 0

18 8 0_143 0 0 0 _2 1376Various ----s6~1--~0~1--6i21Totals

-I AVOCA SUBDIVISION

Monte Christo 15 10 0Murdoehs Reef 14 0 0 I 2 342

DUNOLLY ~ND TARNAGULLA DiVISIONS

Queens Birthday o 12 031 2223 0 8 300 to 500 feet Queens Reef

3701 0 0Bealiba Reef 64 18 0Queens Reef 130 feet713 0 0 0 1 1969

Kentish Reef 15 11 11 Kentish Reef 48 0 0 0 6 1l73 60 feet Harvest Home 33 0 0Harvest Home 40 feet30 0 0 1 2 0 Harrop and Lees 26 0 0 40 feet Yorkshire G M bull 0 1 o 1520 0 0

566 4 12 160 to 200 feetWatts Reef Tarnagulla 1474 0 7 1638o 0 1

2928 _75966 1 0 0 9 1963Totals 1~ --- shyINGLEWOOD DIVISION

Jersey Reef Quartz Mining 103 3 20Jersey Reef 182 0 0 011 815 Dalmatia G M 1 3 0

tyres Smugglers Gi~n McI~ I 20 0 0 0 1 36

104 6 20202 0 0 010 794Totals REDBANK SUBDIVISION

TormeyEi Claim 52 16 0Station Reef 22 0 0 2 8 0

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION

Greenock Reef 39 0 070 feet to 170 feet (above 45 0 0 o 17 80 70 to 170 feet water-level)

Adams and party - -9 12 030 0 0 0 6 96 50 feetSpinster Ueef bull IT-Kersleyand party Greenock Reef 17 0 o i 0 10 0 1 8 10 0 15 feet

_ 92 0 0 0 12 991 57 2 0Totals ST ARNAUD NORTH

SUBDIVISION shyWorking Miners 0 7 268 248 18 6 200 to 260 feet Chrysolite Tribute Quartz

New Bendigo 700 0 0 0 2 2331 52 0 0 150 feet level

Mining Co Registered Chrysolite Reef - 350 0 0

300 18 6Totals 1Q50 0 0 0 5 1755

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLElILltiINE D1VISION

Eureka Cardwell Argus United McWalters Central bull Wattle Gully Sebastopol Crushing Utle Nuggety Arehbold and Co

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

English Australian G M Perseverance Burdett-Coutts New Era Blaek Haivk Rowe Bros Rowe nros Duke Oornwall Small and Co Macdonald and Co Meins Freehold G M

Eureka Reef Town Reef Argus Flat-

Burns Reef Wattle Gully Wattle Gully Lady Gully Nuggety Reef bullbullbullI

Public crushings Totals bullbull

Golden Gully Cattles Reef Cattles Ueef Ferrons Reef Cattles Reef Cattles Heef Ferrons Reef bullbull Cattle Reef Cattles Reef German Gully Guilford Hill

Totals

718 0 0 41 0 0

530 0 0 8J 0 0

759 0 0 505 0 0 247 0 0

52 0 0 155 0 0

3091 0 0

862 0 0 200 0 0

20 0 0 6310 0 0

123 0 0 1419 0 0

417 0 0 166 0 0 50 0 0 24 0 0

3560 0 0 i shy

13151 0 01

0 6 1666 o 19 12-3 0 7 65 o 17 12 0 4 424 0 2 983 0 3 162 0 7 203 o 15 4-18

0 6 341

0 4 98 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 3 324 0 1 20-87 0 7 668 0 4 2169 0 4 144 0 2 96 o 10 0 0 1 1839

0 3 904

1

240 7 0 360 feet 40 0 0 62 feet

192 13 12 73 10 0 160 feet

158 10 0 350 feet 60 17 0 45 18 20 8 0 230 feet

117 12 0

949 5 6

190 0 0 320 feet 40 0 0 180 feet

5 0 0 230 feet 989 3 0 100 to 380 feet

11 10 0 150 feet 516 8 0 150 to 200 feet 102 5 0 20 to 80 feet 33 14 0 20 to 200 feet

6 0 0 190 feet 12 0 0 90 feet

314 8 0

2220 8 0

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Average Remarks relative to theDivision and Subdivision Total Yield ofWhere Quartz was obtained I Qnartz Crushed I Yield of Gold Depth at which theand Gold Quartz was obtained amp0per TonName of Company

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tone owt qr loz dwt gr oz dwt gr

HEPBUllN DIVISION

Argus Italian mil 566 0 0 30 to 150 feet New North Cornish

74 11 100 2 1506 n

Wombat Hill 105 0 0 Surface to 35 feet Richardsons

0 3 396 16 12 8 Bismarck Reef 13 0 0 30 feet1 0 0 13 0 0IWomans Gully 23 0 0 10 feet0 4 834 5 0 0Ansonia

60 0 o i 0 3 0Pitchers Reef 25 feet Panham 9 0 0Fuseo

Pitchers Reef 52 0 0 40 feet Bray and party

0 1 1661 4 8 0 Frenchmans Reef 70 feet12 0 0 2 8 00 4 0

King and Co

Willards Reef 60 0 0 70 feet0 4 0 12 0 0 ISt Georges Reef 630 0 0 0 1 038 32 0 0 140 feetUnion Nuggety HeeL 690 0 0 230 0 0 I20 to 280 feet

Keep-it-Dark Companies 0 6 16Ajax Keep-it-Dark

120 0 0 50 0 0 I 100 to 140 feet0 8 8

Totals 2331 0 0 0 3 2044 448 19 18

TARADALE AND KYNETON SUBDIVISION

Taradale 945 0 0 0 1 1562 United Kingdom ~ 78 0 0 Glenlyon 140 I) 0 0 9 1406 Little Wonder 67 2 0

1085 0 0Totals 0 2 1619 145 2 0 ----shy

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Caledonian Mills Parkins Linscotts Nelshy 92 0 0 o 17 0 200 to 300 feet78 4 0 son amp Valkers reefs

Eaglehawk Linscotts 622 0 0 0 12 1744 395 16 0 50 to 270 feetLinscotts Mills and Nuggety reefs

Phwnix Mills Beehive Swipers Gershy 1000 0 0 1 9 1227 1475 11 12 80 to 300 feet man Victoria amp Irish Billys reefs

Great Western Beehive Reef 120 0 0 0 4 0 24 0 0 40 to 80 feet

Totals bullbull 1834 0 0 I 1 1253 197311 12 -~-----

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

United Company Hoddles Creek 180 0 0 0 9 204 88 13 0 35 feet Lyre Bird Hoddles Creek 25 0 0 o 13 0 16 5 0 27 feet Sunday Reef McCraes Hill S 0 0 0 1 12 o 12 0 20 feet Sheppard and party Warburton 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 10 feet Central Mining Hurst and Co

Reef ton MountainB

38 10 1 0

0 0

1 13 24 2 17 20

63 14 2 17

8 2

180 feet Surface

Murray and Hirt Smith and Hirt Hartley and Co

You-You You-You You-You

3 2 7

10 0 0

0 0 0

1 10 2057 I 10 12 o 10 1714

5 8 3 1

1 15

0 0 0

50 feet 30 feet 60 feet

Hopkinson You-You 2 0 0 1 10 0 3 0 0 60 feet Apted and Co Pioneer 6 0 0 o 18 8 5 10 0 ISO feet Progress Panton Hill 218 0 0 0 7 146 82 18 15 120 feet Napoleons March Panton Hill 18 0 0 o 11 1977 1012 20 40 feet Bignell and Co Fourth Hill Warrandyte 7 0 0 3 0 0 i 21 0 0 30 feet

517 0 0Totals o 11 2247 308 10 21

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Wimmera North and South Wales Pioneer and Galatea New St George Scotchmans Moonlight W onga and Birmingham

RAGLAN DIVISION

The Victory Quartz Gold Mining

Stawell reefs

Stawell reefs Stawell reefs Stilwell reefs Stawell reefs Stawell reefs

Totals

Reef near Waterloo

5788 0 0 is 9 0

4624 0 0 3196 0 0 3353 10 0 3580 0 0 2069 0 0

22688 19 0

17 0 0

011 595 1 5 739 o 14 721 o 11 26 0 7 9 0 14 2207 0 2 1853

0 11 319

1 4 224

3255 4 3 200 to 1000 feet 99 5 10 40 to 100 feet

3306 6 8 200 to 1100 feet 1i75 2 0 4S0 to 1200 feet 1236 II 18 100 to 850 feet 2670 IS 0 410 to 1120 feet

286 15 21 24 to 100 feet

12629 18 12

20 10 0

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~iiANfiTYofCltr ARTz0rusliedjirieacnDi visi~ri~andgtSohdi vision during the Qulilter ~ampc-continuedbull _ _ ~~ ~M_~

---1--- DivislonnndSnbdivisioh bull

OlJ 1j and~ I ~Yhere Qua~ was ogttamed __ Na~~O Company______ ______ ___

GIPPSLAND ~C C ~ Q)fElO ~

~ Srifts Creek Fashion Reef

CROOKED RIVE~ DiVISIoN

Robert Moore -- ~ Upper Dargo bullbull Wentworth Parslow and Co

Totals DONNELLYSC~EEK DIVISION

DonnellyS Creek Bismarck United

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION

Long Tunnel f Cohens Reef Cohens Reef Walhalla (Tributers) I

I Totals ABERFELDY SUBDIVISlON Aberpoundeldy Reef -James Rices Mine

----~-

AverageQuartz Crushed Yie1T ONMld

per Ton

tons ewt qr oz dwt gr

MINING DISTRICT u

I 10 0 0 I 12 b

---- shy

20 0 0 0 10144 30 0 600 0

50 0 0 0 7 2016

42 0 0 0 14 4

5034 0 0 1 8 191 0 8 1078997 d 0

06031 0 1 5 1038

650 d 0 0 6 144

Remarks relative to thoTotal Yield Depth at which theof Gold Quartz was obtalnedampc

Oz dwt gr

-

i 16 0 0

10 12 0 Surfaee to 20 feet 9 00

---- shy19 12 0

29 15 0 400 feet

17248 0 0 i 343 to 623 feet 421 4 0

7669 4 )

]96 19 0 150 feet 50 feet

water level

~ laquo

~

QUARTZ TAILINGS MULLOClETC THE follo~in~ infor~ation has beenobtai~edfromReturn~made bythe-Mi~lng Surveyorsand R~gist~a~s

relative to the Quantity OfQUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK ampc Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each -Mining District -during the ~uarter and the GOJD obtained therefrom

I ______

DiviSion and Snbdlvislon I Where Quartz Tailings and I Quartz Tailings Average Ttl y ld ~r ~Remarksielative to the and Mullock ampc were and Mnlloek ampc Yield of Gold 0 ItG I~c Depth at which tbeI

Same of Company i obt~n~~ l I~~~I )ler~on~ 0 MUll~C~amp~1e~ ~btalne~ --- shy tons cwt qr oz dwt gr 0 dwtgr

r bull - JBALLARATMININGDISTRICT

I ICENTRAL DtvIsioN 1

~

11259 19130 Isuriac~ ~~Ofe~~ IBallarat East 2580 00 0Canadian

Mount Clear 1050 00Baker and Co I 0 12308 103 00 Surface to 20middotfeet t

pi 1+Totals ~ q630 0 0 o 1 1562 bull ni

STEIGLITZ SUBl)JVISION I

Minerva Eiaine 220 0 0 o 3 218 34 0 0 20 0 0Wee Speek bullbull Do o 4 96 4 8 0

180 0 0 0 016DUIIlIDott and Co Steiglitz 6 O o

Totals 420 0 0 0 2 274 44 8 0

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEcrrwoRTH DIVISION

Marco Polo Hurdle Flat - 48 0 0 0 2 0

I

4 16 0 Various depths l~_ gt

INDIGO DIVISION

Magentll MIYfntR Reef middot Places Mill Variou~

Totals -

I

-

0632 300

shy

0 0 0 0 I

I 0 o I

0 0

0

I 991 44 13 0 2 0middotmiddot 30 0 0

1444 t1 74 13 0

Surface to 50ifeet ChieH y surfacemiddotfrom

old workings

MrlTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION

Trewalla Bethanga

23 middot0 0 gt)

0 7 417

8

5 0

r

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK crushed in each Division and Subdivision ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Where Quart Tailings and Quartz Tallogs I Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and and MuJlock ampc Gold lfuUock ampc were Depth at which the

erolIlld I I~ IP t I obtained Mullock ampc were obtamcltL --middot---------------~-------I-----I-------=-___c_-~-I------~--

Name of Company

tons ewt qr oz dwtgr

SANDHURSTMlNING DISTRICT~~ L I i

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIshyVISION

Alison JoIlins

Lower Costerfield Redcastle

Totals

i

1000 0 150 (l 0

0 0

3 0 2 224

15 0 22 0

0 0

shy

d

~1

250 P 0 0 2 2304 37 0 0

(I

MARYBOROUGH MiNI~G DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE MINI~G DISTRICTv

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION

Crown Ninirod Reef bullbullbull Nuggety NuggetyReef D avies and Co

Donkey Gully A jax Tribute ~ Bolivia Reef

Totals n i - shy

HEPBUBN DIVISION

Francis bullbullbull f bullbull1 Wombat Hill ~ bullbull

ST ANDRlFws D1VISION

middotCentral Mining bull~ Reefton bullbullbull United bullbullbull HoddlesCreek

Totals

1140 0 0 0 1 0-1 57 5 0

- 0 0 0 I 12 5210 0_ 700 680 0 0 0 1 235 37middot 612 510 0 0 0 1l(66middot 36( 16 15

3030 0 0

400 00

Ilt

i 174 0 0 I 25 0 0I

199 0 0

0 1 5l3 183 18 3

0 0 -12 l 10 0 0

t I bull

0 3 15-22 31 12 9 0 0 192 1- 0 0

)

-- 6671-~

Surface Surface

Shllow

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

W onga and Bir~ingham

~ I

Stawell reefs 35 0 0 0 2 13-54 4 9 18 f ~ I ~ i f

1I

middotGIPFStAN]) IMINliNG vDISiFRI(iJT

DONNELLYS CllEEKD~ISIOl

Bismarck ITnited

i

1

~OO j

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PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the Quantity of PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on in the several Divisions -and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Dlvision and Subdivision Remarks relatlve to the I Pyrites I Average I I iWhere Pyr~B an~ Blanketmgs and Blnnketings Yield 01 Gold Tota Y old of and Depth at which the wele obtamed I operated on per Ton GoldName 01 Oompany - PyritesJ ampc were ubtained

I tons cwt qr oz dwt gr I oz dwt gr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION Llanberris 18 0 0 1 16 1466 32 19 0Gumtree Flatbullbullbull

CRESWIOK DIVISION Port Phillip Clunes 471 5 0107 0 o I 4 8 202 New North Clunes 93 16 12Clunes 19 0 o i 4 18 1831

67 5 o 7 I 2382South Clunes 477 9 0Clunes 193 5 0 1 5 7 2145 1042 1012

STEIGLITZ SIJDDIVISION Totals

Enterprise Elaine- 103 0 0 o 18 349 93 9 0 Dummott and Co 5 12 0Steiglitz 22 0 0 0 5 218

Totals 99 1 0 BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND

BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION

125 0 0 o 15 2035

Barrys Reef bullbullbull 14 10 0 4 9 1572 65 0 0Sultan

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEOHWORTH DlVISION Reform Myrtleford 39 0 0 o 15 0 29 5 0

1

YAOKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVlSION

Bigelowe and Clingam WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION E M Gill

Homeward Bound Hills-borough

Various localities

25

50

0

0

0

0

o 15middot 504

o 18 0

19

45

0

0

6

0

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

S

SANDHURST DIVISION 884 16 122 2 2286Pinchgut Gully 412 0 0United Pyrites 244 4 01 9 2311 163 0 0Jackass Flat andhurst amp Eaglehawk PE 281 7 121 11 013Derwent Gully 181 10 0L iddell and Co

1410 8 01 17 69756 10 0Totals HEATHOOTE DIVISION AND ---------shy

WARANGA SOUTH SUB-JDIVISION

33 0 J1 0 033 0 0Alison Lower Costerfield I

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION Bristol Hill

DlJNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS

Queens Birthday

Western Reef Bristol Hill 13 11 0 2 7 208 81 18 12

Bealiba Reef 15 0 0 1 6 16 20 0 0

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr Yeats Castlemaine 129 0 0 1 12 409

- 207 10 0

HEPBURN DIVISION J Williams Ajax

3 7

0 0

0 0

o 16 1 14

16 685

210 12 0

0 0

250 feet 250 feet

Totals 10 0 01 1 9 0 14 10 0

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

_DIVISlUrSTRINGERS 2 9 3-21 42 18 017 9 0Cohens Reef Long Tunnel

12 14 01 9 4648 14 0 Cohens Reef Walhalla - 55 12 02 2 1213- 26 3 0Totals

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

1

Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

I

INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

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QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

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PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

t

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NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

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176

21

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

______ ~i I

DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

25

The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

No 83 D

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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Page 2: MINING SURVEYORS &REGISTRARS.€¦ · Table showing the Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz raised during the Quarter in some of the Deepest Mines in Victoria; with Depth

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INDEX

Summary-Gol(l Mining Statistics for the Quarter ended 30th September 1879 Table showing the Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz raised during the Quarter in some of the Deepest Mines

in Victoria with Depth of the deepest Shafts Levels Cross-cuts ampc Estimated Yield of Gold and Quantity of Gold Exported during the Quarter ended aOth September 1879 p 5 Gold received at and issued from the Royal Mint during the quarter ended 30th September 1879 p 5 Summary of Yield of Gold from Quartz Quartz Tailings ampc crushed during the Quarter ended 30th September 1879p~6 Summary of Yield of Gold from Washdirt and Cement washed and crushed during the Quarter ended loth September 1879

p 17 Number and Distribution of Miners on the Goldfields of the Colony 30th September 1879 p 20

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT Ballarat Central Division Mr D Christy Mining Registrar i 14 16 17 20 24 Ballarat Southern Division Mr George Perry Mining Registrar 7 17 19 2024 Buninyong Division Mr Robert MHarvey Mining Snrveyor and Registrar 72025 Smythesdale Division Mr J ohri Iyneh Mining Surveyor and Registrar 720 25 Creswick Division Mr James Stevenson JunMining Registrar bull 7162026 Gordon Subdivision Mr Thomas Cowan Mining Surveyor and Registrar 8 20 26 Steiglitz Subdivision Mr D =gtIurphy Mining Registrar 814 16 19 20 27 Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain South Mr John ] Hansen Mining Registrar 8 162027

S u bdi vision BaHan Subdivision bullbull Mr John ] Hansen Mining Registrar 2027

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT Beechworth Division Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar 8 14 16 20 27 Yackandandah North Subdivision Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar 28 Yackandandah South Subdivision Mr J Smart Mining Hegistrar bullbullbull bullbull 8 16 20 28 Indigo Division Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar 814172028 Buckland Division Mr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar 92128 Wandiligong Subdivision Mr T C Kaighin Mining Hegistrar bull bullbullbull 9162128 Alexandra Subdivision Mr A B Ainsworth Mining tiurveyor and Registrar 9172128 Dry Creek Subdivision Mr J Pemberton Mining Registrar bull 102129 Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar 102129 Woods Point Subdivision Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar 102129 Big River Subdivision Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar 102129 Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar 142129 Mitta Mitta Sonth Subdivision Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar 102129 Jamieson Subdivision Mr W H Edwards Mining Registrar 10 2130

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT Sandhurst Division Mr N G Stephens Mining Registrar 11162130 Kilmore Division Mr James W Osborn Mining Registrar 11 21 31 Heathcote Division and Waranga South Sub- Mr E C Bell ~Iining Registrar 11 15 16 21 31

division Waranga North Subdivision Mr Henry Hicks Mining Registrar bullbullbull 11 192131

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT Maryborough Division Mr P Virtue Jun Mining Registrar 11 16 17192131 MajorCfL Subdivision Mr Virtue Jun Mining Registrar 2232 Amherst Division Mr J Smitb fining Surveyor and Registrar 12 15 17 22 32 Avoca SUbdivision Mr D OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar 12 17 22 32 DunoHy and Tarnagulla Division ~fr W G COllchman Mining Surveyor and Registrar 1215162232 Inglewood Division Mr W H Coffey Mining Registrar bullbull 12 22 33 IVedderburn Division Mr J teach Mining Registrar 2233 Redbank Snbdivision Mr D OIeary Milling Surveyor and Registrar 122232 St Arnaud South Subdivision ~fr W G Couchman fining Surveyor and Registrar 12 152233 St Arnaud North Subdivision Mr IV G Couchman Mining Surveyor lnd Registrar 12 22 33

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT Castlemaine Division Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar 1215 16 22 34 Fryers Creek Division Mr Mark Amos Mining Surveyor and Registrar 12 18 1922 34 Hepburn Division Mr Thos Hale Mining ltegistrar 13151618192234 Taradalc and Kyneton Subdivision Mr S Dorman ltUning Hegistrar 13 18 22 35 Talrangower Division Mr Hobt Nankivell Mining Surveyor and Registrar 13 182235 St Andrews Division Mr Alfred Armstrong Mining Surveyor and Registrar 1315 18 2335 Blue Mountain North Subdivision Mr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar 23 35

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT Ararat Division Mr Thos Foyster Mining Registrar 2336 Pleasant Creek Division Mr H C Bate Mining Surveyor and Registrar 13 15 192336 Barkly Division Mr II C Date Mining Surveyor and Registrar 2336 Raglan Division Mr C W Minchin Mining Registrar bullbull 13 18 23 36

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT Omeo Subdivision Mr J odell Acting il-lining Registrar bullbullbull 142336 Mitchell River Subdivision Mr John Grimes Peers Minillg Surveyor and Registrar 2837 Boggy Creek Subdivision Mr J Fletcher Mining Registrar 2337 Crooked HiverDi vision Mr Ed Harrison Mining Registrar 142337 Jericho Division Mr R J Donaldson iining Registrar 2337 Donnellys Creek Division Mr O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Registrar 14 15 23 37 Stringers Creek Division Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar 14 162337 Aberfeldy Subdivision Mr M Nugent Milling Hegistrar 142338 Russells Creek Division Mr C H William~ Mining Hegistrarbull 2338 Bendoc Subdivision Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar 2338 Tarwin Subdivision Mr H M Murphy Mining Registrar 2338 Traralgon Subdivision Mr C Denis Mining Registrar 233S Appendix-Observations on new Vegetable Fossils of the Auriferous Drifts (continued) Baron Von Mueller 3940

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ESTHfATED YIELD OF GOLD AND QUANTITY OF GOLD EXPORTED

FROM information obtained by the Mining Surveyors and Mining Registrars from Gold Buyers and others

the TOTAL QUANTITIES OF GOID got respectively from ALLUVIUMS and QUARTZ REEFS are as foll0Y-

Alluvial Quartz Total

oz dwt oz dwt oz dwt

Quarter ended 30th September 1879 74536 10 1151l2 4 189648 14

THE QUANTITY OF GOLD the produce of this Colony EXPORTED according to Returns furnished by order of the Honorable the Commissioner of Trade and Customs is as follows shy

oz dwt

Quarter ended 30th September 1879 64131 17

NOTE-In addition to the above gold specie from all sources was exported to the value 01 pound350101

GOLD RECEIVED AT AND ISSUED FRO THE ROYAL UNT

STATEMENT of the Gross Weight of GOJD received at and issued from the Melbourne Branch of the ROYAL

MINT during the Quarter ended 30th September 1879

Royal Mint V DELVES BROUGHTON Melbourne 6th October 1879 Deputy Master

RECEIVED

Gross Weight 01 Rough Gross Weight of Gold Gold Bullion

oz oz

3085739 12153240

ISSUED

Gross Weight of Coin

oz

15589720

Gross Weight of Gold Bullion

oz

589294

STATEMENT of VICTORIAN GOLD received at the Melbourne Branch of the ROYAL MINT during the

Quarter ended 30th September 1879

Gross Weight of Rougll Gold Gross WeIght 01 Gold Bullion

oz oz

1068734 9548664

NQTE-The Mint has no evidence heyond the statement of the depositors that the above is Victorian gold

Royal Mint V DELVES BROUGHTON Melbourne 6th October 1879 Deputy Master

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SUMMARY

GOLD MINING STATISTICS FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30th SEPTElIBER 1879

- shy TABLE SHOWING APPROXIMATELY THE NUMBER OF MINERS EMPLOYED THE MACIIINERY IN USE AND ITS VAlJUE ON THE SEVERAL GOLDFIELDS--~

Quartz Miners Alluvial

Miners

1shyDISTRICT DIVISION

AND

SUBDIVISION ~ bull ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 2 S ~9 ~~__Il_ 6

BAtURAi Central Division 400 210 1675 Southern Division 534 255 140 1 Buninyong Division bullbull ltO 50 300 50 my~hesdale Division 630 190 27

ok Division bullbull 665 170 890 ] Subdivision 6 354 39 ~z Sttbdivision 40 100 vood Division and nl~~ 100 330 ntain Bouth Subdivisl( Subdivision bull bull 12 8

[ 2497 1710 3814 95Totals

DEEOHWORTH 718 I 138 106 shy

ykaiidiidh So~th s~ubdi~j 225 160 - 60 shyIndigo Division bull 3~2 06 82 Buckland Division 82 amp13 180 2 Wundiligong Subdivision 20 30 120 Alanura Subdivision 116 22 68 shyDry Creek Subdivision 21 40 32 3 Benalla 8nbdivision _ _ _Galfneys Oreek Subdivision 44 8 69 _ WOOfPS Point Subdivision bull 5~ 2 113 TI_ n ~_ 0ubdivision 65 _ 28 _

North Subdivision _ _ 200 _ South Subdivision 76 59 40 _

oubdivision 1UO 20 160 shy

Totals bull lW 1978 1278 -5

SANDTIURST Sandhurst Division bullbull 955 180 3750 30

30 12 94KlImare Division bull ~ bull 155 40 390Heathcote Division and WarangeSouth Subdivision

Waranga North Subdivision 87 40 105

IN THE COLONY OF VICTORIA

(Gompiled from Ute Mining Surveyors and Reqistrars RepoTts for tle Quarter ended 30tlt September 1879)

MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN ALLlTVIAL MINING

Steam Engin~s ]

N~~~~r employed i~l Wmdw ~ rti E ~ of mg Pumpmgampc ~ ~ ~ ~ bull ~

lWners a ~ I ~ ~ ~ s ] ~ g rA ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~QS ~S ~ ~S w ~ ~ to t ~ ~~ ~ ~~ g ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ a j ___ --z-- ~iiamp al ~ 1lt Ii is I Il ~ ttl~ I

2 285 34 1910 23 19 15 14 18 18 930 2 30 1 12 3 6 35 1 5 510 10 190 6 19 9 2 17 8

1447 3~ 860 44 14 7 23 10 1125 26 595 27 32 12 800

399 190 610 450 20 15

20

811~ 108 101 -- -00 46 24 -9- 43 15 10

1062 19 210 3 520lJ 30 14

465 -2 10 2500 3 24 21 460 9 249 11 6 9 39 7

1107 _ 4450 48 48 170 280 206 1 10 4 26 130 96 250

_ 121 _ 120 8 167 _ 126 9 33 _ -- 120 8

200 _ 115 - shy280 - 450

5lC2 31 479 12 = 14 15 13655 _9_ 139mshyo

5515 6 115 56 36 6 65 I shy136 - shy585 40 10 30 50 -

232 27 - shy=i 1227 ~ _ 4339 ~~ 6 i 115 __ 123 4 10 66 56 -- _ (5 shyTotals bullbull

MARYBOROUGH Maryborough Division 1535 310 950 10 2835 35 1151 32 1 160 34 12 4 2 36 126

122 9 144 10 1 9 10 10 7Majorca Subdivision bull 110 12 489 4 60 8 1 21 8 26 36 40 20 12Amherst Division 199 180 110 905 2 30 - 100 34 17 4Avoca gubiliviRion bull bull bull bullbull 300 527 18 1480 4 no 42 6 5 4 30Dunolly and Tarnagulln Divisions 34() 200 910 30 Inglcwf)od Division bull 400 240 lfJO i~~ 3 90 xi 15 18 Wedderburn Division bull bullbull 171 26 518 18 6Redbank and St Arnaud South 289 193 29

Subdivisions 435 8 5St Arnaud North Subdivision

7771 51 1611 50 375 6144 --s4 n -3- 92 185Totals ---I---I-------I-I-- ----

OaSmiddotrLEMAiN]~ I ICastlcmlline Division 360 280 354 994 1 20 65 - 128 6 5 Fryers Creek Division 730 600 200 1530 4 78 41 6 15 306 25 2 2 24 Hepburn Division bullbull bullbull 365 290 361 1019 13 3 1 60 75 4() 3 1 TaradaJe and KynetonSubdivision 200 136 110 446 64 11 8 1 6 1 Tarrangower Division 38 161 298 515 15 - 2 17 9 21 St andrews Division bullbull 196 54 142 39~ 10 2 6 9 8 30 10 4 Blue Mountain Nrth Subdivision 73 73 _______ _____1__

Totals 1980 1521 1468 10 172 6 151 28 Btl 562 18 83 11 25 24

ARARAT 215 315 30 560 4 25 11 3 30 12 4 15Ararat Division bull

Pleasant Creek Division sectt~ 2~ 801 3 lmi~ 1~ 1~~ ~ 4 2~ 23 iamp Barkly Division Raglan Division 445 114 11 570 1 125 10 9 10

1323 766 842 3 2934 22 318 8 30 16 67 13 32 95Totals

GIPpsLAND Oooeo Subdivision 408 263 1 8 679 1000 2 22122Mitcbell Ri ver and Boggy Creek 230 30 9 319 49 shy

SuhdiviRlol1sCrookcd Hiver Division 117 33 23 233 240 12 11 Jenaho Diviion 78 56 G 140 90 20 20 Donnellys Oreek Division 40 2 31 73 10 30 - I Stringers Oreek Division bullbull 90 343 433 -Aberfeldy Subdivision 52 10 64 126 30 8 8 ltusRolls Oreek Division 81 4 85 12 _ 1

~~~~r ~~~gft~ ~~ 1~ 10 f~ 2 18 8 3~ g 5 I 10 Trarajgon Subdivision 81 81 ____1_ 16

1327 458 426 2283 3 23 11 6 1507 2 70 67 11 2Totals 137i9 9128 14681 180 37703 237 6298 178 792 214 17294 39 475 210 158 390 II

GRAND TOTALS

MAOHINERY EMPLOYED IN QUARTZ MINING

t 17

60 1334 shy11 200 shy9 200 shy6 100

34 112320 606 shy4 51 shy24middot 511 9

20 shy

sect ~~ ~~ W-0 ~0 ~-

~il01 g~

466 70 90 46

282 118 24

270

i cl

~

1 --

25

--

8_

170 4145 9 I~~

7 115 5 75 shy

4 71 - 44 3 4 06 - 36

10 93 6 111 1 9 130 5 121 6 135 1 80 shyI 10 1 14 shy

-4 64 12 172 1

11 172 S 203 2 3 36 ~ 30 shy6 45 - 20 1 15 1 11 shy4 47 3 74 shy

70 991 42~ ~

211 3940 1- 1260 3 30 2 30

19 374 129

10 180 79

243 4524

25 596 194

7 85 20 5 88 73

39 773 245I l~g ~~ 4 76 22

19 319 134

107 2132 --~ 4

32 538 228 3 19 509 150 4 28 473 210 8 220 SO

30 602 202 11 130 4 62

128 2422 932

4 92 36 1415 346

1 12

44 1519 390

1 11 21 2 16 8

8 137 4 126 3 35 37 3 58 3 6~

17 355 1 126 4 65 1 35

30 i 1~ _-__ shy I-=shy

39 103 12 412 3

ti ~~ ~ ~ 21 ~ ~--

bull Ilt

ii 32 2 4 2 2 2 2 1

13 1 1 1

16

77 14

2

4

3

==_11 9 - shy

180 190 2

7 20

12

190 224

28 21

6 16 4 4

21 12r 1 2

17 22

85 90 - shy

22 27 1 9 15 3 26 38

28 6

91 80

2 3 48 10

51 15

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801 16506 69 -6387 I-SO --9- iii5 43l 11

Sqre 1 distinot Price of Gold-Value Miles of Quartz per DUnefAuriferous Reefs0( actually proved to be

upun IAurife-middotmiddotmiddotmiddotmiddot~

1_-1 I~I_~ pound s d pound s dpound 420 4 2 9

16500 14 19 120400 39 24

410 4 2 6 4 1 0 426

22000 18 12 30000 16~ 13

400 430 104000 13 16 400 430 24131 3~ 19 3 16 0 4 0 0 2800 50 210 3 17 6 4 2 3

60000 4h 31 3 17 6 400

3 IS 0 318 0600

38073-1--1--1-14-~-----34-7

3 IS 0 4 2 637320 47 105 310 9 4169150 15 95 4 0 0 42027118 8 26 318 0 40014125 53] 196 3 16 0 42016000 26 16t 3 16 6 4 1 01915 35 74 315 6 400

10 3 2700 1~ 2

3 16 0 4 0 017330 24 19 3 2 6 410214)0 18 95 3 17 0 317 63488 33 14 31 0 315 017700 36 24 2 10 0 312 62LOO 18 12 314 0 318 316000 9 27

196246 340 ____

451000 2150

26392

24 29 81

325 117 204

3 18 317 3 IS

3 D 0

318 3 3 18 9 400

11055 11 126 310 4 1

490597 772

135859 8995

12845 7259

90360 10m

5k 2 5 1~ 16 g

170 1

30 40

185 7~

400 4 0 0 316 0 400 315 0 319 0 318 9

4 2 0 414 4 2 0 400 420 4 0 0 319 0

6OBB HI 28 315 0 400

44186 10 315 4 0

311109 122i 604

6006474527 32078 1800043246 8183

9 28 82 20 44

15 4

103 37 88 19 76 77 4

3 17 0 317 6 3 18 6 319 0 318 0 317 3 317 0

4 0 0 318 0 400 319 6 4 1 0 400 317 6

164 404

6810 156~~~

28 3~

3 16 313 4 0

400 430 406

7000 5 4 0 4 2 0

1__17_0_7_14_1 __-_1____

I 390 3 16 64680 12 23 317 0 311 644() bull 23 23

312 0 3 18 632280 49~ 352 315 0 317 64300 26 33 310 0 40012160 6h 18 310 0 40046430 7 13 315 0 317 611000 20 6 310 0 3 18 026 35 ]6 3 12 0 315 0 315 0 317 63~g 2~ 1 316 0 319 6 ___~ 1 1

115332 209

)208827 1182

THOS COUCfUIAN SecretarY for Mines Office of Mines Melbourne 15th ctober 1879

No 83

y

NAME OF REEF

Clunce

Cluncs

Sultan nnd others

Reform Jgtlyrtleord

Pride and

Land TlX Bllckeye Tiddlemiddotilcmiddotaddelde FDrlorn Hope Buckeye

Whistlers

Church Hill bullbull

Goldsborough Moliagul

Jersey Greenock

BriStol Chrysolite

Richmond

Cohens Aberfcldy

I

Feet

450 to 950 278 112

100 to 000

240 to 1105

210 to 770

460

100

400 150 220 310 150

100

200

200 to 260 150

140 150 to 200 100 to 380

270 200 300

SO

50

343 to 623

150

Quantity Crushed

Tons

1500 2117 1520

13910

2457~

1623

1063

139

258 19

205 23 64

60 110 900

480

4443 1510 2208 1802

22

144

3701 713

1471 119

63 45

530 1419 6310

100 945

96 177

17

5034

650

o 6

o 1 8 14 9 5 6 1 12 4 1 19 4 3 13 10

o 6 16 o 10 0 041

o 10 0

1 10 1 3 21 o 11 0 o 7 2

8 3

2

012 0 0 1 19 o 7 16 o 1 19 o 18 I o 17 8

o o

7 2 2 23

076 o 7 6 o 3 3 o 8 0 o 1 13 4 4 15 5 10 16

4 2

18 19

o 6

10 0

2 0

o

1 3 2 0 2 6

6 0

2tolll 0 1 6

1 to 3 0 10 0

In to 8

o 10 0 5 0

1 0 8 0 7 0 3 0

12 4

o o

Irregular 5 6bull 3 0 5 0 2 6 2 0

w W80middot

E

NW30 Vertical Dyke

Vertical

E

W4I)

E 86~ W75 W75

N S

W75

W7 W80

E

12 0 I W80 60 Elftln2tt

Dip oftha Shoot

01 Quartz

N S

N

N

Varies

S

NW24

S S N

s s

S35

Nl inS W40

Vertical Vertical

N30

Good Hope

( j~mg Tunnel t Wlllla

NAME OF REEF

Clunes

Clunes

Sultan and othors

Excelsior Wooragee bullbull

Homeward-bound

Victrnin l-iwltlers Harden Gully

Western

Churchill

Jersey Reef

Eaglehawk

c 1 ~ r

285 I

-(

1~O i i

1

t 2225 1940 166 1468 1313 1262 1210

1230 1117 1052 101

middot1 ~ 7QO

VICTORIA WITH STOPPED EfC

1879)

1105

800

180

420

1200 800 854

500

250

277

160 175 410

1120 1070

800 1000

50

1100

723 58~

1090

1105

800

310

600

250

271

1pound0 175 500

1000

2002 1510 1500 1020 1000 1202 1200

700

Inclndlng pyrites

Including pyrites

REMARKS

bottm level with gold visible in the quurtz

It is intended to open oul another level at 900 feet

Not Sinking Not sinking Sinking

shaft

bull The width vaJies frolll 6 inches to 80 feet

Still sinking

Still sioking

sinkinf sl1Klng

Below ndilleycl

THOS COUCHMAN Secretary for Mines

T A BmiddotL E THE DEPTH OF THESHOWING THE YIELD OF GOLD FROM CERlAIN PARCELS OF QUARTZ RAISED DURING lHEQUARTER IN SOME OF THE

DEEPESI SHAFTS WHICE ARE NOW BEING SUNK OR THE SINKING OF WHICH HAS RECENTLY

( Compiled from Returns made by the fffining Surveyors and Registrars for the Quarter ended 30th

Strike of the Reel

(Bearing)

N and S

N 10 W

W15

NSE

NlOmiddot W

Northerly

NIO E

NE

N24Wbull NIlnctSbull N3SW

Ennd W

NlSW Nl W NIS W

NISW

N N

N14W N)O E

N18W

N15 W N16W

~

NW19

N 25 W

NAME OFCOMPANY

Port Phillip

New North Cluncs

Sultan bull

Dale and Co

and Clinga~

J

LonseUs No 180 Grea Extenrled

Carlisle Nodh (j ly and 1as~by

Bristol Hill

Union

J orsoy I1eel Q M

Eaglehawk Union

~ shy~

DISTIUCT DIVISION

AND NAUE O COMPANY SUBDIVISION

BALLAHAT

Central Division SOllthern Division BU1l1llyong L Smythesdale

Crewick Division

and Blue Mountain I Sultan

IHECHWOUTH

Beechworth Yacknndallliall YllCkUIHlatlllah Indigo Divisioll

Buckland Division

SANDIIURST

Sandhurst Division

Kilmore lIethcote ilivislolJ and Varanga

Subdivhdoll WaJmiddotnnga Normiddotth Subdivision

11 AltYpoundlOIWUGH

Dunollyand Taruagulla Divisions

Inglewood Diyisioll

and st Arnaud South SuUdI-

St Arnaud North Su bdi vision bullbull

Wedderburn Division bullbull

CASTLEIIAINE

Cast1~mninc IJivis10n bullbull

Fryer Creek DivisIon

Hephulll Tllra1ale KY1tctonmiddot8ubdlvision

Tarrangowcr Division bullbull

I Jersey neef Q M

Subdivision

ARARAT Ararat Division

Pleasttnt Creek Division

Barklv Raglan DivisIon

Omeo RubdhiSlIin JltclwtJ jUver amp Hoggy Ok SubdivIsions Crooked Uiver lJ J ericllo Di v i~ion J)ouuellys Ureek Diisiou

Stringers Creek Divislon bullbull

Office of Mines Melbourne 15th October 1879

No 83

Reform

Grumbriage and Co

Union

The Victory

I Long Tunnel James Rices Lea8~

Oz dwt gr

o 2 15 o 2 0 o 6 2

o 16

o 7 1

o 19 17

Width 1Dip of the leef

W 3i1 In 6ft

[

W70middot E66

30 30

W80 varilS

~ride

y

hi

1 1

j

6

QUARTZ QUARTZ TAILINGS PYRITES ETO

SUMMARY

THE following information has been obtained relative to the QUANTITY OF QUARTZ QUARTZ TAILINGS

and M ULLOOK Crushed anu PYRITES and BLANKE1IN(S operateu on during the Quarter and the

GOLD obtained therefrom shy

Average Yield of 01 Gold1romQuantity Crushed ~UNING DISTRICTS Gold per Ton Crushed

Quartz tons cwt o~ dwt oz dwt gr

Ballarat 91198 10 0 5 27188 7 23 Beechworth 15774 18 0 11 9257 17 19 Sandhurst 63695 0 0 8 26456 5 12 Maryborough bullbullbull 11639 11 0 8 4294 2 2 CastlemaiTie 8109 0 0 H 6045 17 9 Ararat 22705 19 0 II 12650 8 12 Gippsland 6783 1 3 7931 10 0deg

Totals 217905 18 0 8 93824 9 5

Quartz 1ailings and Mullock 4050 0 0 1 344 1 0Ballarat

0 1 87 14 (1003 0Beechwolth 0 2 87 0 0250 0Sandhurst 0 1 61 2 0702 0Maryborough

3629 0 0 1 226 10 12Castle maine 0 2 4 9 1835 0Ararat

40 0 2 0 4 0 0Gippsland deg 0 1 1381 764 17 69709 0Totals

Pyrites and Blanketings operated on

Ballarat Beechworth

Sandhurst M1tryborough Ctstlemaine Ararat Gippslaml

Totals

350 114 789 28

139

26

15 0

10 11 0

3

1447 19

3 10 1628 1239 10 12 0 16 S68 93 5 6 1 16 356 1443 8 0 1 16 899 51 18 12 1 11 2261 222 0deg 2 2 1213 55 12 ()

2 2 262 3105 14 6

NOlE-This Summary docs not show the total quantities of quartzampc crushed or operated on but only the yield of certnln cruahlngs ampc respecting- which the ~Iining Surveyors and Registrars have been able to obtain information Owing to the circumstance that mnny Of the machine owners are unable to give 01 are precluded from giving information it is impossible to get c-omplete returns froID every district and in considerillg the relative jmportance of each district as regards quartz mining ampc the tables relatipg to machinery should be examined and compared bull

Office of Mines TROS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

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JIINING SURVEYURS AND REGISTRARS RETURNS

QUARTZ

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars lelative to the QUANlITY OF QUARTZ Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GoLD obtained therefrom

Divislon ~nd Subdivision I Average I T IYi Remarks relative toti and WheTe Quartz was obtained Quartz Crushed Yield of Gold ta ld of Depth at which the

Name of Companybull per Ton Gold Quartz was obtained amp0 ~-----------------I--------7--------I-------~-I------------------1-----------------

tons owt qr j oz dwt gr I oz dwtgr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Band and Albion Consols Ballarat West bullbullbull 3269 0 0 0 13 776 2177 15 0 1250 feet Black Hill Ballarat East bullbull 3358 0 0 0 5 1236 925 19 20 Surface to 500 feet Llanberris bullbullbull Ballarat East bullbull 2435 0 0 0 2 1599 324 12 12 300 feet Temperance Little Bendigo 1500 0 0 0 7 2227 594 12 0 430 to 950 feet Serjeants Freehold Endeavor

Ballarat West Specimen Gully

270 603

0 0

0 0

0 11 2295 0 4 421

161 8 125 18

6 0

280 feet 100 feet

Britannia Duchcss

bullbullbull bullbull

Specimen Gully Ballarat East

457 913

0 0

0 0

0 0

2 440 7 1953

49 17 21 356 14 4

165 feet ISO to 300 feet

Parade Ballarat East 230 0 0 0 15 448 174 13 0 400 feet Countess Ballarat East 90 0 0 0 4 1373 20 11 12 70 to 150 feet Canadian Canadian 1925 0 0 0 5 l1S3 52S 15 0 SO to 140 feet Baker and Co bull Mount Clear 1250 0middotmiddot0 0 8 1217 631 14 0 Surface to 100 feet Hanthorn and Co Mount Clear 145 0 0 0 6 082 43 15 0 80 to 150 feet Black Hill Lnited Ballarat East 132 0 0 0 19 1889 129 4 10 400 feet New Dirnocks Little Bendigo 2160 0 o 0 3 266 336 0 0 260 to 860 feet North Dimocks Little Bendigo 708 0 0 I 0 3 823 liS 7 0 300 to 400 feet New Koh-i-noor Ballarat West 190 0 0 Band of Hope Quartz Ballarat West 1104 0 0

Public crushings bull Ballar~~~~d wes~ 2

SOUrUElIN DIVISION

Speedwell Tribute Staffordshire Reef 1090 0 0 Hopewell Tributers Staffordshire Reef 50 0 0 New Kangaroo Kangaroo 2117 0 0 Williams Fancy Kangaroo 900 0 0 Nil Desperandum Kangaroo 511 0 0 New Try Again Kangaroo 400 0 0

Totals 5068 0 0

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Imperial Q M bull Hiscock Reef bull 1520 0 0 Olle-and-All Hiscocks Fairweather 1379 0 0

0 8 757 79 0 0 280 to 300 feet 0 8 558 454 8 18 300 feet

~~19~2 1 1 ~ IVarious depths 11

o 2 751 126 I 10 150 feet 4 feet wide o 6 012 15 0 6 121 feet o 2 004 211 18 0 278 feet 8 feet wide o 3 1028 154 5 18 130 feet 6 feet wide o 2 185middot 70 16 0 120 feet 8 feet wide o I 1269 30 11 12 130 feet 4 feet wide

---- 0 2 964 608 12 22

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0 6 204 462 9 6 1I2 feet 0 Ill 99 103 8 2 80 to 200 feet

1Reefs Tributers Olle-and-All Public crushing~ I Various depths up to

150 feet Llewellyn Magpie Ranges

486 0 0 0 II 1213 279 11 18

180 feet

Totals ~~-+I ~23middot 9 ---1-----shy -------SIYTHESDALE DIVISION

720 0 0 0 1 166 60 17 11 264 feet Bristol Linton Ranges Srnythesdale Consols German Reef SrnythesdaJe

7 10 0 150 feet30 0 o 0 5 0

750 0 0 0 I 1974 68 7 11Totals

CRESWICK DIVISJON

1396 0 0Port Phi Ilip Clunes reefs o 4 1573 32419 12 100 to 990 feet12514 0 0Port Phillip Tributcrs Clunes reefs o 5 159 3170 1 12

New North Clunes Clunes reefs 394 0 0 o 2 962 47 6 12 240 to 1105 feet2063 10 0 725 10 0 South Clunes Clunes reefs New North ClunesTributers Clunes reefs o 7 076

812 2 03119 0 0 o 5 497 70 to 600 feet8486 0 0 2]03 0 0 New Lothair Clunes reefs South Clnlles Tnbuters I Clunes reefs o 4 2295

1340 0 0 o 5 1525 264 to 564 feet United Spring Hill Reef

377 12 0 194 0 0 o 5 162 55 1 0 70 feet

Working Miners Georges Reef 320 0 0 o 3 20middot97 70 feet61 19 15

Totals bullbullbull 29826 10 0 0 5 355 7677 12 3

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Division and SubdiviSion Average Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of and Where Quartz was obtained I Quartz Crushed Yleld of Gold Depth at which theGoldName of Company pel ~ron Quart was obtained ampcbull ---- shy -----_ ------------ shy

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr oz dwt grGORDON SUBDIVISION

Black-horse United Egerton 400 to 600 feet7356 0 0 0 3 239 11469 16 0 The Egerton Limited Egerton 500 to 758 feet10104 0 0 0 6 9833238 3 14 Parkers United bullbull Gordon 60 0 0 0 5 235 17 18 18 ioo feet IUnited Miners ~orth of Gordon 150 0 0 0 3 0 22 10 0 Surface to 20 feet shy

Totals 17670 O 0 0 5 899 4748 8 8 i STEIGLITZ SUBDIvisION

Minerva Elaine I 5 133 23 0 o Ibull i 18 0 0 Elaine 52 0 middot0Watson and party 0 5 1846 15 0 0

Copperwaite and party Elaine o 18 02 0 6 0 9 0 Wee Speck Elaine 0 3 023 0 0 3 8 0 Mortimer and party Elaine o 17 III 24 10 028 0 0 Dunlop and party Elaine 4 4 45721 0 0 88 8 0 Dennis and Co Steiglitz 16middot 0 O I 2 12 18 0 0 Herring Steiglitz 2 14 96 13 12 05 0 0 Morris and Co Steiglitz 4 12 016 O oj 0 5 18 Barrett Steiglitz 1 13 o i4 0 0 0 8 6 Seott and Co New-ehum I 9 343 30 12 021 0 0

1

BLACKWOOD DIVISION un) BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH

Totals

206middot 0 0 1 I 1712 223 13 01

SUBDIVISION Sultan Barrys Reef 1623 0 0 o 19 1798 1602 13 0 270 to 770 feet Moullter Bros BarryS Reef 99 0 0 o 17 ll88 86 12 0 400 feet Big Hill Simmons Reef 1800 0 0 0 1 680 1I5 10 0 50 feet Cornish Simmons Reef 450 0 0 0 1 643 23 10 15 100 feet

rownC Simmons Beef 250 0 0 0 2 2221 36 II 9 150 feet N~orth Star Union Reef 30 0 0 0 8 16 13middot 0 0 110 feet Victoria Yankee Reef 207 0 0 0 5 116 52 5 0 40 to i5 feet N I ~orth Britain da Wrights Reef

Wrights Reef 380 0

167 0 0 0

0 0

2 158 8 2i3

50 10 67 15

4 0

110 feet 280 feet

-----shy--- shy ---- shyTotals 5006 0 0 0 8 489 2053 7 4

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

I I BEECHWORTH DIVISION

Rocky Point 1 460 0 o i omiddot 7 6Homeward Bound Tribute 166 15 0 600 feet Shakspeare Reef Stanley bullbullbull 43 0 0 2middot14 1283 117 5 0 50 feet

shyHurdle Flat 800 0 0 014 225 563 15 0 90 feetWallaby Tribute Marco Polo Hurdle Flat 95 0 0 o 17 1l37 83 0 0 90 feet Sunday Beef Three-mile Creek 39 0 0 2 4 1169 86 15 0 120 feet Reform Myrtleford 1063 0 0 0 6 591 332 0 0 450 feet Nil Desperandum 11yrtleford 196 0 0 0 6 1175 63 12 0 100 feet Carthew and Co Myrtleford 16 0 0 0 4 0 3 4 0

------ shy --- shy ---__- Surfaee

Totals 2712 0 0 o 10 1067 1416 6 0 YACKANDANDAH SOUTH ------ shy ---- shy ----- shy

SUBDIVISION

Bigelowe and Clingam Hillsborough 130 0 0 0 8 8 54 3 6 40 feet Pride and Stringer Baek Creek 130 0 0 1 6 0 169 6 0 100 feet Iron Hand Twists Creek 35 0 0 0 2 14 4 10 8 20 feet Schnackenberg Bros Sandy Creek 60 0 0 4 10 0 270 0 0 60 feet Crowe and Farrell Sandy Creek 22 0 0 o 18 436 20 0 0 36 feet Patrick McClinehy Sandy Creek 6 0 0 II 13 8 70 0 0 30 feet

INDIGO DIVISION

Gallagher and CoshyDe lI1amiel and Co

Totals

Not known Golden Bar Reef

383 0 0 ------- shy

6 0 0 8 0 0

I 10 1687 587 19 14

1shy 9 = 1 II 2 Surfaee to 40 feet 0 16 18 6 14 0 30 to 40 feet

Hellyar and Co Indigo Reef 3 0 0 0 14 13 2 3 15 20 to 28 feet Pomeroy and Co Banners Reef 15 0 0 017 U2 13 2 0 60 feet Williams and Co Not known 20 0 0 o 16 18 16 15 0 Not known Spearing and Co Demon 28 0 0 1 15 171 49 2 0 60 to 80 feet Barras rind Co Caledonian Reef 48 0 0 o 17 235 43 3 0 100 feet Trevillian and Co Indigo Lead Reef 45 0 0 o 18 2134 42 10 0 138 feet Buehan and Co Pass-by Reef 13 0 0 17 18 II07 233 0 0 175 feet Archer and Co Touehstone Reef 12 0 0 I 4 0 14 8 0 Smfaee to 2(1 feet Laurie and Co Golden Bar 8 10 0 1 10 1411 13 0 0 30 to 80 feet Eustace and Co Bradys Hill 13 0 0 o 13 2033 9 0 0 Surface to 20 fcer Bigby and Co WaHaces Gully 10 0 0 2 15 0 27 10 0 80 to I00 f~CL Burton and Co Eureka Heef 25 0 0 o 14 0 17 10 0 60 to 80 feet Various companies Various reefs 19 10 0 o 14 1969 14 9 0 Various depths Hooly and Co We Speek Reef 25 0 0 1 10 0 37 10 0 60 to 100 feet Lord and Co Campbells Reef 24 0 0 4 5 10 102 10 o I 80 to 90 feet Brown and Co Garibalui Heef 12 0 0 o 17 4 10 6 0 60 to 70 flof

----- shy --- shy --- shyTotals 335 0 0 I 19 1247 661 19 3

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crllshed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

AverogeDivision and Subdivision Yield of Gold Quartz Crushedand Where Qnartz was obtained

per TonName 01 Company

BUCllLAD DIVISIOY

J A Wallace Jones and Co Dl-vies and Co

o

o

H arrietville Land Tax Rcef Buck-eye Tiddle-de-addle-de

Gillies and Co The Admiral Douglas and Co Anderson and Co Stephen and Co o

H Curry and Co O Anderson and Co Boss Cockies Shippen and Cobullbullbull King and Co Clemens and Co Radcliffe and Fowler Brady and Co

Bucldand o bull

lt

bullbullbull

Davies and Co Maguire and Co Harp of Erin Co Maguire aud Co Beveridge and Co Coxon and Co Grennep and Wilson Honeychnrch and Co

Frecburgh Oriental Hill Three Stars Tramway Heef Three Stars bullbullbull

Oriental Hill Reliance Reef Lisbon Reef

Maefadzean aud Co J Butler and Go

Bright

Belle of the Ball Stackey Gully

The Hope Q M Running Creek

Happy Valley Reef Root Hog and Die Running Creek

Totals

WANDILIOONO SUBDIVISIO

Prince Arthur Mill Williams and Co Tributers Williams and Co Tributers Davies and Hearn Tri-

buters Birthday Mill

Three public crushings Queen of South Mill

Two small crushings Hit or Miss Mill

Harrietville Oriental Mill

Nine parcels for public Try Again Mill

Hood and Contts Frasers Mill

Myrtle Co London Co James and Co Londonderry bullbull

Prince Arthur Lease Anstralasia Lease Prince A Lease

Various

Buck-eye

Try Again Myrtle Reef London Reef Londonderry

Native Industry Reef

and Co Attridge and Co Native Industry Symes

Old Albion Never 100 Late Mill

Stephens and Co Pride of Kildare Gregory and Co Louisa

Forlorn Hope Vale and Co Wbo Knows

Home ~fill Hazeton E M Gill Home Reef

Stephens Mill Mills and Co Advance Australia H Mitchell HM Reef J Phillips New Years Gift

tons cwt qr

258 0 0 19 0 0

205 0 0

156 0 0

90 0 0 16 0 0

13 0 0 12 0 0 35 0 0

4 0 0 7 0 0

14 0 0 40 0 0

6 0 0 7 0 0

54 0 0 34 0 0

100 0 0 40 0 0 5 0 0

11 0 0 17 0 0 17 0 0

49 10 0 19 0 0

312 0 0

3 0 0

oz dwt gr

1 8 1451 9 5 632 1 12 468

o 10 2154

1 7 1866 1 10 0 5 4 l477 1 11 16 0 7 1028 1 6 6 2 1 1886 2 17 1029 0 4 72 4 6 16 1 7 0

2 2 2311 210 0 o 18 0 o 17 0 1 3 0 1 10 0 1 0 0 4 14 282

o 14 1309 o 15 189

0 1 2331

I 8 0

1543 10 I 3 2124 __ o i

28 0 0 I 13 0 16 0 0 o 17 12 77 0 0 7 0 686

85 0 0 0 9 1552

11 10 0 1 5 0

64 0 0 3 13 105

376 0 0 0 4 963

150 0 0 0 7 48

780 0 0 0 4 16 42 0 0 0 8 228 24 0 0 0 7 12 33 10 0 I 17 211

13 18 0 3 7 2089

24 0 0 1 o 20 28 0 0 I 3 1371 23 0 0 1 19 313 43 0 0 I 1 949

0 4 1294178 0 0

35 0 0 3 I 1714 49 0 0 o 16 1763 99 0 0 0 Ii 109

Remarks relative to the Total Yield of Depth at which theGold Quartz WJ obtained ampc _-----shyoz dwt gr

369 O 0 400 feet 176 0 0 150 feet 330 0 0 220 feet water leve

100 feet 85 0 0 150 feet

125 0 0 60 feet 24 0 0 20 feet 68 0 0 80 feet 19 0 0 Surface 13 0 0 20 feet 5 5 0 40 feet

14 12 12 40 feet 40 4 0 50 feet 8 12 0 35 feet

26 0 0 Surface 9 9 0 25 feet

116 0 0 SO feet 85 0 0 50 feet 90 0 0 120 feet 34 0 0 60 feet

5 15 0 Surface 16 10 0 40 feet 17 0 0 Surface to 10 feet 80 0 0

36 0 0 30 feet 15 0 0 50 feet

30 15 0 300 feet water level 100 feet

4 4 0 Surface

1843 ( 12 ----shy

46 -1 0 Surface to 40 feet 14 0 0 Surface to 40 feet

540 2 0 Surface to 40 feet

41 0 0

14 7 12

235 0 0 150 feet

82 15 0

100 to 300 feet54 0 0

450 feet 17 0 0

182 0 0 300 feet

9 0 0 170 feet 63 10 0 70 feet

43 0 0

middot25 0 0 33 0 0 45 0 0 310 feet 46 0 0 90 feet

40 8 0 120 feet deep

108 0 0 30 feet 41 0 0 50 feet 27 0 0 5 to 60 feet

Eleven small parcels Various 153 0 1

0 9 1082 72 6 0O

1779 12 12 Totals 2332 18 0 o 15 616

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION

The Try Again Paps Reef 2 0 0 1 8 0 2 16 0 Surface to 50 feet Peter Mannoni and party Durham Gully Reef 14 0 0 9 10 0 133 0 0 Snrface to 40 feet Selby and Johnson Candlelight Reef 25 0 0 0 7 48 9 0 0 Surface to 50 feet

--- shy -- shy ----- shy ---- shy -Totalsmiddot 41 0 0 3 10 1522 144 16 0

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QUANTITY of- QUARTZ Crushed in eacK Division and StiMivsioriJduring the QUfiiter Iampc-colltinued

Division and Subdlvlson 1 I Average I l Remark~el~tfveto the t and Quartz Cru~hed i YieldOf Gold TotaGrl~d of

Nameof Company bull per Ton bull

-----------I--to-n-s-cwt--q-10p -o~ Dny CnEElt SUBDIVISION

R G Meade Une~(Quattz Table ipoundiIiabiy Creek 350 0 0 0 23 Claim

-~~ t71~ 1- -~

GAFFNEYS CnEEllSUBshyDIVISION

Al G M Tributers I bullbull Castle reefs 400 00 o 13 1626 Rose of DenmarkTributers Eureka Heef 1 i 60 0 0 o 6 Hi Wallaby Tributers - WallabyReef bull f600 0 0 o 15 1244 Sundry lots ~i ~ bullbull Homeward Bound Reef 1)400 0 0 o 018

~-----shyTotals bullbullbull

WOODS POINT SJJBDIVISIONbullbull

The Revival (Fords Tribute) Sir Tohn Franklin reefs Lady Franklin Tributers bull Johnsons Reef Morning Star Prospectors Mornini Star Heef

Tributers North WaverJy~ i Waverly Reefmiddot Axton and Ryan Morning Star Reef

Totals

BIG RIVEn SUBDIVISION

Londonderry S M bullbullbull Hailway Heef Lucks All Q Mmiddot I WarnersReef i

Totals

MITTA MITTA NORTH SUBshyDIVISION

Happy Go Lucky ~rount Firebrace Prospecting Mill I ~ Cotton Tree Hore and Co -CottOn Tree bullbullbull Coleman Cotton Tree Philip bullbullbull Cotton Tree Gregson Cotton Tree PeadoIiBrothers Cotton Tree Clarke Brtithers bull Qotton Tree Padgett Cotton Tree Peach and party CottonTree n

Sutherland Cotton Tree Christy and Co CottonTree Frazer and Co Cotton Tree Miller and Co Cotton Tree Lee Cotton Tree Doctor and party Cotton Tree Flag Staff Compo Bethariga Trewalla Compo Bethanga

Totals

MITTA JliIITTA Scn)Tii SUB- DIVISIN

I

Enterprise bull Junction Mitta Mitta Christmas Tunction Mitta Mitta Christmas (2nd lot) Junction Mitta Mitta Welcome Tunction Mitta rfitta Yellow Girl Junction Mitta 1l1itta Watson and Scalesmiddot I Granite Fiat ~ Littlejohn and Williams b t Granite Flat A Hodder Granite ]Iat Empress Granite ll1it Empress (No2) Granite Flat Jtichards Bros Granite Flat llose of Kilkenny Granite Flat Pioneer Juncti~n Mitta 11itta

Totals bull

JA~IIESON SUBDrVI8ION

Ventu~e ( Macks Creek Sailor Bill ( tiailor Bill Greek

Totals

2460 0 0 0 6 1436

800q 0 o 8 21)-72

130 0 0 o 2 1366 800 0 0 03 072

1400 00 0 3 924

)t60 0 0 I o 4 4

d 40J 00

273 ll 0

20 ) 0 465 1gt1 0

52 10 0 -----shy

811 12 0

I

354 IPIS 16 14 0

121 4 0

)67 1~0 10 ~ 0

Depth at which the Quartz was obtained ampc

---------shy

About 70 feet T

About 200 feet About middot100 feetmiddot About200 feet

~ i ~~~ j 0

Ahptlt 200 feet f~ r About 100 feet About 70 fcet

Aboutl30 feet y Surface 7

2190 0 0 o 1 511 I 572 12 18

co i

900 0 0 o 4 16 183 0 0 I About 300 feet ~~~172 0 uO 1 21223 c190 0 0 About 250 feet

1072 0 0 0 6 2301 373 9 0 ---- shy _---shy

_ 300-0 0 o 10 192 162 0 0 295 00 o 13144 200 12 0

32- 0 0 o 12 0 19 4 0 16 12 Omiddot27 0 0 o 12 711

4 10 0 o 9 266 2 I 0 I300 1 3 8 3 10 0

6 4 9

0 0 0 0 00

o iI 16 o i 0 o ~5- in 33

3 100 216 0

213 0 6 0 0 o 5 16 I 14 0 9 0 0 o 10 8 13 0

6 0 0 o 15 16 41~ 0 500

22 00 o 9 144 o 19 0

280 20 la 0

11 12

0 0 00 i

o 16 o 7

218 8

8 17 4lt 8

0 0

186 0 O o 10 1853 100 314 83 0 0 o 11 1424 48 2 6

1020 100 0 11 2235 608 15 20 1

12 0 0 o 1 20 I ) 0 12 0 0 o 5 20 3 10 0

700 o 8 2057 3 2 0 50 0 0 o 544 14 10 0

o 14 0 14 o 0 c i 20 Q 9 o I 6 0 F2 12 10 Q o o 3 343 j 2 14 0~ 14 Q o o I 18 0 7 0400

38 0 0 o 9 503 17]00 o 4 1664 11 14 16 50 0 deg 700 Vb2171 8

16 O l o 8 45 6 0 I r J

15 o l 0 o 3~3 deg2 l deg ---- ~ - I ltshy

255 middot0 0 0 6 1538 ------ --__shy

600 b 0 0 3 256 93 14 0 100 feet Fmiddot

480 00 0100 240 O 01 40()feet 1

o ~ o1080 ~ 0

11

Total Yield 01 Reruarksrelatve to the Gold Depth at which the

~_____ Qn~r~~ T~~ Obtp7dbullampe

tons oz dwt gr

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHUllST DIVISION Albert Beehive bullbullbull Bendigo and Melbourne Birds Reef Catherine ReefU C Garden Gully United bull G G Consolidated Great Extended Hustlers

Reef Great Britain bull bullbull Great Southern Hercules and Energetic bull Johnsons Reef G M bullbullbull Lazarus bull Louisa Metropolitan bullbull Marong CrushillgWorksl New-chum and Victoria Newmiddotchum United New Kelson bull Old Tom J V)~ipstick Shenandoah Victoria Conaols Victoria Reef G M _ Vilsons Reef

KILMORE DIYISION~ Crown Doyles GoIden Crown Beaconsfield bullbullbull Red Rover Loudon and party Trezise and party Overlander Doyles Battery robins neef bull

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND VVARANGA SOUTH

SUBDIVISION Alison

Collins

DIVISION Good Luck Nobull1 Hgpe o(Denmar~ ~ Lost Love Taylorand Crowe Cambridge and Warwick West Growlers TaylorBros __ Marsland and Co Holmes Lease King Billy Francis and Co Rowan and Co Hodge Bros Loughlin Jose and Co WnistIers OBrien and Co Telford and Co

Diamond tIilt E~glhawk bullbullbull Kangaroo Flat Kangaroo blat

Eaglehawk Garden Gully Reef Golden Gully bull Hustlers Reef

Golden Square Garden Gully Reef Victoria neef bullbull California Gully

New-chum Gully Eaglehawk GoIde-q SQllare I I yenarong bullbull - Ironbark New-chum Gully KeIson Reef bull

Newmiddotchm Ililcf Victoria R~ef

Totals 1

Doyles ned Doyles Reef GCrown Reef i Magenta Reef Upper Reedy London Reef bullbull Russells Reef Overlander Reef I Various places Sunday Creek

529 00 o 6 1279 5360 0 0 o 91855

389 00 o 6 283 o B 206I 1389 OJii

3196 0 4441l0

I 1078 O bull 258 0 bull 1170 0

3783 0 3994 0 6980 0 4362 0 1789 0 141~ 0

237 0 il189 0 1773 0 1927 0

1 240 0

_ 2i32 0 r 2554 0 1

VictoriaRlcf 4330 _0 Marong 305 0

i------ii

o 5 1825 0 0

1 1 056 0 o 4 1206 0 o 8 947

o 0 5 372 o 0 61l47 o 0 5 1202 o 0 4 912 o 0 9 1372 o 0 6 1321 o 0 4 2332 o 0 5 966 o 0 8 ijs 60S 94deg 0 6 163i 0 0bull 186l

o 0 4 2219o 0 2 132 o 0 8 389 o 0 7 2289

280 0 0 4 0 0 190 0 0 1 15 0

13 0middot0 1 10 0 --20 0 0 0 15 0

15 oj 0 0 10 0 5 0 0 1 0 0

12 0 0 2 14 0 16 0 0 0 8 0

0160 0 0 5 0 6 0 Oimiddotl 0 0

)

dii5 23 2619 4 0

119 0 0 56111 12 920 11 i

4670 8 0 242 14 I

1083 15 0

507 16 deg 1225 7 0 1098 11 0 1528 14 0

2~~ i~ g 362 9 0

6314 12 2151 2 0 743 19 0

643 12 0 16middot6 12 623 10 iJ 325 ui 12 1767 0

121 6 0

00 332 10

19 10 0 0

1120 0

15 0 00 Kll b 1 el7 1 ~ a ove water- ev

3~ i g ~~ ~resent

15 0 0 rJ J 6 0 0

Totals 617 0 0 2 10 13 15596 0

Lower Costerfield 48 0 0 1 ii 0 48 0 0 Redcastle 343 0 0 0 14 2365 257 0 0

Totals li~~3_~_1_0-0-l-_0_15gt1_4_4-2 1_3_05_0__0_

Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth Rushworth

Rushworth

Rushworth Rushworth Whroo Whroo Whroo Wllroo

Whroo Coys Diggings Coys Diggings Coys Diggings

Totals

54 0 0 0 3 2266 29

9 0 0

0 0

1 1 579i 12 16

2 0 0 3 13 12 40 Ii 0 0 5 1335 29 0 0 0 I H17 -5-middot0 0 L3 0

5 19 30

7 13 9 2

5 22 12

6

0 00 7 96 0 0 0 4 deg 0 0 1 12 if 00 0111714 0 0 0 4 0 0middot0 2 16 12 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 6 48 0 0 I 8 3 1527 0 0 0 4 6 00 2 316

298 O 0 I 1 3 1049

I

I I I

(ifixed lots from va rious reefs See II page 30)

I I

[

J

1I

j 1

10 13 0 I 30 16 0 i4 14 0 770

11 2 6 2 2 12

5150 I1 17 O 3 16 0

30 15 0 Al)above water-Ieve

4 2 0 II2 12 025 8 12 100 1 11 0 I

180 0 0 I 2 11 0 I

13 2 0 J -----s

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT -

MARYBOROUGH DIVIllON Bristol Hill James Kay Reade and 90 bull

Western Reef Bristol Hill Viarious pl~ces

883 10 0 97 00

0 3 1655 o 4 5

163 iO 20 8

0 5

306 to 430 feet Various

(public crushiugs) Waldley and party

Leviathan Reef China 352 0 0 o 13 095

1 229 10 0 70 to 80 feet

mans Wilson and Dark Lord Napier Reef Chinashy 61 0 0 0 7 904 221( 0 11~feetl

mans Fisher and party North German Reefmiddot1 39 0 0 0 5 1538 11 0 0 60 feet

Chinamans

totals

1432 19 0 0 6 557 446 8 5 -

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QUANTITY of QUAlnz Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued -

AYclage 1Division and Subdivision Uemnrks relative to the _and Yioldo Gold 1 Total YIeld of Depth at whIch the

Name of Company Quartz Crushedthere Quartz was obtained

per Ton Gold Quartz was 0 btained amp0

oz dwt grtons cwt qr oz dwt gr

AMHERST DIVISION

Croydon 35 12 18 Laura Reef 230 0 0 0 3 237 40 to 80 feet No 1 South Croydon --

Iaura Reef 0 2 493 15 8 18140 0 0 Surface to 30 feet No2 South Croydon 0 1 20-82 9 6 18 40 feetLaura Reef 100 0 0

288 11 12Union Q M C 200 feet Trickey and party

Church Hill Reef 144 0 0 -2 0 192 9 3 12Dundee Beef 0 2 789 60 feet

Perseveranee 77 0 0

0 8 1111 11 15 6 40 feet Sundries Prince of Wales Reef 27 0 0

18 8 0_143 0 0 0 _2 1376Various ----s6~1--~0~1--6i21Totals

-I AVOCA SUBDIVISION

Monte Christo 15 10 0Murdoehs Reef 14 0 0 I 2 342

DUNOLLY ~ND TARNAGULLA DiVISIONS

Queens Birthday o 12 031 2223 0 8 300 to 500 feet Queens Reef

3701 0 0Bealiba Reef 64 18 0Queens Reef 130 feet713 0 0 0 1 1969

Kentish Reef 15 11 11 Kentish Reef 48 0 0 0 6 1l73 60 feet Harvest Home 33 0 0Harvest Home 40 feet30 0 0 1 2 0 Harrop and Lees 26 0 0 40 feet Yorkshire G M bull 0 1 o 1520 0 0

566 4 12 160 to 200 feetWatts Reef Tarnagulla 1474 0 7 1638o 0 1

2928 _75966 1 0 0 9 1963Totals 1~ --- shyINGLEWOOD DIVISION

Jersey Reef Quartz Mining 103 3 20Jersey Reef 182 0 0 011 815 Dalmatia G M 1 3 0

tyres Smugglers Gi~n McI~ I 20 0 0 0 1 36

104 6 20202 0 0 010 794Totals REDBANK SUBDIVISION

TormeyEi Claim 52 16 0Station Reef 22 0 0 2 8 0

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION

Greenock Reef 39 0 070 feet to 170 feet (above 45 0 0 o 17 80 70 to 170 feet water-level)

Adams and party - -9 12 030 0 0 0 6 96 50 feetSpinster Ueef bull IT-Kersleyand party Greenock Reef 17 0 o i 0 10 0 1 8 10 0 15 feet

_ 92 0 0 0 12 991 57 2 0Totals ST ARNAUD NORTH

SUBDIVISION shyWorking Miners 0 7 268 248 18 6 200 to 260 feet Chrysolite Tribute Quartz

New Bendigo 700 0 0 0 2 2331 52 0 0 150 feet level

Mining Co Registered Chrysolite Reef - 350 0 0

300 18 6Totals 1Q50 0 0 0 5 1755

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLElILltiINE D1VISION

Eureka Cardwell Argus United McWalters Central bull Wattle Gully Sebastopol Crushing Utle Nuggety Arehbold and Co

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

English Australian G M Perseverance Burdett-Coutts New Era Blaek Haivk Rowe Bros Rowe nros Duke Oornwall Small and Co Macdonald and Co Meins Freehold G M

Eureka Reef Town Reef Argus Flat-

Burns Reef Wattle Gully Wattle Gully Lady Gully Nuggety Reef bullbullbullI

Public crushings Totals bullbull

Golden Gully Cattles Reef Cattles Ueef Ferrons Reef Cattles Reef Cattles Heef Ferrons Reef bullbull Cattle Reef Cattles Reef German Gully Guilford Hill

Totals

718 0 0 41 0 0

530 0 0 8J 0 0

759 0 0 505 0 0 247 0 0

52 0 0 155 0 0

3091 0 0

862 0 0 200 0 0

20 0 0 6310 0 0

123 0 0 1419 0 0

417 0 0 166 0 0 50 0 0 24 0 0

3560 0 0 i shy

13151 0 01

0 6 1666 o 19 12-3 0 7 65 o 17 12 0 4 424 0 2 983 0 3 162 0 7 203 o 15 4-18

0 6 341

0 4 98 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 3 324 0 1 20-87 0 7 668 0 4 2169 0 4 144 0 2 96 o 10 0 0 1 1839

0 3 904

1

240 7 0 360 feet 40 0 0 62 feet

192 13 12 73 10 0 160 feet

158 10 0 350 feet 60 17 0 45 18 20 8 0 230 feet

117 12 0

949 5 6

190 0 0 320 feet 40 0 0 180 feet

5 0 0 230 feet 989 3 0 100 to 380 feet

11 10 0 150 feet 516 8 0 150 to 200 feet 102 5 0 20 to 80 feet 33 14 0 20 to 200 feet

6 0 0 190 feet 12 0 0 90 feet

314 8 0

2220 8 0

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Average Remarks relative to theDivision and Subdivision Total Yield ofWhere Quartz was obtained I Qnartz Crushed I Yield of Gold Depth at which theand Gold Quartz was obtained amp0per TonName of Company

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tone owt qr loz dwt gr oz dwt gr

HEPBUllN DIVISION

Argus Italian mil 566 0 0 30 to 150 feet New North Cornish

74 11 100 2 1506 n

Wombat Hill 105 0 0 Surface to 35 feet Richardsons

0 3 396 16 12 8 Bismarck Reef 13 0 0 30 feet1 0 0 13 0 0IWomans Gully 23 0 0 10 feet0 4 834 5 0 0Ansonia

60 0 o i 0 3 0Pitchers Reef 25 feet Panham 9 0 0Fuseo

Pitchers Reef 52 0 0 40 feet Bray and party

0 1 1661 4 8 0 Frenchmans Reef 70 feet12 0 0 2 8 00 4 0

King and Co

Willards Reef 60 0 0 70 feet0 4 0 12 0 0 ISt Georges Reef 630 0 0 0 1 038 32 0 0 140 feetUnion Nuggety HeeL 690 0 0 230 0 0 I20 to 280 feet

Keep-it-Dark Companies 0 6 16Ajax Keep-it-Dark

120 0 0 50 0 0 I 100 to 140 feet0 8 8

Totals 2331 0 0 0 3 2044 448 19 18

TARADALE AND KYNETON SUBDIVISION

Taradale 945 0 0 0 1 1562 United Kingdom ~ 78 0 0 Glenlyon 140 I) 0 0 9 1406 Little Wonder 67 2 0

1085 0 0Totals 0 2 1619 145 2 0 ----shy

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Caledonian Mills Parkins Linscotts Nelshy 92 0 0 o 17 0 200 to 300 feet78 4 0 son amp Valkers reefs

Eaglehawk Linscotts 622 0 0 0 12 1744 395 16 0 50 to 270 feetLinscotts Mills and Nuggety reefs

Phwnix Mills Beehive Swipers Gershy 1000 0 0 1 9 1227 1475 11 12 80 to 300 feet man Victoria amp Irish Billys reefs

Great Western Beehive Reef 120 0 0 0 4 0 24 0 0 40 to 80 feet

Totals bullbull 1834 0 0 I 1 1253 197311 12 -~-----

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

United Company Hoddles Creek 180 0 0 0 9 204 88 13 0 35 feet Lyre Bird Hoddles Creek 25 0 0 o 13 0 16 5 0 27 feet Sunday Reef McCraes Hill S 0 0 0 1 12 o 12 0 20 feet Sheppard and party Warburton 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 10 feet Central Mining Hurst and Co

Reef ton MountainB

38 10 1 0

0 0

1 13 24 2 17 20

63 14 2 17

8 2

180 feet Surface

Murray and Hirt Smith and Hirt Hartley and Co

You-You You-You You-You

3 2 7

10 0 0

0 0 0

1 10 2057 I 10 12 o 10 1714

5 8 3 1

1 15

0 0 0

50 feet 30 feet 60 feet

Hopkinson You-You 2 0 0 1 10 0 3 0 0 60 feet Apted and Co Pioneer 6 0 0 o 18 8 5 10 0 ISO feet Progress Panton Hill 218 0 0 0 7 146 82 18 15 120 feet Napoleons March Panton Hill 18 0 0 o 11 1977 1012 20 40 feet Bignell and Co Fourth Hill Warrandyte 7 0 0 3 0 0 i 21 0 0 30 feet

517 0 0Totals o 11 2247 308 10 21

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Wimmera North and South Wales Pioneer and Galatea New St George Scotchmans Moonlight W onga and Birmingham

RAGLAN DIVISION

The Victory Quartz Gold Mining

Stawell reefs

Stawell reefs Stawell reefs Stilwell reefs Stawell reefs Stawell reefs

Totals

Reef near Waterloo

5788 0 0 is 9 0

4624 0 0 3196 0 0 3353 10 0 3580 0 0 2069 0 0

22688 19 0

17 0 0

011 595 1 5 739 o 14 721 o 11 26 0 7 9 0 14 2207 0 2 1853

0 11 319

1 4 224

3255 4 3 200 to 1000 feet 99 5 10 40 to 100 feet

3306 6 8 200 to 1100 feet 1i75 2 0 4S0 to 1200 feet 1236 II 18 100 to 850 feet 2670 IS 0 410 to 1120 feet

286 15 21 24 to 100 feet

12629 18 12

20 10 0

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~iiANfiTYofCltr ARTz0rusliedjirieacnDi visi~ri~andgtSohdi vision during the Qulilter ~ampc-continuedbull _ _ ~~ ~M_~

---1--- DivislonnndSnbdivisioh bull

OlJ 1j and~ I ~Yhere Qua~ was ogttamed __ Na~~O Company______ ______ ___

GIPPSLAND ~C C ~ Q)fElO ~

~ Srifts Creek Fashion Reef

CROOKED RIVE~ DiVISIoN

Robert Moore -- ~ Upper Dargo bullbull Wentworth Parslow and Co

Totals DONNELLYSC~EEK DIVISION

DonnellyS Creek Bismarck United

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION

Long Tunnel f Cohens Reef Cohens Reef Walhalla (Tributers) I

I Totals ABERFELDY SUBDIVISlON Aberpoundeldy Reef -James Rices Mine

----~-

AverageQuartz Crushed Yie1T ONMld

per Ton

tons ewt qr oz dwt gr

MINING DISTRICT u

I 10 0 0 I 12 b

---- shy

20 0 0 0 10144 30 0 600 0

50 0 0 0 7 2016

42 0 0 0 14 4

5034 0 0 1 8 191 0 8 1078997 d 0

06031 0 1 5 1038

650 d 0 0 6 144

Remarks relative to thoTotal Yield Depth at which theof Gold Quartz was obtalnedampc

Oz dwt gr

-

i 16 0 0

10 12 0 Surfaee to 20 feet 9 00

---- shy19 12 0

29 15 0 400 feet

17248 0 0 i 343 to 623 feet 421 4 0

7669 4 )

]96 19 0 150 feet 50 feet

water level

~ laquo

~

QUARTZ TAILINGS MULLOClETC THE follo~in~ infor~ation has beenobtai~edfromReturn~made bythe-Mi~lng Surveyorsand R~gist~a~s

relative to the Quantity OfQUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK ampc Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each -Mining District -during the ~uarter and the GOJD obtained therefrom

I ______

DiviSion and Snbdlvislon I Where Quartz Tailings and I Quartz Tailings Average Ttl y ld ~r ~Remarksielative to the and Mullock ampc were and Mnlloek ampc Yield of Gold 0 ItG I~c Depth at which tbeI

Same of Company i obt~n~~ l I~~~I )ler~on~ 0 MUll~C~amp~1e~ ~btalne~ --- shy tons cwt qr oz dwt gr 0 dwtgr

r bull - JBALLARATMININGDISTRICT

I ICENTRAL DtvIsioN 1

~

11259 19130 Isuriac~ ~~Ofe~~ IBallarat East 2580 00 0Canadian

Mount Clear 1050 00Baker and Co I 0 12308 103 00 Surface to 20middotfeet t

pi 1+Totals ~ q630 0 0 o 1 1562 bull ni

STEIGLITZ SUBl)JVISION I

Minerva Eiaine 220 0 0 o 3 218 34 0 0 20 0 0Wee Speek bullbull Do o 4 96 4 8 0

180 0 0 0 016DUIIlIDott and Co Steiglitz 6 O o

Totals 420 0 0 0 2 274 44 8 0

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEcrrwoRTH DIVISION

Marco Polo Hurdle Flat - 48 0 0 0 2 0

I

4 16 0 Various depths l~_ gt

INDIGO DIVISION

Magentll MIYfntR Reef middot Places Mill Variou~

Totals -

I

-

0632 300

shy

0 0 0 0 I

I 0 o I

0 0

0

I 991 44 13 0 2 0middotmiddot 30 0 0

1444 t1 74 13 0

Surface to 50ifeet ChieH y surfacemiddotfrom

old workings

MrlTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION

Trewalla Bethanga

23 middot0 0 gt)

0 7 417

8

5 0

r

-

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK crushed in each Division and Subdivision ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Where Quart Tailings and Quartz Tallogs I Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and and MuJlock ampc Gold lfuUock ampc were Depth at which the

erolIlld I I~ IP t I obtained Mullock ampc were obtamcltL --middot---------------~-------I-----I-------=-___c_-~-I------~--

Name of Company

tons ewt qr oz dwtgr

SANDHURSTMlNING DISTRICT~~ L I i

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIshyVISION

Alison JoIlins

Lower Costerfield Redcastle

Totals

i

1000 0 150 (l 0

0 0

3 0 2 224

15 0 22 0

0 0

shy

d

~1

250 P 0 0 2 2304 37 0 0

(I

MARYBOROUGH MiNI~G DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE MINI~G DISTRICTv

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION

Crown Ninirod Reef bullbullbull Nuggety NuggetyReef D avies and Co

Donkey Gully A jax Tribute ~ Bolivia Reef

Totals n i - shy

HEPBUBN DIVISION

Francis bullbullbull f bullbull1 Wombat Hill ~ bullbull

ST ANDRlFws D1VISION

middotCentral Mining bull~ Reefton bullbullbull United bullbullbull HoddlesCreek

Totals

1140 0 0 0 1 0-1 57 5 0

- 0 0 0 I 12 5210 0_ 700 680 0 0 0 1 235 37middot 612 510 0 0 0 1l(66middot 36( 16 15

3030 0 0

400 00

Ilt

i 174 0 0 I 25 0 0I

199 0 0

0 1 5l3 183 18 3

0 0 -12 l 10 0 0

t I bull

0 3 15-22 31 12 9 0 0 192 1- 0 0

)

-- 6671-~

Surface Surface

Shllow

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

W onga and Bir~ingham

~ I

Stawell reefs 35 0 0 0 2 13-54 4 9 18 f ~ I ~ i f

1I

middotGIPFStAN]) IMINliNG vDISiFRI(iJT

DONNELLYS CllEEKD~ISIOl

Bismarck ITnited

i

1

~OO j

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PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the Quantity of PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on in the several Divisions -and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Dlvision and Subdivision Remarks relatlve to the I Pyrites I Average I I iWhere Pyr~B an~ Blanketmgs and Blnnketings Yield 01 Gold Tota Y old of and Depth at which the wele obtamed I operated on per Ton GoldName 01 Oompany - PyritesJ ampc were ubtained

I tons cwt qr oz dwt gr I oz dwt gr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION Llanberris 18 0 0 1 16 1466 32 19 0Gumtree Flatbullbullbull

CRESWIOK DIVISION Port Phillip Clunes 471 5 0107 0 o I 4 8 202 New North Clunes 93 16 12Clunes 19 0 o i 4 18 1831

67 5 o 7 I 2382South Clunes 477 9 0Clunes 193 5 0 1 5 7 2145 1042 1012

STEIGLITZ SIJDDIVISION Totals

Enterprise Elaine- 103 0 0 o 18 349 93 9 0 Dummott and Co 5 12 0Steiglitz 22 0 0 0 5 218

Totals 99 1 0 BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND

BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION

125 0 0 o 15 2035

Barrys Reef bullbullbull 14 10 0 4 9 1572 65 0 0Sultan

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEOHWORTH DlVISION Reform Myrtleford 39 0 0 o 15 0 29 5 0

1

YAOKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVlSION

Bigelowe and Clingam WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION E M Gill

Homeward Bound Hills-borough

Various localities

25

50

0

0

0

0

o 15middot 504

o 18 0

19

45

0

0

6

0

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

S

SANDHURST DIVISION 884 16 122 2 2286Pinchgut Gully 412 0 0United Pyrites 244 4 01 9 2311 163 0 0Jackass Flat andhurst amp Eaglehawk PE 281 7 121 11 013Derwent Gully 181 10 0L iddell and Co

1410 8 01 17 69756 10 0Totals HEATHOOTE DIVISION AND ---------shy

WARANGA SOUTH SUB-JDIVISION

33 0 J1 0 033 0 0Alison Lower Costerfield I

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION Bristol Hill

DlJNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS

Queens Birthday

Western Reef Bristol Hill 13 11 0 2 7 208 81 18 12

Bealiba Reef 15 0 0 1 6 16 20 0 0

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr Yeats Castlemaine 129 0 0 1 12 409

- 207 10 0

HEPBURN DIVISION J Williams Ajax

3 7

0 0

0 0

o 16 1 14

16 685

210 12 0

0 0

250 feet 250 feet

Totals 10 0 01 1 9 0 14 10 0

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

_DIVISlUrSTRINGERS 2 9 3-21 42 18 017 9 0Cohens Reef Long Tunnel

12 14 01 9 4648 14 0 Cohens Reef Walhalla - 55 12 02 2 1213- 26 3 0Totals

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

1

Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

I

INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

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QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

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PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

t

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NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

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176

21

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

______ ~i I

DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

25

The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

No 83 D

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

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INDEX

Summary-Gol(l Mining Statistics for the Quarter ended 30th September 1879 Table showing the Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz raised during the Quarter in some of the Deepest Mines

in Victoria with Depth of the deepest Shafts Levels Cross-cuts ampc Estimated Yield of Gold and Quantity of Gold Exported during the Quarter ended aOth September 1879 p 5 Gold received at and issued from the Royal Mint during the quarter ended 30th September 1879 p 5 Summary of Yield of Gold from Quartz Quartz Tailings ampc crushed during the Quarter ended 30th September 1879p~6 Summary of Yield of Gold from Washdirt and Cement washed and crushed during the Quarter ended loth September 1879

p 17 Number and Distribution of Miners on the Goldfields of the Colony 30th September 1879 p 20

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT Ballarat Central Division Mr D Christy Mining Registrar i 14 16 17 20 24 Ballarat Southern Division Mr George Perry Mining Registrar 7 17 19 2024 Buninyong Division Mr Robert MHarvey Mining Snrveyor and Registrar 72025 Smythesdale Division Mr J ohri Iyneh Mining Surveyor and Registrar 720 25 Creswick Division Mr James Stevenson JunMining Registrar bull 7162026 Gordon Subdivision Mr Thomas Cowan Mining Surveyor and Registrar 8 20 26 Steiglitz Subdivision Mr D =gtIurphy Mining Registrar 814 16 19 20 27 Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain South Mr John ] Hansen Mining Registrar 8 162027

S u bdi vision BaHan Subdivision bullbull Mr John ] Hansen Mining Registrar 2027

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT Beechworth Division Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar 8 14 16 20 27 Yackandandah North Subdivision Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar 28 Yackandandah South Subdivision Mr J Smart Mining Hegistrar bullbullbull bullbull 8 16 20 28 Indigo Division Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar 814172028 Buckland Division Mr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar 92128 Wandiligong Subdivision Mr T C Kaighin Mining Hegistrar bull bullbullbull 9162128 Alexandra Subdivision Mr A B Ainsworth Mining tiurveyor and Registrar 9172128 Dry Creek Subdivision Mr J Pemberton Mining Registrar bull 102129 Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar 102129 Woods Point Subdivision Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar 102129 Big River Subdivision Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar 102129 Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar 142129 Mitta Mitta Sonth Subdivision Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar 102129 Jamieson Subdivision Mr W H Edwards Mining Registrar 10 2130

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT Sandhurst Division Mr N G Stephens Mining Registrar 11162130 Kilmore Division Mr James W Osborn Mining Registrar 11 21 31 Heathcote Division and Waranga South Sub- Mr E C Bell ~Iining Registrar 11 15 16 21 31

division Waranga North Subdivision Mr Henry Hicks Mining Registrar bullbullbull 11 192131

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT Maryborough Division Mr P Virtue Jun Mining Registrar 11 16 17192131 MajorCfL Subdivision Mr Virtue Jun Mining Registrar 2232 Amherst Division Mr J Smitb fining Surveyor and Registrar 12 15 17 22 32 Avoca SUbdivision Mr D OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar 12 17 22 32 DunoHy and Tarnagulla Division ~fr W G COllchman Mining Surveyor and Registrar 1215162232 Inglewood Division Mr W H Coffey Mining Registrar bullbull 12 22 33 IVedderburn Division Mr J teach Mining Registrar 2233 Redbank Snbdivision Mr D OIeary Milling Surveyor and Registrar 122232 St Arnaud South Subdivision ~fr W G Couchman fining Surveyor and Registrar 12 152233 St Arnaud North Subdivision Mr IV G Couchman Mining Surveyor lnd Registrar 12 22 33

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT Castlemaine Division Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar 1215 16 22 34 Fryers Creek Division Mr Mark Amos Mining Surveyor and Registrar 12 18 1922 34 Hepburn Division Mr Thos Hale Mining ltegistrar 13151618192234 Taradalc and Kyneton Subdivision Mr S Dorman ltUning Hegistrar 13 18 22 35 Talrangower Division Mr Hobt Nankivell Mining Surveyor and Registrar 13 182235 St Andrews Division Mr Alfred Armstrong Mining Surveyor and Registrar 1315 18 2335 Blue Mountain North Subdivision Mr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar 23 35

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT Ararat Division Mr Thos Foyster Mining Registrar 2336 Pleasant Creek Division Mr H C Bate Mining Surveyor and Registrar 13 15 192336 Barkly Division Mr II C Date Mining Surveyor and Registrar 2336 Raglan Division Mr C W Minchin Mining Registrar bullbull 13 18 23 36

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT Omeo Subdivision Mr J odell Acting il-lining Registrar bullbullbull 142336 Mitchell River Subdivision Mr John Grimes Peers Minillg Surveyor and Registrar 2837 Boggy Creek Subdivision Mr J Fletcher Mining Registrar 2337 Crooked HiverDi vision Mr Ed Harrison Mining Registrar 142337 Jericho Division Mr R J Donaldson iining Registrar 2337 Donnellys Creek Division Mr O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Registrar 14 15 23 37 Stringers Creek Division Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar 14 162337 Aberfeldy Subdivision Mr M Nugent Milling Hegistrar 142338 Russells Creek Division Mr C H William~ Mining Hegistrarbull 2338 Bendoc Subdivision Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar 2338 Tarwin Subdivision Mr H M Murphy Mining Registrar 2338 Traralgon Subdivision Mr C Denis Mining Registrar 233S Appendix-Observations on new Vegetable Fossils of the Auriferous Drifts (continued) Baron Von Mueller 3940

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ESTHfATED YIELD OF GOLD AND QUANTITY OF GOLD EXPORTED

FROM information obtained by the Mining Surveyors and Mining Registrars from Gold Buyers and others

the TOTAL QUANTITIES OF GOID got respectively from ALLUVIUMS and QUARTZ REEFS are as foll0Y-

Alluvial Quartz Total

oz dwt oz dwt oz dwt

Quarter ended 30th September 1879 74536 10 1151l2 4 189648 14

THE QUANTITY OF GOLD the produce of this Colony EXPORTED according to Returns furnished by order of the Honorable the Commissioner of Trade and Customs is as follows shy

oz dwt

Quarter ended 30th September 1879 64131 17

NOTE-In addition to the above gold specie from all sources was exported to the value 01 pound350101

GOLD RECEIVED AT AND ISSUED FRO THE ROYAL UNT

STATEMENT of the Gross Weight of GOJD received at and issued from the Melbourne Branch of the ROYAL

MINT during the Quarter ended 30th September 1879

Royal Mint V DELVES BROUGHTON Melbourne 6th October 1879 Deputy Master

RECEIVED

Gross Weight 01 Rough Gross Weight of Gold Gold Bullion

oz oz

3085739 12153240

ISSUED

Gross Weight of Coin

oz

15589720

Gross Weight of Gold Bullion

oz

589294

STATEMENT of VICTORIAN GOLD received at the Melbourne Branch of the ROYAL MINT during the

Quarter ended 30th September 1879

Gross Weight of Rougll Gold Gross WeIght 01 Gold Bullion

oz oz

1068734 9548664

NQTE-The Mint has no evidence heyond the statement of the depositors that the above is Victorian gold

Royal Mint V DELVES BROUGHTON Melbourne 6th October 1879 Deputy Master

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SUMMARY

GOLD MINING STATISTICS FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30th SEPTElIBER 1879

- shy TABLE SHOWING APPROXIMATELY THE NUMBER OF MINERS EMPLOYED THE MACIIINERY IN USE AND ITS VAlJUE ON THE SEVERAL GOLDFIELDS--~

Quartz Miners Alluvial

Miners

1shyDISTRICT DIVISION

AND

SUBDIVISION ~ bull ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 2 S ~9 ~~__Il_ 6

BAtURAi Central Division 400 210 1675 Southern Division 534 255 140 1 Buninyong Division bullbull ltO 50 300 50 my~hesdale Division 630 190 27

ok Division bullbull 665 170 890 ] Subdivision 6 354 39 ~z Sttbdivision 40 100 vood Division and nl~~ 100 330 ntain Bouth Subdivisl( Subdivision bull bull 12 8

[ 2497 1710 3814 95Totals

DEEOHWORTH 718 I 138 106 shy

ykaiidiidh So~th s~ubdi~j 225 160 - 60 shyIndigo Division bull 3~2 06 82 Buckland Division 82 amp13 180 2 Wundiligong Subdivision 20 30 120 Alanura Subdivision 116 22 68 shyDry Creek Subdivision 21 40 32 3 Benalla 8nbdivision _ _ _Galfneys Oreek Subdivision 44 8 69 _ WOOfPS Point Subdivision bull 5~ 2 113 TI_ n ~_ 0ubdivision 65 _ 28 _

North Subdivision _ _ 200 _ South Subdivision 76 59 40 _

oubdivision 1UO 20 160 shy

Totals bull lW 1978 1278 -5

SANDTIURST Sandhurst Division bullbull 955 180 3750 30

30 12 94KlImare Division bull ~ bull 155 40 390Heathcote Division and WarangeSouth Subdivision

Waranga North Subdivision 87 40 105

IN THE COLONY OF VICTORIA

(Gompiled from Ute Mining Surveyors and Reqistrars RepoTts for tle Quarter ended 30tlt September 1879)

MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN ALLlTVIAL MINING

Steam Engin~s ]

N~~~~r employed i~l Wmdw ~ rti E ~ of mg Pumpmgampc ~ ~ ~ ~ bull ~

lWners a ~ I ~ ~ ~ s ] ~ g rA ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~QS ~S ~ ~S w ~ ~ to t ~ ~~ ~ ~~ g ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ a j ___ --z-- ~iiamp al ~ 1lt Ii is I Il ~ ttl~ I

2 285 34 1910 23 19 15 14 18 18 930 2 30 1 12 3 6 35 1 5 510 10 190 6 19 9 2 17 8

1447 3~ 860 44 14 7 23 10 1125 26 595 27 32 12 800

399 190 610 450 20 15

20

811~ 108 101 -- -00 46 24 -9- 43 15 10

1062 19 210 3 520lJ 30 14

465 -2 10 2500 3 24 21 460 9 249 11 6 9 39 7

1107 _ 4450 48 48 170 280 206 1 10 4 26 130 96 250

_ 121 _ 120 8 167 _ 126 9 33 _ -- 120 8

200 _ 115 - shy280 - 450

5lC2 31 479 12 = 14 15 13655 _9_ 139mshyo

5515 6 115 56 36 6 65 I shy136 - shy585 40 10 30 50 -

232 27 - shy=i 1227 ~ _ 4339 ~~ 6 i 115 __ 123 4 10 66 56 -- _ (5 shyTotals bullbull

MARYBOROUGH Maryborough Division 1535 310 950 10 2835 35 1151 32 1 160 34 12 4 2 36 126

122 9 144 10 1 9 10 10 7Majorca Subdivision bull 110 12 489 4 60 8 1 21 8 26 36 40 20 12Amherst Division 199 180 110 905 2 30 - 100 34 17 4Avoca gubiliviRion bull bull bull bullbull 300 527 18 1480 4 no 42 6 5 4 30Dunolly and Tarnagulln Divisions 34() 200 910 30 Inglcwf)od Division bull 400 240 lfJO i~~ 3 90 xi 15 18 Wedderburn Division bull bullbull 171 26 518 18 6Redbank and St Arnaud South 289 193 29

Subdivisions 435 8 5St Arnaud North Subdivision

7771 51 1611 50 375 6144 --s4 n -3- 92 185Totals ---I---I-------I-I-- ----

OaSmiddotrLEMAiN]~ I ICastlcmlline Division 360 280 354 994 1 20 65 - 128 6 5 Fryers Creek Division 730 600 200 1530 4 78 41 6 15 306 25 2 2 24 Hepburn Division bullbull bullbull 365 290 361 1019 13 3 1 60 75 4() 3 1 TaradaJe and KynetonSubdivision 200 136 110 446 64 11 8 1 6 1 Tarrangower Division 38 161 298 515 15 - 2 17 9 21 St andrews Division bullbull 196 54 142 39~ 10 2 6 9 8 30 10 4 Blue Mountain Nrth Subdivision 73 73 _______ _____1__

Totals 1980 1521 1468 10 172 6 151 28 Btl 562 18 83 11 25 24

ARARAT 215 315 30 560 4 25 11 3 30 12 4 15Ararat Division bull

Pleasant Creek Division sectt~ 2~ 801 3 lmi~ 1~ 1~~ ~ 4 2~ 23 iamp Barkly Division Raglan Division 445 114 11 570 1 125 10 9 10

1323 766 842 3 2934 22 318 8 30 16 67 13 32 95Totals

GIPpsLAND Oooeo Subdivision 408 263 1 8 679 1000 2 22122Mitcbell Ri ver and Boggy Creek 230 30 9 319 49 shy

SuhdiviRlol1sCrookcd Hiver Division 117 33 23 233 240 12 11 Jenaho Diviion 78 56 G 140 90 20 20 Donnellys Oreek Division 40 2 31 73 10 30 - I Stringers Oreek Division bullbull 90 343 433 -Aberfeldy Subdivision 52 10 64 126 30 8 8 ltusRolls Oreek Division 81 4 85 12 _ 1

~~~~r ~~~gft~ ~~ 1~ 10 f~ 2 18 8 3~ g 5 I 10 Trarajgon Subdivision 81 81 ____1_ 16

1327 458 426 2283 3 23 11 6 1507 2 70 67 11 2Totals 137i9 9128 14681 180 37703 237 6298 178 792 214 17294 39 475 210 158 390 II

GRAND TOTALS

MAOHINERY EMPLOYED IN QUARTZ MINING

t 17

60 1334 shy11 200 shy9 200 shy6 100

34 112320 606 shy4 51 shy24middot 511 9

20 shy

sect ~~ ~~ W-0 ~0 ~-

~il01 g~

466 70 90 46

282 118 24

270

i cl

~

1 --

25

--

8_

170 4145 9 I~~

7 115 5 75 shy

4 71 - 44 3 4 06 - 36

10 93 6 111 1 9 130 5 121 6 135 1 80 shyI 10 1 14 shy

-4 64 12 172 1

11 172 S 203 2 3 36 ~ 30 shy6 45 - 20 1 15 1 11 shy4 47 3 74 shy

70 991 42~ ~

211 3940 1- 1260 3 30 2 30

19 374 129

10 180 79

243 4524

25 596 194

7 85 20 5 88 73

39 773 245I l~g ~~ 4 76 22

19 319 134

107 2132 --~ 4

32 538 228 3 19 509 150 4 28 473 210 8 220 SO

30 602 202 11 130 4 62

128 2422 932

4 92 36 1415 346

1 12

44 1519 390

1 11 21 2 16 8

8 137 4 126 3 35 37 3 58 3 6~

17 355 1 126 4 65 1 35

30 i 1~ _-__ shy I-=shy

39 103 12 412 3

ti ~~ ~ ~ 21 ~ ~--

bull Ilt

ii 32 2 4 2 2 2 2 1

13 1 1 1

16

77 14

2

4

3

==_11 9 - shy

180 190 2

7 20

12

190 224

28 21

6 16 4 4

21 12r 1 2

17 22

85 90 - shy

22 27 1 9 15 3 26 38

28 6

91 80

2 3 48 10

51 15

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801 16506 69 -6387 I-SO --9- iii5 43l 11

Sqre 1 distinot Price of Gold-Value Miles of Quartz per DUnefAuriferous Reefs0( actually proved to be

upun IAurife-middotmiddotmiddotmiddotmiddot~

1_-1 I~I_~ pound s d pound s dpound 420 4 2 9

16500 14 19 120400 39 24

410 4 2 6 4 1 0 426

22000 18 12 30000 16~ 13

400 430 104000 13 16 400 430 24131 3~ 19 3 16 0 4 0 0 2800 50 210 3 17 6 4 2 3

60000 4h 31 3 17 6 400

3 IS 0 318 0600

38073-1--1--1-14-~-----34-7

3 IS 0 4 2 637320 47 105 310 9 4169150 15 95 4 0 0 42027118 8 26 318 0 40014125 53] 196 3 16 0 42016000 26 16t 3 16 6 4 1 01915 35 74 315 6 400

10 3 2700 1~ 2

3 16 0 4 0 017330 24 19 3 2 6 410214)0 18 95 3 17 0 317 63488 33 14 31 0 315 017700 36 24 2 10 0 312 62LOO 18 12 314 0 318 316000 9 27

196246 340 ____

451000 2150

26392

24 29 81

325 117 204

3 18 317 3 IS

3 D 0

318 3 3 18 9 400

11055 11 126 310 4 1

490597 772

135859 8995

12845 7259

90360 10m

5k 2 5 1~ 16 g

170 1

30 40

185 7~

400 4 0 0 316 0 400 315 0 319 0 318 9

4 2 0 414 4 2 0 400 420 4 0 0 319 0

6OBB HI 28 315 0 400

44186 10 315 4 0

311109 122i 604

6006474527 32078 1800043246 8183

9 28 82 20 44

15 4

103 37 88 19 76 77 4

3 17 0 317 6 3 18 6 319 0 318 0 317 3 317 0

4 0 0 318 0 400 319 6 4 1 0 400 317 6

164 404

6810 156~~~

28 3~

3 16 313 4 0

400 430 406

7000 5 4 0 4 2 0

1__17_0_7_14_1 __-_1____

I 390 3 16 64680 12 23 317 0 311 644() bull 23 23

312 0 3 18 632280 49~ 352 315 0 317 64300 26 33 310 0 40012160 6h 18 310 0 40046430 7 13 315 0 317 611000 20 6 310 0 3 18 026 35 ]6 3 12 0 315 0 315 0 317 63~g 2~ 1 316 0 319 6 ___~ 1 1

115332 209

)208827 1182

THOS COUCfUIAN SecretarY for Mines Office of Mines Melbourne 15th ctober 1879

No 83

y

NAME OF REEF

Clunce

Cluncs

Sultan nnd others

Reform Jgtlyrtleord

Pride and

Land TlX Bllckeye Tiddlemiddotilcmiddotaddelde FDrlorn Hope Buckeye

Whistlers

Church Hill bullbull

Goldsborough Moliagul

Jersey Greenock

BriStol Chrysolite

Richmond

Cohens Aberfcldy

I

Feet

450 to 950 278 112

100 to 000

240 to 1105

210 to 770

460

100

400 150 220 310 150

100

200

200 to 260 150

140 150 to 200 100 to 380

270 200 300

SO

50

343 to 623

150

Quantity Crushed

Tons

1500 2117 1520

13910

2457~

1623

1063

139

258 19

205 23 64

60 110 900

480

4443 1510 2208 1802

22

144

3701 713

1471 119

63 45

530 1419 6310

100 945

96 177

17

5034

650

o 6

o 1 8 14 9 5 6 1 12 4 1 19 4 3 13 10

o 6 16 o 10 0 041

o 10 0

1 10 1 3 21 o 11 0 o 7 2

8 3

2

012 0 0 1 19 o 7 16 o 1 19 o 18 I o 17 8

o o

7 2 2 23

076 o 7 6 o 3 3 o 8 0 o 1 13 4 4 15 5 10 16

4 2

18 19

o 6

10 0

2 0

o

1 3 2 0 2 6

6 0

2tolll 0 1 6

1 to 3 0 10 0

In to 8

o 10 0 5 0

1 0 8 0 7 0 3 0

12 4

o o

Irregular 5 6bull 3 0 5 0 2 6 2 0

w W80middot

E

NW30 Vertical Dyke

Vertical

E

W4I)

E 86~ W75 W75

N S

W75

W7 W80

E

12 0 I W80 60 Elftln2tt

Dip oftha Shoot

01 Quartz

N S

N

N

Varies

S

NW24

S S N

s s

S35

Nl inS W40

Vertical Vertical

N30

Good Hope

( j~mg Tunnel t Wlllla

NAME OF REEF

Clunes

Clunes

Sultan and othors

Excelsior Wooragee bullbull

Homeward-bound

Victrnin l-iwltlers Harden Gully

Western

Churchill

Jersey Reef

Eaglehawk

c 1 ~ r

285 I

-(

1~O i i

1

t 2225 1940 166 1468 1313 1262 1210

1230 1117 1052 101

middot1 ~ 7QO

VICTORIA WITH STOPPED EfC

1879)

1105

800

180

420

1200 800 854

500

250

277

160 175 410

1120 1070

800 1000

50

1100

723 58~

1090

1105

800

310

600

250

271

1pound0 175 500

1000

2002 1510 1500 1020 1000 1202 1200

700

Inclndlng pyrites

Including pyrites

REMARKS

bottm level with gold visible in the quurtz

It is intended to open oul another level at 900 feet

Not Sinking Not sinking Sinking

shaft

bull The width vaJies frolll 6 inches to 80 feet

Still sinking

Still sioking

sinkinf sl1Klng

Below ndilleycl

THOS COUCHMAN Secretary for Mines

T A BmiddotL E THE DEPTH OF THESHOWING THE YIELD OF GOLD FROM CERlAIN PARCELS OF QUARTZ RAISED DURING lHEQUARTER IN SOME OF THE

DEEPESI SHAFTS WHICE ARE NOW BEING SUNK OR THE SINKING OF WHICH HAS RECENTLY

( Compiled from Returns made by the fffining Surveyors and Registrars for the Quarter ended 30th

Strike of the Reel

(Bearing)

N and S

N 10 W

W15

NSE

NlOmiddot W

Northerly

NIO E

NE

N24Wbull NIlnctSbull N3SW

Ennd W

NlSW Nl W NIS W

NISW

N N

N14W N)O E

N18W

N15 W N16W

~

NW19

N 25 W

NAME OFCOMPANY

Port Phillip

New North Cluncs

Sultan bull

Dale and Co

and Clinga~

J

LonseUs No 180 Grea Extenrled

Carlisle Nodh (j ly and 1as~by

Bristol Hill

Union

J orsoy I1eel Q M

Eaglehawk Union

~ shy~

DISTIUCT DIVISION

AND NAUE O COMPANY SUBDIVISION

BALLAHAT

Central Division SOllthern Division BU1l1llyong L Smythesdale

Crewick Division

and Blue Mountain I Sultan

IHECHWOUTH

Beechworth Yacknndallliall YllCkUIHlatlllah Indigo Divisioll

Buckland Division

SANDIIURST

Sandhurst Division

Kilmore lIethcote ilivislolJ and Varanga

Subdivhdoll WaJmiddotnnga Normiddotth Subdivision

11 AltYpoundlOIWUGH

Dunollyand Taruagulla Divisions

Inglewood Diyisioll

and st Arnaud South SuUdI-

St Arnaud North Su bdi vision bullbull

Wedderburn Division bullbull

CASTLEIIAINE

Cast1~mninc IJivis10n bullbull

Fryer Creek DivisIon

Hephulll Tllra1ale KY1tctonmiddot8ubdlvision

Tarrangowcr Division bullbull

I Jersey neef Q M

Subdivision

ARARAT Ararat Division

Pleasttnt Creek Division

Barklv Raglan DivisIon

Omeo RubdhiSlIin JltclwtJ jUver amp Hoggy Ok SubdivIsions Crooked Uiver lJ J ericllo Di v i~ion J)ouuellys Ureek Diisiou

Stringers Creek Divislon bullbull

Office of Mines Melbourne 15th October 1879

No 83

Reform

Grumbriage and Co

Union

The Victory

I Long Tunnel James Rices Lea8~

Oz dwt gr

o 2 15 o 2 0 o 6 2

o 16

o 7 1

o 19 17

Width 1Dip of the leef

W 3i1 In 6ft

[

W70middot E66

30 30

W80 varilS

~ride

y

hi

1 1

j

6

QUARTZ QUARTZ TAILINGS PYRITES ETO

SUMMARY

THE following information has been obtained relative to the QUANTITY OF QUARTZ QUARTZ TAILINGS

and M ULLOOK Crushed anu PYRITES and BLANKE1IN(S operateu on during the Quarter and the

GOLD obtained therefrom shy

Average Yield of 01 Gold1romQuantity Crushed ~UNING DISTRICTS Gold per Ton Crushed

Quartz tons cwt o~ dwt oz dwt gr

Ballarat 91198 10 0 5 27188 7 23 Beechworth 15774 18 0 11 9257 17 19 Sandhurst 63695 0 0 8 26456 5 12 Maryborough bullbullbull 11639 11 0 8 4294 2 2 CastlemaiTie 8109 0 0 H 6045 17 9 Ararat 22705 19 0 II 12650 8 12 Gippsland 6783 1 3 7931 10 0deg

Totals 217905 18 0 8 93824 9 5

Quartz 1ailings and Mullock 4050 0 0 1 344 1 0Ballarat

0 1 87 14 (1003 0Beechwolth 0 2 87 0 0250 0Sandhurst 0 1 61 2 0702 0Maryborough

3629 0 0 1 226 10 12Castle maine 0 2 4 9 1835 0Ararat

40 0 2 0 4 0 0Gippsland deg 0 1 1381 764 17 69709 0Totals

Pyrites and Blanketings operated on

Ballarat Beechworth

Sandhurst M1tryborough Ctstlemaine Ararat Gippslaml

Totals

350 114 789 28

139

26

15 0

10 11 0

3

1447 19

3 10 1628 1239 10 12 0 16 S68 93 5 6 1 16 356 1443 8 0 1 16 899 51 18 12 1 11 2261 222 0deg 2 2 1213 55 12 ()

2 2 262 3105 14 6

NOlE-This Summary docs not show the total quantities of quartzampc crushed or operated on but only the yield of certnln cruahlngs ampc respecting- which the ~Iining Surveyors and Registrars have been able to obtain information Owing to the circumstance that mnny Of the machine owners are unable to give 01 are precluded from giving information it is impossible to get c-omplete returns froID every district and in considerillg the relative jmportance of each district as regards quartz mining ampc the tables relatipg to machinery should be examined and compared bull

Office of Mines TROS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

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JIINING SURVEYURS AND REGISTRARS RETURNS

QUARTZ

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars lelative to the QUANlITY OF QUARTZ Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GoLD obtained therefrom

Divislon ~nd Subdivision I Average I T IYi Remarks relative toti and WheTe Quartz was obtained Quartz Crushed Yield of Gold ta ld of Depth at which the

Name of Companybull per Ton Gold Quartz was obtained amp0 ~-----------------I--------7--------I-------~-I------------------1-----------------

tons owt qr j oz dwt gr I oz dwtgr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Band and Albion Consols Ballarat West bullbullbull 3269 0 0 0 13 776 2177 15 0 1250 feet Black Hill Ballarat East bullbull 3358 0 0 0 5 1236 925 19 20 Surface to 500 feet Llanberris bullbullbull Ballarat East bullbull 2435 0 0 0 2 1599 324 12 12 300 feet Temperance Little Bendigo 1500 0 0 0 7 2227 594 12 0 430 to 950 feet Serjeants Freehold Endeavor

Ballarat West Specimen Gully

270 603

0 0

0 0

0 11 2295 0 4 421

161 8 125 18

6 0

280 feet 100 feet

Britannia Duchcss

bullbullbull bullbull

Specimen Gully Ballarat East

457 913

0 0

0 0

0 0

2 440 7 1953

49 17 21 356 14 4

165 feet ISO to 300 feet

Parade Ballarat East 230 0 0 0 15 448 174 13 0 400 feet Countess Ballarat East 90 0 0 0 4 1373 20 11 12 70 to 150 feet Canadian Canadian 1925 0 0 0 5 l1S3 52S 15 0 SO to 140 feet Baker and Co bull Mount Clear 1250 0middotmiddot0 0 8 1217 631 14 0 Surface to 100 feet Hanthorn and Co Mount Clear 145 0 0 0 6 082 43 15 0 80 to 150 feet Black Hill Lnited Ballarat East 132 0 0 0 19 1889 129 4 10 400 feet New Dirnocks Little Bendigo 2160 0 o 0 3 266 336 0 0 260 to 860 feet North Dimocks Little Bendigo 708 0 0 I 0 3 823 liS 7 0 300 to 400 feet New Koh-i-noor Ballarat West 190 0 0 Band of Hope Quartz Ballarat West 1104 0 0

Public crushings bull Ballar~~~~d wes~ 2

SOUrUElIN DIVISION

Speedwell Tribute Staffordshire Reef 1090 0 0 Hopewell Tributers Staffordshire Reef 50 0 0 New Kangaroo Kangaroo 2117 0 0 Williams Fancy Kangaroo 900 0 0 Nil Desperandum Kangaroo 511 0 0 New Try Again Kangaroo 400 0 0

Totals 5068 0 0

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Imperial Q M bull Hiscock Reef bull 1520 0 0 Olle-and-All Hiscocks Fairweather 1379 0 0

0 8 757 79 0 0 280 to 300 feet 0 8 558 454 8 18 300 feet

~~19~2 1 1 ~ IVarious depths 11

o 2 751 126 I 10 150 feet 4 feet wide o 6 012 15 0 6 121 feet o 2 004 211 18 0 278 feet 8 feet wide o 3 1028 154 5 18 130 feet 6 feet wide o 2 185middot 70 16 0 120 feet 8 feet wide o I 1269 30 11 12 130 feet 4 feet wide

---- 0 2 964 608 12 22

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0 6 204 462 9 6 1I2 feet 0 Ill 99 103 8 2 80 to 200 feet

1Reefs Tributers Olle-and-All Public crushing~ I Various depths up to

150 feet Llewellyn Magpie Ranges

486 0 0 0 II 1213 279 11 18

180 feet

Totals ~~-+I ~23middot 9 ---1-----shy -------SIYTHESDALE DIVISION

720 0 0 0 1 166 60 17 11 264 feet Bristol Linton Ranges Srnythesdale Consols German Reef SrnythesdaJe

7 10 0 150 feet30 0 o 0 5 0

750 0 0 0 I 1974 68 7 11Totals

CRESWICK DIVISJON

1396 0 0Port Phi Ilip Clunes reefs o 4 1573 32419 12 100 to 990 feet12514 0 0Port Phillip Tributcrs Clunes reefs o 5 159 3170 1 12

New North Clunes Clunes reefs 394 0 0 o 2 962 47 6 12 240 to 1105 feet2063 10 0 725 10 0 South Clunes Clunes reefs New North ClunesTributers Clunes reefs o 7 076

812 2 03119 0 0 o 5 497 70 to 600 feet8486 0 0 2]03 0 0 New Lothair Clunes reefs South Clnlles Tnbuters I Clunes reefs o 4 2295

1340 0 0 o 5 1525 264 to 564 feet United Spring Hill Reef

377 12 0 194 0 0 o 5 162 55 1 0 70 feet

Working Miners Georges Reef 320 0 0 o 3 20middot97 70 feet61 19 15

Totals bullbullbull 29826 10 0 0 5 355 7677 12 3

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Division and SubdiviSion Average Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of and Where Quartz was obtained I Quartz Crushed Yleld of Gold Depth at which theGoldName of Company pel ~ron Quart was obtained ampcbull ---- shy -----_ ------------ shy

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr oz dwt grGORDON SUBDIVISION

Black-horse United Egerton 400 to 600 feet7356 0 0 0 3 239 11469 16 0 The Egerton Limited Egerton 500 to 758 feet10104 0 0 0 6 9833238 3 14 Parkers United bullbull Gordon 60 0 0 0 5 235 17 18 18 ioo feet IUnited Miners ~orth of Gordon 150 0 0 0 3 0 22 10 0 Surface to 20 feet shy

Totals 17670 O 0 0 5 899 4748 8 8 i STEIGLITZ SUBDIvisION

Minerva Elaine I 5 133 23 0 o Ibull i 18 0 0 Elaine 52 0 middot0Watson and party 0 5 1846 15 0 0

Copperwaite and party Elaine o 18 02 0 6 0 9 0 Wee Speck Elaine 0 3 023 0 0 3 8 0 Mortimer and party Elaine o 17 III 24 10 028 0 0 Dunlop and party Elaine 4 4 45721 0 0 88 8 0 Dennis and Co Steiglitz 16middot 0 O I 2 12 18 0 0 Herring Steiglitz 2 14 96 13 12 05 0 0 Morris and Co Steiglitz 4 12 016 O oj 0 5 18 Barrett Steiglitz 1 13 o i4 0 0 0 8 6 Seott and Co New-ehum I 9 343 30 12 021 0 0

1

BLACKWOOD DIVISION un) BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH

Totals

206middot 0 0 1 I 1712 223 13 01

SUBDIVISION Sultan Barrys Reef 1623 0 0 o 19 1798 1602 13 0 270 to 770 feet Moullter Bros BarryS Reef 99 0 0 o 17 ll88 86 12 0 400 feet Big Hill Simmons Reef 1800 0 0 0 1 680 1I5 10 0 50 feet Cornish Simmons Reef 450 0 0 0 1 643 23 10 15 100 feet

rownC Simmons Beef 250 0 0 0 2 2221 36 II 9 150 feet N~orth Star Union Reef 30 0 0 0 8 16 13middot 0 0 110 feet Victoria Yankee Reef 207 0 0 0 5 116 52 5 0 40 to i5 feet N I ~orth Britain da Wrights Reef

Wrights Reef 380 0

167 0 0 0

0 0

2 158 8 2i3

50 10 67 15

4 0

110 feet 280 feet

-----shy--- shy ---- shyTotals 5006 0 0 0 8 489 2053 7 4

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

I I BEECHWORTH DIVISION

Rocky Point 1 460 0 o i omiddot 7 6Homeward Bound Tribute 166 15 0 600 feet Shakspeare Reef Stanley bullbullbull 43 0 0 2middot14 1283 117 5 0 50 feet

shyHurdle Flat 800 0 0 014 225 563 15 0 90 feetWallaby Tribute Marco Polo Hurdle Flat 95 0 0 o 17 1l37 83 0 0 90 feet Sunday Beef Three-mile Creek 39 0 0 2 4 1169 86 15 0 120 feet Reform Myrtleford 1063 0 0 0 6 591 332 0 0 450 feet Nil Desperandum 11yrtleford 196 0 0 0 6 1175 63 12 0 100 feet Carthew and Co Myrtleford 16 0 0 0 4 0 3 4 0

------ shy --- shy ---__- Surfaee

Totals 2712 0 0 o 10 1067 1416 6 0 YACKANDANDAH SOUTH ------ shy ---- shy ----- shy

SUBDIVISION

Bigelowe and Clingam Hillsborough 130 0 0 0 8 8 54 3 6 40 feet Pride and Stringer Baek Creek 130 0 0 1 6 0 169 6 0 100 feet Iron Hand Twists Creek 35 0 0 0 2 14 4 10 8 20 feet Schnackenberg Bros Sandy Creek 60 0 0 4 10 0 270 0 0 60 feet Crowe and Farrell Sandy Creek 22 0 0 o 18 436 20 0 0 36 feet Patrick McClinehy Sandy Creek 6 0 0 II 13 8 70 0 0 30 feet

INDIGO DIVISION

Gallagher and CoshyDe lI1amiel and Co

Totals

Not known Golden Bar Reef

383 0 0 ------- shy

6 0 0 8 0 0

I 10 1687 587 19 14

1shy 9 = 1 II 2 Surfaee to 40 feet 0 16 18 6 14 0 30 to 40 feet

Hellyar and Co Indigo Reef 3 0 0 0 14 13 2 3 15 20 to 28 feet Pomeroy and Co Banners Reef 15 0 0 017 U2 13 2 0 60 feet Williams and Co Not known 20 0 0 o 16 18 16 15 0 Not known Spearing and Co Demon 28 0 0 1 15 171 49 2 0 60 to 80 feet Barras rind Co Caledonian Reef 48 0 0 o 17 235 43 3 0 100 feet Trevillian and Co Indigo Lead Reef 45 0 0 o 18 2134 42 10 0 138 feet Buehan and Co Pass-by Reef 13 0 0 17 18 II07 233 0 0 175 feet Archer and Co Touehstone Reef 12 0 0 I 4 0 14 8 0 Smfaee to 2(1 feet Laurie and Co Golden Bar 8 10 0 1 10 1411 13 0 0 30 to 80 feet Eustace and Co Bradys Hill 13 0 0 o 13 2033 9 0 0 Surface to 20 fcer Bigby and Co WaHaces Gully 10 0 0 2 15 0 27 10 0 80 to I00 f~CL Burton and Co Eureka Heef 25 0 0 o 14 0 17 10 0 60 to 80 feet Various companies Various reefs 19 10 0 o 14 1969 14 9 0 Various depths Hooly and Co We Speek Reef 25 0 0 1 10 0 37 10 0 60 to 100 feet Lord and Co Campbells Reef 24 0 0 4 5 10 102 10 o I 80 to 90 feet Brown and Co Garibalui Heef 12 0 0 o 17 4 10 6 0 60 to 70 flof

----- shy --- shy --- shyTotals 335 0 0 I 19 1247 661 19 3

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crllshed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

AverogeDivision and Subdivision Yield of Gold Quartz Crushedand Where Qnartz was obtained

per TonName 01 Company

BUCllLAD DIVISIOY

J A Wallace Jones and Co Dl-vies and Co

o

o

H arrietville Land Tax Rcef Buck-eye Tiddle-de-addle-de

Gillies and Co The Admiral Douglas and Co Anderson and Co Stephen and Co o

H Curry and Co O Anderson and Co Boss Cockies Shippen and Cobullbullbull King and Co Clemens and Co Radcliffe and Fowler Brady and Co

Bucldand o bull

lt

bullbullbull

Davies and Co Maguire and Co Harp of Erin Co Maguire aud Co Beveridge and Co Coxon and Co Grennep and Wilson Honeychnrch and Co

Frecburgh Oriental Hill Three Stars Tramway Heef Three Stars bullbullbull

Oriental Hill Reliance Reef Lisbon Reef

Maefadzean aud Co J Butler and Go

Bright

Belle of the Ball Stackey Gully

The Hope Q M Running Creek

Happy Valley Reef Root Hog and Die Running Creek

Totals

WANDILIOONO SUBDIVISIO

Prince Arthur Mill Williams and Co Tributers Williams and Co Tributers Davies and Hearn Tri-

buters Birthday Mill

Three public crushings Queen of South Mill

Two small crushings Hit or Miss Mill

Harrietville Oriental Mill

Nine parcels for public Try Again Mill

Hood and Contts Frasers Mill

Myrtle Co London Co James and Co Londonderry bullbull

Prince Arthur Lease Anstralasia Lease Prince A Lease

Various

Buck-eye

Try Again Myrtle Reef London Reef Londonderry

Native Industry Reef

and Co Attridge and Co Native Industry Symes

Old Albion Never 100 Late Mill

Stephens and Co Pride of Kildare Gregory and Co Louisa

Forlorn Hope Vale and Co Wbo Knows

Home ~fill Hazeton E M Gill Home Reef

Stephens Mill Mills and Co Advance Australia H Mitchell HM Reef J Phillips New Years Gift

tons cwt qr

258 0 0 19 0 0

205 0 0

156 0 0

90 0 0 16 0 0

13 0 0 12 0 0 35 0 0

4 0 0 7 0 0

14 0 0 40 0 0

6 0 0 7 0 0

54 0 0 34 0 0

100 0 0 40 0 0 5 0 0

11 0 0 17 0 0 17 0 0

49 10 0 19 0 0

312 0 0

3 0 0

oz dwt gr

1 8 1451 9 5 632 1 12 468

o 10 2154

1 7 1866 1 10 0 5 4 l477 1 11 16 0 7 1028 1 6 6 2 1 1886 2 17 1029 0 4 72 4 6 16 1 7 0

2 2 2311 210 0 o 18 0 o 17 0 1 3 0 1 10 0 1 0 0 4 14 282

o 14 1309 o 15 189

0 1 2331

I 8 0

1543 10 I 3 2124 __ o i

28 0 0 I 13 0 16 0 0 o 17 12 77 0 0 7 0 686

85 0 0 0 9 1552

11 10 0 1 5 0

64 0 0 3 13 105

376 0 0 0 4 963

150 0 0 0 7 48

780 0 0 0 4 16 42 0 0 0 8 228 24 0 0 0 7 12 33 10 0 I 17 211

13 18 0 3 7 2089

24 0 0 1 o 20 28 0 0 I 3 1371 23 0 0 1 19 313 43 0 0 I 1 949

0 4 1294178 0 0

35 0 0 3 I 1714 49 0 0 o 16 1763 99 0 0 0 Ii 109

Remarks relative to the Total Yield of Depth at which theGold Quartz WJ obtained ampc _-----shyoz dwt gr

369 O 0 400 feet 176 0 0 150 feet 330 0 0 220 feet water leve

100 feet 85 0 0 150 feet

125 0 0 60 feet 24 0 0 20 feet 68 0 0 80 feet 19 0 0 Surface 13 0 0 20 feet 5 5 0 40 feet

14 12 12 40 feet 40 4 0 50 feet 8 12 0 35 feet

26 0 0 Surface 9 9 0 25 feet

116 0 0 SO feet 85 0 0 50 feet 90 0 0 120 feet 34 0 0 60 feet

5 15 0 Surface 16 10 0 40 feet 17 0 0 Surface to 10 feet 80 0 0

36 0 0 30 feet 15 0 0 50 feet

30 15 0 300 feet water level 100 feet

4 4 0 Surface

1843 ( 12 ----shy

46 -1 0 Surface to 40 feet 14 0 0 Surface to 40 feet

540 2 0 Surface to 40 feet

41 0 0

14 7 12

235 0 0 150 feet

82 15 0

100 to 300 feet54 0 0

450 feet 17 0 0

182 0 0 300 feet

9 0 0 170 feet 63 10 0 70 feet

43 0 0

middot25 0 0 33 0 0 45 0 0 310 feet 46 0 0 90 feet

40 8 0 120 feet deep

108 0 0 30 feet 41 0 0 50 feet 27 0 0 5 to 60 feet

Eleven small parcels Various 153 0 1

0 9 1082 72 6 0O

1779 12 12 Totals 2332 18 0 o 15 616

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION

The Try Again Paps Reef 2 0 0 1 8 0 2 16 0 Surface to 50 feet Peter Mannoni and party Durham Gully Reef 14 0 0 9 10 0 133 0 0 Snrface to 40 feet Selby and Johnson Candlelight Reef 25 0 0 0 7 48 9 0 0 Surface to 50 feet

--- shy -- shy ----- shy ---- shy -Totalsmiddot 41 0 0 3 10 1522 144 16 0

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QUANTITY of- QUARTZ Crushed in eacK Division and StiMivsioriJduring the QUfiiter Iampc-colltinued

Division and Subdlvlson 1 I Average I l Remark~el~tfveto the t and Quartz Cru~hed i YieldOf Gold TotaGrl~d of

Nameof Company bull per Ton bull

-----------I--to-n-s-cwt--q-10p -o~ Dny CnEElt SUBDIVISION

R G Meade Une~(Quattz Table ipoundiIiabiy Creek 350 0 0 0 23 Claim

-~~ t71~ 1- -~

GAFFNEYS CnEEllSUBshyDIVISION

Al G M Tributers I bullbull Castle reefs 400 00 o 13 1626 Rose of DenmarkTributers Eureka Heef 1 i 60 0 0 o 6 Hi Wallaby Tributers - WallabyReef bull f600 0 0 o 15 1244 Sundry lots ~i ~ bullbull Homeward Bound Reef 1)400 0 0 o 018

~-----shyTotals bullbullbull

WOODS POINT SJJBDIVISIONbullbull

The Revival (Fords Tribute) Sir Tohn Franklin reefs Lady Franklin Tributers bull Johnsons Reef Morning Star Prospectors Mornini Star Heef

Tributers North WaverJy~ i Waverly Reefmiddot Axton and Ryan Morning Star Reef

Totals

BIG RIVEn SUBDIVISION

Londonderry S M bullbullbull Hailway Heef Lucks All Q Mmiddot I WarnersReef i

Totals

MITTA MITTA NORTH SUBshyDIVISION

Happy Go Lucky ~rount Firebrace Prospecting Mill I ~ Cotton Tree Hore and Co -CottOn Tree bullbullbull Coleman Cotton Tree Philip bullbullbull Cotton Tree Gregson Cotton Tree PeadoIiBrothers Cotton Tree Clarke Brtithers bull Qotton Tree Padgett Cotton Tree Peach and party CottonTree n

Sutherland Cotton Tree Christy and Co CottonTree Frazer and Co Cotton Tree Miller and Co Cotton Tree Lee Cotton Tree Doctor and party Cotton Tree Flag Staff Compo Bethariga Trewalla Compo Bethanga

Totals

MITTA JliIITTA Scn)Tii SUB- DIVISIN

I

Enterprise bull Junction Mitta Mitta Christmas Tunction Mitta Mitta Christmas (2nd lot) Junction Mitta Mitta Welcome Tunction Mitta rfitta Yellow Girl Junction Mitta 1l1itta Watson and Scalesmiddot I Granite Fiat ~ Littlejohn and Williams b t Granite Flat A Hodder Granite ]Iat Empress Granite ll1it Empress (No2) Granite Flat Jtichards Bros Granite Flat llose of Kilkenny Granite Flat Pioneer Juncti~n Mitta 11itta

Totals bull

JA~IIESON SUBDrVI8ION

Ventu~e ( Macks Creek Sailor Bill ( tiailor Bill Greek

Totals

2460 0 0 0 6 1436

800q 0 o 8 21)-72

130 0 0 o 2 1366 800 0 0 03 072

1400 00 0 3 924

)t60 0 0 I o 4 4

d 40J 00

273 ll 0

20 ) 0 465 1gt1 0

52 10 0 -----shy

811 12 0

I

354 IPIS 16 14 0

121 4 0

)67 1~0 10 ~ 0

Depth at which the Quartz was obtained ampc

---------shy

About 70 feet T

About 200 feet About middot100 feetmiddot About200 feet

~ i ~~~ j 0

Ahptlt 200 feet f~ r About 100 feet About 70 fcet

Aboutl30 feet y Surface 7

2190 0 0 o 1 511 I 572 12 18

co i

900 0 0 o 4 16 183 0 0 I About 300 feet ~~~172 0 uO 1 21223 c190 0 0 About 250 feet

1072 0 0 0 6 2301 373 9 0 ---- shy _---shy

_ 300-0 0 o 10 192 162 0 0 295 00 o 13144 200 12 0

32- 0 0 o 12 0 19 4 0 16 12 Omiddot27 0 0 o 12 711

4 10 0 o 9 266 2 I 0 I300 1 3 8 3 10 0

6 4 9

0 0 0 0 00

o iI 16 o i 0 o ~5- in 33

3 100 216 0

213 0 6 0 0 o 5 16 I 14 0 9 0 0 o 10 8 13 0

6 0 0 o 15 16 41~ 0 500

22 00 o 9 144 o 19 0

280 20 la 0

11 12

0 0 00 i

o 16 o 7

218 8

8 17 4lt 8

0 0

186 0 O o 10 1853 100 314 83 0 0 o 11 1424 48 2 6

1020 100 0 11 2235 608 15 20 1

12 0 0 o 1 20 I ) 0 12 0 0 o 5 20 3 10 0

700 o 8 2057 3 2 0 50 0 0 o 544 14 10 0

o 14 0 14 o 0 c i 20 Q 9 o I 6 0 F2 12 10 Q o o 3 343 j 2 14 0~ 14 Q o o I 18 0 7 0400

38 0 0 o 9 503 17]00 o 4 1664 11 14 16 50 0 deg 700 Vb2171 8

16 O l o 8 45 6 0 I r J

15 o l 0 o 3~3 deg2 l deg ---- ~ - I ltshy

255 middot0 0 0 6 1538 ------ --__shy

600 b 0 0 3 256 93 14 0 100 feet Fmiddot

480 00 0100 240 O 01 40()feet 1

o ~ o1080 ~ 0

11

Total Yield 01 Reruarksrelatve to the Gold Depth at which the

~_____ Qn~r~~ T~~ Obtp7dbullampe

tons oz dwt gr

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHUllST DIVISION Albert Beehive bullbullbull Bendigo and Melbourne Birds Reef Catherine ReefU C Garden Gully United bull G G Consolidated Great Extended Hustlers

Reef Great Britain bull bullbull Great Southern Hercules and Energetic bull Johnsons Reef G M bullbullbull Lazarus bull Louisa Metropolitan bullbull Marong CrushillgWorksl New-chum and Victoria Newmiddotchum United New Kelson bull Old Tom J V)~ipstick Shenandoah Victoria Conaols Victoria Reef G M _ Vilsons Reef

KILMORE DIYISION~ Crown Doyles GoIden Crown Beaconsfield bullbullbull Red Rover Loudon and party Trezise and party Overlander Doyles Battery robins neef bull

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND VVARANGA SOUTH

SUBDIVISION Alison

Collins

DIVISION Good Luck Nobull1 Hgpe o(Denmar~ ~ Lost Love Taylorand Crowe Cambridge and Warwick West Growlers TaylorBros __ Marsland and Co Holmes Lease King Billy Francis and Co Rowan and Co Hodge Bros Loughlin Jose and Co WnistIers OBrien and Co Telford and Co

Diamond tIilt E~glhawk bullbullbull Kangaroo Flat Kangaroo blat

Eaglehawk Garden Gully Reef Golden Gully bull Hustlers Reef

Golden Square Garden Gully Reef Victoria neef bullbull California Gully

New-chum Gully Eaglehawk GoIde-q SQllare I I yenarong bullbull - Ironbark New-chum Gully KeIson Reef bull

Newmiddotchm Ililcf Victoria R~ef

Totals 1

Doyles ned Doyles Reef GCrown Reef i Magenta Reef Upper Reedy London Reef bullbull Russells Reef Overlander Reef I Various places Sunday Creek

529 00 o 6 1279 5360 0 0 o 91855

389 00 o 6 283 o B 206I 1389 OJii

3196 0 4441l0

I 1078 O bull 258 0 bull 1170 0

3783 0 3994 0 6980 0 4362 0 1789 0 141~ 0

237 0 il189 0 1773 0 1927 0

1 240 0

_ 2i32 0 r 2554 0 1

VictoriaRlcf 4330 _0 Marong 305 0

i------ii

o 5 1825 0 0

1 1 056 0 o 4 1206 0 o 8 947

o 0 5 372 o 0 61l47 o 0 5 1202 o 0 4 912 o 0 9 1372 o 0 6 1321 o 0 4 2332 o 0 5 966 o 0 8 ijs 60S 94deg 0 6 163i 0 0bull 186l

o 0 4 2219o 0 2 132 o 0 8 389 o 0 7 2289

280 0 0 4 0 0 190 0 0 1 15 0

13 0middot0 1 10 0 --20 0 0 0 15 0

15 oj 0 0 10 0 5 0 0 1 0 0

12 0 0 2 14 0 16 0 0 0 8 0

0160 0 0 5 0 6 0 Oimiddotl 0 0

)

dii5 23 2619 4 0

119 0 0 56111 12 920 11 i

4670 8 0 242 14 I

1083 15 0

507 16 deg 1225 7 0 1098 11 0 1528 14 0

2~~ i~ g 362 9 0

6314 12 2151 2 0 743 19 0

643 12 0 16middot6 12 623 10 iJ 325 ui 12 1767 0

121 6 0

00 332 10

19 10 0 0

1120 0

15 0 00 Kll b 1 el7 1 ~ a ove water- ev

3~ i g ~~ ~resent

15 0 0 rJ J 6 0 0

Totals 617 0 0 2 10 13 15596 0

Lower Costerfield 48 0 0 1 ii 0 48 0 0 Redcastle 343 0 0 0 14 2365 257 0 0

Totals li~~3_~_1_0-0-l-_0_15gt1_4_4-2 1_3_05_0__0_

Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth Rushworth

Rushworth

Rushworth Rushworth Whroo Whroo Whroo Wllroo

Whroo Coys Diggings Coys Diggings Coys Diggings

Totals

54 0 0 0 3 2266 29

9 0 0

0 0

1 1 579i 12 16

2 0 0 3 13 12 40 Ii 0 0 5 1335 29 0 0 0 I H17 -5-middot0 0 L3 0

5 19 30

7 13 9 2

5 22 12

6

0 00 7 96 0 0 0 4 deg 0 0 1 12 if 00 0111714 0 0 0 4 0 0middot0 2 16 12 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 6 48 0 0 I 8 3 1527 0 0 0 4 6 00 2 316

298 O 0 I 1 3 1049

I

I I I

(ifixed lots from va rious reefs See II page 30)

I I

[

J

1I

j 1

10 13 0 I 30 16 0 i4 14 0 770

11 2 6 2 2 12

5150 I1 17 O 3 16 0

30 15 0 Al)above water-Ieve

4 2 0 II2 12 025 8 12 100 1 11 0 I

180 0 0 I 2 11 0 I

13 2 0 J -----s

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT -

MARYBOROUGH DIVIllON Bristol Hill James Kay Reade and 90 bull

Western Reef Bristol Hill Viarious pl~ces

883 10 0 97 00

0 3 1655 o 4 5

163 iO 20 8

0 5

306 to 430 feet Various

(public crushiugs) Waldley and party

Leviathan Reef China 352 0 0 o 13 095

1 229 10 0 70 to 80 feet

mans Wilson and Dark Lord Napier Reef Chinashy 61 0 0 0 7 904 221( 0 11~feetl

mans Fisher and party North German Reefmiddot1 39 0 0 0 5 1538 11 0 0 60 feet

Chinamans

totals

1432 19 0 0 6 557 446 8 5 -

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QUANTITY of QUAlnz Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued -

AYclage 1Division and Subdivision Uemnrks relative to the _and Yioldo Gold 1 Total YIeld of Depth at whIch the

Name of Company Quartz Crushedthere Quartz was obtained

per Ton Gold Quartz was 0 btained amp0

oz dwt grtons cwt qr oz dwt gr

AMHERST DIVISION

Croydon 35 12 18 Laura Reef 230 0 0 0 3 237 40 to 80 feet No 1 South Croydon --

Iaura Reef 0 2 493 15 8 18140 0 0 Surface to 30 feet No2 South Croydon 0 1 20-82 9 6 18 40 feetLaura Reef 100 0 0

288 11 12Union Q M C 200 feet Trickey and party

Church Hill Reef 144 0 0 -2 0 192 9 3 12Dundee Beef 0 2 789 60 feet

Perseveranee 77 0 0

0 8 1111 11 15 6 40 feet Sundries Prince of Wales Reef 27 0 0

18 8 0_143 0 0 0 _2 1376Various ----s6~1--~0~1--6i21Totals

-I AVOCA SUBDIVISION

Monte Christo 15 10 0Murdoehs Reef 14 0 0 I 2 342

DUNOLLY ~ND TARNAGULLA DiVISIONS

Queens Birthday o 12 031 2223 0 8 300 to 500 feet Queens Reef

3701 0 0Bealiba Reef 64 18 0Queens Reef 130 feet713 0 0 0 1 1969

Kentish Reef 15 11 11 Kentish Reef 48 0 0 0 6 1l73 60 feet Harvest Home 33 0 0Harvest Home 40 feet30 0 0 1 2 0 Harrop and Lees 26 0 0 40 feet Yorkshire G M bull 0 1 o 1520 0 0

566 4 12 160 to 200 feetWatts Reef Tarnagulla 1474 0 7 1638o 0 1

2928 _75966 1 0 0 9 1963Totals 1~ --- shyINGLEWOOD DIVISION

Jersey Reef Quartz Mining 103 3 20Jersey Reef 182 0 0 011 815 Dalmatia G M 1 3 0

tyres Smugglers Gi~n McI~ I 20 0 0 0 1 36

104 6 20202 0 0 010 794Totals REDBANK SUBDIVISION

TormeyEi Claim 52 16 0Station Reef 22 0 0 2 8 0

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION

Greenock Reef 39 0 070 feet to 170 feet (above 45 0 0 o 17 80 70 to 170 feet water-level)

Adams and party - -9 12 030 0 0 0 6 96 50 feetSpinster Ueef bull IT-Kersleyand party Greenock Reef 17 0 o i 0 10 0 1 8 10 0 15 feet

_ 92 0 0 0 12 991 57 2 0Totals ST ARNAUD NORTH

SUBDIVISION shyWorking Miners 0 7 268 248 18 6 200 to 260 feet Chrysolite Tribute Quartz

New Bendigo 700 0 0 0 2 2331 52 0 0 150 feet level

Mining Co Registered Chrysolite Reef - 350 0 0

300 18 6Totals 1Q50 0 0 0 5 1755

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLElILltiINE D1VISION

Eureka Cardwell Argus United McWalters Central bull Wattle Gully Sebastopol Crushing Utle Nuggety Arehbold and Co

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

English Australian G M Perseverance Burdett-Coutts New Era Blaek Haivk Rowe Bros Rowe nros Duke Oornwall Small and Co Macdonald and Co Meins Freehold G M

Eureka Reef Town Reef Argus Flat-

Burns Reef Wattle Gully Wattle Gully Lady Gully Nuggety Reef bullbullbullI

Public crushings Totals bullbull

Golden Gully Cattles Reef Cattles Ueef Ferrons Reef Cattles Reef Cattles Heef Ferrons Reef bullbull Cattle Reef Cattles Reef German Gully Guilford Hill

Totals

718 0 0 41 0 0

530 0 0 8J 0 0

759 0 0 505 0 0 247 0 0

52 0 0 155 0 0

3091 0 0

862 0 0 200 0 0

20 0 0 6310 0 0

123 0 0 1419 0 0

417 0 0 166 0 0 50 0 0 24 0 0

3560 0 0 i shy

13151 0 01

0 6 1666 o 19 12-3 0 7 65 o 17 12 0 4 424 0 2 983 0 3 162 0 7 203 o 15 4-18

0 6 341

0 4 98 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 3 324 0 1 20-87 0 7 668 0 4 2169 0 4 144 0 2 96 o 10 0 0 1 1839

0 3 904

1

240 7 0 360 feet 40 0 0 62 feet

192 13 12 73 10 0 160 feet

158 10 0 350 feet 60 17 0 45 18 20 8 0 230 feet

117 12 0

949 5 6

190 0 0 320 feet 40 0 0 180 feet

5 0 0 230 feet 989 3 0 100 to 380 feet

11 10 0 150 feet 516 8 0 150 to 200 feet 102 5 0 20 to 80 feet 33 14 0 20 to 200 feet

6 0 0 190 feet 12 0 0 90 feet

314 8 0

2220 8 0

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Average Remarks relative to theDivision and Subdivision Total Yield ofWhere Quartz was obtained I Qnartz Crushed I Yield of Gold Depth at which theand Gold Quartz was obtained amp0per TonName of Company

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tone owt qr loz dwt gr oz dwt gr

HEPBUllN DIVISION

Argus Italian mil 566 0 0 30 to 150 feet New North Cornish

74 11 100 2 1506 n

Wombat Hill 105 0 0 Surface to 35 feet Richardsons

0 3 396 16 12 8 Bismarck Reef 13 0 0 30 feet1 0 0 13 0 0IWomans Gully 23 0 0 10 feet0 4 834 5 0 0Ansonia

60 0 o i 0 3 0Pitchers Reef 25 feet Panham 9 0 0Fuseo

Pitchers Reef 52 0 0 40 feet Bray and party

0 1 1661 4 8 0 Frenchmans Reef 70 feet12 0 0 2 8 00 4 0

King and Co

Willards Reef 60 0 0 70 feet0 4 0 12 0 0 ISt Georges Reef 630 0 0 0 1 038 32 0 0 140 feetUnion Nuggety HeeL 690 0 0 230 0 0 I20 to 280 feet

Keep-it-Dark Companies 0 6 16Ajax Keep-it-Dark

120 0 0 50 0 0 I 100 to 140 feet0 8 8

Totals 2331 0 0 0 3 2044 448 19 18

TARADALE AND KYNETON SUBDIVISION

Taradale 945 0 0 0 1 1562 United Kingdom ~ 78 0 0 Glenlyon 140 I) 0 0 9 1406 Little Wonder 67 2 0

1085 0 0Totals 0 2 1619 145 2 0 ----shy

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Caledonian Mills Parkins Linscotts Nelshy 92 0 0 o 17 0 200 to 300 feet78 4 0 son amp Valkers reefs

Eaglehawk Linscotts 622 0 0 0 12 1744 395 16 0 50 to 270 feetLinscotts Mills and Nuggety reefs

Phwnix Mills Beehive Swipers Gershy 1000 0 0 1 9 1227 1475 11 12 80 to 300 feet man Victoria amp Irish Billys reefs

Great Western Beehive Reef 120 0 0 0 4 0 24 0 0 40 to 80 feet

Totals bullbull 1834 0 0 I 1 1253 197311 12 -~-----

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

United Company Hoddles Creek 180 0 0 0 9 204 88 13 0 35 feet Lyre Bird Hoddles Creek 25 0 0 o 13 0 16 5 0 27 feet Sunday Reef McCraes Hill S 0 0 0 1 12 o 12 0 20 feet Sheppard and party Warburton 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 10 feet Central Mining Hurst and Co

Reef ton MountainB

38 10 1 0

0 0

1 13 24 2 17 20

63 14 2 17

8 2

180 feet Surface

Murray and Hirt Smith and Hirt Hartley and Co

You-You You-You You-You

3 2 7

10 0 0

0 0 0

1 10 2057 I 10 12 o 10 1714

5 8 3 1

1 15

0 0 0

50 feet 30 feet 60 feet

Hopkinson You-You 2 0 0 1 10 0 3 0 0 60 feet Apted and Co Pioneer 6 0 0 o 18 8 5 10 0 ISO feet Progress Panton Hill 218 0 0 0 7 146 82 18 15 120 feet Napoleons March Panton Hill 18 0 0 o 11 1977 1012 20 40 feet Bignell and Co Fourth Hill Warrandyte 7 0 0 3 0 0 i 21 0 0 30 feet

517 0 0Totals o 11 2247 308 10 21

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Wimmera North and South Wales Pioneer and Galatea New St George Scotchmans Moonlight W onga and Birmingham

RAGLAN DIVISION

The Victory Quartz Gold Mining

Stawell reefs

Stawell reefs Stawell reefs Stilwell reefs Stawell reefs Stawell reefs

Totals

Reef near Waterloo

5788 0 0 is 9 0

4624 0 0 3196 0 0 3353 10 0 3580 0 0 2069 0 0

22688 19 0

17 0 0

011 595 1 5 739 o 14 721 o 11 26 0 7 9 0 14 2207 0 2 1853

0 11 319

1 4 224

3255 4 3 200 to 1000 feet 99 5 10 40 to 100 feet

3306 6 8 200 to 1100 feet 1i75 2 0 4S0 to 1200 feet 1236 II 18 100 to 850 feet 2670 IS 0 410 to 1120 feet

286 15 21 24 to 100 feet

12629 18 12

20 10 0

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~iiANfiTYofCltr ARTz0rusliedjirieacnDi visi~ri~andgtSohdi vision during the Qulilter ~ampc-continuedbull _ _ ~~ ~M_~

---1--- DivislonnndSnbdivisioh bull

OlJ 1j and~ I ~Yhere Qua~ was ogttamed __ Na~~O Company______ ______ ___

GIPPSLAND ~C C ~ Q)fElO ~

~ Srifts Creek Fashion Reef

CROOKED RIVE~ DiVISIoN

Robert Moore -- ~ Upper Dargo bullbull Wentworth Parslow and Co

Totals DONNELLYSC~EEK DIVISION

DonnellyS Creek Bismarck United

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION

Long Tunnel f Cohens Reef Cohens Reef Walhalla (Tributers) I

I Totals ABERFELDY SUBDIVISlON Aberpoundeldy Reef -James Rices Mine

----~-

AverageQuartz Crushed Yie1T ONMld

per Ton

tons ewt qr oz dwt gr

MINING DISTRICT u

I 10 0 0 I 12 b

---- shy

20 0 0 0 10144 30 0 600 0

50 0 0 0 7 2016

42 0 0 0 14 4

5034 0 0 1 8 191 0 8 1078997 d 0

06031 0 1 5 1038

650 d 0 0 6 144

Remarks relative to thoTotal Yield Depth at which theof Gold Quartz was obtalnedampc

Oz dwt gr

-

i 16 0 0

10 12 0 Surfaee to 20 feet 9 00

---- shy19 12 0

29 15 0 400 feet

17248 0 0 i 343 to 623 feet 421 4 0

7669 4 )

]96 19 0 150 feet 50 feet

water level

~ laquo

~

QUARTZ TAILINGS MULLOClETC THE follo~in~ infor~ation has beenobtai~edfromReturn~made bythe-Mi~lng Surveyorsand R~gist~a~s

relative to the Quantity OfQUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK ampc Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each -Mining District -during the ~uarter and the GOJD obtained therefrom

I ______

DiviSion and Snbdlvislon I Where Quartz Tailings and I Quartz Tailings Average Ttl y ld ~r ~Remarksielative to the and Mullock ampc were and Mnlloek ampc Yield of Gold 0 ItG I~c Depth at which tbeI

Same of Company i obt~n~~ l I~~~I )ler~on~ 0 MUll~C~amp~1e~ ~btalne~ --- shy tons cwt qr oz dwt gr 0 dwtgr

r bull - JBALLARATMININGDISTRICT

I ICENTRAL DtvIsioN 1

~

11259 19130 Isuriac~ ~~Ofe~~ IBallarat East 2580 00 0Canadian

Mount Clear 1050 00Baker and Co I 0 12308 103 00 Surface to 20middotfeet t

pi 1+Totals ~ q630 0 0 o 1 1562 bull ni

STEIGLITZ SUBl)JVISION I

Minerva Eiaine 220 0 0 o 3 218 34 0 0 20 0 0Wee Speek bullbull Do o 4 96 4 8 0

180 0 0 0 016DUIIlIDott and Co Steiglitz 6 O o

Totals 420 0 0 0 2 274 44 8 0

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEcrrwoRTH DIVISION

Marco Polo Hurdle Flat - 48 0 0 0 2 0

I

4 16 0 Various depths l~_ gt

INDIGO DIVISION

Magentll MIYfntR Reef middot Places Mill Variou~

Totals -

I

-

0632 300

shy

0 0 0 0 I

I 0 o I

0 0

0

I 991 44 13 0 2 0middotmiddot 30 0 0

1444 t1 74 13 0

Surface to 50ifeet ChieH y surfacemiddotfrom

old workings

MrlTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION

Trewalla Bethanga

23 middot0 0 gt)

0 7 417

8

5 0

r

-

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK crushed in each Division and Subdivision ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Where Quart Tailings and Quartz Tallogs I Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and and MuJlock ampc Gold lfuUock ampc were Depth at which the

erolIlld I I~ IP t I obtained Mullock ampc were obtamcltL --middot---------------~-------I-----I-------=-___c_-~-I------~--

Name of Company

tons ewt qr oz dwtgr

SANDHURSTMlNING DISTRICT~~ L I i

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIshyVISION

Alison JoIlins

Lower Costerfield Redcastle

Totals

i

1000 0 150 (l 0

0 0

3 0 2 224

15 0 22 0

0 0

shy

d

~1

250 P 0 0 2 2304 37 0 0

(I

MARYBOROUGH MiNI~G DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE MINI~G DISTRICTv

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION

Crown Ninirod Reef bullbullbull Nuggety NuggetyReef D avies and Co

Donkey Gully A jax Tribute ~ Bolivia Reef

Totals n i - shy

HEPBUBN DIVISION

Francis bullbullbull f bullbull1 Wombat Hill ~ bullbull

ST ANDRlFws D1VISION

middotCentral Mining bull~ Reefton bullbullbull United bullbullbull HoddlesCreek

Totals

1140 0 0 0 1 0-1 57 5 0

- 0 0 0 I 12 5210 0_ 700 680 0 0 0 1 235 37middot 612 510 0 0 0 1l(66middot 36( 16 15

3030 0 0

400 00

Ilt

i 174 0 0 I 25 0 0I

199 0 0

0 1 5l3 183 18 3

0 0 -12 l 10 0 0

t I bull

0 3 15-22 31 12 9 0 0 192 1- 0 0

)

-- 6671-~

Surface Surface

Shllow

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

W onga and Bir~ingham

~ I

Stawell reefs 35 0 0 0 2 13-54 4 9 18 f ~ I ~ i f

1I

middotGIPFStAN]) IMINliNG vDISiFRI(iJT

DONNELLYS CllEEKD~ISIOl

Bismarck ITnited

i

1

~OO j

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PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the Quantity of PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on in the several Divisions -and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Dlvision and Subdivision Remarks relatlve to the I Pyrites I Average I I iWhere Pyr~B an~ Blanketmgs and Blnnketings Yield 01 Gold Tota Y old of and Depth at which the wele obtamed I operated on per Ton GoldName 01 Oompany - PyritesJ ampc were ubtained

I tons cwt qr oz dwt gr I oz dwt gr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION Llanberris 18 0 0 1 16 1466 32 19 0Gumtree Flatbullbullbull

CRESWIOK DIVISION Port Phillip Clunes 471 5 0107 0 o I 4 8 202 New North Clunes 93 16 12Clunes 19 0 o i 4 18 1831

67 5 o 7 I 2382South Clunes 477 9 0Clunes 193 5 0 1 5 7 2145 1042 1012

STEIGLITZ SIJDDIVISION Totals

Enterprise Elaine- 103 0 0 o 18 349 93 9 0 Dummott and Co 5 12 0Steiglitz 22 0 0 0 5 218

Totals 99 1 0 BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND

BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION

125 0 0 o 15 2035

Barrys Reef bullbullbull 14 10 0 4 9 1572 65 0 0Sultan

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEOHWORTH DlVISION Reform Myrtleford 39 0 0 o 15 0 29 5 0

1

YAOKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVlSION

Bigelowe and Clingam WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION E M Gill

Homeward Bound Hills-borough

Various localities

25

50

0

0

0

0

o 15middot 504

o 18 0

19

45

0

0

6

0

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

S

SANDHURST DIVISION 884 16 122 2 2286Pinchgut Gully 412 0 0United Pyrites 244 4 01 9 2311 163 0 0Jackass Flat andhurst amp Eaglehawk PE 281 7 121 11 013Derwent Gully 181 10 0L iddell and Co

1410 8 01 17 69756 10 0Totals HEATHOOTE DIVISION AND ---------shy

WARANGA SOUTH SUB-JDIVISION

33 0 J1 0 033 0 0Alison Lower Costerfield I

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION Bristol Hill

DlJNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS

Queens Birthday

Western Reef Bristol Hill 13 11 0 2 7 208 81 18 12

Bealiba Reef 15 0 0 1 6 16 20 0 0

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr Yeats Castlemaine 129 0 0 1 12 409

- 207 10 0

HEPBURN DIVISION J Williams Ajax

3 7

0 0

0 0

o 16 1 14

16 685

210 12 0

0 0

250 feet 250 feet

Totals 10 0 01 1 9 0 14 10 0

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

_DIVISlUrSTRINGERS 2 9 3-21 42 18 017 9 0Cohens Reef Long Tunnel

12 14 01 9 4648 14 0 Cohens Reef Walhalla - 55 12 02 2 1213- 26 3 0Totals

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

1

Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

I

INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

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QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

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PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

t

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NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

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176

21

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

______ ~i I

DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

25

The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

No 83 D

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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Page 4: MINING SURVEYORS &REGISTRARS.€¦ · Table showing the Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz raised during the Quarter in some of the Deepest Mines in Victoria; with Depth

ESTHfATED YIELD OF GOLD AND QUANTITY OF GOLD EXPORTED

FROM information obtained by the Mining Surveyors and Mining Registrars from Gold Buyers and others

the TOTAL QUANTITIES OF GOID got respectively from ALLUVIUMS and QUARTZ REEFS are as foll0Y-

Alluvial Quartz Total

oz dwt oz dwt oz dwt

Quarter ended 30th September 1879 74536 10 1151l2 4 189648 14

THE QUANTITY OF GOLD the produce of this Colony EXPORTED according to Returns furnished by order of the Honorable the Commissioner of Trade and Customs is as follows shy

oz dwt

Quarter ended 30th September 1879 64131 17

NOTE-In addition to the above gold specie from all sources was exported to the value 01 pound350101

GOLD RECEIVED AT AND ISSUED FRO THE ROYAL UNT

STATEMENT of the Gross Weight of GOJD received at and issued from the Melbourne Branch of the ROYAL

MINT during the Quarter ended 30th September 1879

Royal Mint V DELVES BROUGHTON Melbourne 6th October 1879 Deputy Master

RECEIVED

Gross Weight 01 Rough Gross Weight of Gold Gold Bullion

oz oz

3085739 12153240

ISSUED

Gross Weight of Coin

oz

15589720

Gross Weight of Gold Bullion

oz

589294

STATEMENT of VICTORIAN GOLD received at the Melbourne Branch of the ROYAL MINT during the

Quarter ended 30th September 1879

Gross Weight of Rougll Gold Gross WeIght 01 Gold Bullion

oz oz

1068734 9548664

NQTE-The Mint has no evidence heyond the statement of the depositors that the above is Victorian gold

Royal Mint V DELVES BROUGHTON Melbourne 6th October 1879 Deputy Master

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SUMMARY

GOLD MINING STATISTICS FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30th SEPTElIBER 1879

- shy TABLE SHOWING APPROXIMATELY THE NUMBER OF MINERS EMPLOYED THE MACIIINERY IN USE AND ITS VAlJUE ON THE SEVERAL GOLDFIELDS--~

Quartz Miners Alluvial

Miners

1shyDISTRICT DIVISION

AND

SUBDIVISION ~ bull ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 2 S ~9 ~~__Il_ 6

BAtURAi Central Division 400 210 1675 Southern Division 534 255 140 1 Buninyong Division bullbull ltO 50 300 50 my~hesdale Division 630 190 27

ok Division bullbull 665 170 890 ] Subdivision 6 354 39 ~z Sttbdivision 40 100 vood Division and nl~~ 100 330 ntain Bouth Subdivisl( Subdivision bull bull 12 8

[ 2497 1710 3814 95Totals

DEEOHWORTH 718 I 138 106 shy

ykaiidiidh So~th s~ubdi~j 225 160 - 60 shyIndigo Division bull 3~2 06 82 Buckland Division 82 amp13 180 2 Wundiligong Subdivision 20 30 120 Alanura Subdivision 116 22 68 shyDry Creek Subdivision 21 40 32 3 Benalla 8nbdivision _ _ _Galfneys Oreek Subdivision 44 8 69 _ WOOfPS Point Subdivision bull 5~ 2 113 TI_ n ~_ 0ubdivision 65 _ 28 _

North Subdivision _ _ 200 _ South Subdivision 76 59 40 _

oubdivision 1UO 20 160 shy

Totals bull lW 1978 1278 -5

SANDTIURST Sandhurst Division bullbull 955 180 3750 30

30 12 94KlImare Division bull ~ bull 155 40 390Heathcote Division and WarangeSouth Subdivision

Waranga North Subdivision 87 40 105

IN THE COLONY OF VICTORIA

(Gompiled from Ute Mining Surveyors and Reqistrars RepoTts for tle Quarter ended 30tlt September 1879)

MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN ALLlTVIAL MINING

Steam Engin~s ]

N~~~~r employed i~l Wmdw ~ rti E ~ of mg Pumpmgampc ~ ~ ~ ~ bull ~

lWners a ~ I ~ ~ ~ s ] ~ g rA ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~QS ~S ~ ~S w ~ ~ to t ~ ~~ ~ ~~ g ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ a j ___ --z-- ~iiamp al ~ 1lt Ii is I Il ~ ttl~ I

2 285 34 1910 23 19 15 14 18 18 930 2 30 1 12 3 6 35 1 5 510 10 190 6 19 9 2 17 8

1447 3~ 860 44 14 7 23 10 1125 26 595 27 32 12 800

399 190 610 450 20 15

20

811~ 108 101 -- -00 46 24 -9- 43 15 10

1062 19 210 3 520lJ 30 14

465 -2 10 2500 3 24 21 460 9 249 11 6 9 39 7

1107 _ 4450 48 48 170 280 206 1 10 4 26 130 96 250

_ 121 _ 120 8 167 _ 126 9 33 _ -- 120 8

200 _ 115 - shy280 - 450

5lC2 31 479 12 = 14 15 13655 _9_ 139mshyo

5515 6 115 56 36 6 65 I shy136 - shy585 40 10 30 50 -

232 27 - shy=i 1227 ~ _ 4339 ~~ 6 i 115 __ 123 4 10 66 56 -- _ (5 shyTotals bullbull

MARYBOROUGH Maryborough Division 1535 310 950 10 2835 35 1151 32 1 160 34 12 4 2 36 126

122 9 144 10 1 9 10 10 7Majorca Subdivision bull 110 12 489 4 60 8 1 21 8 26 36 40 20 12Amherst Division 199 180 110 905 2 30 - 100 34 17 4Avoca gubiliviRion bull bull bull bullbull 300 527 18 1480 4 no 42 6 5 4 30Dunolly and Tarnagulln Divisions 34() 200 910 30 Inglcwf)od Division bull 400 240 lfJO i~~ 3 90 xi 15 18 Wedderburn Division bull bullbull 171 26 518 18 6Redbank and St Arnaud South 289 193 29

Subdivisions 435 8 5St Arnaud North Subdivision

7771 51 1611 50 375 6144 --s4 n -3- 92 185Totals ---I---I-------I-I-- ----

OaSmiddotrLEMAiN]~ I ICastlcmlline Division 360 280 354 994 1 20 65 - 128 6 5 Fryers Creek Division 730 600 200 1530 4 78 41 6 15 306 25 2 2 24 Hepburn Division bullbull bullbull 365 290 361 1019 13 3 1 60 75 4() 3 1 TaradaJe and KynetonSubdivision 200 136 110 446 64 11 8 1 6 1 Tarrangower Division 38 161 298 515 15 - 2 17 9 21 St andrews Division bullbull 196 54 142 39~ 10 2 6 9 8 30 10 4 Blue Mountain Nrth Subdivision 73 73 _______ _____1__

Totals 1980 1521 1468 10 172 6 151 28 Btl 562 18 83 11 25 24

ARARAT 215 315 30 560 4 25 11 3 30 12 4 15Ararat Division bull

Pleasant Creek Division sectt~ 2~ 801 3 lmi~ 1~ 1~~ ~ 4 2~ 23 iamp Barkly Division Raglan Division 445 114 11 570 1 125 10 9 10

1323 766 842 3 2934 22 318 8 30 16 67 13 32 95Totals

GIPpsLAND Oooeo Subdivision 408 263 1 8 679 1000 2 22122Mitcbell Ri ver and Boggy Creek 230 30 9 319 49 shy

SuhdiviRlol1sCrookcd Hiver Division 117 33 23 233 240 12 11 Jenaho Diviion 78 56 G 140 90 20 20 Donnellys Oreek Division 40 2 31 73 10 30 - I Stringers Oreek Division bullbull 90 343 433 -Aberfeldy Subdivision 52 10 64 126 30 8 8 ltusRolls Oreek Division 81 4 85 12 _ 1

~~~~r ~~~gft~ ~~ 1~ 10 f~ 2 18 8 3~ g 5 I 10 Trarajgon Subdivision 81 81 ____1_ 16

1327 458 426 2283 3 23 11 6 1507 2 70 67 11 2Totals 137i9 9128 14681 180 37703 237 6298 178 792 214 17294 39 475 210 158 390 II

GRAND TOTALS

MAOHINERY EMPLOYED IN QUARTZ MINING

t 17

60 1334 shy11 200 shy9 200 shy6 100

34 112320 606 shy4 51 shy24middot 511 9

20 shy

sect ~~ ~~ W-0 ~0 ~-

~il01 g~

466 70 90 46

282 118 24

270

i cl

~

1 --

25

--

8_

170 4145 9 I~~

7 115 5 75 shy

4 71 - 44 3 4 06 - 36

10 93 6 111 1 9 130 5 121 6 135 1 80 shyI 10 1 14 shy

-4 64 12 172 1

11 172 S 203 2 3 36 ~ 30 shy6 45 - 20 1 15 1 11 shy4 47 3 74 shy

70 991 42~ ~

211 3940 1- 1260 3 30 2 30

19 374 129

10 180 79

243 4524

25 596 194

7 85 20 5 88 73

39 773 245I l~g ~~ 4 76 22

19 319 134

107 2132 --~ 4

32 538 228 3 19 509 150 4 28 473 210 8 220 SO

30 602 202 11 130 4 62

128 2422 932

4 92 36 1415 346

1 12

44 1519 390

1 11 21 2 16 8

8 137 4 126 3 35 37 3 58 3 6~

17 355 1 126 4 65 1 35

30 i 1~ _-__ shy I-=shy

39 103 12 412 3

ti ~~ ~ ~ 21 ~ ~--

bull Ilt

ii 32 2 4 2 2 2 2 1

13 1 1 1

16

77 14

2

4

3

==_11 9 - shy

180 190 2

7 20

12

190 224

28 21

6 16 4 4

21 12r 1 2

17 22

85 90 - shy

22 27 1 9 15 3 26 38

28 6

91 80

2 3 48 10

51 15

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801 16506 69 -6387 I-SO --9- iii5 43l 11

Sqre 1 distinot Price of Gold-Value Miles of Quartz per DUnefAuriferous Reefs0( actually proved to be

upun IAurife-middotmiddotmiddotmiddotmiddot~

1_-1 I~I_~ pound s d pound s dpound 420 4 2 9

16500 14 19 120400 39 24

410 4 2 6 4 1 0 426

22000 18 12 30000 16~ 13

400 430 104000 13 16 400 430 24131 3~ 19 3 16 0 4 0 0 2800 50 210 3 17 6 4 2 3

60000 4h 31 3 17 6 400

3 IS 0 318 0600

38073-1--1--1-14-~-----34-7

3 IS 0 4 2 637320 47 105 310 9 4169150 15 95 4 0 0 42027118 8 26 318 0 40014125 53] 196 3 16 0 42016000 26 16t 3 16 6 4 1 01915 35 74 315 6 400

10 3 2700 1~ 2

3 16 0 4 0 017330 24 19 3 2 6 410214)0 18 95 3 17 0 317 63488 33 14 31 0 315 017700 36 24 2 10 0 312 62LOO 18 12 314 0 318 316000 9 27

196246 340 ____

451000 2150

26392

24 29 81

325 117 204

3 18 317 3 IS

3 D 0

318 3 3 18 9 400

11055 11 126 310 4 1

490597 772

135859 8995

12845 7259

90360 10m

5k 2 5 1~ 16 g

170 1

30 40

185 7~

400 4 0 0 316 0 400 315 0 319 0 318 9

4 2 0 414 4 2 0 400 420 4 0 0 319 0

6OBB HI 28 315 0 400

44186 10 315 4 0

311109 122i 604

6006474527 32078 1800043246 8183

9 28 82 20 44

15 4

103 37 88 19 76 77 4

3 17 0 317 6 3 18 6 319 0 318 0 317 3 317 0

4 0 0 318 0 400 319 6 4 1 0 400 317 6

164 404

6810 156~~~

28 3~

3 16 313 4 0

400 430 406

7000 5 4 0 4 2 0

1__17_0_7_14_1 __-_1____

I 390 3 16 64680 12 23 317 0 311 644() bull 23 23

312 0 3 18 632280 49~ 352 315 0 317 64300 26 33 310 0 40012160 6h 18 310 0 40046430 7 13 315 0 317 611000 20 6 310 0 3 18 026 35 ]6 3 12 0 315 0 315 0 317 63~g 2~ 1 316 0 319 6 ___~ 1 1

115332 209

)208827 1182

THOS COUCfUIAN SecretarY for Mines Office of Mines Melbourne 15th ctober 1879

No 83

y

NAME OF REEF

Clunce

Cluncs

Sultan nnd others

Reform Jgtlyrtleord

Pride and

Land TlX Bllckeye Tiddlemiddotilcmiddotaddelde FDrlorn Hope Buckeye

Whistlers

Church Hill bullbull

Goldsborough Moliagul

Jersey Greenock

BriStol Chrysolite

Richmond

Cohens Aberfcldy

I

Feet

450 to 950 278 112

100 to 000

240 to 1105

210 to 770

460

100

400 150 220 310 150

100

200

200 to 260 150

140 150 to 200 100 to 380

270 200 300

SO

50

343 to 623

150

Quantity Crushed

Tons

1500 2117 1520

13910

2457~

1623

1063

139

258 19

205 23 64

60 110 900

480

4443 1510 2208 1802

22

144

3701 713

1471 119

63 45

530 1419 6310

100 945

96 177

17

5034

650

o 6

o 1 8 14 9 5 6 1 12 4 1 19 4 3 13 10

o 6 16 o 10 0 041

o 10 0

1 10 1 3 21 o 11 0 o 7 2

8 3

2

012 0 0 1 19 o 7 16 o 1 19 o 18 I o 17 8

o o

7 2 2 23

076 o 7 6 o 3 3 o 8 0 o 1 13 4 4 15 5 10 16

4 2

18 19

o 6

10 0

2 0

o

1 3 2 0 2 6

6 0

2tolll 0 1 6

1 to 3 0 10 0

In to 8

o 10 0 5 0

1 0 8 0 7 0 3 0

12 4

o o

Irregular 5 6bull 3 0 5 0 2 6 2 0

w W80middot

E

NW30 Vertical Dyke

Vertical

E

W4I)

E 86~ W75 W75

N S

W75

W7 W80

E

12 0 I W80 60 Elftln2tt

Dip oftha Shoot

01 Quartz

N S

N

N

Varies

S

NW24

S S N

s s

S35

Nl inS W40

Vertical Vertical

N30

Good Hope

( j~mg Tunnel t Wlllla

NAME OF REEF

Clunes

Clunes

Sultan and othors

Excelsior Wooragee bullbull

Homeward-bound

Victrnin l-iwltlers Harden Gully

Western

Churchill

Jersey Reef

Eaglehawk

c 1 ~ r

285 I

-(

1~O i i

1

t 2225 1940 166 1468 1313 1262 1210

1230 1117 1052 101

middot1 ~ 7QO

VICTORIA WITH STOPPED EfC

1879)

1105

800

180

420

1200 800 854

500

250

277

160 175 410

1120 1070

800 1000

50

1100

723 58~

1090

1105

800

310

600

250

271

1pound0 175 500

1000

2002 1510 1500 1020 1000 1202 1200

700

Inclndlng pyrites

Including pyrites

REMARKS

bottm level with gold visible in the quurtz

It is intended to open oul another level at 900 feet

Not Sinking Not sinking Sinking

shaft

bull The width vaJies frolll 6 inches to 80 feet

Still sinking

Still sioking

sinkinf sl1Klng

Below ndilleycl

THOS COUCHMAN Secretary for Mines

T A BmiddotL E THE DEPTH OF THESHOWING THE YIELD OF GOLD FROM CERlAIN PARCELS OF QUARTZ RAISED DURING lHEQUARTER IN SOME OF THE

DEEPESI SHAFTS WHICE ARE NOW BEING SUNK OR THE SINKING OF WHICH HAS RECENTLY

( Compiled from Returns made by the fffining Surveyors and Registrars for the Quarter ended 30th

Strike of the Reel

(Bearing)

N and S

N 10 W

W15

NSE

NlOmiddot W

Northerly

NIO E

NE

N24Wbull NIlnctSbull N3SW

Ennd W

NlSW Nl W NIS W

NISW

N N

N14W N)O E

N18W

N15 W N16W

~

NW19

N 25 W

NAME OFCOMPANY

Port Phillip

New North Cluncs

Sultan bull

Dale and Co

and Clinga~

J

LonseUs No 180 Grea Extenrled

Carlisle Nodh (j ly and 1as~by

Bristol Hill

Union

J orsoy I1eel Q M

Eaglehawk Union

~ shy~

DISTIUCT DIVISION

AND NAUE O COMPANY SUBDIVISION

BALLAHAT

Central Division SOllthern Division BU1l1llyong L Smythesdale

Crewick Division

and Blue Mountain I Sultan

IHECHWOUTH

Beechworth Yacknndallliall YllCkUIHlatlllah Indigo Divisioll

Buckland Division

SANDIIURST

Sandhurst Division

Kilmore lIethcote ilivislolJ and Varanga

Subdivhdoll WaJmiddotnnga Normiddotth Subdivision

11 AltYpoundlOIWUGH

Dunollyand Taruagulla Divisions

Inglewood Diyisioll

and st Arnaud South SuUdI-

St Arnaud North Su bdi vision bullbull

Wedderburn Division bullbull

CASTLEIIAINE

Cast1~mninc IJivis10n bullbull

Fryer Creek DivisIon

Hephulll Tllra1ale KY1tctonmiddot8ubdlvision

Tarrangowcr Division bullbull

I Jersey neef Q M

Subdivision

ARARAT Ararat Division

Pleasttnt Creek Division

Barklv Raglan DivisIon

Omeo RubdhiSlIin JltclwtJ jUver amp Hoggy Ok SubdivIsions Crooked Uiver lJ J ericllo Di v i~ion J)ouuellys Ureek Diisiou

Stringers Creek Divislon bullbull

Office of Mines Melbourne 15th October 1879

No 83

Reform

Grumbriage and Co

Union

The Victory

I Long Tunnel James Rices Lea8~

Oz dwt gr

o 2 15 o 2 0 o 6 2

o 16

o 7 1

o 19 17

Width 1Dip of the leef

W 3i1 In 6ft

[

W70middot E66

30 30

W80 varilS

~ride

y

hi

1 1

j

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QUARTZ QUARTZ TAILINGS PYRITES ETO

SUMMARY

THE following information has been obtained relative to the QUANTITY OF QUARTZ QUARTZ TAILINGS

and M ULLOOK Crushed anu PYRITES and BLANKE1IN(S operateu on during the Quarter and the

GOLD obtained therefrom shy

Average Yield of 01 Gold1romQuantity Crushed ~UNING DISTRICTS Gold per Ton Crushed

Quartz tons cwt o~ dwt oz dwt gr

Ballarat 91198 10 0 5 27188 7 23 Beechworth 15774 18 0 11 9257 17 19 Sandhurst 63695 0 0 8 26456 5 12 Maryborough bullbullbull 11639 11 0 8 4294 2 2 CastlemaiTie 8109 0 0 H 6045 17 9 Ararat 22705 19 0 II 12650 8 12 Gippsland 6783 1 3 7931 10 0deg

Totals 217905 18 0 8 93824 9 5

Quartz 1ailings and Mullock 4050 0 0 1 344 1 0Ballarat

0 1 87 14 (1003 0Beechwolth 0 2 87 0 0250 0Sandhurst 0 1 61 2 0702 0Maryborough

3629 0 0 1 226 10 12Castle maine 0 2 4 9 1835 0Ararat

40 0 2 0 4 0 0Gippsland deg 0 1 1381 764 17 69709 0Totals

Pyrites and Blanketings operated on

Ballarat Beechworth

Sandhurst M1tryborough Ctstlemaine Ararat Gippslaml

Totals

350 114 789 28

139

26

15 0

10 11 0

3

1447 19

3 10 1628 1239 10 12 0 16 S68 93 5 6 1 16 356 1443 8 0 1 16 899 51 18 12 1 11 2261 222 0deg 2 2 1213 55 12 ()

2 2 262 3105 14 6

NOlE-This Summary docs not show the total quantities of quartzampc crushed or operated on but only the yield of certnln cruahlngs ampc respecting- which the ~Iining Surveyors and Registrars have been able to obtain information Owing to the circumstance that mnny Of the machine owners are unable to give 01 are precluded from giving information it is impossible to get c-omplete returns froID every district and in considerillg the relative jmportance of each district as regards quartz mining ampc the tables relatipg to machinery should be examined and compared bull

Office of Mines TROS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

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JIINING SURVEYURS AND REGISTRARS RETURNS

QUARTZ

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars lelative to the QUANlITY OF QUARTZ Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GoLD obtained therefrom

Divislon ~nd Subdivision I Average I T IYi Remarks relative toti and WheTe Quartz was obtained Quartz Crushed Yield of Gold ta ld of Depth at which the

Name of Companybull per Ton Gold Quartz was obtained amp0 ~-----------------I--------7--------I-------~-I------------------1-----------------

tons owt qr j oz dwt gr I oz dwtgr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Band and Albion Consols Ballarat West bullbullbull 3269 0 0 0 13 776 2177 15 0 1250 feet Black Hill Ballarat East bullbull 3358 0 0 0 5 1236 925 19 20 Surface to 500 feet Llanberris bullbullbull Ballarat East bullbull 2435 0 0 0 2 1599 324 12 12 300 feet Temperance Little Bendigo 1500 0 0 0 7 2227 594 12 0 430 to 950 feet Serjeants Freehold Endeavor

Ballarat West Specimen Gully

270 603

0 0

0 0

0 11 2295 0 4 421

161 8 125 18

6 0

280 feet 100 feet

Britannia Duchcss

bullbullbull bullbull

Specimen Gully Ballarat East

457 913

0 0

0 0

0 0

2 440 7 1953

49 17 21 356 14 4

165 feet ISO to 300 feet

Parade Ballarat East 230 0 0 0 15 448 174 13 0 400 feet Countess Ballarat East 90 0 0 0 4 1373 20 11 12 70 to 150 feet Canadian Canadian 1925 0 0 0 5 l1S3 52S 15 0 SO to 140 feet Baker and Co bull Mount Clear 1250 0middotmiddot0 0 8 1217 631 14 0 Surface to 100 feet Hanthorn and Co Mount Clear 145 0 0 0 6 082 43 15 0 80 to 150 feet Black Hill Lnited Ballarat East 132 0 0 0 19 1889 129 4 10 400 feet New Dirnocks Little Bendigo 2160 0 o 0 3 266 336 0 0 260 to 860 feet North Dimocks Little Bendigo 708 0 0 I 0 3 823 liS 7 0 300 to 400 feet New Koh-i-noor Ballarat West 190 0 0 Band of Hope Quartz Ballarat West 1104 0 0

Public crushings bull Ballar~~~~d wes~ 2

SOUrUElIN DIVISION

Speedwell Tribute Staffordshire Reef 1090 0 0 Hopewell Tributers Staffordshire Reef 50 0 0 New Kangaroo Kangaroo 2117 0 0 Williams Fancy Kangaroo 900 0 0 Nil Desperandum Kangaroo 511 0 0 New Try Again Kangaroo 400 0 0

Totals 5068 0 0

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Imperial Q M bull Hiscock Reef bull 1520 0 0 Olle-and-All Hiscocks Fairweather 1379 0 0

0 8 757 79 0 0 280 to 300 feet 0 8 558 454 8 18 300 feet

~~19~2 1 1 ~ IVarious depths 11

o 2 751 126 I 10 150 feet 4 feet wide o 6 012 15 0 6 121 feet o 2 004 211 18 0 278 feet 8 feet wide o 3 1028 154 5 18 130 feet 6 feet wide o 2 185middot 70 16 0 120 feet 8 feet wide o I 1269 30 11 12 130 feet 4 feet wide

---- 0 2 964 608 12 22

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0 6 204 462 9 6 1I2 feet 0 Ill 99 103 8 2 80 to 200 feet

1Reefs Tributers Olle-and-All Public crushing~ I Various depths up to

150 feet Llewellyn Magpie Ranges

486 0 0 0 II 1213 279 11 18

180 feet

Totals ~~-+I ~23middot 9 ---1-----shy -------SIYTHESDALE DIVISION

720 0 0 0 1 166 60 17 11 264 feet Bristol Linton Ranges Srnythesdale Consols German Reef SrnythesdaJe

7 10 0 150 feet30 0 o 0 5 0

750 0 0 0 I 1974 68 7 11Totals

CRESWICK DIVISJON

1396 0 0Port Phi Ilip Clunes reefs o 4 1573 32419 12 100 to 990 feet12514 0 0Port Phillip Tributcrs Clunes reefs o 5 159 3170 1 12

New North Clunes Clunes reefs 394 0 0 o 2 962 47 6 12 240 to 1105 feet2063 10 0 725 10 0 South Clunes Clunes reefs New North ClunesTributers Clunes reefs o 7 076

812 2 03119 0 0 o 5 497 70 to 600 feet8486 0 0 2]03 0 0 New Lothair Clunes reefs South Clnlles Tnbuters I Clunes reefs o 4 2295

1340 0 0 o 5 1525 264 to 564 feet United Spring Hill Reef

377 12 0 194 0 0 o 5 162 55 1 0 70 feet

Working Miners Georges Reef 320 0 0 o 3 20middot97 70 feet61 19 15

Totals bullbullbull 29826 10 0 0 5 355 7677 12 3

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Division and SubdiviSion Average Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of and Where Quartz was obtained I Quartz Crushed Yleld of Gold Depth at which theGoldName of Company pel ~ron Quart was obtained ampcbull ---- shy -----_ ------------ shy

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr oz dwt grGORDON SUBDIVISION

Black-horse United Egerton 400 to 600 feet7356 0 0 0 3 239 11469 16 0 The Egerton Limited Egerton 500 to 758 feet10104 0 0 0 6 9833238 3 14 Parkers United bullbull Gordon 60 0 0 0 5 235 17 18 18 ioo feet IUnited Miners ~orth of Gordon 150 0 0 0 3 0 22 10 0 Surface to 20 feet shy

Totals 17670 O 0 0 5 899 4748 8 8 i STEIGLITZ SUBDIvisION

Minerva Elaine I 5 133 23 0 o Ibull i 18 0 0 Elaine 52 0 middot0Watson and party 0 5 1846 15 0 0

Copperwaite and party Elaine o 18 02 0 6 0 9 0 Wee Speck Elaine 0 3 023 0 0 3 8 0 Mortimer and party Elaine o 17 III 24 10 028 0 0 Dunlop and party Elaine 4 4 45721 0 0 88 8 0 Dennis and Co Steiglitz 16middot 0 O I 2 12 18 0 0 Herring Steiglitz 2 14 96 13 12 05 0 0 Morris and Co Steiglitz 4 12 016 O oj 0 5 18 Barrett Steiglitz 1 13 o i4 0 0 0 8 6 Seott and Co New-ehum I 9 343 30 12 021 0 0

1

BLACKWOOD DIVISION un) BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH

Totals

206middot 0 0 1 I 1712 223 13 01

SUBDIVISION Sultan Barrys Reef 1623 0 0 o 19 1798 1602 13 0 270 to 770 feet Moullter Bros BarryS Reef 99 0 0 o 17 ll88 86 12 0 400 feet Big Hill Simmons Reef 1800 0 0 0 1 680 1I5 10 0 50 feet Cornish Simmons Reef 450 0 0 0 1 643 23 10 15 100 feet

rownC Simmons Beef 250 0 0 0 2 2221 36 II 9 150 feet N~orth Star Union Reef 30 0 0 0 8 16 13middot 0 0 110 feet Victoria Yankee Reef 207 0 0 0 5 116 52 5 0 40 to i5 feet N I ~orth Britain da Wrights Reef

Wrights Reef 380 0

167 0 0 0

0 0

2 158 8 2i3

50 10 67 15

4 0

110 feet 280 feet

-----shy--- shy ---- shyTotals 5006 0 0 0 8 489 2053 7 4

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

I I BEECHWORTH DIVISION

Rocky Point 1 460 0 o i omiddot 7 6Homeward Bound Tribute 166 15 0 600 feet Shakspeare Reef Stanley bullbullbull 43 0 0 2middot14 1283 117 5 0 50 feet

shyHurdle Flat 800 0 0 014 225 563 15 0 90 feetWallaby Tribute Marco Polo Hurdle Flat 95 0 0 o 17 1l37 83 0 0 90 feet Sunday Beef Three-mile Creek 39 0 0 2 4 1169 86 15 0 120 feet Reform Myrtleford 1063 0 0 0 6 591 332 0 0 450 feet Nil Desperandum 11yrtleford 196 0 0 0 6 1175 63 12 0 100 feet Carthew and Co Myrtleford 16 0 0 0 4 0 3 4 0

------ shy --- shy ---__- Surfaee

Totals 2712 0 0 o 10 1067 1416 6 0 YACKANDANDAH SOUTH ------ shy ---- shy ----- shy

SUBDIVISION

Bigelowe and Clingam Hillsborough 130 0 0 0 8 8 54 3 6 40 feet Pride and Stringer Baek Creek 130 0 0 1 6 0 169 6 0 100 feet Iron Hand Twists Creek 35 0 0 0 2 14 4 10 8 20 feet Schnackenberg Bros Sandy Creek 60 0 0 4 10 0 270 0 0 60 feet Crowe and Farrell Sandy Creek 22 0 0 o 18 436 20 0 0 36 feet Patrick McClinehy Sandy Creek 6 0 0 II 13 8 70 0 0 30 feet

INDIGO DIVISION

Gallagher and CoshyDe lI1amiel and Co

Totals

Not known Golden Bar Reef

383 0 0 ------- shy

6 0 0 8 0 0

I 10 1687 587 19 14

1shy 9 = 1 II 2 Surfaee to 40 feet 0 16 18 6 14 0 30 to 40 feet

Hellyar and Co Indigo Reef 3 0 0 0 14 13 2 3 15 20 to 28 feet Pomeroy and Co Banners Reef 15 0 0 017 U2 13 2 0 60 feet Williams and Co Not known 20 0 0 o 16 18 16 15 0 Not known Spearing and Co Demon 28 0 0 1 15 171 49 2 0 60 to 80 feet Barras rind Co Caledonian Reef 48 0 0 o 17 235 43 3 0 100 feet Trevillian and Co Indigo Lead Reef 45 0 0 o 18 2134 42 10 0 138 feet Buehan and Co Pass-by Reef 13 0 0 17 18 II07 233 0 0 175 feet Archer and Co Touehstone Reef 12 0 0 I 4 0 14 8 0 Smfaee to 2(1 feet Laurie and Co Golden Bar 8 10 0 1 10 1411 13 0 0 30 to 80 feet Eustace and Co Bradys Hill 13 0 0 o 13 2033 9 0 0 Surface to 20 fcer Bigby and Co WaHaces Gully 10 0 0 2 15 0 27 10 0 80 to I00 f~CL Burton and Co Eureka Heef 25 0 0 o 14 0 17 10 0 60 to 80 feet Various companies Various reefs 19 10 0 o 14 1969 14 9 0 Various depths Hooly and Co We Speek Reef 25 0 0 1 10 0 37 10 0 60 to 100 feet Lord and Co Campbells Reef 24 0 0 4 5 10 102 10 o I 80 to 90 feet Brown and Co Garibalui Heef 12 0 0 o 17 4 10 6 0 60 to 70 flof

----- shy --- shy --- shyTotals 335 0 0 I 19 1247 661 19 3

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crllshed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

AverogeDivision and Subdivision Yield of Gold Quartz Crushedand Where Qnartz was obtained

per TonName 01 Company

BUCllLAD DIVISIOY

J A Wallace Jones and Co Dl-vies and Co

o

o

H arrietville Land Tax Rcef Buck-eye Tiddle-de-addle-de

Gillies and Co The Admiral Douglas and Co Anderson and Co Stephen and Co o

H Curry and Co O Anderson and Co Boss Cockies Shippen and Cobullbullbull King and Co Clemens and Co Radcliffe and Fowler Brady and Co

Bucldand o bull

lt

bullbullbull

Davies and Co Maguire and Co Harp of Erin Co Maguire aud Co Beveridge and Co Coxon and Co Grennep and Wilson Honeychnrch and Co

Frecburgh Oriental Hill Three Stars Tramway Heef Three Stars bullbullbull

Oriental Hill Reliance Reef Lisbon Reef

Maefadzean aud Co J Butler and Go

Bright

Belle of the Ball Stackey Gully

The Hope Q M Running Creek

Happy Valley Reef Root Hog and Die Running Creek

Totals

WANDILIOONO SUBDIVISIO

Prince Arthur Mill Williams and Co Tributers Williams and Co Tributers Davies and Hearn Tri-

buters Birthday Mill

Three public crushings Queen of South Mill

Two small crushings Hit or Miss Mill

Harrietville Oriental Mill

Nine parcels for public Try Again Mill

Hood and Contts Frasers Mill

Myrtle Co London Co James and Co Londonderry bullbull

Prince Arthur Lease Anstralasia Lease Prince A Lease

Various

Buck-eye

Try Again Myrtle Reef London Reef Londonderry

Native Industry Reef

and Co Attridge and Co Native Industry Symes

Old Albion Never 100 Late Mill

Stephens and Co Pride of Kildare Gregory and Co Louisa

Forlorn Hope Vale and Co Wbo Knows

Home ~fill Hazeton E M Gill Home Reef

Stephens Mill Mills and Co Advance Australia H Mitchell HM Reef J Phillips New Years Gift

tons cwt qr

258 0 0 19 0 0

205 0 0

156 0 0

90 0 0 16 0 0

13 0 0 12 0 0 35 0 0

4 0 0 7 0 0

14 0 0 40 0 0

6 0 0 7 0 0

54 0 0 34 0 0

100 0 0 40 0 0 5 0 0

11 0 0 17 0 0 17 0 0

49 10 0 19 0 0

312 0 0

3 0 0

oz dwt gr

1 8 1451 9 5 632 1 12 468

o 10 2154

1 7 1866 1 10 0 5 4 l477 1 11 16 0 7 1028 1 6 6 2 1 1886 2 17 1029 0 4 72 4 6 16 1 7 0

2 2 2311 210 0 o 18 0 o 17 0 1 3 0 1 10 0 1 0 0 4 14 282

o 14 1309 o 15 189

0 1 2331

I 8 0

1543 10 I 3 2124 __ o i

28 0 0 I 13 0 16 0 0 o 17 12 77 0 0 7 0 686

85 0 0 0 9 1552

11 10 0 1 5 0

64 0 0 3 13 105

376 0 0 0 4 963

150 0 0 0 7 48

780 0 0 0 4 16 42 0 0 0 8 228 24 0 0 0 7 12 33 10 0 I 17 211

13 18 0 3 7 2089

24 0 0 1 o 20 28 0 0 I 3 1371 23 0 0 1 19 313 43 0 0 I 1 949

0 4 1294178 0 0

35 0 0 3 I 1714 49 0 0 o 16 1763 99 0 0 0 Ii 109

Remarks relative to the Total Yield of Depth at which theGold Quartz WJ obtained ampc _-----shyoz dwt gr

369 O 0 400 feet 176 0 0 150 feet 330 0 0 220 feet water leve

100 feet 85 0 0 150 feet

125 0 0 60 feet 24 0 0 20 feet 68 0 0 80 feet 19 0 0 Surface 13 0 0 20 feet 5 5 0 40 feet

14 12 12 40 feet 40 4 0 50 feet 8 12 0 35 feet

26 0 0 Surface 9 9 0 25 feet

116 0 0 SO feet 85 0 0 50 feet 90 0 0 120 feet 34 0 0 60 feet

5 15 0 Surface 16 10 0 40 feet 17 0 0 Surface to 10 feet 80 0 0

36 0 0 30 feet 15 0 0 50 feet

30 15 0 300 feet water level 100 feet

4 4 0 Surface

1843 ( 12 ----shy

46 -1 0 Surface to 40 feet 14 0 0 Surface to 40 feet

540 2 0 Surface to 40 feet

41 0 0

14 7 12

235 0 0 150 feet

82 15 0

100 to 300 feet54 0 0

450 feet 17 0 0

182 0 0 300 feet

9 0 0 170 feet 63 10 0 70 feet

43 0 0

middot25 0 0 33 0 0 45 0 0 310 feet 46 0 0 90 feet

40 8 0 120 feet deep

108 0 0 30 feet 41 0 0 50 feet 27 0 0 5 to 60 feet

Eleven small parcels Various 153 0 1

0 9 1082 72 6 0O

1779 12 12 Totals 2332 18 0 o 15 616

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION

The Try Again Paps Reef 2 0 0 1 8 0 2 16 0 Surface to 50 feet Peter Mannoni and party Durham Gully Reef 14 0 0 9 10 0 133 0 0 Snrface to 40 feet Selby and Johnson Candlelight Reef 25 0 0 0 7 48 9 0 0 Surface to 50 feet

--- shy -- shy ----- shy ---- shy -Totalsmiddot 41 0 0 3 10 1522 144 16 0

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QUANTITY of- QUARTZ Crushed in eacK Division and StiMivsioriJduring the QUfiiter Iampc-colltinued

Division and Subdlvlson 1 I Average I l Remark~el~tfveto the t and Quartz Cru~hed i YieldOf Gold TotaGrl~d of

Nameof Company bull per Ton bull

-----------I--to-n-s-cwt--q-10p -o~ Dny CnEElt SUBDIVISION

R G Meade Une~(Quattz Table ipoundiIiabiy Creek 350 0 0 0 23 Claim

-~~ t71~ 1- -~

GAFFNEYS CnEEllSUBshyDIVISION

Al G M Tributers I bullbull Castle reefs 400 00 o 13 1626 Rose of DenmarkTributers Eureka Heef 1 i 60 0 0 o 6 Hi Wallaby Tributers - WallabyReef bull f600 0 0 o 15 1244 Sundry lots ~i ~ bullbull Homeward Bound Reef 1)400 0 0 o 018

~-----shyTotals bullbullbull

WOODS POINT SJJBDIVISIONbullbull

The Revival (Fords Tribute) Sir Tohn Franklin reefs Lady Franklin Tributers bull Johnsons Reef Morning Star Prospectors Mornini Star Heef

Tributers North WaverJy~ i Waverly Reefmiddot Axton and Ryan Morning Star Reef

Totals

BIG RIVEn SUBDIVISION

Londonderry S M bullbullbull Hailway Heef Lucks All Q Mmiddot I WarnersReef i

Totals

MITTA MITTA NORTH SUBshyDIVISION

Happy Go Lucky ~rount Firebrace Prospecting Mill I ~ Cotton Tree Hore and Co -CottOn Tree bullbullbull Coleman Cotton Tree Philip bullbullbull Cotton Tree Gregson Cotton Tree PeadoIiBrothers Cotton Tree Clarke Brtithers bull Qotton Tree Padgett Cotton Tree Peach and party CottonTree n

Sutherland Cotton Tree Christy and Co CottonTree Frazer and Co Cotton Tree Miller and Co Cotton Tree Lee Cotton Tree Doctor and party Cotton Tree Flag Staff Compo Bethariga Trewalla Compo Bethanga

Totals

MITTA JliIITTA Scn)Tii SUB- DIVISIN

I

Enterprise bull Junction Mitta Mitta Christmas Tunction Mitta Mitta Christmas (2nd lot) Junction Mitta Mitta Welcome Tunction Mitta rfitta Yellow Girl Junction Mitta 1l1itta Watson and Scalesmiddot I Granite Fiat ~ Littlejohn and Williams b t Granite Flat A Hodder Granite ]Iat Empress Granite ll1it Empress (No2) Granite Flat Jtichards Bros Granite Flat llose of Kilkenny Granite Flat Pioneer Juncti~n Mitta 11itta

Totals bull

JA~IIESON SUBDrVI8ION

Ventu~e ( Macks Creek Sailor Bill ( tiailor Bill Greek

Totals

2460 0 0 0 6 1436

800q 0 o 8 21)-72

130 0 0 o 2 1366 800 0 0 03 072

1400 00 0 3 924

)t60 0 0 I o 4 4

d 40J 00

273 ll 0

20 ) 0 465 1gt1 0

52 10 0 -----shy

811 12 0

I

354 IPIS 16 14 0

121 4 0

)67 1~0 10 ~ 0

Depth at which the Quartz was obtained ampc

---------shy

About 70 feet T

About 200 feet About middot100 feetmiddot About200 feet

~ i ~~~ j 0

Ahptlt 200 feet f~ r About 100 feet About 70 fcet

Aboutl30 feet y Surface 7

2190 0 0 o 1 511 I 572 12 18

co i

900 0 0 o 4 16 183 0 0 I About 300 feet ~~~172 0 uO 1 21223 c190 0 0 About 250 feet

1072 0 0 0 6 2301 373 9 0 ---- shy _---shy

_ 300-0 0 o 10 192 162 0 0 295 00 o 13144 200 12 0

32- 0 0 o 12 0 19 4 0 16 12 Omiddot27 0 0 o 12 711

4 10 0 o 9 266 2 I 0 I300 1 3 8 3 10 0

6 4 9

0 0 0 0 00

o iI 16 o i 0 o ~5- in 33

3 100 216 0

213 0 6 0 0 o 5 16 I 14 0 9 0 0 o 10 8 13 0

6 0 0 o 15 16 41~ 0 500

22 00 o 9 144 o 19 0

280 20 la 0

11 12

0 0 00 i

o 16 o 7

218 8

8 17 4lt 8

0 0

186 0 O o 10 1853 100 314 83 0 0 o 11 1424 48 2 6

1020 100 0 11 2235 608 15 20 1

12 0 0 o 1 20 I ) 0 12 0 0 o 5 20 3 10 0

700 o 8 2057 3 2 0 50 0 0 o 544 14 10 0

o 14 0 14 o 0 c i 20 Q 9 o I 6 0 F2 12 10 Q o o 3 343 j 2 14 0~ 14 Q o o I 18 0 7 0400

38 0 0 o 9 503 17]00 o 4 1664 11 14 16 50 0 deg 700 Vb2171 8

16 O l o 8 45 6 0 I r J

15 o l 0 o 3~3 deg2 l deg ---- ~ - I ltshy

255 middot0 0 0 6 1538 ------ --__shy

600 b 0 0 3 256 93 14 0 100 feet Fmiddot

480 00 0100 240 O 01 40()feet 1

o ~ o1080 ~ 0

11

Total Yield 01 Reruarksrelatve to the Gold Depth at which the

~_____ Qn~r~~ T~~ Obtp7dbullampe

tons oz dwt gr

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHUllST DIVISION Albert Beehive bullbullbull Bendigo and Melbourne Birds Reef Catherine ReefU C Garden Gully United bull G G Consolidated Great Extended Hustlers

Reef Great Britain bull bullbull Great Southern Hercules and Energetic bull Johnsons Reef G M bullbullbull Lazarus bull Louisa Metropolitan bullbull Marong CrushillgWorksl New-chum and Victoria Newmiddotchum United New Kelson bull Old Tom J V)~ipstick Shenandoah Victoria Conaols Victoria Reef G M _ Vilsons Reef

KILMORE DIYISION~ Crown Doyles GoIden Crown Beaconsfield bullbullbull Red Rover Loudon and party Trezise and party Overlander Doyles Battery robins neef bull

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND VVARANGA SOUTH

SUBDIVISION Alison

Collins

DIVISION Good Luck Nobull1 Hgpe o(Denmar~ ~ Lost Love Taylorand Crowe Cambridge and Warwick West Growlers TaylorBros __ Marsland and Co Holmes Lease King Billy Francis and Co Rowan and Co Hodge Bros Loughlin Jose and Co WnistIers OBrien and Co Telford and Co

Diamond tIilt E~glhawk bullbullbull Kangaroo Flat Kangaroo blat

Eaglehawk Garden Gully Reef Golden Gully bull Hustlers Reef

Golden Square Garden Gully Reef Victoria neef bullbull California Gully

New-chum Gully Eaglehawk GoIde-q SQllare I I yenarong bullbull - Ironbark New-chum Gully KeIson Reef bull

Newmiddotchm Ililcf Victoria R~ef

Totals 1

Doyles ned Doyles Reef GCrown Reef i Magenta Reef Upper Reedy London Reef bullbull Russells Reef Overlander Reef I Various places Sunday Creek

529 00 o 6 1279 5360 0 0 o 91855

389 00 o 6 283 o B 206I 1389 OJii

3196 0 4441l0

I 1078 O bull 258 0 bull 1170 0

3783 0 3994 0 6980 0 4362 0 1789 0 141~ 0

237 0 il189 0 1773 0 1927 0

1 240 0

_ 2i32 0 r 2554 0 1

VictoriaRlcf 4330 _0 Marong 305 0

i------ii

o 5 1825 0 0

1 1 056 0 o 4 1206 0 o 8 947

o 0 5 372 o 0 61l47 o 0 5 1202 o 0 4 912 o 0 9 1372 o 0 6 1321 o 0 4 2332 o 0 5 966 o 0 8 ijs 60S 94deg 0 6 163i 0 0bull 186l

o 0 4 2219o 0 2 132 o 0 8 389 o 0 7 2289

280 0 0 4 0 0 190 0 0 1 15 0

13 0middot0 1 10 0 --20 0 0 0 15 0

15 oj 0 0 10 0 5 0 0 1 0 0

12 0 0 2 14 0 16 0 0 0 8 0

0160 0 0 5 0 6 0 Oimiddotl 0 0

)

dii5 23 2619 4 0

119 0 0 56111 12 920 11 i

4670 8 0 242 14 I

1083 15 0

507 16 deg 1225 7 0 1098 11 0 1528 14 0

2~~ i~ g 362 9 0

6314 12 2151 2 0 743 19 0

643 12 0 16middot6 12 623 10 iJ 325 ui 12 1767 0

121 6 0

00 332 10

19 10 0 0

1120 0

15 0 00 Kll b 1 el7 1 ~ a ove water- ev

3~ i g ~~ ~resent

15 0 0 rJ J 6 0 0

Totals 617 0 0 2 10 13 15596 0

Lower Costerfield 48 0 0 1 ii 0 48 0 0 Redcastle 343 0 0 0 14 2365 257 0 0

Totals li~~3_~_1_0-0-l-_0_15gt1_4_4-2 1_3_05_0__0_

Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth Rushworth

Rushworth

Rushworth Rushworth Whroo Whroo Whroo Wllroo

Whroo Coys Diggings Coys Diggings Coys Diggings

Totals

54 0 0 0 3 2266 29

9 0 0

0 0

1 1 579i 12 16

2 0 0 3 13 12 40 Ii 0 0 5 1335 29 0 0 0 I H17 -5-middot0 0 L3 0

5 19 30

7 13 9 2

5 22 12

6

0 00 7 96 0 0 0 4 deg 0 0 1 12 if 00 0111714 0 0 0 4 0 0middot0 2 16 12 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 6 48 0 0 I 8 3 1527 0 0 0 4 6 00 2 316

298 O 0 I 1 3 1049

I

I I I

(ifixed lots from va rious reefs See II page 30)

I I

[

J

1I

j 1

10 13 0 I 30 16 0 i4 14 0 770

11 2 6 2 2 12

5150 I1 17 O 3 16 0

30 15 0 Al)above water-Ieve

4 2 0 II2 12 025 8 12 100 1 11 0 I

180 0 0 I 2 11 0 I

13 2 0 J -----s

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT -

MARYBOROUGH DIVIllON Bristol Hill James Kay Reade and 90 bull

Western Reef Bristol Hill Viarious pl~ces

883 10 0 97 00

0 3 1655 o 4 5

163 iO 20 8

0 5

306 to 430 feet Various

(public crushiugs) Waldley and party

Leviathan Reef China 352 0 0 o 13 095

1 229 10 0 70 to 80 feet

mans Wilson and Dark Lord Napier Reef Chinashy 61 0 0 0 7 904 221( 0 11~feetl

mans Fisher and party North German Reefmiddot1 39 0 0 0 5 1538 11 0 0 60 feet

Chinamans

totals

1432 19 0 0 6 557 446 8 5 -

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QUANTITY of QUAlnz Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued -

AYclage 1Division and Subdivision Uemnrks relative to the _and Yioldo Gold 1 Total YIeld of Depth at whIch the

Name of Company Quartz Crushedthere Quartz was obtained

per Ton Gold Quartz was 0 btained amp0

oz dwt grtons cwt qr oz dwt gr

AMHERST DIVISION

Croydon 35 12 18 Laura Reef 230 0 0 0 3 237 40 to 80 feet No 1 South Croydon --

Iaura Reef 0 2 493 15 8 18140 0 0 Surface to 30 feet No2 South Croydon 0 1 20-82 9 6 18 40 feetLaura Reef 100 0 0

288 11 12Union Q M C 200 feet Trickey and party

Church Hill Reef 144 0 0 -2 0 192 9 3 12Dundee Beef 0 2 789 60 feet

Perseveranee 77 0 0

0 8 1111 11 15 6 40 feet Sundries Prince of Wales Reef 27 0 0

18 8 0_143 0 0 0 _2 1376Various ----s6~1--~0~1--6i21Totals

-I AVOCA SUBDIVISION

Monte Christo 15 10 0Murdoehs Reef 14 0 0 I 2 342

DUNOLLY ~ND TARNAGULLA DiVISIONS

Queens Birthday o 12 031 2223 0 8 300 to 500 feet Queens Reef

3701 0 0Bealiba Reef 64 18 0Queens Reef 130 feet713 0 0 0 1 1969

Kentish Reef 15 11 11 Kentish Reef 48 0 0 0 6 1l73 60 feet Harvest Home 33 0 0Harvest Home 40 feet30 0 0 1 2 0 Harrop and Lees 26 0 0 40 feet Yorkshire G M bull 0 1 o 1520 0 0

566 4 12 160 to 200 feetWatts Reef Tarnagulla 1474 0 7 1638o 0 1

2928 _75966 1 0 0 9 1963Totals 1~ --- shyINGLEWOOD DIVISION

Jersey Reef Quartz Mining 103 3 20Jersey Reef 182 0 0 011 815 Dalmatia G M 1 3 0

tyres Smugglers Gi~n McI~ I 20 0 0 0 1 36

104 6 20202 0 0 010 794Totals REDBANK SUBDIVISION

TormeyEi Claim 52 16 0Station Reef 22 0 0 2 8 0

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION

Greenock Reef 39 0 070 feet to 170 feet (above 45 0 0 o 17 80 70 to 170 feet water-level)

Adams and party - -9 12 030 0 0 0 6 96 50 feetSpinster Ueef bull IT-Kersleyand party Greenock Reef 17 0 o i 0 10 0 1 8 10 0 15 feet

_ 92 0 0 0 12 991 57 2 0Totals ST ARNAUD NORTH

SUBDIVISION shyWorking Miners 0 7 268 248 18 6 200 to 260 feet Chrysolite Tribute Quartz

New Bendigo 700 0 0 0 2 2331 52 0 0 150 feet level

Mining Co Registered Chrysolite Reef - 350 0 0

300 18 6Totals 1Q50 0 0 0 5 1755

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLElILltiINE D1VISION

Eureka Cardwell Argus United McWalters Central bull Wattle Gully Sebastopol Crushing Utle Nuggety Arehbold and Co

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

English Australian G M Perseverance Burdett-Coutts New Era Blaek Haivk Rowe Bros Rowe nros Duke Oornwall Small and Co Macdonald and Co Meins Freehold G M

Eureka Reef Town Reef Argus Flat-

Burns Reef Wattle Gully Wattle Gully Lady Gully Nuggety Reef bullbullbullI

Public crushings Totals bullbull

Golden Gully Cattles Reef Cattles Ueef Ferrons Reef Cattles Reef Cattles Heef Ferrons Reef bullbull Cattle Reef Cattles Reef German Gully Guilford Hill

Totals

718 0 0 41 0 0

530 0 0 8J 0 0

759 0 0 505 0 0 247 0 0

52 0 0 155 0 0

3091 0 0

862 0 0 200 0 0

20 0 0 6310 0 0

123 0 0 1419 0 0

417 0 0 166 0 0 50 0 0 24 0 0

3560 0 0 i shy

13151 0 01

0 6 1666 o 19 12-3 0 7 65 o 17 12 0 4 424 0 2 983 0 3 162 0 7 203 o 15 4-18

0 6 341

0 4 98 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 3 324 0 1 20-87 0 7 668 0 4 2169 0 4 144 0 2 96 o 10 0 0 1 1839

0 3 904

1

240 7 0 360 feet 40 0 0 62 feet

192 13 12 73 10 0 160 feet

158 10 0 350 feet 60 17 0 45 18 20 8 0 230 feet

117 12 0

949 5 6

190 0 0 320 feet 40 0 0 180 feet

5 0 0 230 feet 989 3 0 100 to 380 feet

11 10 0 150 feet 516 8 0 150 to 200 feet 102 5 0 20 to 80 feet 33 14 0 20 to 200 feet

6 0 0 190 feet 12 0 0 90 feet

314 8 0

2220 8 0

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Average Remarks relative to theDivision and Subdivision Total Yield ofWhere Quartz was obtained I Qnartz Crushed I Yield of Gold Depth at which theand Gold Quartz was obtained amp0per TonName of Company

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tone owt qr loz dwt gr oz dwt gr

HEPBUllN DIVISION

Argus Italian mil 566 0 0 30 to 150 feet New North Cornish

74 11 100 2 1506 n

Wombat Hill 105 0 0 Surface to 35 feet Richardsons

0 3 396 16 12 8 Bismarck Reef 13 0 0 30 feet1 0 0 13 0 0IWomans Gully 23 0 0 10 feet0 4 834 5 0 0Ansonia

60 0 o i 0 3 0Pitchers Reef 25 feet Panham 9 0 0Fuseo

Pitchers Reef 52 0 0 40 feet Bray and party

0 1 1661 4 8 0 Frenchmans Reef 70 feet12 0 0 2 8 00 4 0

King and Co

Willards Reef 60 0 0 70 feet0 4 0 12 0 0 ISt Georges Reef 630 0 0 0 1 038 32 0 0 140 feetUnion Nuggety HeeL 690 0 0 230 0 0 I20 to 280 feet

Keep-it-Dark Companies 0 6 16Ajax Keep-it-Dark

120 0 0 50 0 0 I 100 to 140 feet0 8 8

Totals 2331 0 0 0 3 2044 448 19 18

TARADALE AND KYNETON SUBDIVISION

Taradale 945 0 0 0 1 1562 United Kingdom ~ 78 0 0 Glenlyon 140 I) 0 0 9 1406 Little Wonder 67 2 0

1085 0 0Totals 0 2 1619 145 2 0 ----shy

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Caledonian Mills Parkins Linscotts Nelshy 92 0 0 o 17 0 200 to 300 feet78 4 0 son amp Valkers reefs

Eaglehawk Linscotts 622 0 0 0 12 1744 395 16 0 50 to 270 feetLinscotts Mills and Nuggety reefs

Phwnix Mills Beehive Swipers Gershy 1000 0 0 1 9 1227 1475 11 12 80 to 300 feet man Victoria amp Irish Billys reefs

Great Western Beehive Reef 120 0 0 0 4 0 24 0 0 40 to 80 feet

Totals bullbull 1834 0 0 I 1 1253 197311 12 -~-----

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

United Company Hoddles Creek 180 0 0 0 9 204 88 13 0 35 feet Lyre Bird Hoddles Creek 25 0 0 o 13 0 16 5 0 27 feet Sunday Reef McCraes Hill S 0 0 0 1 12 o 12 0 20 feet Sheppard and party Warburton 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 10 feet Central Mining Hurst and Co

Reef ton MountainB

38 10 1 0

0 0

1 13 24 2 17 20

63 14 2 17

8 2

180 feet Surface

Murray and Hirt Smith and Hirt Hartley and Co

You-You You-You You-You

3 2 7

10 0 0

0 0 0

1 10 2057 I 10 12 o 10 1714

5 8 3 1

1 15

0 0 0

50 feet 30 feet 60 feet

Hopkinson You-You 2 0 0 1 10 0 3 0 0 60 feet Apted and Co Pioneer 6 0 0 o 18 8 5 10 0 ISO feet Progress Panton Hill 218 0 0 0 7 146 82 18 15 120 feet Napoleons March Panton Hill 18 0 0 o 11 1977 1012 20 40 feet Bignell and Co Fourth Hill Warrandyte 7 0 0 3 0 0 i 21 0 0 30 feet

517 0 0Totals o 11 2247 308 10 21

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Wimmera North and South Wales Pioneer and Galatea New St George Scotchmans Moonlight W onga and Birmingham

RAGLAN DIVISION

The Victory Quartz Gold Mining

Stawell reefs

Stawell reefs Stawell reefs Stilwell reefs Stawell reefs Stawell reefs

Totals

Reef near Waterloo

5788 0 0 is 9 0

4624 0 0 3196 0 0 3353 10 0 3580 0 0 2069 0 0

22688 19 0

17 0 0

011 595 1 5 739 o 14 721 o 11 26 0 7 9 0 14 2207 0 2 1853

0 11 319

1 4 224

3255 4 3 200 to 1000 feet 99 5 10 40 to 100 feet

3306 6 8 200 to 1100 feet 1i75 2 0 4S0 to 1200 feet 1236 II 18 100 to 850 feet 2670 IS 0 410 to 1120 feet

286 15 21 24 to 100 feet

12629 18 12

20 10 0

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~iiANfiTYofCltr ARTz0rusliedjirieacnDi visi~ri~andgtSohdi vision during the Qulilter ~ampc-continuedbull _ _ ~~ ~M_~

---1--- DivislonnndSnbdivisioh bull

OlJ 1j and~ I ~Yhere Qua~ was ogttamed __ Na~~O Company______ ______ ___

GIPPSLAND ~C C ~ Q)fElO ~

~ Srifts Creek Fashion Reef

CROOKED RIVE~ DiVISIoN

Robert Moore -- ~ Upper Dargo bullbull Wentworth Parslow and Co

Totals DONNELLYSC~EEK DIVISION

DonnellyS Creek Bismarck United

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION

Long Tunnel f Cohens Reef Cohens Reef Walhalla (Tributers) I

I Totals ABERFELDY SUBDIVISlON Aberpoundeldy Reef -James Rices Mine

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AverageQuartz Crushed Yie1T ONMld

per Ton

tons ewt qr oz dwt gr

MINING DISTRICT u

I 10 0 0 I 12 b

---- shy

20 0 0 0 10144 30 0 600 0

50 0 0 0 7 2016

42 0 0 0 14 4

5034 0 0 1 8 191 0 8 1078997 d 0

06031 0 1 5 1038

650 d 0 0 6 144

Remarks relative to thoTotal Yield Depth at which theof Gold Quartz was obtalnedampc

Oz dwt gr

-

i 16 0 0

10 12 0 Surfaee to 20 feet 9 00

---- shy19 12 0

29 15 0 400 feet

17248 0 0 i 343 to 623 feet 421 4 0

7669 4 )

]96 19 0 150 feet 50 feet

water level

~ laquo

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QUARTZ TAILINGS MULLOClETC THE follo~in~ infor~ation has beenobtai~edfromReturn~made bythe-Mi~lng Surveyorsand R~gist~a~s

relative to the Quantity OfQUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK ampc Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each -Mining District -during the ~uarter and the GOJD obtained therefrom

I ______

DiviSion and Snbdlvislon I Where Quartz Tailings and I Quartz Tailings Average Ttl y ld ~r ~Remarksielative to the and Mullock ampc were and Mnlloek ampc Yield of Gold 0 ItG I~c Depth at which tbeI

Same of Company i obt~n~~ l I~~~I )ler~on~ 0 MUll~C~amp~1e~ ~btalne~ --- shy tons cwt qr oz dwt gr 0 dwtgr

r bull - JBALLARATMININGDISTRICT

I ICENTRAL DtvIsioN 1

~

11259 19130 Isuriac~ ~~Ofe~~ IBallarat East 2580 00 0Canadian

Mount Clear 1050 00Baker and Co I 0 12308 103 00 Surface to 20middotfeet t

pi 1+Totals ~ q630 0 0 o 1 1562 bull ni

STEIGLITZ SUBl)JVISION I

Minerva Eiaine 220 0 0 o 3 218 34 0 0 20 0 0Wee Speek bullbull Do o 4 96 4 8 0

180 0 0 0 016DUIIlIDott and Co Steiglitz 6 O o

Totals 420 0 0 0 2 274 44 8 0

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEcrrwoRTH DIVISION

Marco Polo Hurdle Flat - 48 0 0 0 2 0

I

4 16 0 Various depths l~_ gt

INDIGO DIVISION

Magentll MIYfntR Reef middot Places Mill Variou~

Totals -

I

-

0632 300

shy

0 0 0 0 I

I 0 o I

0 0

0

I 991 44 13 0 2 0middotmiddot 30 0 0

1444 t1 74 13 0

Surface to 50ifeet ChieH y surfacemiddotfrom

old workings

MrlTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION

Trewalla Bethanga

23 middot0 0 gt)

0 7 417

8

5 0

r

-

-

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK crushed in each Division and Subdivision ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Where Quart Tailings and Quartz Tallogs I Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and and MuJlock ampc Gold lfuUock ampc were Depth at which the

erolIlld I I~ IP t I obtained Mullock ampc were obtamcltL --middot---------------~-------I-----I-------=-___c_-~-I------~--

Name of Company

tons ewt qr oz dwtgr

SANDHURSTMlNING DISTRICT~~ L I i

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIshyVISION

Alison JoIlins

Lower Costerfield Redcastle

Totals

i

1000 0 150 (l 0

0 0

3 0 2 224

15 0 22 0

0 0

shy

d

~1

250 P 0 0 2 2304 37 0 0

(I

MARYBOROUGH MiNI~G DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE MINI~G DISTRICTv

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION

Crown Ninirod Reef bullbullbull Nuggety NuggetyReef D avies and Co

Donkey Gully A jax Tribute ~ Bolivia Reef

Totals n i - shy

HEPBUBN DIVISION

Francis bullbullbull f bullbull1 Wombat Hill ~ bullbull

ST ANDRlFws D1VISION

middotCentral Mining bull~ Reefton bullbullbull United bullbullbull HoddlesCreek

Totals

1140 0 0 0 1 0-1 57 5 0

- 0 0 0 I 12 5210 0_ 700 680 0 0 0 1 235 37middot 612 510 0 0 0 1l(66middot 36( 16 15

3030 0 0

400 00

Ilt

i 174 0 0 I 25 0 0I

199 0 0

0 1 5l3 183 18 3

0 0 -12 l 10 0 0

t I bull

0 3 15-22 31 12 9 0 0 192 1- 0 0

)

-- 6671-~

Surface Surface

Shllow

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

W onga and Bir~ingham

~ I

Stawell reefs 35 0 0 0 2 13-54 4 9 18 f ~ I ~ i f

1I

middotGIPFStAN]) IMINliNG vDISiFRI(iJT

DONNELLYS CllEEKD~ISIOl

Bismarck ITnited

i

1

~OO j

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PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the Quantity of PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on in the several Divisions -and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Dlvision and Subdivision Remarks relatlve to the I Pyrites I Average I I iWhere Pyr~B an~ Blanketmgs and Blnnketings Yield 01 Gold Tota Y old of and Depth at which the wele obtamed I operated on per Ton GoldName 01 Oompany - PyritesJ ampc were ubtained

I tons cwt qr oz dwt gr I oz dwt gr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION Llanberris 18 0 0 1 16 1466 32 19 0Gumtree Flatbullbullbull

CRESWIOK DIVISION Port Phillip Clunes 471 5 0107 0 o I 4 8 202 New North Clunes 93 16 12Clunes 19 0 o i 4 18 1831

67 5 o 7 I 2382South Clunes 477 9 0Clunes 193 5 0 1 5 7 2145 1042 1012

STEIGLITZ SIJDDIVISION Totals

Enterprise Elaine- 103 0 0 o 18 349 93 9 0 Dummott and Co 5 12 0Steiglitz 22 0 0 0 5 218

Totals 99 1 0 BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND

BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION

125 0 0 o 15 2035

Barrys Reef bullbullbull 14 10 0 4 9 1572 65 0 0Sultan

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEOHWORTH DlVISION Reform Myrtleford 39 0 0 o 15 0 29 5 0

1

YAOKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVlSION

Bigelowe and Clingam WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION E M Gill

Homeward Bound Hills-borough

Various localities

25

50

0

0

0

0

o 15middot 504

o 18 0

19

45

0

0

6

0

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

S

SANDHURST DIVISION 884 16 122 2 2286Pinchgut Gully 412 0 0United Pyrites 244 4 01 9 2311 163 0 0Jackass Flat andhurst amp Eaglehawk PE 281 7 121 11 013Derwent Gully 181 10 0L iddell and Co

1410 8 01 17 69756 10 0Totals HEATHOOTE DIVISION AND ---------shy

WARANGA SOUTH SUB-JDIVISION

33 0 J1 0 033 0 0Alison Lower Costerfield I

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION Bristol Hill

DlJNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS

Queens Birthday

Western Reef Bristol Hill 13 11 0 2 7 208 81 18 12

Bealiba Reef 15 0 0 1 6 16 20 0 0

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr Yeats Castlemaine 129 0 0 1 12 409

- 207 10 0

HEPBURN DIVISION J Williams Ajax

3 7

0 0

0 0

o 16 1 14

16 685

210 12 0

0 0

250 feet 250 feet

Totals 10 0 01 1 9 0 14 10 0

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

_DIVISlUrSTRINGERS 2 9 3-21 42 18 017 9 0Cohens Reef Long Tunnel

12 14 01 9 4648 14 0 Cohens Reef Walhalla - 55 12 02 2 1213- 26 3 0Totals

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

1

Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

I

INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

18

QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

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PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

t

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NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

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176

21

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

22

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

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The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

l

OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

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GOLD MINING STATISTICS FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30th SEPTElIBER 1879

- shy TABLE SHOWING APPROXIMATELY THE NUMBER OF MINERS EMPLOYED THE MACIIINERY IN USE AND ITS VAlJUE ON THE SEVERAL GOLDFIELDS--~

Quartz Miners Alluvial

Miners

1shyDISTRICT DIVISION

AND

SUBDIVISION ~ bull ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 2 S ~9 ~~__Il_ 6

BAtURAi Central Division 400 210 1675 Southern Division 534 255 140 1 Buninyong Division bullbull ltO 50 300 50 my~hesdale Division 630 190 27

ok Division bullbull 665 170 890 ] Subdivision 6 354 39 ~z Sttbdivision 40 100 vood Division and nl~~ 100 330 ntain Bouth Subdivisl( Subdivision bull bull 12 8

[ 2497 1710 3814 95Totals

DEEOHWORTH 718 I 138 106 shy

ykaiidiidh So~th s~ubdi~j 225 160 - 60 shyIndigo Division bull 3~2 06 82 Buckland Division 82 amp13 180 2 Wundiligong Subdivision 20 30 120 Alanura Subdivision 116 22 68 shyDry Creek Subdivision 21 40 32 3 Benalla 8nbdivision _ _ _Galfneys Oreek Subdivision 44 8 69 _ WOOfPS Point Subdivision bull 5~ 2 113 TI_ n ~_ 0ubdivision 65 _ 28 _

North Subdivision _ _ 200 _ South Subdivision 76 59 40 _

oubdivision 1UO 20 160 shy

Totals bull lW 1978 1278 -5

SANDTIURST Sandhurst Division bullbull 955 180 3750 30

30 12 94KlImare Division bull ~ bull 155 40 390Heathcote Division and WarangeSouth Subdivision

Waranga North Subdivision 87 40 105

IN THE COLONY OF VICTORIA

(Gompiled from Ute Mining Surveyors and Reqistrars RepoTts for tle Quarter ended 30tlt September 1879)

MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN ALLlTVIAL MINING

Steam Engin~s ]

N~~~~r employed i~l Wmdw ~ rti E ~ of mg Pumpmgampc ~ ~ ~ ~ bull ~

lWners a ~ I ~ ~ ~ s ] ~ g rA ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~QS ~S ~ ~S w ~ ~ to t ~ ~~ ~ ~~ g ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ a j ___ --z-- ~iiamp al ~ 1lt Ii is I Il ~ ttl~ I

2 285 34 1910 23 19 15 14 18 18 930 2 30 1 12 3 6 35 1 5 510 10 190 6 19 9 2 17 8

1447 3~ 860 44 14 7 23 10 1125 26 595 27 32 12 800

399 190 610 450 20 15

20

811~ 108 101 -- -00 46 24 -9- 43 15 10

1062 19 210 3 520lJ 30 14

465 -2 10 2500 3 24 21 460 9 249 11 6 9 39 7

1107 _ 4450 48 48 170 280 206 1 10 4 26 130 96 250

_ 121 _ 120 8 167 _ 126 9 33 _ -- 120 8

200 _ 115 - shy280 - 450

5lC2 31 479 12 = 14 15 13655 _9_ 139mshyo

5515 6 115 56 36 6 65 I shy136 - shy585 40 10 30 50 -

232 27 - shy=i 1227 ~ _ 4339 ~~ 6 i 115 __ 123 4 10 66 56 -- _ (5 shyTotals bullbull

MARYBOROUGH Maryborough Division 1535 310 950 10 2835 35 1151 32 1 160 34 12 4 2 36 126

122 9 144 10 1 9 10 10 7Majorca Subdivision bull 110 12 489 4 60 8 1 21 8 26 36 40 20 12Amherst Division 199 180 110 905 2 30 - 100 34 17 4Avoca gubiliviRion bull bull bull bullbull 300 527 18 1480 4 no 42 6 5 4 30Dunolly and Tarnagulln Divisions 34() 200 910 30 Inglcwf)od Division bull 400 240 lfJO i~~ 3 90 xi 15 18 Wedderburn Division bull bullbull 171 26 518 18 6Redbank and St Arnaud South 289 193 29

Subdivisions 435 8 5St Arnaud North Subdivision

7771 51 1611 50 375 6144 --s4 n -3- 92 185Totals ---I---I-------I-I-- ----

OaSmiddotrLEMAiN]~ I ICastlcmlline Division 360 280 354 994 1 20 65 - 128 6 5 Fryers Creek Division 730 600 200 1530 4 78 41 6 15 306 25 2 2 24 Hepburn Division bullbull bullbull 365 290 361 1019 13 3 1 60 75 4() 3 1 TaradaJe and KynetonSubdivision 200 136 110 446 64 11 8 1 6 1 Tarrangower Division 38 161 298 515 15 - 2 17 9 21 St andrews Division bullbull 196 54 142 39~ 10 2 6 9 8 30 10 4 Blue Mountain Nrth Subdivision 73 73 _______ _____1__

Totals 1980 1521 1468 10 172 6 151 28 Btl 562 18 83 11 25 24

ARARAT 215 315 30 560 4 25 11 3 30 12 4 15Ararat Division bull

Pleasant Creek Division sectt~ 2~ 801 3 lmi~ 1~ 1~~ ~ 4 2~ 23 iamp Barkly Division Raglan Division 445 114 11 570 1 125 10 9 10

1323 766 842 3 2934 22 318 8 30 16 67 13 32 95Totals

GIPpsLAND Oooeo Subdivision 408 263 1 8 679 1000 2 22122Mitcbell Ri ver and Boggy Creek 230 30 9 319 49 shy

SuhdiviRlol1sCrookcd Hiver Division 117 33 23 233 240 12 11 Jenaho Diviion 78 56 G 140 90 20 20 Donnellys Oreek Division 40 2 31 73 10 30 - I Stringers Oreek Division bullbull 90 343 433 -Aberfeldy Subdivision 52 10 64 126 30 8 8 ltusRolls Oreek Division 81 4 85 12 _ 1

~~~~r ~~~gft~ ~~ 1~ 10 f~ 2 18 8 3~ g 5 I 10 Trarajgon Subdivision 81 81 ____1_ 16

1327 458 426 2283 3 23 11 6 1507 2 70 67 11 2Totals 137i9 9128 14681 180 37703 237 6298 178 792 214 17294 39 475 210 158 390 II

GRAND TOTALS

MAOHINERY EMPLOYED IN QUARTZ MINING

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7 115 5 75 shy

4 71 - 44 3 4 06 - 36

10 93 6 111 1 9 130 5 121 6 135 1 80 shyI 10 1 14 shy

-4 64 12 172 1

11 172 S 203 2 3 36 ~ 30 shy6 45 - 20 1 15 1 11 shy4 47 3 74 shy

70 991 42~ ~

211 3940 1- 1260 3 30 2 30

19 374 129

10 180 79

243 4524

25 596 194

7 85 20 5 88 73

39 773 245I l~g ~~ 4 76 22

19 319 134

107 2132 --~ 4

32 538 228 3 19 509 150 4 28 473 210 8 220 SO

30 602 202 11 130 4 62

128 2422 932

4 92 36 1415 346

1 12

44 1519 390

1 11 21 2 16 8

8 137 4 126 3 35 37 3 58 3 6~

17 355 1 126 4 65 1 35

30 i 1~ _-__ shy I-=shy

39 103 12 412 3

ti ~~ ~ ~ 21 ~ ~--

bull Ilt

ii 32 2 4 2 2 2 2 1

13 1 1 1

16

77 14

2

4

3

==_11 9 - shy

180 190 2

7 20

12

190 224

28 21

6 16 4 4

21 12r 1 2

17 22

85 90 - shy

22 27 1 9 15 3 26 38

28 6

91 80

2 3 48 10

51 15

__-__ ___ ___ _ - - 1

801 16506 69 -6387 I-SO --9- iii5 43l 11

Sqre 1 distinot Price of Gold-Value Miles of Quartz per DUnefAuriferous Reefs0( actually proved to be

upun IAurife-middotmiddotmiddotmiddotmiddot~

1_-1 I~I_~ pound s d pound s dpound 420 4 2 9

16500 14 19 120400 39 24

410 4 2 6 4 1 0 426

22000 18 12 30000 16~ 13

400 430 104000 13 16 400 430 24131 3~ 19 3 16 0 4 0 0 2800 50 210 3 17 6 4 2 3

60000 4h 31 3 17 6 400

3 IS 0 318 0600

38073-1--1--1-14-~-----34-7

3 IS 0 4 2 637320 47 105 310 9 4169150 15 95 4 0 0 42027118 8 26 318 0 40014125 53] 196 3 16 0 42016000 26 16t 3 16 6 4 1 01915 35 74 315 6 400

10 3 2700 1~ 2

3 16 0 4 0 017330 24 19 3 2 6 410214)0 18 95 3 17 0 317 63488 33 14 31 0 315 017700 36 24 2 10 0 312 62LOO 18 12 314 0 318 316000 9 27

196246 340 ____

451000 2150

26392

24 29 81

325 117 204

3 18 317 3 IS

3 D 0

318 3 3 18 9 400

11055 11 126 310 4 1

490597 772

135859 8995

12845 7259

90360 10m

5k 2 5 1~ 16 g

170 1

30 40

185 7~

400 4 0 0 316 0 400 315 0 319 0 318 9

4 2 0 414 4 2 0 400 420 4 0 0 319 0

6OBB HI 28 315 0 400

44186 10 315 4 0

311109 122i 604

6006474527 32078 1800043246 8183

9 28 82 20 44

15 4

103 37 88 19 76 77 4

3 17 0 317 6 3 18 6 319 0 318 0 317 3 317 0

4 0 0 318 0 400 319 6 4 1 0 400 317 6

164 404

6810 156~~~

28 3~

3 16 313 4 0

400 430 406

7000 5 4 0 4 2 0

1__17_0_7_14_1 __-_1____

I 390 3 16 64680 12 23 317 0 311 644() bull 23 23

312 0 3 18 632280 49~ 352 315 0 317 64300 26 33 310 0 40012160 6h 18 310 0 40046430 7 13 315 0 317 611000 20 6 310 0 3 18 026 35 ]6 3 12 0 315 0 315 0 317 63~g 2~ 1 316 0 319 6 ___~ 1 1

115332 209

)208827 1182

THOS COUCfUIAN SecretarY for Mines Office of Mines Melbourne 15th ctober 1879

No 83

y

NAME OF REEF

Clunce

Cluncs

Sultan nnd others

Reform Jgtlyrtleord

Pride and

Land TlX Bllckeye Tiddlemiddotilcmiddotaddelde FDrlorn Hope Buckeye

Whistlers

Church Hill bullbull

Goldsborough Moliagul

Jersey Greenock

BriStol Chrysolite

Richmond

Cohens Aberfcldy

I

Feet

450 to 950 278 112

100 to 000

240 to 1105

210 to 770

460

100

400 150 220 310 150

100

200

200 to 260 150

140 150 to 200 100 to 380

270 200 300

SO

50

343 to 623

150

Quantity Crushed

Tons

1500 2117 1520

13910

2457~

1623

1063

139

258 19

205 23 64

60 110 900

480

4443 1510 2208 1802

22

144

3701 713

1471 119

63 45

530 1419 6310

100 945

96 177

17

5034

650

o 6

o 1 8 14 9 5 6 1 12 4 1 19 4 3 13 10

o 6 16 o 10 0 041

o 10 0

1 10 1 3 21 o 11 0 o 7 2

8 3

2

012 0 0 1 19 o 7 16 o 1 19 o 18 I o 17 8

o o

7 2 2 23

076 o 7 6 o 3 3 o 8 0 o 1 13 4 4 15 5 10 16

4 2

18 19

o 6

10 0

2 0

o

1 3 2 0 2 6

6 0

2tolll 0 1 6

1 to 3 0 10 0

In to 8

o 10 0 5 0

1 0 8 0 7 0 3 0

12 4

o o

Irregular 5 6bull 3 0 5 0 2 6 2 0

w W80middot

E

NW30 Vertical Dyke

Vertical

E

W4I)

E 86~ W75 W75

N S

W75

W7 W80

E

12 0 I W80 60 Elftln2tt

Dip oftha Shoot

01 Quartz

N S

N

N

Varies

S

NW24

S S N

s s

S35

Nl inS W40

Vertical Vertical

N30

Good Hope

( j~mg Tunnel t Wlllla

NAME OF REEF

Clunes

Clunes

Sultan and othors

Excelsior Wooragee bullbull

Homeward-bound

Victrnin l-iwltlers Harden Gully

Western

Churchill

Jersey Reef

Eaglehawk

c 1 ~ r

285 I

-(

1~O i i

1

t 2225 1940 166 1468 1313 1262 1210

1230 1117 1052 101

middot1 ~ 7QO

VICTORIA WITH STOPPED EfC

1879)

1105

800

180

420

1200 800 854

500

250

277

160 175 410

1120 1070

800 1000

50

1100

723 58~

1090

1105

800

310

600

250

271

1pound0 175 500

1000

2002 1510 1500 1020 1000 1202 1200

700

Inclndlng pyrites

Including pyrites

REMARKS

bottm level with gold visible in the quurtz

It is intended to open oul another level at 900 feet

Not Sinking Not sinking Sinking

shaft

bull The width vaJies frolll 6 inches to 80 feet

Still sinking

Still sioking

sinkinf sl1Klng

Below ndilleycl

THOS COUCHMAN Secretary for Mines

T A BmiddotL E THE DEPTH OF THESHOWING THE YIELD OF GOLD FROM CERlAIN PARCELS OF QUARTZ RAISED DURING lHEQUARTER IN SOME OF THE

DEEPESI SHAFTS WHICE ARE NOW BEING SUNK OR THE SINKING OF WHICH HAS RECENTLY

( Compiled from Returns made by the fffining Surveyors and Registrars for the Quarter ended 30th

Strike of the Reel

(Bearing)

N and S

N 10 W

W15

NSE

NlOmiddot W

Northerly

NIO E

NE

N24Wbull NIlnctSbull N3SW

Ennd W

NlSW Nl W NIS W

NISW

N N

N14W N)O E

N18W

N15 W N16W

~

NW19

N 25 W

NAME OFCOMPANY

Port Phillip

New North Cluncs

Sultan bull

Dale and Co

and Clinga~

J

LonseUs No 180 Grea Extenrled

Carlisle Nodh (j ly and 1as~by

Bristol Hill

Union

J orsoy I1eel Q M

Eaglehawk Union

~ shy~

DISTIUCT DIVISION

AND NAUE O COMPANY SUBDIVISION

BALLAHAT

Central Division SOllthern Division BU1l1llyong L Smythesdale

Crewick Division

and Blue Mountain I Sultan

IHECHWOUTH

Beechworth Yacknndallliall YllCkUIHlatlllah Indigo Divisioll

Buckland Division

SANDIIURST

Sandhurst Division

Kilmore lIethcote ilivislolJ and Varanga

Subdivhdoll WaJmiddotnnga Normiddotth Subdivision

11 AltYpoundlOIWUGH

Dunollyand Taruagulla Divisions

Inglewood Diyisioll

and st Arnaud South SuUdI-

St Arnaud North Su bdi vision bullbull

Wedderburn Division bullbull

CASTLEIIAINE

Cast1~mninc IJivis10n bullbull

Fryer Creek DivisIon

Hephulll Tllra1ale KY1tctonmiddot8ubdlvision

Tarrangowcr Division bullbull

I Jersey neef Q M

Subdivision

ARARAT Ararat Division

Pleasttnt Creek Division

Barklv Raglan DivisIon

Omeo RubdhiSlIin JltclwtJ jUver amp Hoggy Ok SubdivIsions Crooked Uiver lJ J ericllo Di v i~ion J)ouuellys Ureek Diisiou

Stringers Creek Divislon bullbull

Office of Mines Melbourne 15th October 1879

No 83

Reform

Grumbriage and Co

Union

The Victory

I Long Tunnel James Rices Lea8~

Oz dwt gr

o 2 15 o 2 0 o 6 2

o 16

o 7 1

o 19 17

Width 1Dip of the leef

W 3i1 In 6ft

[

W70middot E66

30 30

W80 varilS

~ride

y

hi

1 1

j

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QUARTZ QUARTZ TAILINGS PYRITES ETO

SUMMARY

THE following information has been obtained relative to the QUANTITY OF QUARTZ QUARTZ TAILINGS

and M ULLOOK Crushed anu PYRITES and BLANKE1IN(S operateu on during the Quarter and the

GOLD obtained therefrom shy

Average Yield of 01 Gold1romQuantity Crushed ~UNING DISTRICTS Gold per Ton Crushed

Quartz tons cwt o~ dwt oz dwt gr

Ballarat 91198 10 0 5 27188 7 23 Beechworth 15774 18 0 11 9257 17 19 Sandhurst 63695 0 0 8 26456 5 12 Maryborough bullbullbull 11639 11 0 8 4294 2 2 CastlemaiTie 8109 0 0 H 6045 17 9 Ararat 22705 19 0 II 12650 8 12 Gippsland 6783 1 3 7931 10 0deg

Totals 217905 18 0 8 93824 9 5

Quartz 1ailings and Mullock 4050 0 0 1 344 1 0Ballarat

0 1 87 14 (1003 0Beechwolth 0 2 87 0 0250 0Sandhurst 0 1 61 2 0702 0Maryborough

3629 0 0 1 226 10 12Castle maine 0 2 4 9 1835 0Ararat

40 0 2 0 4 0 0Gippsland deg 0 1 1381 764 17 69709 0Totals

Pyrites and Blanketings operated on

Ballarat Beechworth

Sandhurst M1tryborough Ctstlemaine Ararat Gippslaml

Totals

350 114 789 28

139

26

15 0

10 11 0

3

1447 19

3 10 1628 1239 10 12 0 16 S68 93 5 6 1 16 356 1443 8 0 1 16 899 51 18 12 1 11 2261 222 0deg 2 2 1213 55 12 ()

2 2 262 3105 14 6

NOlE-This Summary docs not show the total quantities of quartzampc crushed or operated on but only the yield of certnln cruahlngs ampc respecting- which the ~Iining Surveyors and Registrars have been able to obtain information Owing to the circumstance that mnny Of the machine owners are unable to give 01 are precluded from giving information it is impossible to get c-omplete returns froID every district and in considerillg the relative jmportance of each district as regards quartz mining ampc the tables relatipg to machinery should be examined and compared bull

Office of Mines TROS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

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JIINING SURVEYURS AND REGISTRARS RETURNS

QUARTZ

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars lelative to the QUANlITY OF QUARTZ Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GoLD obtained therefrom

Divislon ~nd Subdivision I Average I T IYi Remarks relative toti and WheTe Quartz was obtained Quartz Crushed Yield of Gold ta ld of Depth at which the

Name of Companybull per Ton Gold Quartz was obtained amp0 ~-----------------I--------7--------I-------~-I------------------1-----------------

tons owt qr j oz dwt gr I oz dwtgr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Band and Albion Consols Ballarat West bullbullbull 3269 0 0 0 13 776 2177 15 0 1250 feet Black Hill Ballarat East bullbull 3358 0 0 0 5 1236 925 19 20 Surface to 500 feet Llanberris bullbullbull Ballarat East bullbull 2435 0 0 0 2 1599 324 12 12 300 feet Temperance Little Bendigo 1500 0 0 0 7 2227 594 12 0 430 to 950 feet Serjeants Freehold Endeavor

Ballarat West Specimen Gully

270 603

0 0

0 0

0 11 2295 0 4 421

161 8 125 18

6 0

280 feet 100 feet

Britannia Duchcss

bullbullbull bullbull

Specimen Gully Ballarat East

457 913

0 0

0 0

0 0

2 440 7 1953

49 17 21 356 14 4

165 feet ISO to 300 feet

Parade Ballarat East 230 0 0 0 15 448 174 13 0 400 feet Countess Ballarat East 90 0 0 0 4 1373 20 11 12 70 to 150 feet Canadian Canadian 1925 0 0 0 5 l1S3 52S 15 0 SO to 140 feet Baker and Co bull Mount Clear 1250 0middotmiddot0 0 8 1217 631 14 0 Surface to 100 feet Hanthorn and Co Mount Clear 145 0 0 0 6 082 43 15 0 80 to 150 feet Black Hill Lnited Ballarat East 132 0 0 0 19 1889 129 4 10 400 feet New Dirnocks Little Bendigo 2160 0 o 0 3 266 336 0 0 260 to 860 feet North Dimocks Little Bendigo 708 0 0 I 0 3 823 liS 7 0 300 to 400 feet New Koh-i-noor Ballarat West 190 0 0 Band of Hope Quartz Ballarat West 1104 0 0

Public crushings bull Ballar~~~~d wes~ 2

SOUrUElIN DIVISION

Speedwell Tribute Staffordshire Reef 1090 0 0 Hopewell Tributers Staffordshire Reef 50 0 0 New Kangaroo Kangaroo 2117 0 0 Williams Fancy Kangaroo 900 0 0 Nil Desperandum Kangaroo 511 0 0 New Try Again Kangaroo 400 0 0

Totals 5068 0 0

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Imperial Q M bull Hiscock Reef bull 1520 0 0 Olle-and-All Hiscocks Fairweather 1379 0 0

0 8 757 79 0 0 280 to 300 feet 0 8 558 454 8 18 300 feet

~~19~2 1 1 ~ IVarious depths 11

o 2 751 126 I 10 150 feet 4 feet wide o 6 012 15 0 6 121 feet o 2 004 211 18 0 278 feet 8 feet wide o 3 1028 154 5 18 130 feet 6 feet wide o 2 185middot 70 16 0 120 feet 8 feet wide o I 1269 30 11 12 130 feet 4 feet wide

---- 0 2 964 608 12 22

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0 6 204 462 9 6 1I2 feet 0 Ill 99 103 8 2 80 to 200 feet

1Reefs Tributers Olle-and-All Public crushing~ I Various depths up to

150 feet Llewellyn Magpie Ranges

486 0 0 0 II 1213 279 11 18

180 feet

Totals ~~-+I ~23middot 9 ---1-----shy -------SIYTHESDALE DIVISION

720 0 0 0 1 166 60 17 11 264 feet Bristol Linton Ranges Srnythesdale Consols German Reef SrnythesdaJe

7 10 0 150 feet30 0 o 0 5 0

750 0 0 0 I 1974 68 7 11Totals

CRESWICK DIVISJON

1396 0 0Port Phi Ilip Clunes reefs o 4 1573 32419 12 100 to 990 feet12514 0 0Port Phillip Tributcrs Clunes reefs o 5 159 3170 1 12

New North Clunes Clunes reefs 394 0 0 o 2 962 47 6 12 240 to 1105 feet2063 10 0 725 10 0 South Clunes Clunes reefs New North ClunesTributers Clunes reefs o 7 076

812 2 03119 0 0 o 5 497 70 to 600 feet8486 0 0 2]03 0 0 New Lothair Clunes reefs South Clnlles Tnbuters I Clunes reefs o 4 2295

1340 0 0 o 5 1525 264 to 564 feet United Spring Hill Reef

377 12 0 194 0 0 o 5 162 55 1 0 70 feet

Working Miners Georges Reef 320 0 0 o 3 20middot97 70 feet61 19 15

Totals bullbullbull 29826 10 0 0 5 355 7677 12 3

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Division and SubdiviSion Average Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of and Where Quartz was obtained I Quartz Crushed Yleld of Gold Depth at which theGoldName of Company pel ~ron Quart was obtained ampcbull ---- shy -----_ ------------ shy

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr oz dwt grGORDON SUBDIVISION

Black-horse United Egerton 400 to 600 feet7356 0 0 0 3 239 11469 16 0 The Egerton Limited Egerton 500 to 758 feet10104 0 0 0 6 9833238 3 14 Parkers United bullbull Gordon 60 0 0 0 5 235 17 18 18 ioo feet IUnited Miners ~orth of Gordon 150 0 0 0 3 0 22 10 0 Surface to 20 feet shy

Totals 17670 O 0 0 5 899 4748 8 8 i STEIGLITZ SUBDIvisION

Minerva Elaine I 5 133 23 0 o Ibull i 18 0 0 Elaine 52 0 middot0Watson and party 0 5 1846 15 0 0

Copperwaite and party Elaine o 18 02 0 6 0 9 0 Wee Speck Elaine 0 3 023 0 0 3 8 0 Mortimer and party Elaine o 17 III 24 10 028 0 0 Dunlop and party Elaine 4 4 45721 0 0 88 8 0 Dennis and Co Steiglitz 16middot 0 O I 2 12 18 0 0 Herring Steiglitz 2 14 96 13 12 05 0 0 Morris and Co Steiglitz 4 12 016 O oj 0 5 18 Barrett Steiglitz 1 13 o i4 0 0 0 8 6 Seott and Co New-ehum I 9 343 30 12 021 0 0

1

BLACKWOOD DIVISION un) BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH

Totals

206middot 0 0 1 I 1712 223 13 01

SUBDIVISION Sultan Barrys Reef 1623 0 0 o 19 1798 1602 13 0 270 to 770 feet Moullter Bros BarryS Reef 99 0 0 o 17 ll88 86 12 0 400 feet Big Hill Simmons Reef 1800 0 0 0 1 680 1I5 10 0 50 feet Cornish Simmons Reef 450 0 0 0 1 643 23 10 15 100 feet

rownC Simmons Beef 250 0 0 0 2 2221 36 II 9 150 feet N~orth Star Union Reef 30 0 0 0 8 16 13middot 0 0 110 feet Victoria Yankee Reef 207 0 0 0 5 116 52 5 0 40 to i5 feet N I ~orth Britain da Wrights Reef

Wrights Reef 380 0

167 0 0 0

0 0

2 158 8 2i3

50 10 67 15

4 0

110 feet 280 feet

-----shy--- shy ---- shyTotals 5006 0 0 0 8 489 2053 7 4

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

I I BEECHWORTH DIVISION

Rocky Point 1 460 0 o i omiddot 7 6Homeward Bound Tribute 166 15 0 600 feet Shakspeare Reef Stanley bullbullbull 43 0 0 2middot14 1283 117 5 0 50 feet

shyHurdle Flat 800 0 0 014 225 563 15 0 90 feetWallaby Tribute Marco Polo Hurdle Flat 95 0 0 o 17 1l37 83 0 0 90 feet Sunday Beef Three-mile Creek 39 0 0 2 4 1169 86 15 0 120 feet Reform Myrtleford 1063 0 0 0 6 591 332 0 0 450 feet Nil Desperandum 11yrtleford 196 0 0 0 6 1175 63 12 0 100 feet Carthew and Co Myrtleford 16 0 0 0 4 0 3 4 0

------ shy --- shy ---__- Surfaee

Totals 2712 0 0 o 10 1067 1416 6 0 YACKANDANDAH SOUTH ------ shy ---- shy ----- shy

SUBDIVISION

Bigelowe and Clingam Hillsborough 130 0 0 0 8 8 54 3 6 40 feet Pride and Stringer Baek Creek 130 0 0 1 6 0 169 6 0 100 feet Iron Hand Twists Creek 35 0 0 0 2 14 4 10 8 20 feet Schnackenberg Bros Sandy Creek 60 0 0 4 10 0 270 0 0 60 feet Crowe and Farrell Sandy Creek 22 0 0 o 18 436 20 0 0 36 feet Patrick McClinehy Sandy Creek 6 0 0 II 13 8 70 0 0 30 feet

INDIGO DIVISION

Gallagher and CoshyDe lI1amiel and Co

Totals

Not known Golden Bar Reef

383 0 0 ------- shy

6 0 0 8 0 0

I 10 1687 587 19 14

1shy 9 = 1 II 2 Surfaee to 40 feet 0 16 18 6 14 0 30 to 40 feet

Hellyar and Co Indigo Reef 3 0 0 0 14 13 2 3 15 20 to 28 feet Pomeroy and Co Banners Reef 15 0 0 017 U2 13 2 0 60 feet Williams and Co Not known 20 0 0 o 16 18 16 15 0 Not known Spearing and Co Demon 28 0 0 1 15 171 49 2 0 60 to 80 feet Barras rind Co Caledonian Reef 48 0 0 o 17 235 43 3 0 100 feet Trevillian and Co Indigo Lead Reef 45 0 0 o 18 2134 42 10 0 138 feet Buehan and Co Pass-by Reef 13 0 0 17 18 II07 233 0 0 175 feet Archer and Co Touehstone Reef 12 0 0 I 4 0 14 8 0 Smfaee to 2(1 feet Laurie and Co Golden Bar 8 10 0 1 10 1411 13 0 0 30 to 80 feet Eustace and Co Bradys Hill 13 0 0 o 13 2033 9 0 0 Surface to 20 fcer Bigby and Co WaHaces Gully 10 0 0 2 15 0 27 10 0 80 to I00 f~CL Burton and Co Eureka Heef 25 0 0 o 14 0 17 10 0 60 to 80 feet Various companies Various reefs 19 10 0 o 14 1969 14 9 0 Various depths Hooly and Co We Speek Reef 25 0 0 1 10 0 37 10 0 60 to 100 feet Lord and Co Campbells Reef 24 0 0 4 5 10 102 10 o I 80 to 90 feet Brown and Co Garibalui Heef 12 0 0 o 17 4 10 6 0 60 to 70 flof

----- shy --- shy --- shyTotals 335 0 0 I 19 1247 661 19 3

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crllshed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

AverogeDivision and Subdivision Yield of Gold Quartz Crushedand Where Qnartz was obtained

per TonName 01 Company

BUCllLAD DIVISIOY

J A Wallace Jones and Co Dl-vies and Co

o

o

H arrietville Land Tax Rcef Buck-eye Tiddle-de-addle-de

Gillies and Co The Admiral Douglas and Co Anderson and Co Stephen and Co o

H Curry and Co O Anderson and Co Boss Cockies Shippen and Cobullbullbull King and Co Clemens and Co Radcliffe and Fowler Brady and Co

Bucldand o bull

lt

bullbullbull

Davies and Co Maguire and Co Harp of Erin Co Maguire aud Co Beveridge and Co Coxon and Co Grennep and Wilson Honeychnrch and Co

Frecburgh Oriental Hill Three Stars Tramway Heef Three Stars bullbullbull

Oriental Hill Reliance Reef Lisbon Reef

Maefadzean aud Co J Butler and Go

Bright

Belle of the Ball Stackey Gully

The Hope Q M Running Creek

Happy Valley Reef Root Hog and Die Running Creek

Totals

WANDILIOONO SUBDIVISIO

Prince Arthur Mill Williams and Co Tributers Williams and Co Tributers Davies and Hearn Tri-

buters Birthday Mill

Three public crushings Queen of South Mill

Two small crushings Hit or Miss Mill

Harrietville Oriental Mill

Nine parcels for public Try Again Mill

Hood and Contts Frasers Mill

Myrtle Co London Co James and Co Londonderry bullbull

Prince Arthur Lease Anstralasia Lease Prince A Lease

Various

Buck-eye

Try Again Myrtle Reef London Reef Londonderry

Native Industry Reef

and Co Attridge and Co Native Industry Symes

Old Albion Never 100 Late Mill

Stephens and Co Pride of Kildare Gregory and Co Louisa

Forlorn Hope Vale and Co Wbo Knows

Home ~fill Hazeton E M Gill Home Reef

Stephens Mill Mills and Co Advance Australia H Mitchell HM Reef J Phillips New Years Gift

tons cwt qr

258 0 0 19 0 0

205 0 0

156 0 0

90 0 0 16 0 0

13 0 0 12 0 0 35 0 0

4 0 0 7 0 0

14 0 0 40 0 0

6 0 0 7 0 0

54 0 0 34 0 0

100 0 0 40 0 0 5 0 0

11 0 0 17 0 0 17 0 0

49 10 0 19 0 0

312 0 0

3 0 0

oz dwt gr

1 8 1451 9 5 632 1 12 468

o 10 2154

1 7 1866 1 10 0 5 4 l477 1 11 16 0 7 1028 1 6 6 2 1 1886 2 17 1029 0 4 72 4 6 16 1 7 0

2 2 2311 210 0 o 18 0 o 17 0 1 3 0 1 10 0 1 0 0 4 14 282

o 14 1309 o 15 189

0 1 2331

I 8 0

1543 10 I 3 2124 __ o i

28 0 0 I 13 0 16 0 0 o 17 12 77 0 0 7 0 686

85 0 0 0 9 1552

11 10 0 1 5 0

64 0 0 3 13 105

376 0 0 0 4 963

150 0 0 0 7 48

780 0 0 0 4 16 42 0 0 0 8 228 24 0 0 0 7 12 33 10 0 I 17 211

13 18 0 3 7 2089

24 0 0 1 o 20 28 0 0 I 3 1371 23 0 0 1 19 313 43 0 0 I 1 949

0 4 1294178 0 0

35 0 0 3 I 1714 49 0 0 o 16 1763 99 0 0 0 Ii 109

Remarks relative to the Total Yield of Depth at which theGold Quartz WJ obtained ampc _-----shyoz dwt gr

369 O 0 400 feet 176 0 0 150 feet 330 0 0 220 feet water leve

100 feet 85 0 0 150 feet

125 0 0 60 feet 24 0 0 20 feet 68 0 0 80 feet 19 0 0 Surface 13 0 0 20 feet 5 5 0 40 feet

14 12 12 40 feet 40 4 0 50 feet 8 12 0 35 feet

26 0 0 Surface 9 9 0 25 feet

116 0 0 SO feet 85 0 0 50 feet 90 0 0 120 feet 34 0 0 60 feet

5 15 0 Surface 16 10 0 40 feet 17 0 0 Surface to 10 feet 80 0 0

36 0 0 30 feet 15 0 0 50 feet

30 15 0 300 feet water level 100 feet

4 4 0 Surface

1843 ( 12 ----shy

46 -1 0 Surface to 40 feet 14 0 0 Surface to 40 feet

540 2 0 Surface to 40 feet

41 0 0

14 7 12

235 0 0 150 feet

82 15 0

100 to 300 feet54 0 0

450 feet 17 0 0

182 0 0 300 feet

9 0 0 170 feet 63 10 0 70 feet

43 0 0

middot25 0 0 33 0 0 45 0 0 310 feet 46 0 0 90 feet

40 8 0 120 feet deep

108 0 0 30 feet 41 0 0 50 feet 27 0 0 5 to 60 feet

Eleven small parcels Various 153 0 1

0 9 1082 72 6 0O

1779 12 12 Totals 2332 18 0 o 15 616

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION

The Try Again Paps Reef 2 0 0 1 8 0 2 16 0 Surface to 50 feet Peter Mannoni and party Durham Gully Reef 14 0 0 9 10 0 133 0 0 Snrface to 40 feet Selby and Johnson Candlelight Reef 25 0 0 0 7 48 9 0 0 Surface to 50 feet

--- shy -- shy ----- shy ---- shy -Totalsmiddot 41 0 0 3 10 1522 144 16 0

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QUANTITY of- QUARTZ Crushed in eacK Division and StiMivsioriJduring the QUfiiter Iampc-colltinued

Division and Subdlvlson 1 I Average I l Remark~el~tfveto the t and Quartz Cru~hed i YieldOf Gold TotaGrl~d of

Nameof Company bull per Ton bull

-----------I--to-n-s-cwt--q-10p -o~ Dny CnEElt SUBDIVISION

R G Meade Une~(Quattz Table ipoundiIiabiy Creek 350 0 0 0 23 Claim

-~~ t71~ 1- -~

GAFFNEYS CnEEllSUBshyDIVISION

Al G M Tributers I bullbull Castle reefs 400 00 o 13 1626 Rose of DenmarkTributers Eureka Heef 1 i 60 0 0 o 6 Hi Wallaby Tributers - WallabyReef bull f600 0 0 o 15 1244 Sundry lots ~i ~ bullbull Homeward Bound Reef 1)400 0 0 o 018

~-----shyTotals bullbullbull

WOODS POINT SJJBDIVISIONbullbull

The Revival (Fords Tribute) Sir Tohn Franklin reefs Lady Franklin Tributers bull Johnsons Reef Morning Star Prospectors Mornini Star Heef

Tributers North WaverJy~ i Waverly Reefmiddot Axton and Ryan Morning Star Reef

Totals

BIG RIVEn SUBDIVISION

Londonderry S M bullbullbull Hailway Heef Lucks All Q Mmiddot I WarnersReef i

Totals

MITTA MITTA NORTH SUBshyDIVISION

Happy Go Lucky ~rount Firebrace Prospecting Mill I ~ Cotton Tree Hore and Co -CottOn Tree bullbullbull Coleman Cotton Tree Philip bullbullbull Cotton Tree Gregson Cotton Tree PeadoIiBrothers Cotton Tree Clarke Brtithers bull Qotton Tree Padgett Cotton Tree Peach and party CottonTree n

Sutherland Cotton Tree Christy and Co CottonTree Frazer and Co Cotton Tree Miller and Co Cotton Tree Lee Cotton Tree Doctor and party Cotton Tree Flag Staff Compo Bethariga Trewalla Compo Bethanga

Totals

MITTA JliIITTA Scn)Tii SUB- DIVISIN

I

Enterprise bull Junction Mitta Mitta Christmas Tunction Mitta Mitta Christmas (2nd lot) Junction Mitta Mitta Welcome Tunction Mitta rfitta Yellow Girl Junction Mitta 1l1itta Watson and Scalesmiddot I Granite Fiat ~ Littlejohn and Williams b t Granite Flat A Hodder Granite ]Iat Empress Granite ll1it Empress (No2) Granite Flat Jtichards Bros Granite Flat llose of Kilkenny Granite Flat Pioneer Juncti~n Mitta 11itta

Totals bull

JA~IIESON SUBDrVI8ION

Ventu~e ( Macks Creek Sailor Bill ( tiailor Bill Greek

Totals

2460 0 0 0 6 1436

800q 0 o 8 21)-72

130 0 0 o 2 1366 800 0 0 03 072

1400 00 0 3 924

)t60 0 0 I o 4 4

d 40J 00

273 ll 0

20 ) 0 465 1gt1 0

52 10 0 -----shy

811 12 0

I

354 IPIS 16 14 0

121 4 0

)67 1~0 10 ~ 0

Depth at which the Quartz was obtained ampc

---------shy

About 70 feet T

About 200 feet About middot100 feetmiddot About200 feet

~ i ~~~ j 0

Ahptlt 200 feet f~ r About 100 feet About 70 fcet

Aboutl30 feet y Surface 7

2190 0 0 o 1 511 I 572 12 18

co i

900 0 0 o 4 16 183 0 0 I About 300 feet ~~~172 0 uO 1 21223 c190 0 0 About 250 feet

1072 0 0 0 6 2301 373 9 0 ---- shy _---shy

_ 300-0 0 o 10 192 162 0 0 295 00 o 13144 200 12 0

32- 0 0 o 12 0 19 4 0 16 12 Omiddot27 0 0 o 12 711

4 10 0 o 9 266 2 I 0 I300 1 3 8 3 10 0

6 4 9

0 0 0 0 00

o iI 16 o i 0 o ~5- in 33

3 100 216 0

213 0 6 0 0 o 5 16 I 14 0 9 0 0 o 10 8 13 0

6 0 0 o 15 16 41~ 0 500

22 00 o 9 144 o 19 0

280 20 la 0

11 12

0 0 00 i

o 16 o 7

218 8

8 17 4lt 8

0 0

186 0 O o 10 1853 100 314 83 0 0 o 11 1424 48 2 6

1020 100 0 11 2235 608 15 20 1

12 0 0 o 1 20 I ) 0 12 0 0 o 5 20 3 10 0

700 o 8 2057 3 2 0 50 0 0 o 544 14 10 0

o 14 0 14 o 0 c i 20 Q 9 o I 6 0 F2 12 10 Q o o 3 343 j 2 14 0~ 14 Q o o I 18 0 7 0400

38 0 0 o 9 503 17]00 o 4 1664 11 14 16 50 0 deg 700 Vb2171 8

16 O l o 8 45 6 0 I r J

15 o l 0 o 3~3 deg2 l deg ---- ~ - I ltshy

255 middot0 0 0 6 1538 ------ --__shy

600 b 0 0 3 256 93 14 0 100 feet Fmiddot

480 00 0100 240 O 01 40()feet 1

o ~ o1080 ~ 0

11

Total Yield 01 Reruarksrelatve to the Gold Depth at which the

~_____ Qn~r~~ T~~ Obtp7dbullampe

tons oz dwt gr

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHUllST DIVISION Albert Beehive bullbullbull Bendigo and Melbourne Birds Reef Catherine ReefU C Garden Gully United bull G G Consolidated Great Extended Hustlers

Reef Great Britain bull bullbull Great Southern Hercules and Energetic bull Johnsons Reef G M bullbullbull Lazarus bull Louisa Metropolitan bullbull Marong CrushillgWorksl New-chum and Victoria Newmiddotchum United New Kelson bull Old Tom J V)~ipstick Shenandoah Victoria Conaols Victoria Reef G M _ Vilsons Reef

KILMORE DIYISION~ Crown Doyles GoIden Crown Beaconsfield bullbullbull Red Rover Loudon and party Trezise and party Overlander Doyles Battery robins neef bull

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND VVARANGA SOUTH

SUBDIVISION Alison

Collins

DIVISION Good Luck Nobull1 Hgpe o(Denmar~ ~ Lost Love Taylorand Crowe Cambridge and Warwick West Growlers TaylorBros __ Marsland and Co Holmes Lease King Billy Francis and Co Rowan and Co Hodge Bros Loughlin Jose and Co WnistIers OBrien and Co Telford and Co

Diamond tIilt E~glhawk bullbullbull Kangaroo Flat Kangaroo blat

Eaglehawk Garden Gully Reef Golden Gully bull Hustlers Reef

Golden Square Garden Gully Reef Victoria neef bullbull California Gully

New-chum Gully Eaglehawk GoIde-q SQllare I I yenarong bullbull - Ironbark New-chum Gully KeIson Reef bull

Newmiddotchm Ililcf Victoria R~ef

Totals 1

Doyles ned Doyles Reef GCrown Reef i Magenta Reef Upper Reedy London Reef bullbull Russells Reef Overlander Reef I Various places Sunday Creek

529 00 o 6 1279 5360 0 0 o 91855

389 00 o 6 283 o B 206I 1389 OJii

3196 0 4441l0

I 1078 O bull 258 0 bull 1170 0

3783 0 3994 0 6980 0 4362 0 1789 0 141~ 0

237 0 il189 0 1773 0 1927 0

1 240 0

_ 2i32 0 r 2554 0 1

VictoriaRlcf 4330 _0 Marong 305 0

i------ii

o 5 1825 0 0

1 1 056 0 o 4 1206 0 o 8 947

o 0 5 372 o 0 61l47 o 0 5 1202 o 0 4 912 o 0 9 1372 o 0 6 1321 o 0 4 2332 o 0 5 966 o 0 8 ijs 60S 94deg 0 6 163i 0 0bull 186l

o 0 4 2219o 0 2 132 o 0 8 389 o 0 7 2289

280 0 0 4 0 0 190 0 0 1 15 0

13 0middot0 1 10 0 --20 0 0 0 15 0

15 oj 0 0 10 0 5 0 0 1 0 0

12 0 0 2 14 0 16 0 0 0 8 0

0160 0 0 5 0 6 0 Oimiddotl 0 0

)

dii5 23 2619 4 0

119 0 0 56111 12 920 11 i

4670 8 0 242 14 I

1083 15 0

507 16 deg 1225 7 0 1098 11 0 1528 14 0

2~~ i~ g 362 9 0

6314 12 2151 2 0 743 19 0

643 12 0 16middot6 12 623 10 iJ 325 ui 12 1767 0

121 6 0

00 332 10

19 10 0 0

1120 0

15 0 00 Kll b 1 el7 1 ~ a ove water- ev

3~ i g ~~ ~resent

15 0 0 rJ J 6 0 0

Totals 617 0 0 2 10 13 15596 0

Lower Costerfield 48 0 0 1 ii 0 48 0 0 Redcastle 343 0 0 0 14 2365 257 0 0

Totals li~~3_~_1_0-0-l-_0_15gt1_4_4-2 1_3_05_0__0_

Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth Rushworth

Rushworth

Rushworth Rushworth Whroo Whroo Whroo Wllroo

Whroo Coys Diggings Coys Diggings Coys Diggings

Totals

54 0 0 0 3 2266 29

9 0 0

0 0

1 1 579i 12 16

2 0 0 3 13 12 40 Ii 0 0 5 1335 29 0 0 0 I H17 -5-middot0 0 L3 0

5 19 30

7 13 9 2

5 22 12

6

0 00 7 96 0 0 0 4 deg 0 0 1 12 if 00 0111714 0 0 0 4 0 0middot0 2 16 12 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 6 48 0 0 I 8 3 1527 0 0 0 4 6 00 2 316

298 O 0 I 1 3 1049

I

I I I

(ifixed lots from va rious reefs See II page 30)

I I

[

J

1I

j 1

10 13 0 I 30 16 0 i4 14 0 770

11 2 6 2 2 12

5150 I1 17 O 3 16 0

30 15 0 Al)above water-Ieve

4 2 0 II2 12 025 8 12 100 1 11 0 I

180 0 0 I 2 11 0 I

13 2 0 J -----s

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT -

MARYBOROUGH DIVIllON Bristol Hill James Kay Reade and 90 bull

Western Reef Bristol Hill Viarious pl~ces

883 10 0 97 00

0 3 1655 o 4 5

163 iO 20 8

0 5

306 to 430 feet Various

(public crushiugs) Waldley and party

Leviathan Reef China 352 0 0 o 13 095

1 229 10 0 70 to 80 feet

mans Wilson and Dark Lord Napier Reef Chinashy 61 0 0 0 7 904 221( 0 11~feetl

mans Fisher and party North German Reefmiddot1 39 0 0 0 5 1538 11 0 0 60 feet

Chinamans

totals

1432 19 0 0 6 557 446 8 5 -

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QUANTITY of QUAlnz Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued -

AYclage 1Division and Subdivision Uemnrks relative to the _and Yioldo Gold 1 Total YIeld of Depth at whIch the

Name of Company Quartz Crushedthere Quartz was obtained

per Ton Gold Quartz was 0 btained amp0

oz dwt grtons cwt qr oz dwt gr

AMHERST DIVISION

Croydon 35 12 18 Laura Reef 230 0 0 0 3 237 40 to 80 feet No 1 South Croydon --

Iaura Reef 0 2 493 15 8 18140 0 0 Surface to 30 feet No2 South Croydon 0 1 20-82 9 6 18 40 feetLaura Reef 100 0 0

288 11 12Union Q M C 200 feet Trickey and party

Church Hill Reef 144 0 0 -2 0 192 9 3 12Dundee Beef 0 2 789 60 feet

Perseveranee 77 0 0

0 8 1111 11 15 6 40 feet Sundries Prince of Wales Reef 27 0 0

18 8 0_143 0 0 0 _2 1376Various ----s6~1--~0~1--6i21Totals

-I AVOCA SUBDIVISION

Monte Christo 15 10 0Murdoehs Reef 14 0 0 I 2 342

DUNOLLY ~ND TARNAGULLA DiVISIONS

Queens Birthday o 12 031 2223 0 8 300 to 500 feet Queens Reef

3701 0 0Bealiba Reef 64 18 0Queens Reef 130 feet713 0 0 0 1 1969

Kentish Reef 15 11 11 Kentish Reef 48 0 0 0 6 1l73 60 feet Harvest Home 33 0 0Harvest Home 40 feet30 0 0 1 2 0 Harrop and Lees 26 0 0 40 feet Yorkshire G M bull 0 1 o 1520 0 0

566 4 12 160 to 200 feetWatts Reef Tarnagulla 1474 0 7 1638o 0 1

2928 _75966 1 0 0 9 1963Totals 1~ --- shyINGLEWOOD DIVISION

Jersey Reef Quartz Mining 103 3 20Jersey Reef 182 0 0 011 815 Dalmatia G M 1 3 0

tyres Smugglers Gi~n McI~ I 20 0 0 0 1 36

104 6 20202 0 0 010 794Totals REDBANK SUBDIVISION

TormeyEi Claim 52 16 0Station Reef 22 0 0 2 8 0

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION

Greenock Reef 39 0 070 feet to 170 feet (above 45 0 0 o 17 80 70 to 170 feet water-level)

Adams and party - -9 12 030 0 0 0 6 96 50 feetSpinster Ueef bull IT-Kersleyand party Greenock Reef 17 0 o i 0 10 0 1 8 10 0 15 feet

_ 92 0 0 0 12 991 57 2 0Totals ST ARNAUD NORTH

SUBDIVISION shyWorking Miners 0 7 268 248 18 6 200 to 260 feet Chrysolite Tribute Quartz

New Bendigo 700 0 0 0 2 2331 52 0 0 150 feet level

Mining Co Registered Chrysolite Reef - 350 0 0

300 18 6Totals 1Q50 0 0 0 5 1755

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLElILltiINE D1VISION

Eureka Cardwell Argus United McWalters Central bull Wattle Gully Sebastopol Crushing Utle Nuggety Arehbold and Co

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

English Australian G M Perseverance Burdett-Coutts New Era Blaek Haivk Rowe Bros Rowe nros Duke Oornwall Small and Co Macdonald and Co Meins Freehold G M

Eureka Reef Town Reef Argus Flat-

Burns Reef Wattle Gully Wattle Gully Lady Gully Nuggety Reef bullbullbullI

Public crushings Totals bullbull

Golden Gully Cattles Reef Cattles Ueef Ferrons Reef Cattles Reef Cattles Heef Ferrons Reef bullbull Cattle Reef Cattles Reef German Gully Guilford Hill

Totals

718 0 0 41 0 0

530 0 0 8J 0 0

759 0 0 505 0 0 247 0 0

52 0 0 155 0 0

3091 0 0

862 0 0 200 0 0

20 0 0 6310 0 0

123 0 0 1419 0 0

417 0 0 166 0 0 50 0 0 24 0 0

3560 0 0 i shy

13151 0 01

0 6 1666 o 19 12-3 0 7 65 o 17 12 0 4 424 0 2 983 0 3 162 0 7 203 o 15 4-18

0 6 341

0 4 98 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 3 324 0 1 20-87 0 7 668 0 4 2169 0 4 144 0 2 96 o 10 0 0 1 1839

0 3 904

1

240 7 0 360 feet 40 0 0 62 feet

192 13 12 73 10 0 160 feet

158 10 0 350 feet 60 17 0 45 18 20 8 0 230 feet

117 12 0

949 5 6

190 0 0 320 feet 40 0 0 180 feet

5 0 0 230 feet 989 3 0 100 to 380 feet

11 10 0 150 feet 516 8 0 150 to 200 feet 102 5 0 20 to 80 feet 33 14 0 20 to 200 feet

6 0 0 190 feet 12 0 0 90 feet

314 8 0

2220 8 0

shy

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Average Remarks relative to theDivision and Subdivision Total Yield ofWhere Quartz was obtained I Qnartz Crushed I Yield of Gold Depth at which theand Gold Quartz was obtained amp0per TonName of Company

---------_

tone owt qr loz dwt gr oz dwt gr

HEPBUllN DIVISION

Argus Italian mil 566 0 0 30 to 150 feet New North Cornish

74 11 100 2 1506 n

Wombat Hill 105 0 0 Surface to 35 feet Richardsons

0 3 396 16 12 8 Bismarck Reef 13 0 0 30 feet1 0 0 13 0 0IWomans Gully 23 0 0 10 feet0 4 834 5 0 0Ansonia

60 0 o i 0 3 0Pitchers Reef 25 feet Panham 9 0 0Fuseo

Pitchers Reef 52 0 0 40 feet Bray and party

0 1 1661 4 8 0 Frenchmans Reef 70 feet12 0 0 2 8 00 4 0

King and Co

Willards Reef 60 0 0 70 feet0 4 0 12 0 0 ISt Georges Reef 630 0 0 0 1 038 32 0 0 140 feetUnion Nuggety HeeL 690 0 0 230 0 0 I20 to 280 feet

Keep-it-Dark Companies 0 6 16Ajax Keep-it-Dark

120 0 0 50 0 0 I 100 to 140 feet0 8 8

Totals 2331 0 0 0 3 2044 448 19 18

TARADALE AND KYNETON SUBDIVISION

Taradale 945 0 0 0 1 1562 United Kingdom ~ 78 0 0 Glenlyon 140 I) 0 0 9 1406 Little Wonder 67 2 0

1085 0 0Totals 0 2 1619 145 2 0 ----shy

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Caledonian Mills Parkins Linscotts Nelshy 92 0 0 o 17 0 200 to 300 feet78 4 0 son amp Valkers reefs

Eaglehawk Linscotts 622 0 0 0 12 1744 395 16 0 50 to 270 feetLinscotts Mills and Nuggety reefs

Phwnix Mills Beehive Swipers Gershy 1000 0 0 1 9 1227 1475 11 12 80 to 300 feet man Victoria amp Irish Billys reefs

Great Western Beehive Reef 120 0 0 0 4 0 24 0 0 40 to 80 feet

Totals bullbull 1834 0 0 I 1 1253 197311 12 -~-----

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

United Company Hoddles Creek 180 0 0 0 9 204 88 13 0 35 feet Lyre Bird Hoddles Creek 25 0 0 o 13 0 16 5 0 27 feet Sunday Reef McCraes Hill S 0 0 0 1 12 o 12 0 20 feet Sheppard and party Warburton 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 10 feet Central Mining Hurst and Co

Reef ton MountainB

38 10 1 0

0 0

1 13 24 2 17 20

63 14 2 17

8 2

180 feet Surface

Murray and Hirt Smith and Hirt Hartley and Co

You-You You-You You-You

3 2 7

10 0 0

0 0 0

1 10 2057 I 10 12 o 10 1714

5 8 3 1

1 15

0 0 0

50 feet 30 feet 60 feet

Hopkinson You-You 2 0 0 1 10 0 3 0 0 60 feet Apted and Co Pioneer 6 0 0 o 18 8 5 10 0 ISO feet Progress Panton Hill 218 0 0 0 7 146 82 18 15 120 feet Napoleons March Panton Hill 18 0 0 o 11 1977 1012 20 40 feet Bignell and Co Fourth Hill Warrandyte 7 0 0 3 0 0 i 21 0 0 30 feet

517 0 0Totals o 11 2247 308 10 21

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Wimmera North and South Wales Pioneer and Galatea New St George Scotchmans Moonlight W onga and Birmingham

RAGLAN DIVISION

The Victory Quartz Gold Mining

Stawell reefs

Stawell reefs Stawell reefs Stilwell reefs Stawell reefs Stawell reefs

Totals

Reef near Waterloo

5788 0 0 is 9 0

4624 0 0 3196 0 0 3353 10 0 3580 0 0 2069 0 0

22688 19 0

17 0 0

011 595 1 5 739 o 14 721 o 11 26 0 7 9 0 14 2207 0 2 1853

0 11 319

1 4 224

3255 4 3 200 to 1000 feet 99 5 10 40 to 100 feet

3306 6 8 200 to 1100 feet 1i75 2 0 4S0 to 1200 feet 1236 II 18 100 to 850 feet 2670 IS 0 410 to 1120 feet

286 15 21 24 to 100 feet

12629 18 12

20 10 0

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~iiANfiTYofCltr ARTz0rusliedjirieacnDi visi~ri~andgtSohdi vision during the Qulilter ~ampc-continuedbull _ _ ~~ ~M_~

---1--- DivislonnndSnbdivisioh bull

OlJ 1j and~ I ~Yhere Qua~ was ogttamed __ Na~~O Company______ ______ ___

GIPPSLAND ~C C ~ Q)fElO ~

~ Srifts Creek Fashion Reef

CROOKED RIVE~ DiVISIoN

Robert Moore -- ~ Upper Dargo bullbull Wentworth Parslow and Co

Totals DONNELLYSC~EEK DIVISION

DonnellyS Creek Bismarck United

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION

Long Tunnel f Cohens Reef Cohens Reef Walhalla (Tributers) I

I Totals ABERFELDY SUBDIVISlON Aberpoundeldy Reef -James Rices Mine

----~-

AverageQuartz Crushed Yie1T ONMld

per Ton

tons ewt qr oz dwt gr

MINING DISTRICT u

I 10 0 0 I 12 b

---- shy

20 0 0 0 10144 30 0 600 0

50 0 0 0 7 2016

42 0 0 0 14 4

5034 0 0 1 8 191 0 8 1078997 d 0

06031 0 1 5 1038

650 d 0 0 6 144

Remarks relative to thoTotal Yield Depth at which theof Gold Quartz was obtalnedampc

Oz dwt gr

-

i 16 0 0

10 12 0 Surfaee to 20 feet 9 00

---- shy19 12 0

29 15 0 400 feet

17248 0 0 i 343 to 623 feet 421 4 0

7669 4 )

]96 19 0 150 feet 50 feet

water level

~ laquo

~

QUARTZ TAILINGS MULLOClETC THE follo~in~ infor~ation has beenobtai~edfromReturn~made bythe-Mi~lng Surveyorsand R~gist~a~s

relative to the Quantity OfQUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK ampc Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each -Mining District -during the ~uarter and the GOJD obtained therefrom

I ______

DiviSion and Snbdlvislon I Where Quartz Tailings and I Quartz Tailings Average Ttl y ld ~r ~Remarksielative to the and Mullock ampc were and Mnlloek ampc Yield of Gold 0 ItG I~c Depth at which tbeI

Same of Company i obt~n~~ l I~~~I )ler~on~ 0 MUll~C~amp~1e~ ~btalne~ --- shy tons cwt qr oz dwt gr 0 dwtgr

r bull - JBALLARATMININGDISTRICT

I ICENTRAL DtvIsioN 1

~

11259 19130 Isuriac~ ~~Ofe~~ IBallarat East 2580 00 0Canadian

Mount Clear 1050 00Baker and Co I 0 12308 103 00 Surface to 20middotfeet t

pi 1+Totals ~ q630 0 0 o 1 1562 bull ni

STEIGLITZ SUBl)JVISION I

Minerva Eiaine 220 0 0 o 3 218 34 0 0 20 0 0Wee Speek bullbull Do o 4 96 4 8 0

180 0 0 0 016DUIIlIDott and Co Steiglitz 6 O o

Totals 420 0 0 0 2 274 44 8 0

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEcrrwoRTH DIVISION

Marco Polo Hurdle Flat - 48 0 0 0 2 0

I

4 16 0 Various depths l~_ gt

INDIGO DIVISION

Magentll MIYfntR Reef middot Places Mill Variou~

Totals -

I

-

0632 300

shy

0 0 0 0 I

I 0 o I

0 0

0

I 991 44 13 0 2 0middotmiddot 30 0 0

1444 t1 74 13 0

Surface to 50ifeet ChieH y surfacemiddotfrom

old workings

MrlTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION

Trewalla Bethanga

23 middot0 0 gt)

0 7 417

8

5 0

r

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK crushed in each Division and Subdivision ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Where Quart Tailings and Quartz Tallogs I Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and and MuJlock ampc Gold lfuUock ampc were Depth at which the

erolIlld I I~ IP t I obtained Mullock ampc were obtamcltL --middot---------------~-------I-----I-------=-___c_-~-I------~--

Name of Company

tons ewt qr oz dwtgr

SANDHURSTMlNING DISTRICT~~ L I i

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIshyVISION

Alison JoIlins

Lower Costerfield Redcastle

Totals

i

1000 0 150 (l 0

0 0

3 0 2 224

15 0 22 0

0 0

shy

d

~1

250 P 0 0 2 2304 37 0 0

(I

MARYBOROUGH MiNI~G DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE MINI~G DISTRICTv

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION

Crown Ninirod Reef bullbullbull Nuggety NuggetyReef D avies and Co

Donkey Gully A jax Tribute ~ Bolivia Reef

Totals n i - shy

HEPBUBN DIVISION

Francis bullbullbull f bullbull1 Wombat Hill ~ bullbull

ST ANDRlFws D1VISION

middotCentral Mining bull~ Reefton bullbullbull United bullbullbull HoddlesCreek

Totals

1140 0 0 0 1 0-1 57 5 0

- 0 0 0 I 12 5210 0_ 700 680 0 0 0 1 235 37middot 612 510 0 0 0 1l(66middot 36( 16 15

3030 0 0

400 00

Ilt

i 174 0 0 I 25 0 0I

199 0 0

0 1 5l3 183 18 3

0 0 -12 l 10 0 0

t I bull

0 3 15-22 31 12 9 0 0 192 1- 0 0

)

-- 6671-~

Surface Surface

Shllow

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

W onga and Bir~ingham

~ I

Stawell reefs 35 0 0 0 2 13-54 4 9 18 f ~ I ~ i f

1I

middotGIPFStAN]) IMINliNG vDISiFRI(iJT

DONNELLYS CllEEKD~ISIOl

Bismarck ITnited

i

1

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PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the Quantity of PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on in the several Divisions -and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Dlvision and Subdivision Remarks relatlve to the I Pyrites I Average I I iWhere Pyr~B an~ Blanketmgs and Blnnketings Yield 01 Gold Tota Y old of and Depth at which the wele obtamed I operated on per Ton GoldName 01 Oompany - PyritesJ ampc were ubtained

I tons cwt qr oz dwt gr I oz dwt gr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION Llanberris 18 0 0 1 16 1466 32 19 0Gumtree Flatbullbullbull

CRESWIOK DIVISION Port Phillip Clunes 471 5 0107 0 o I 4 8 202 New North Clunes 93 16 12Clunes 19 0 o i 4 18 1831

67 5 o 7 I 2382South Clunes 477 9 0Clunes 193 5 0 1 5 7 2145 1042 1012

STEIGLITZ SIJDDIVISION Totals

Enterprise Elaine- 103 0 0 o 18 349 93 9 0 Dummott and Co 5 12 0Steiglitz 22 0 0 0 5 218

Totals 99 1 0 BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND

BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION

125 0 0 o 15 2035

Barrys Reef bullbullbull 14 10 0 4 9 1572 65 0 0Sultan

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEOHWORTH DlVISION Reform Myrtleford 39 0 0 o 15 0 29 5 0

1

YAOKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVlSION

Bigelowe and Clingam WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION E M Gill

Homeward Bound Hills-borough

Various localities

25

50

0

0

0

0

o 15middot 504

o 18 0

19

45

0

0

6

0

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

S

SANDHURST DIVISION 884 16 122 2 2286Pinchgut Gully 412 0 0United Pyrites 244 4 01 9 2311 163 0 0Jackass Flat andhurst amp Eaglehawk PE 281 7 121 11 013Derwent Gully 181 10 0L iddell and Co

1410 8 01 17 69756 10 0Totals HEATHOOTE DIVISION AND ---------shy

WARANGA SOUTH SUB-JDIVISION

33 0 J1 0 033 0 0Alison Lower Costerfield I

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION Bristol Hill

DlJNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS

Queens Birthday

Western Reef Bristol Hill 13 11 0 2 7 208 81 18 12

Bealiba Reef 15 0 0 1 6 16 20 0 0

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr Yeats Castlemaine 129 0 0 1 12 409

- 207 10 0

HEPBURN DIVISION J Williams Ajax

3 7

0 0

0 0

o 16 1 14

16 685

210 12 0

0 0

250 feet 250 feet

Totals 10 0 01 1 9 0 14 10 0

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

_DIVISlUrSTRINGERS 2 9 3-21 42 18 017 9 0Cohens Reef Long Tunnel

12 14 01 9 4648 14 0 Cohens Reef Walhalla - 55 12 02 2 1213- 26 3 0Totals

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

1

Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

I

INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

18

QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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19

CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

-----------------~-------------~---------------~-------------------

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

t

--

---

--

------

---

---

--

20

NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

---

--

--------------

176

21

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

22

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

--- ---

23

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

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The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

l

OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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Page 6: MINING SURVEYORS &REGISTRARS.€¦ · Table showing the Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz raised during the Quarter in some of the Deepest Mines in Victoria; with Depth

NAME OF REEF

Clunce

Cluncs

Sultan nnd others

Reform Jgtlyrtleord

Pride and

Land TlX Bllckeye Tiddlemiddotilcmiddotaddelde FDrlorn Hope Buckeye

Whistlers

Church Hill bullbull

Goldsborough Moliagul

Jersey Greenock

BriStol Chrysolite

Richmond

Cohens Aberfcldy

I

Feet

450 to 950 278 112

100 to 000

240 to 1105

210 to 770

460

100

400 150 220 310 150

100

200

200 to 260 150

140 150 to 200 100 to 380

270 200 300

SO

50

343 to 623

150

Quantity Crushed

Tons

1500 2117 1520

13910

2457~

1623

1063

139

258 19

205 23 64

60 110 900

480

4443 1510 2208 1802

22

144

3701 713

1471 119

63 45

530 1419 6310

100 945

96 177

17

5034

650

o 6

o 1 8 14 9 5 6 1 12 4 1 19 4 3 13 10

o 6 16 o 10 0 041

o 10 0

1 10 1 3 21 o 11 0 o 7 2

8 3

2

012 0 0 1 19 o 7 16 o 1 19 o 18 I o 17 8

o o

7 2 2 23

076 o 7 6 o 3 3 o 8 0 o 1 13 4 4 15 5 10 16

4 2

18 19

o 6

10 0

2 0

o

1 3 2 0 2 6

6 0

2tolll 0 1 6

1 to 3 0 10 0

In to 8

o 10 0 5 0

1 0 8 0 7 0 3 0

12 4

o o

Irregular 5 6bull 3 0 5 0 2 6 2 0

w W80middot

E

NW30 Vertical Dyke

Vertical

E

W4I)

E 86~ W75 W75

N S

W75

W7 W80

E

12 0 I W80 60 Elftln2tt

Dip oftha Shoot

01 Quartz

N S

N

N

Varies

S

NW24

S S N

s s

S35

Nl inS W40

Vertical Vertical

N30

Good Hope

( j~mg Tunnel t Wlllla

NAME OF REEF

Clunes

Clunes

Sultan and othors

Excelsior Wooragee bullbull

Homeward-bound

Victrnin l-iwltlers Harden Gully

Western

Churchill

Jersey Reef

Eaglehawk

c 1 ~ r

285 I

-(

1~O i i

1

t 2225 1940 166 1468 1313 1262 1210

1230 1117 1052 101

middot1 ~ 7QO

VICTORIA WITH STOPPED EfC

1879)

1105

800

180

420

1200 800 854

500

250

277

160 175 410

1120 1070

800 1000

50

1100

723 58~

1090

1105

800

310

600

250

271

1pound0 175 500

1000

2002 1510 1500 1020 1000 1202 1200

700

Inclndlng pyrites

Including pyrites

REMARKS

bottm level with gold visible in the quurtz

It is intended to open oul another level at 900 feet

Not Sinking Not sinking Sinking

shaft

bull The width vaJies frolll 6 inches to 80 feet

Still sinking

Still sioking

sinkinf sl1Klng

Below ndilleycl

THOS COUCHMAN Secretary for Mines

T A BmiddotL E THE DEPTH OF THESHOWING THE YIELD OF GOLD FROM CERlAIN PARCELS OF QUARTZ RAISED DURING lHEQUARTER IN SOME OF THE

DEEPESI SHAFTS WHICE ARE NOW BEING SUNK OR THE SINKING OF WHICH HAS RECENTLY

( Compiled from Returns made by the fffining Surveyors and Registrars for the Quarter ended 30th

Strike of the Reel

(Bearing)

N and S

N 10 W

W15

NSE

NlOmiddot W

Northerly

NIO E

NE

N24Wbull NIlnctSbull N3SW

Ennd W

NlSW Nl W NIS W

NISW

N N

N14W N)O E

N18W

N15 W N16W

~

NW19

N 25 W

NAME OFCOMPANY

Port Phillip

New North Cluncs

Sultan bull

Dale and Co

and Clinga~

J

LonseUs No 180 Grea Extenrled

Carlisle Nodh (j ly and 1as~by

Bristol Hill

Union

J orsoy I1eel Q M

Eaglehawk Union

~ shy~

DISTIUCT DIVISION

AND NAUE O COMPANY SUBDIVISION

BALLAHAT

Central Division SOllthern Division BU1l1llyong L Smythesdale

Crewick Division

and Blue Mountain I Sultan

IHECHWOUTH

Beechworth Yacknndallliall YllCkUIHlatlllah Indigo Divisioll

Buckland Division

SANDIIURST

Sandhurst Division

Kilmore lIethcote ilivislolJ and Varanga

Subdivhdoll WaJmiddotnnga Normiddotth Subdivision

11 AltYpoundlOIWUGH

Dunollyand Taruagulla Divisions

Inglewood Diyisioll

and st Arnaud South SuUdI-

St Arnaud North Su bdi vision bullbull

Wedderburn Division bullbull

CASTLEIIAINE

Cast1~mninc IJivis10n bullbull

Fryer Creek DivisIon

Hephulll Tllra1ale KY1tctonmiddot8ubdlvision

Tarrangowcr Division bullbull

I Jersey neef Q M

Subdivision

ARARAT Ararat Division

Pleasttnt Creek Division

Barklv Raglan DivisIon

Omeo RubdhiSlIin JltclwtJ jUver amp Hoggy Ok SubdivIsions Crooked Uiver lJ J ericllo Di v i~ion J)ouuellys Ureek Diisiou

Stringers Creek Divislon bullbull

Office of Mines Melbourne 15th October 1879

No 83

Reform

Grumbriage and Co

Union

The Victory

I Long Tunnel James Rices Lea8~

Oz dwt gr

o 2 15 o 2 0 o 6 2

o 16

o 7 1

o 19 17

Width 1Dip of the leef

W 3i1 In 6ft

[

W70middot E66

30 30

W80 varilS

~ride

y

hi

1 1

j

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QUARTZ QUARTZ TAILINGS PYRITES ETO

SUMMARY

THE following information has been obtained relative to the QUANTITY OF QUARTZ QUARTZ TAILINGS

and M ULLOOK Crushed anu PYRITES and BLANKE1IN(S operateu on during the Quarter and the

GOLD obtained therefrom shy

Average Yield of 01 Gold1romQuantity Crushed ~UNING DISTRICTS Gold per Ton Crushed

Quartz tons cwt o~ dwt oz dwt gr

Ballarat 91198 10 0 5 27188 7 23 Beechworth 15774 18 0 11 9257 17 19 Sandhurst 63695 0 0 8 26456 5 12 Maryborough bullbullbull 11639 11 0 8 4294 2 2 CastlemaiTie 8109 0 0 H 6045 17 9 Ararat 22705 19 0 II 12650 8 12 Gippsland 6783 1 3 7931 10 0deg

Totals 217905 18 0 8 93824 9 5

Quartz 1ailings and Mullock 4050 0 0 1 344 1 0Ballarat

0 1 87 14 (1003 0Beechwolth 0 2 87 0 0250 0Sandhurst 0 1 61 2 0702 0Maryborough

3629 0 0 1 226 10 12Castle maine 0 2 4 9 1835 0Ararat

40 0 2 0 4 0 0Gippsland deg 0 1 1381 764 17 69709 0Totals

Pyrites and Blanketings operated on

Ballarat Beechworth

Sandhurst M1tryborough Ctstlemaine Ararat Gippslaml

Totals

350 114 789 28

139

26

15 0

10 11 0

3

1447 19

3 10 1628 1239 10 12 0 16 S68 93 5 6 1 16 356 1443 8 0 1 16 899 51 18 12 1 11 2261 222 0deg 2 2 1213 55 12 ()

2 2 262 3105 14 6

NOlE-This Summary docs not show the total quantities of quartzampc crushed or operated on but only the yield of certnln cruahlngs ampc respecting- which the ~Iining Surveyors and Registrars have been able to obtain information Owing to the circumstance that mnny Of the machine owners are unable to give 01 are precluded from giving information it is impossible to get c-omplete returns froID every district and in considerillg the relative jmportance of each district as regards quartz mining ampc the tables relatipg to machinery should be examined and compared bull

Office of Mines TROS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

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JIINING SURVEYURS AND REGISTRARS RETURNS

QUARTZ

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars lelative to the QUANlITY OF QUARTZ Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GoLD obtained therefrom

Divislon ~nd Subdivision I Average I T IYi Remarks relative toti and WheTe Quartz was obtained Quartz Crushed Yield of Gold ta ld of Depth at which the

Name of Companybull per Ton Gold Quartz was obtained amp0 ~-----------------I--------7--------I-------~-I------------------1-----------------

tons owt qr j oz dwt gr I oz dwtgr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Band and Albion Consols Ballarat West bullbullbull 3269 0 0 0 13 776 2177 15 0 1250 feet Black Hill Ballarat East bullbull 3358 0 0 0 5 1236 925 19 20 Surface to 500 feet Llanberris bullbullbull Ballarat East bullbull 2435 0 0 0 2 1599 324 12 12 300 feet Temperance Little Bendigo 1500 0 0 0 7 2227 594 12 0 430 to 950 feet Serjeants Freehold Endeavor

Ballarat West Specimen Gully

270 603

0 0

0 0

0 11 2295 0 4 421

161 8 125 18

6 0

280 feet 100 feet

Britannia Duchcss

bullbullbull bullbull

Specimen Gully Ballarat East

457 913

0 0

0 0

0 0

2 440 7 1953

49 17 21 356 14 4

165 feet ISO to 300 feet

Parade Ballarat East 230 0 0 0 15 448 174 13 0 400 feet Countess Ballarat East 90 0 0 0 4 1373 20 11 12 70 to 150 feet Canadian Canadian 1925 0 0 0 5 l1S3 52S 15 0 SO to 140 feet Baker and Co bull Mount Clear 1250 0middotmiddot0 0 8 1217 631 14 0 Surface to 100 feet Hanthorn and Co Mount Clear 145 0 0 0 6 082 43 15 0 80 to 150 feet Black Hill Lnited Ballarat East 132 0 0 0 19 1889 129 4 10 400 feet New Dirnocks Little Bendigo 2160 0 o 0 3 266 336 0 0 260 to 860 feet North Dimocks Little Bendigo 708 0 0 I 0 3 823 liS 7 0 300 to 400 feet New Koh-i-noor Ballarat West 190 0 0 Band of Hope Quartz Ballarat West 1104 0 0

Public crushings bull Ballar~~~~d wes~ 2

SOUrUElIN DIVISION

Speedwell Tribute Staffordshire Reef 1090 0 0 Hopewell Tributers Staffordshire Reef 50 0 0 New Kangaroo Kangaroo 2117 0 0 Williams Fancy Kangaroo 900 0 0 Nil Desperandum Kangaroo 511 0 0 New Try Again Kangaroo 400 0 0

Totals 5068 0 0

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Imperial Q M bull Hiscock Reef bull 1520 0 0 Olle-and-All Hiscocks Fairweather 1379 0 0

0 8 757 79 0 0 280 to 300 feet 0 8 558 454 8 18 300 feet

~~19~2 1 1 ~ IVarious depths 11

o 2 751 126 I 10 150 feet 4 feet wide o 6 012 15 0 6 121 feet o 2 004 211 18 0 278 feet 8 feet wide o 3 1028 154 5 18 130 feet 6 feet wide o 2 185middot 70 16 0 120 feet 8 feet wide o I 1269 30 11 12 130 feet 4 feet wide

---- 0 2 964 608 12 22

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0 6 204 462 9 6 1I2 feet 0 Ill 99 103 8 2 80 to 200 feet

1Reefs Tributers Olle-and-All Public crushing~ I Various depths up to

150 feet Llewellyn Magpie Ranges

486 0 0 0 II 1213 279 11 18

180 feet

Totals ~~-+I ~23middot 9 ---1-----shy -------SIYTHESDALE DIVISION

720 0 0 0 1 166 60 17 11 264 feet Bristol Linton Ranges Srnythesdale Consols German Reef SrnythesdaJe

7 10 0 150 feet30 0 o 0 5 0

750 0 0 0 I 1974 68 7 11Totals

CRESWICK DIVISJON

1396 0 0Port Phi Ilip Clunes reefs o 4 1573 32419 12 100 to 990 feet12514 0 0Port Phillip Tributcrs Clunes reefs o 5 159 3170 1 12

New North Clunes Clunes reefs 394 0 0 o 2 962 47 6 12 240 to 1105 feet2063 10 0 725 10 0 South Clunes Clunes reefs New North ClunesTributers Clunes reefs o 7 076

812 2 03119 0 0 o 5 497 70 to 600 feet8486 0 0 2]03 0 0 New Lothair Clunes reefs South Clnlles Tnbuters I Clunes reefs o 4 2295

1340 0 0 o 5 1525 264 to 564 feet United Spring Hill Reef

377 12 0 194 0 0 o 5 162 55 1 0 70 feet

Working Miners Georges Reef 320 0 0 o 3 20middot97 70 feet61 19 15

Totals bullbullbull 29826 10 0 0 5 355 7677 12 3

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Division and SubdiviSion Average Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of and Where Quartz was obtained I Quartz Crushed Yleld of Gold Depth at which theGoldName of Company pel ~ron Quart was obtained ampcbull ---- shy -----_ ------------ shy

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr oz dwt grGORDON SUBDIVISION

Black-horse United Egerton 400 to 600 feet7356 0 0 0 3 239 11469 16 0 The Egerton Limited Egerton 500 to 758 feet10104 0 0 0 6 9833238 3 14 Parkers United bullbull Gordon 60 0 0 0 5 235 17 18 18 ioo feet IUnited Miners ~orth of Gordon 150 0 0 0 3 0 22 10 0 Surface to 20 feet shy

Totals 17670 O 0 0 5 899 4748 8 8 i STEIGLITZ SUBDIvisION

Minerva Elaine I 5 133 23 0 o Ibull i 18 0 0 Elaine 52 0 middot0Watson and party 0 5 1846 15 0 0

Copperwaite and party Elaine o 18 02 0 6 0 9 0 Wee Speck Elaine 0 3 023 0 0 3 8 0 Mortimer and party Elaine o 17 III 24 10 028 0 0 Dunlop and party Elaine 4 4 45721 0 0 88 8 0 Dennis and Co Steiglitz 16middot 0 O I 2 12 18 0 0 Herring Steiglitz 2 14 96 13 12 05 0 0 Morris and Co Steiglitz 4 12 016 O oj 0 5 18 Barrett Steiglitz 1 13 o i4 0 0 0 8 6 Seott and Co New-ehum I 9 343 30 12 021 0 0

1

BLACKWOOD DIVISION un) BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH

Totals

206middot 0 0 1 I 1712 223 13 01

SUBDIVISION Sultan Barrys Reef 1623 0 0 o 19 1798 1602 13 0 270 to 770 feet Moullter Bros BarryS Reef 99 0 0 o 17 ll88 86 12 0 400 feet Big Hill Simmons Reef 1800 0 0 0 1 680 1I5 10 0 50 feet Cornish Simmons Reef 450 0 0 0 1 643 23 10 15 100 feet

rownC Simmons Beef 250 0 0 0 2 2221 36 II 9 150 feet N~orth Star Union Reef 30 0 0 0 8 16 13middot 0 0 110 feet Victoria Yankee Reef 207 0 0 0 5 116 52 5 0 40 to i5 feet N I ~orth Britain da Wrights Reef

Wrights Reef 380 0

167 0 0 0

0 0

2 158 8 2i3

50 10 67 15

4 0

110 feet 280 feet

-----shy--- shy ---- shyTotals 5006 0 0 0 8 489 2053 7 4

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

I I BEECHWORTH DIVISION

Rocky Point 1 460 0 o i omiddot 7 6Homeward Bound Tribute 166 15 0 600 feet Shakspeare Reef Stanley bullbullbull 43 0 0 2middot14 1283 117 5 0 50 feet

shyHurdle Flat 800 0 0 014 225 563 15 0 90 feetWallaby Tribute Marco Polo Hurdle Flat 95 0 0 o 17 1l37 83 0 0 90 feet Sunday Beef Three-mile Creek 39 0 0 2 4 1169 86 15 0 120 feet Reform Myrtleford 1063 0 0 0 6 591 332 0 0 450 feet Nil Desperandum 11yrtleford 196 0 0 0 6 1175 63 12 0 100 feet Carthew and Co Myrtleford 16 0 0 0 4 0 3 4 0

------ shy --- shy ---__- Surfaee

Totals 2712 0 0 o 10 1067 1416 6 0 YACKANDANDAH SOUTH ------ shy ---- shy ----- shy

SUBDIVISION

Bigelowe and Clingam Hillsborough 130 0 0 0 8 8 54 3 6 40 feet Pride and Stringer Baek Creek 130 0 0 1 6 0 169 6 0 100 feet Iron Hand Twists Creek 35 0 0 0 2 14 4 10 8 20 feet Schnackenberg Bros Sandy Creek 60 0 0 4 10 0 270 0 0 60 feet Crowe and Farrell Sandy Creek 22 0 0 o 18 436 20 0 0 36 feet Patrick McClinehy Sandy Creek 6 0 0 II 13 8 70 0 0 30 feet

INDIGO DIVISION

Gallagher and CoshyDe lI1amiel and Co

Totals

Not known Golden Bar Reef

383 0 0 ------- shy

6 0 0 8 0 0

I 10 1687 587 19 14

1shy 9 = 1 II 2 Surfaee to 40 feet 0 16 18 6 14 0 30 to 40 feet

Hellyar and Co Indigo Reef 3 0 0 0 14 13 2 3 15 20 to 28 feet Pomeroy and Co Banners Reef 15 0 0 017 U2 13 2 0 60 feet Williams and Co Not known 20 0 0 o 16 18 16 15 0 Not known Spearing and Co Demon 28 0 0 1 15 171 49 2 0 60 to 80 feet Barras rind Co Caledonian Reef 48 0 0 o 17 235 43 3 0 100 feet Trevillian and Co Indigo Lead Reef 45 0 0 o 18 2134 42 10 0 138 feet Buehan and Co Pass-by Reef 13 0 0 17 18 II07 233 0 0 175 feet Archer and Co Touehstone Reef 12 0 0 I 4 0 14 8 0 Smfaee to 2(1 feet Laurie and Co Golden Bar 8 10 0 1 10 1411 13 0 0 30 to 80 feet Eustace and Co Bradys Hill 13 0 0 o 13 2033 9 0 0 Surface to 20 fcer Bigby and Co WaHaces Gully 10 0 0 2 15 0 27 10 0 80 to I00 f~CL Burton and Co Eureka Heef 25 0 0 o 14 0 17 10 0 60 to 80 feet Various companies Various reefs 19 10 0 o 14 1969 14 9 0 Various depths Hooly and Co We Speek Reef 25 0 0 1 10 0 37 10 0 60 to 100 feet Lord and Co Campbells Reef 24 0 0 4 5 10 102 10 o I 80 to 90 feet Brown and Co Garibalui Heef 12 0 0 o 17 4 10 6 0 60 to 70 flof

----- shy --- shy --- shyTotals 335 0 0 I 19 1247 661 19 3

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crllshed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

AverogeDivision and Subdivision Yield of Gold Quartz Crushedand Where Qnartz was obtained

per TonName 01 Company

BUCllLAD DIVISIOY

J A Wallace Jones and Co Dl-vies and Co

o

o

H arrietville Land Tax Rcef Buck-eye Tiddle-de-addle-de

Gillies and Co The Admiral Douglas and Co Anderson and Co Stephen and Co o

H Curry and Co O Anderson and Co Boss Cockies Shippen and Cobullbullbull King and Co Clemens and Co Radcliffe and Fowler Brady and Co

Bucldand o bull

lt

bullbullbull

Davies and Co Maguire and Co Harp of Erin Co Maguire aud Co Beveridge and Co Coxon and Co Grennep and Wilson Honeychnrch and Co

Frecburgh Oriental Hill Three Stars Tramway Heef Three Stars bullbullbull

Oriental Hill Reliance Reef Lisbon Reef

Maefadzean aud Co J Butler and Go

Bright

Belle of the Ball Stackey Gully

The Hope Q M Running Creek

Happy Valley Reef Root Hog and Die Running Creek

Totals

WANDILIOONO SUBDIVISIO

Prince Arthur Mill Williams and Co Tributers Williams and Co Tributers Davies and Hearn Tri-

buters Birthday Mill

Three public crushings Queen of South Mill

Two small crushings Hit or Miss Mill

Harrietville Oriental Mill

Nine parcels for public Try Again Mill

Hood and Contts Frasers Mill

Myrtle Co London Co James and Co Londonderry bullbull

Prince Arthur Lease Anstralasia Lease Prince A Lease

Various

Buck-eye

Try Again Myrtle Reef London Reef Londonderry

Native Industry Reef

and Co Attridge and Co Native Industry Symes

Old Albion Never 100 Late Mill

Stephens and Co Pride of Kildare Gregory and Co Louisa

Forlorn Hope Vale and Co Wbo Knows

Home ~fill Hazeton E M Gill Home Reef

Stephens Mill Mills and Co Advance Australia H Mitchell HM Reef J Phillips New Years Gift

tons cwt qr

258 0 0 19 0 0

205 0 0

156 0 0

90 0 0 16 0 0

13 0 0 12 0 0 35 0 0

4 0 0 7 0 0

14 0 0 40 0 0

6 0 0 7 0 0

54 0 0 34 0 0

100 0 0 40 0 0 5 0 0

11 0 0 17 0 0 17 0 0

49 10 0 19 0 0

312 0 0

3 0 0

oz dwt gr

1 8 1451 9 5 632 1 12 468

o 10 2154

1 7 1866 1 10 0 5 4 l477 1 11 16 0 7 1028 1 6 6 2 1 1886 2 17 1029 0 4 72 4 6 16 1 7 0

2 2 2311 210 0 o 18 0 o 17 0 1 3 0 1 10 0 1 0 0 4 14 282

o 14 1309 o 15 189

0 1 2331

I 8 0

1543 10 I 3 2124 __ o i

28 0 0 I 13 0 16 0 0 o 17 12 77 0 0 7 0 686

85 0 0 0 9 1552

11 10 0 1 5 0

64 0 0 3 13 105

376 0 0 0 4 963

150 0 0 0 7 48

780 0 0 0 4 16 42 0 0 0 8 228 24 0 0 0 7 12 33 10 0 I 17 211

13 18 0 3 7 2089

24 0 0 1 o 20 28 0 0 I 3 1371 23 0 0 1 19 313 43 0 0 I 1 949

0 4 1294178 0 0

35 0 0 3 I 1714 49 0 0 o 16 1763 99 0 0 0 Ii 109

Remarks relative to the Total Yield of Depth at which theGold Quartz WJ obtained ampc _-----shyoz dwt gr

369 O 0 400 feet 176 0 0 150 feet 330 0 0 220 feet water leve

100 feet 85 0 0 150 feet

125 0 0 60 feet 24 0 0 20 feet 68 0 0 80 feet 19 0 0 Surface 13 0 0 20 feet 5 5 0 40 feet

14 12 12 40 feet 40 4 0 50 feet 8 12 0 35 feet

26 0 0 Surface 9 9 0 25 feet

116 0 0 SO feet 85 0 0 50 feet 90 0 0 120 feet 34 0 0 60 feet

5 15 0 Surface 16 10 0 40 feet 17 0 0 Surface to 10 feet 80 0 0

36 0 0 30 feet 15 0 0 50 feet

30 15 0 300 feet water level 100 feet

4 4 0 Surface

1843 ( 12 ----shy

46 -1 0 Surface to 40 feet 14 0 0 Surface to 40 feet

540 2 0 Surface to 40 feet

41 0 0

14 7 12

235 0 0 150 feet

82 15 0

100 to 300 feet54 0 0

450 feet 17 0 0

182 0 0 300 feet

9 0 0 170 feet 63 10 0 70 feet

43 0 0

middot25 0 0 33 0 0 45 0 0 310 feet 46 0 0 90 feet

40 8 0 120 feet deep

108 0 0 30 feet 41 0 0 50 feet 27 0 0 5 to 60 feet

Eleven small parcels Various 153 0 1

0 9 1082 72 6 0O

1779 12 12 Totals 2332 18 0 o 15 616

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION

The Try Again Paps Reef 2 0 0 1 8 0 2 16 0 Surface to 50 feet Peter Mannoni and party Durham Gully Reef 14 0 0 9 10 0 133 0 0 Snrface to 40 feet Selby and Johnson Candlelight Reef 25 0 0 0 7 48 9 0 0 Surface to 50 feet

--- shy -- shy ----- shy ---- shy -Totalsmiddot 41 0 0 3 10 1522 144 16 0

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QUANTITY of- QUARTZ Crushed in eacK Division and StiMivsioriJduring the QUfiiter Iampc-colltinued

Division and Subdlvlson 1 I Average I l Remark~el~tfveto the t and Quartz Cru~hed i YieldOf Gold TotaGrl~d of

Nameof Company bull per Ton bull

-----------I--to-n-s-cwt--q-10p -o~ Dny CnEElt SUBDIVISION

R G Meade Une~(Quattz Table ipoundiIiabiy Creek 350 0 0 0 23 Claim

-~~ t71~ 1- -~

GAFFNEYS CnEEllSUBshyDIVISION

Al G M Tributers I bullbull Castle reefs 400 00 o 13 1626 Rose of DenmarkTributers Eureka Heef 1 i 60 0 0 o 6 Hi Wallaby Tributers - WallabyReef bull f600 0 0 o 15 1244 Sundry lots ~i ~ bullbull Homeward Bound Reef 1)400 0 0 o 018

~-----shyTotals bullbullbull

WOODS POINT SJJBDIVISIONbullbull

The Revival (Fords Tribute) Sir Tohn Franklin reefs Lady Franklin Tributers bull Johnsons Reef Morning Star Prospectors Mornini Star Heef

Tributers North WaverJy~ i Waverly Reefmiddot Axton and Ryan Morning Star Reef

Totals

BIG RIVEn SUBDIVISION

Londonderry S M bullbullbull Hailway Heef Lucks All Q Mmiddot I WarnersReef i

Totals

MITTA MITTA NORTH SUBshyDIVISION

Happy Go Lucky ~rount Firebrace Prospecting Mill I ~ Cotton Tree Hore and Co -CottOn Tree bullbullbull Coleman Cotton Tree Philip bullbullbull Cotton Tree Gregson Cotton Tree PeadoIiBrothers Cotton Tree Clarke Brtithers bull Qotton Tree Padgett Cotton Tree Peach and party CottonTree n

Sutherland Cotton Tree Christy and Co CottonTree Frazer and Co Cotton Tree Miller and Co Cotton Tree Lee Cotton Tree Doctor and party Cotton Tree Flag Staff Compo Bethariga Trewalla Compo Bethanga

Totals

MITTA JliIITTA Scn)Tii SUB- DIVISIN

I

Enterprise bull Junction Mitta Mitta Christmas Tunction Mitta Mitta Christmas (2nd lot) Junction Mitta Mitta Welcome Tunction Mitta rfitta Yellow Girl Junction Mitta 1l1itta Watson and Scalesmiddot I Granite Fiat ~ Littlejohn and Williams b t Granite Flat A Hodder Granite ]Iat Empress Granite ll1it Empress (No2) Granite Flat Jtichards Bros Granite Flat llose of Kilkenny Granite Flat Pioneer Juncti~n Mitta 11itta

Totals bull

JA~IIESON SUBDrVI8ION

Ventu~e ( Macks Creek Sailor Bill ( tiailor Bill Greek

Totals

2460 0 0 0 6 1436

800q 0 o 8 21)-72

130 0 0 o 2 1366 800 0 0 03 072

1400 00 0 3 924

)t60 0 0 I o 4 4

d 40J 00

273 ll 0

20 ) 0 465 1gt1 0

52 10 0 -----shy

811 12 0

I

354 IPIS 16 14 0

121 4 0

)67 1~0 10 ~ 0

Depth at which the Quartz was obtained ampc

---------shy

About 70 feet T

About 200 feet About middot100 feetmiddot About200 feet

~ i ~~~ j 0

Ahptlt 200 feet f~ r About 100 feet About 70 fcet

Aboutl30 feet y Surface 7

2190 0 0 o 1 511 I 572 12 18

co i

900 0 0 o 4 16 183 0 0 I About 300 feet ~~~172 0 uO 1 21223 c190 0 0 About 250 feet

1072 0 0 0 6 2301 373 9 0 ---- shy _---shy

_ 300-0 0 o 10 192 162 0 0 295 00 o 13144 200 12 0

32- 0 0 o 12 0 19 4 0 16 12 Omiddot27 0 0 o 12 711

4 10 0 o 9 266 2 I 0 I300 1 3 8 3 10 0

6 4 9

0 0 0 0 00

o iI 16 o i 0 o ~5- in 33

3 100 216 0

213 0 6 0 0 o 5 16 I 14 0 9 0 0 o 10 8 13 0

6 0 0 o 15 16 41~ 0 500

22 00 o 9 144 o 19 0

280 20 la 0

11 12

0 0 00 i

o 16 o 7

218 8

8 17 4lt 8

0 0

186 0 O o 10 1853 100 314 83 0 0 o 11 1424 48 2 6

1020 100 0 11 2235 608 15 20 1

12 0 0 o 1 20 I ) 0 12 0 0 o 5 20 3 10 0

700 o 8 2057 3 2 0 50 0 0 o 544 14 10 0

o 14 0 14 o 0 c i 20 Q 9 o I 6 0 F2 12 10 Q o o 3 343 j 2 14 0~ 14 Q o o I 18 0 7 0400

38 0 0 o 9 503 17]00 o 4 1664 11 14 16 50 0 deg 700 Vb2171 8

16 O l o 8 45 6 0 I r J

15 o l 0 o 3~3 deg2 l deg ---- ~ - I ltshy

255 middot0 0 0 6 1538 ------ --__shy

600 b 0 0 3 256 93 14 0 100 feet Fmiddot

480 00 0100 240 O 01 40()feet 1

o ~ o1080 ~ 0

11

Total Yield 01 Reruarksrelatve to the Gold Depth at which the

~_____ Qn~r~~ T~~ Obtp7dbullampe

tons oz dwt gr

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHUllST DIVISION Albert Beehive bullbullbull Bendigo and Melbourne Birds Reef Catherine ReefU C Garden Gully United bull G G Consolidated Great Extended Hustlers

Reef Great Britain bull bullbull Great Southern Hercules and Energetic bull Johnsons Reef G M bullbullbull Lazarus bull Louisa Metropolitan bullbull Marong CrushillgWorksl New-chum and Victoria Newmiddotchum United New Kelson bull Old Tom J V)~ipstick Shenandoah Victoria Conaols Victoria Reef G M _ Vilsons Reef

KILMORE DIYISION~ Crown Doyles GoIden Crown Beaconsfield bullbullbull Red Rover Loudon and party Trezise and party Overlander Doyles Battery robins neef bull

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND VVARANGA SOUTH

SUBDIVISION Alison

Collins

DIVISION Good Luck Nobull1 Hgpe o(Denmar~ ~ Lost Love Taylorand Crowe Cambridge and Warwick West Growlers TaylorBros __ Marsland and Co Holmes Lease King Billy Francis and Co Rowan and Co Hodge Bros Loughlin Jose and Co WnistIers OBrien and Co Telford and Co

Diamond tIilt E~glhawk bullbullbull Kangaroo Flat Kangaroo blat

Eaglehawk Garden Gully Reef Golden Gully bull Hustlers Reef

Golden Square Garden Gully Reef Victoria neef bullbull California Gully

New-chum Gully Eaglehawk GoIde-q SQllare I I yenarong bullbull - Ironbark New-chum Gully KeIson Reef bull

Newmiddotchm Ililcf Victoria R~ef

Totals 1

Doyles ned Doyles Reef GCrown Reef i Magenta Reef Upper Reedy London Reef bullbull Russells Reef Overlander Reef I Various places Sunday Creek

529 00 o 6 1279 5360 0 0 o 91855

389 00 o 6 283 o B 206I 1389 OJii

3196 0 4441l0

I 1078 O bull 258 0 bull 1170 0

3783 0 3994 0 6980 0 4362 0 1789 0 141~ 0

237 0 il189 0 1773 0 1927 0

1 240 0

_ 2i32 0 r 2554 0 1

VictoriaRlcf 4330 _0 Marong 305 0

i------ii

o 5 1825 0 0

1 1 056 0 o 4 1206 0 o 8 947

o 0 5 372 o 0 61l47 o 0 5 1202 o 0 4 912 o 0 9 1372 o 0 6 1321 o 0 4 2332 o 0 5 966 o 0 8 ijs 60S 94deg 0 6 163i 0 0bull 186l

o 0 4 2219o 0 2 132 o 0 8 389 o 0 7 2289

280 0 0 4 0 0 190 0 0 1 15 0

13 0middot0 1 10 0 --20 0 0 0 15 0

15 oj 0 0 10 0 5 0 0 1 0 0

12 0 0 2 14 0 16 0 0 0 8 0

0160 0 0 5 0 6 0 Oimiddotl 0 0

)

dii5 23 2619 4 0

119 0 0 56111 12 920 11 i

4670 8 0 242 14 I

1083 15 0

507 16 deg 1225 7 0 1098 11 0 1528 14 0

2~~ i~ g 362 9 0

6314 12 2151 2 0 743 19 0

643 12 0 16middot6 12 623 10 iJ 325 ui 12 1767 0

121 6 0

00 332 10

19 10 0 0

1120 0

15 0 00 Kll b 1 el7 1 ~ a ove water- ev

3~ i g ~~ ~resent

15 0 0 rJ J 6 0 0

Totals 617 0 0 2 10 13 15596 0

Lower Costerfield 48 0 0 1 ii 0 48 0 0 Redcastle 343 0 0 0 14 2365 257 0 0

Totals li~~3_~_1_0-0-l-_0_15gt1_4_4-2 1_3_05_0__0_

Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth Rushworth

Rushworth

Rushworth Rushworth Whroo Whroo Whroo Wllroo

Whroo Coys Diggings Coys Diggings Coys Diggings

Totals

54 0 0 0 3 2266 29

9 0 0

0 0

1 1 579i 12 16

2 0 0 3 13 12 40 Ii 0 0 5 1335 29 0 0 0 I H17 -5-middot0 0 L3 0

5 19 30

7 13 9 2

5 22 12

6

0 00 7 96 0 0 0 4 deg 0 0 1 12 if 00 0111714 0 0 0 4 0 0middot0 2 16 12 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 6 48 0 0 I 8 3 1527 0 0 0 4 6 00 2 316

298 O 0 I 1 3 1049

I

I I I

(ifixed lots from va rious reefs See II page 30)

I I

[

J

1I

j 1

10 13 0 I 30 16 0 i4 14 0 770

11 2 6 2 2 12

5150 I1 17 O 3 16 0

30 15 0 Al)above water-Ieve

4 2 0 II2 12 025 8 12 100 1 11 0 I

180 0 0 I 2 11 0 I

13 2 0 J -----s

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT -

MARYBOROUGH DIVIllON Bristol Hill James Kay Reade and 90 bull

Western Reef Bristol Hill Viarious pl~ces

883 10 0 97 00

0 3 1655 o 4 5

163 iO 20 8

0 5

306 to 430 feet Various

(public crushiugs) Waldley and party

Leviathan Reef China 352 0 0 o 13 095

1 229 10 0 70 to 80 feet

mans Wilson and Dark Lord Napier Reef Chinashy 61 0 0 0 7 904 221( 0 11~feetl

mans Fisher and party North German Reefmiddot1 39 0 0 0 5 1538 11 0 0 60 feet

Chinamans

totals

1432 19 0 0 6 557 446 8 5 -

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QUANTITY of QUAlnz Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued -

AYclage 1Division and Subdivision Uemnrks relative to the _and Yioldo Gold 1 Total YIeld of Depth at whIch the

Name of Company Quartz Crushedthere Quartz was obtained

per Ton Gold Quartz was 0 btained amp0

oz dwt grtons cwt qr oz dwt gr

AMHERST DIVISION

Croydon 35 12 18 Laura Reef 230 0 0 0 3 237 40 to 80 feet No 1 South Croydon --

Iaura Reef 0 2 493 15 8 18140 0 0 Surface to 30 feet No2 South Croydon 0 1 20-82 9 6 18 40 feetLaura Reef 100 0 0

288 11 12Union Q M C 200 feet Trickey and party

Church Hill Reef 144 0 0 -2 0 192 9 3 12Dundee Beef 0 2 789 60 feet

Perseveranee 77 0 0

0 8 1111 11 15 6 40 feet Sundries Prince of Wales Reef 27 0 0

18 8 0_143 0 0 0 _2 1376Various ----s6~1--~0~1--6i21Totals

-I AVOCA SUBDIVISION

Monte Christo 15 10 0Murdoehs Reef 14 0 0 I 2 342

DUNOLLY ~ND TARNAGULLA DiVISIONS

Queens Birthday o 12 031 2223 0 8 300 to 500 feet Queens Reef

3701 0 0Bealiba Reef 64 18 0Queens Reef 130 feet713 0 0 0 1 1969

Kentish Reef 15 11 11 Kentish Reef 48 0 0 0 6 1l73 60 feet Harvest Home 33 0 0Harvest Home 40 feet30 0 0 1 2 0 Harrop and Lees 26 0 0 40 feet Yorkshire G M bull 0 1 o 1520 0 0

566 4 12 160 to 200 feetWatts Reef Tarnagulla 1474 0 7 1638o 0 1

2928 _75966 1 0 0 9 1963Totals 1~ --- shyINGLEWOOD DIVISION

Jersey Reef Quartz Mining 103 3 20Jersey Reef 182 0 0 011 815 Dalmatia G M 1 3 0

tyres Smugglers Gi~n McI~ I 20 0 0 0 1 36

104 6 20202 0 0 010 794Totals REDBANK SUBDIVISION

TormeyEi Claim 52 16 0Station Reef 22 0 0 2 8 0

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION

Greenock Reef 39 0 070 feet to 170 feet (above 45 0 0 o 17 80 70 to 170 feet water-level)

Adams and party - -9 12 030 0 0 0 6 96 50 feetSpinster Ueef bull IT-Kersleyand party Greenock Reef 17 0 o i 0 10 0 1 8 10 0 15 feet

_ 92 0 0 0 12 991 57 2 0Totals ST ARNAUD NORTH

SUBDIVISION shyWorking Miners 0 7 268 248 18 6 200 to 260 feet Chrysolite Tribute Quartz

New Bendigo 700 0 0 0 2 2331 52 0 0 150 feet level

Mining Co Registered Chrysolite Reef - 350 0 0

300 18 6Totals 1Q50 0 0 0 5 1755

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLElILltiINE D1VISION

Eureka Cardwell Argus United McWalters Central bull Wattle Gully Sebastopol Crushing Utle Nuggety Arehbold and Co

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

English Australian G M Perseverance Burdett-Coutts New Era Blaek Haivk Rowe Bros Rowe nros Duke Oornwall Small and Co Macdonald and Co Meins Freehold G M

Eureka Reef Town Reef Argus Flat-

Burns Reef Wattle Gully Wattle Gully Lady Gully Nuggety Reef bullbullbullI

Public crushings Totals bullbull

Golden Gully Cattles Reef Cattles Ueef Ferrons Reef Cattles Reef Cattles Heef Ferrons Reef bullbull Cattle Reef Cattles Reef German Gully Guilford Hill

Totals

718 0 0 41 0 0

530 0 0 8J 0 0

759 0 0 505 0 0 247 0 0

52 0 0 155 0 0

3091 0 0

862 0 0 200 0 0

20 0 0 6310 0 0

123 0 0 1419 0 0

417 0 0 166 0 0 50 0 0 24 0 0

3560 0 0 i shy

13151 0 01

0 6 1666 o 19 12-3 0 7 65 o 17 12 0 4 424 0 2 983 0 3 162 0 7 203 o 15 4-18

0 6 341

0 4 98 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 3 324 0 1 20-87 0 7 668 0 4 2169 0 4 144 0 2 96 o 10 0 0 1 1839

0 3 904

1

240 7 0 360 feet 40 0 0 62 feet

192 13 12 73 10 0 160 feet

158 10 0 350 feet 60 17 0 45 18 20 8 0 230 feet

117 12 0

949 5 6

190 0 0 320 feet 40 0 0 180 feet

5 0 0 230 feet 989 3 0 100 to 380 feet

11 10 0 150 feet 516 8 0 150 to 200 feet 102 5 0 20 to 80 feet 33 14 0 20 to 200 feet

6 0 0 190 feet 12 0 0 90 feet

314 8 0

2220 8 0

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Average Remarks relative to theDivision and Subdivision Total Yield ofWhere Quartz was obtained I Qnartz Crushed I Yield of Gold Depth at which theand Gold Quartz was obtained amp0per TonName of Company

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tone owt qr loz dwt gr oz dwt gr

HEPBUllN DIVISION

Argus Italian mil 566 0 0 30 to 150 feet New North Cornish

74 11 100 2 1506 n

Wombat Hill 105 0 0 Surface to 35 feet Richardsons

0 3 396 16 12 8 Bismarck Reef 13 0 0 30 feet1 0 0 13 0 0IWomans Gully 23 0 0 10 feet0 4 834 5 0 0Ansonia

60 0 o i 0 3 0Pitchers Reef 25 feet Panham 9 0 0Fuseo

Pitchers Reef 52 0 0 40 feet Bray and party

0 1 1661 4 8 0 Frenchmans Reef 70 feet12 0 0 2 8 00 4 0

King and Co

Willards Reef 60 0 0 70 feet0 4 0 12 0 0 ISt Georges Reef 630 0 0 0 1 038 32 0 0 140 feetUnion Nuggety HeeL 690 0 0 230 0 0 I20 to 280 feet

Keep-it-Dark Companies 0 6 16Ajax Keep-it-Dark

120 0 0 50 0 0 I 100 to 140 feet0 8 8

Totals 2331 0 0 0 3 2044 448 19 18

TARADALE AND KYNETON SUBDIVISION

Taradale 945 0 0 0 1 1562 United Kingdom ~ 78 0 0 Glenlyon 140 I) 0 0 9 1406 Little Wonder 67 2 0

1085 0 0Totals 0 2 1619 145 2 0 ----shy

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Caledonian Mills Parkins Linscotts Nelshy 92 0 0 o 17 0 200 to 300 feet78 4 0 son amp Valkers reefs

Eaglehawk Linscotts 622 0 0 0 12 1744 395 16 0 50 to 270 feetLinscotts Mills and Nuggety reefs

Phwnix Mills Beehive Swipers Gershy 1000 0 0 1 9 1227 1475 11 12 80 to 300 feet man Victoria amp Irish Billys reefs

Great Western Beehive Reef 120 0 0 0 4 0 24 0 0 40 to 80 feet

Totals bullbull 1834 0 0 I 1 1253 197311 12 -~-----

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

United Company Hoddles Creek 180 0 0 0 9 204 88 13 0 35 feet Lyre Bird Hoddles Creek 25 0 0 o 13 0 16 5 0 27 feet Sunday Reef McCraes Hill S 0 0 0 1 12 o 12 0 20 feet Sheppard and party Warburton 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 10 feet Central Mining Hurst and Co

Reef ton MountainB

38 10 1 0

0 0

1 13 24 2 17 20

63 14 2 17

8 2

180 feet Surface

Murray and Hirt Smith and Hirt Hartley and Co

You-You You-You You-You

3 2 7

10 0 0

0 0 0

1 10 2057 I 10 12 o 10 1714

5 8 3 1

1 15

0 0 0

50 feet 30 feet 60 feet

Hopkinson You-You 2 0 0 1 10 0 3 0 0 60 feet Apted and Co Pioneer 6 0 0 o 18 8 5 10 0 ISO feet Progress Panton Hill 218 0 0 0 7 146 82 18 15 120 feet Napoleons March Panton Hill 18 0 0 o 11 1977 1012 20 40 feet Bignell and Co Fourth Hill Warrandyte 7 0 0 3 0 0 i 21 0 0 30 feet

517 0 0Totals o 11 2247 308 10 21

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Wimmera North and South Wales Pioneer and Galatea New St George Scotchmans Moonlight W onga and Birmingham

RAGLAN DIVISION

The Victory Quartz Gold Mining

Stawell reefs

Stawell reefs Stawell reefs Stilwell reefs Stawell reefs Stawell reefs

Totals

Reef near Waterloo

5788 0 0 is 9 0

4624 0 0 3196 0 0 3353 10 0 3580 0 0 2069 0 0

22688 19 0

17 0 0

011 595 1 5 739 o 14 721 o 11 26 0 7 9 0 14 2207 0 2 1853

0 11 319

1 4 224

3255 4 3 200 to 1000 feet 99 5 10 40 to 100 feet

3306 6 8 200 to 1100 feet 1i75 2 0 4S0 to 1200 feet 1236 II 18 100 to 850 feet 2670 IS 0 410 to 1120 feet

286 15 21 24 to 100 feet

12629 18 12

20 10 0

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~iiANfiTYofCltr ARTz0rusliedjirieacnDi visi~ri~andgtSohdi vision during the Qulilter ~ampc-continuedbull _ _ ~~ ~M_~

---1--- DivislonnndSnbdivisioh bull

OlJ 1j and~ I ~Yhere Qua~ was ogttamed __ Na~~O Company______ ______ ___

GIPPSLAND ~C C ~ Q)fElO ~

~ Srifts Creek Fashion Reef

CROOKED RIVE~ DiVISIoN

Robert Moore -- ~ Upper Dargo bullbull Wentworth Parslow and Co

Totals DONNELLYSC~EEK DIVISION

DonnellyS Creek Bismarck United

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION

Long Tunnel f Cohens Reef Cohens Reef Walhalla (Tributers) I

I Totals ABERFELDY SUBDIVISlON Aberpoundeldy Reef -James Rices Mine

----~-

AverageQuartz Crushed Yie1T ONMld

per Ton

tons ewt qr oz dwt gr

MINING DISTRICT u

I 10 0 0 I 12 b

---- shy

20 0 0 0 10144 30 0 600 0

50 0 0 0 7 2016

42 0 0 0 14 4

5034 0 0 1 8 191 0 8 1078997 d 0

06031 0 1 5 1038

650 d 0 0 6 144

Remarks relative to thoTotal Yield Depth at which theof Gold Quartz was obtalnedampc

Oz dwt gr

-

i 16 0 0

10 12 0 Surfaee to 20 feet 9 00

---- shy19 12 0

29 15 0 400 feet

17248 0 0 i 343 to 623 feet 421 4 0

7669 4 )

]96 19 0 150 feet 50 feet

water level

~ laquo

~

QUARTZ TAILINGS MULLOClETC THE follo~in~ infor~ation has beenobtai~edfromReturn~made bythe-Mi~lng Surveyorsand R~gist~a~s

relative to the Quantity OfQUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK ampc Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each -Mining District -during the ~uarter and the GOJD obtained therefrom

I ______

DiviSion and Snbdlvislon I Where Quartz Tailings and I Quartz Tailings Average Ttl y ld ~r ~Remarksielative to the and Mullock ampc were and Mnlloek ampc Yield of Gold 0 ItG I~c Depth at which tbeI

Same of Company i obt~n~~ l I~~~I )ler~on~ 0 MUll~C~amp~1e~ ~btalne~ --- shy tons cwt qr oz dwt gr 0 dwtgr

r bull - JBALLARATMININGDISTRICT

I ICENTRAL DtvIsioN 1

~

11259 19130 Isuriac~ ~~Ofe~~ IBallarat East 2580 00 0Canadian

Mount Clear 1050 00Baker and Co I 0 12308 103 00 Surface to 20middotfeet t

pi 1+Totals ~ q630 0 0 o 1 1562 bull ni

STEIGLITZ SUBl)JVISION I

Minerva Eiaine 220 0 0 o 3 218 34 0 0 20 0 0Wee Speek bullbull Do o 4 96 4 8 0

180 0 0 0 016DUIIlIDott and Co Steiglitz 6 O o

Totals 420 0 0 0 2 274 44 8 0

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEcrrwoRTH DIVISION

Marco Polo Hurdle Flat - 48 0 0 0 2 0

I

4 16 0 Various depths l~_ gt

INDIGO DIVISION

Magentll MIYfntR Reef middot Places Mill Variou~

Totals -

I

-

0632 300

shy

0 0 0 0 I

I 0 o I

0 0

0

I 991 44 13 0 2 0middotmiddot 30 0 0

1444 t1 74 13 0

Surface to 50ifeet ChieH y surfacemiddotfrom

old workings

MrlTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION

Trewalla Bethanga

23 middot0 0 gt)

0 7 417

8

5 0

r

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK crushed in each Division and Subdivision ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Where Quart Tailings and Quartz Tallogs I Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and and MuJlock ampc Gold lfuUock ampc were Depth at which the

erolIlld I I~ IP t I obtained Mullock ampc were obtamcltL --middot---------------~-------I-----I-------=-___c_-~-I------~--

Name of Company

tons ewt qr oz dwtgr

SANDHURSTMlNING DISTRICT~~ L I i

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIshyVISION

Alison JoIlins

Lower Costerfield Redcastle

Totals

i

1000 0 150 (l 0

0 0

3 0 2 224

15 0 22 0

0 0

shy

d

~1

250 P 0 0 2 2304 37 0 0

(I

MARYBOROUGH MiNI~G DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE MINI~G DISTRICTv

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION

Crown Ninirod Reef bullbullbull Nuggety NuggetyReef D avies and Co

Donkey Gully A jax Tribute ~ Bolivia Reef

Totals n i - shy

HEPBUBN DIVISION

Francis bullbullbull f bullbull1 Wombat Hill ~ bullbull

ST ANDRlFws D1VISION

middotCentral Mining bull~ Reefton bullbullbull United bullbullbull HoddlesCreek

Totals

1140 0 0 0 1 0-1 57 5 0

- 0 0 0 I 12 5210 0_ 700 680 0 0 0 1 235 37middot 612 510 0 0 0 1l(66middot 36( 16 15

3030 0 0

400 00

Ilt

i 174 0 0 I 25 0 0I

199 0 0

0 1 5l3 183 18 3

0 0 -12 l 10 0 0

t I bull

0 3 15-22 31 12 9 0 0 192 1- 0 0

)

-- 6671-~

Surface Surface

Shllow

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

W onga and Bir~ingham

~ I

Stawell reefs 35 0 0 0 2 13-54 4 9 18 f ~ I ~ i f

1I

middotGIPFStAN]) IMINliNG vDISiFRI(iJT

DONNELLYS CllEEKD~ISIOl

Bismarck ITnited

i

1

~OO j

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PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the Quantity of PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on in the several Divisions -and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Dlvision and Subdivision Remarks relatlve to the I Pyrites I Average I I iWhere Pyr~B an~ Blanketmgs and Blnnketings Yield 01 Gold Tota Y old of and Depth at which the wele obtamed I operated on per Ton GoldName 01 Oompany - PyritesJ ampc were ubtained

I tons cwt qr oz dwt gr I oz dwt gr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION Llanberris 18 0 0 1 16 1466 32 19 0Gumtree Flatbullbullbull

CRESWIOK DIVISION Port Phillip Clunes 471 5 0107 0 o I 4 8 202 New North Clunes 93 16 12Clunes 19 0 o i 4 18 1831

67 5 o 7 I 2382South Clunes 477 9 0Clunes 193 5 0 1 5 7 2145 1042 1012

STEIGLITZ SIJDDIVISION Totals

Enterprise Elaine- 103 0 0 o 18 349 93 9 0 Dummott and Co 5 12 0Steiglitz 22 0 0 0 5 218

Totals 99 1 0 BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND

BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION

125 0 0 o 15 2035

Barrys Reef bullbullbull 14 10 0 4 9 1572 65 0 0Sultan

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEOHWORTH DlVISION Reform Myrtleford 39 0 0 o 15 0 29 5 0

1

YAOKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVlSION

Bigelowe and Clingam WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION E M Gill

Homeward Bound Hills-borough

Various localities

25

50

0

0

0

0

o 15middot 504

o 18 0

19

45

0

0

6

0

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

S

SANDHURST DIVISION 884 16 122 2 2286Pinchgut Gully 412 0 0United Pyrites 244 4 01 9 2311 163 0 0Jackass Flat andhurst amp Eaglehawk PE 281 7 121 11 013Derwent Gully 181 10 0L iddell and Co

1410 8 01 17 69756 10 0Totals HEATHOOTE DIVISION AND ---------shy

WARANGA SOUTH SUB-JDIVISION

33 0 J1 0 033 0 0Alison Lower Costerfield I

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION Bristol Hill

DlJNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS

Queens Birthday

Western Reef Bristol Hill 13 11 0 2 7 208 81 18 12

Bealiba Reef 15 0 0 1 6 16 20 0 0

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr Yeats Castlemaine 129 0 0 1 12 409

- 207 10 0

HEPBURN DIVISION J Williams Ajax

3 7

0 0

0 0

o 16 1 14

16 685

210 12 0

0 0

250 feet 250 feet

Totals 10 0 01 1 9 0 14 10 0

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

_DIVISlUrSTRINGERS 2 9 3-21 42 18 017 9 0Cohens Reef Long Tunnel

12 14 01 9 4648 14 0 Cohens Reef Walhalla - 55 12 02 2 1213- 26 3 0Totals

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

1

Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

I

INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

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QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

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PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

t

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NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

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176

21

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

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The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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QUARTZ QUARTZ TAILINGS PYRITES ETO

SUMMARY

THE following information has been obtained relative to the QUANTITY OF QUARTZ QUARTZ TAILINGS

and M ULLOOK Crushed anu PYRITES and BLANKE1IN(S operateu on during the Quarter and the

GOLD obtained therefrom shy

Average Yield of 01 Gold1romQuantity Crushed ~UNING DISTRICTS Gold per Ton Crushed

Quartz tons cwt o~ dwt oz dwt gr

Ballarat 91198 10 0 5 27188 7 23 Beechworth 15774 18 0 11 9257 17 19 Sandhurst 63695 0 0 8 26456 5 12 Maryborough bullbullbull 11639 11 0 8 4294 2 2 CastlemaiTie 8109 0 0 H 6045 17 9 Ararat 22705 19 0 II 12650 8 12 Gippsland 6783 1 3 7931 10 0deg

Totals 217905 18 0 8 93824 9 5

Quartz 1ailings and Mullock 4050 0 0 1 344 1 0Ballarat

0 1 87 14 (1003 0Beechwolth 0 2 87 0 0250 0Sandhurst 0 1 61 2 0702 0Maryborough

3629 0 0 1 226 10 12Castle maine 0 2 4 9 1835 0Ararat

40 0 2 0 4 0 0Gippsland deg 0 1 1381 764 17 69709 0Totals

Pyrites and Blanketings operated on

Ballarat Beechworth

Sandhurst M1tryborough Ctstlemaine Ararat Gippslaml

Totals

350 114 789 28

139

26

15 0

10 11 0

3

1447 19

3 10 1628 1239 10 12 0 16 S68 93 5 6 1 16 356 1443 8 0 1 16 899 51 18 12 1 11 2261 222 0deg 2 2 1213 55 12 ()

2 2 262 3105 14 6

NOlE-This Summary docs not show the total quantities of quartzampc crushed or operated on but only the yield of certnln cruahlngs ampc respecting- which the ~Iining Surveyors and Registrars have been able to obtain information Owing to the circumstance that mnny Of the machine owners are unable to give 01 are precluded from giving information it is impossible to get c-omplete returns froID every district and in considerillg the relative jmportance of each district as regards quartz mining ampc the tables relatipg to machinery should be examined and compared bull

Office of Mines TROS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

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JIINING SURVEYURS AND REGISTRARS RETURNS

QUARTZ

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars lelative to the QUANlITY OF QUARTZ Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GoLD obtained therefrom

Divislon ~nd Subdivision I Average I T IYi Remarks relative toti and WheTe Quartz was obtained Quartz Crushed Yield of Gold ta ld of Depth at which the

Name of Companybull per Ton Gold Quartz was obtained amp0 ~-----------------I--------7--------I-------~-I------------------1-----------------

tons owt qr j oz dwt gr I oz dwtgr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Band and Albion Consols Ballarat West bullbullbull 3269 0 0 0 13 776 2177 15 0 1250 feet Black Hill Ballarat East bullbull 3358 0 0 0 5 1236 925 19 20 Surface to 500 feet Llanberris bullbullbull Ballarat East bullbull 2435 0 0 0 2 1599 324 12 12 300 feet Temperance Little Bendigo 1500 0 0 0 7 2227 594 12 0 430 to 950 feet Serjeants Freehold Endeavor

Ballarat West Specimen Gully

270 603

0 0

0 0

0 11 2295 0 4 421

161 8 125 18

6 0

280 feet 100 feet

Britannia Duchcss

bullbullbull bullbull

Specimen Gully Ballarat East

457 913

0 0

0 0

0 0

2 440 7 1953

49 17 21 356 14 4

165 feet ISO to 300 feet

Parade Ballarat East 230 0 0 0 15 448 174 13 0 400 feet Countess Ballarat East 90 0 0 0 4 1373 20 11 12 70 to 150 feet Canadian Canadian 1925 0 0 0 5 l1S3 52S 15 0 SO to 140 feet Baker and Co bull Mount Clear 1250 0middotmiddot0 0 8 1217 631 14 0 Surface to 100 feet Hanthorn and Co Mount Clear 145 0 0 0 6 082 43 15 0 80 to 150 feet Black Hill Lnited Ballarat East 132 0 0 0 19 1889 129 4 10 400 feet New Dirnocks Little Bendigo 2160 0 o 0 3 266 336 0 0 260 to 860 feet North Dimocks Little Bendigo 708 0 0 I 0 3 823 liS 7 0 300 to 400 feet New Koh-i-noor Ballarat West 190 0 0 Band of Hope Quartz Ballarat West 1104 0 0

Public crushings bull Ballar~~~~d wes~ 2

SOUrUElIN DIVISION

Speedwell Tribute Staffordshire Reef 1090 0 0 Hopewell Tributers Staffordshire Reef 50 0 0 New Kangaroo Kangaroo 2117 0 0 Williams Fancy Kangaroo 900 0 0 Nil Desperandum Kangaroo 511 0 0 New Try Again Kangaroo 400 0 0

Totals 5068 0 0

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Imperial Q M bull Hiscock Reef bull 1520 0 0 Olle-and-All Hiscocks Fairweather 1379 0 0

0 8 757 79 0 0 280 to 300 feet 0 8 558 454 8 18 300 feet

~~19~2 1 1 ~ IVarious depths 11

o 2 751 126 I 10 150 feet 4 feet wide o 6 012 15 0 6 121 feet o 2 004 211 18 0 278 feet 8 feet wide o 3 1028 154 5 18 130 feet 6 feet wide o 2 185middot 70 16 0 120 feet 8 feet wide o I 1269 30 11 12 130 feet 4 feet wide

---- 0 2 964 608 12 22

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0 6 204 462 9 6 1I2 feet 0 Ill 99 103 8 2 80 to 200 feet

1Reefs Tributers Olle-and-All Public crushing~ I Various depths up to

150 feet Llewellyn Magpie Ranges

486 0 0 0 II 1213 279 11 18

180 feet

Totals ~~-+I ~23middot 9 ---1-----shy -------SIYTHESDALE DIVISION

720 0 0 0 1 166 60 17 11 264 feet Bristol Linton Ranges Srnythesdale Consols German Reef SrnythesdaJe

7 10 0 150 feet30 0 o 0 5 0

750 0 0 0 I 1974 68 7 11Totals

CRESWICK DIVISJON

1396 0 0Port Phi Ilip Clunes reefs o 4 1573 32419 12 100 to 990 feet12514 0 0Port Phillip Tributcrs Clunes reefs o 5 159 3170 1 12

New North Clunes Clunes reefs 394 0 0 o 2 962 47 6 12 240 to 1105 feet2063 10 0 725 10 0 South Clunes Clunes reefs New North ClunesTributers Clunes reefs o 7 076

812 2 03119 0 0 o 5 497 70 to 600 feet8486 0 0 2]03 0 0 New Lothair Clunes reefs South Clnlles Tnbuters I Clunes reefs o 4 2295

1340 0 0 o 5 1525 264 to 564 feet United Spring Hill Reef

377 12 0 194 0 0 o 5 162 55 1 0 70 feet

Working Miners Georges Reef 320 0 0 o 3 20middot97 70 feet61 19 15

Totals bullbullbull 29826 10 0 0 5 355 7677 12 3

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Division and SubdiviSion Average Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of and Where Quartz was obtained I Quartz Crushed Yleld of Gold Depth at which theGoldName of Company pel ~ron Quart was obtained ampcbull ---- shy -----_ ------------ shy

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr oz dwt grGORDON SUBDIVISION

Black-horse United Egerton 400 to 600 feet7356 0 0 0 3 239 11469 16 0 The Egerton Limited Egerton 500 to 758 feet10104 0 0 0 6 9833238 3 14 Parkers United bullbull Gordon 60 0 0 0 5 235 17 18 18 ioo feet IUnited Miners ~orth of Gordon 150 0 0 0 3 0 22 10 0 Surface to 20 feet shy

Totals 17670 O 0 0 5 899 4748 8 8 i STEIGLITZ SUBDIvisION

Minerva Elaine I 5 133 23 0 o Ibull i 18 0 0 Elaine 52 0 middot0Watson and party 0 5 1846 15 0 0

Copperwaite and party Elaine o 18 02 0 6 0 9 0 Wee Speck Elaine 0 3 023 0 0 3 8 0 Mortimer and party Elaine o 17 III 24 10 028 0 0 Dunlop and party Elaine 4 4 45721 0 0 88 8 0 Dennis and Co Steiglitz 16middot 0 O I 2 12 18 0 0 Herring Steiglitz 2 14 96 13 12 05 0 0 Morris and Co Steiglitz 4 12 016 O oj 0 5 18 Barrett Steiglitz 1 13 o i4 0 0 0 8 6 Seott and Co New-ehum I 9 343 30 12 021 0 0

1

BLACKWOOD DIVISION un) BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH

Totals

206middot 0 0 1 I 1712 223 13 01

SUBDIVISION Sultan Barrys Reef 1623 0 0 o 19 1798 1602 13 0 270 to 770 feet Moullter Bros BarryS Reef 99 0 0 o 17 ll88 86 12 0 400 feet Big Hill Simmons Reef 1800 0 0 0 1 680 1I5 10 0 50 feet Cornish Simmons Reef 450 0 0 0 1 643 23 10 15 100 feet

rownC Simmons Beef 250 0 0 0 2 2221 36 II 9 150 feet N~orth Star Union Reef 30 0 0 0 8 16 13middot 0 0 110 feet Victoria Yankee Reef 207 0 0 0 5 116 52 5 0 40 to i5 feet N I ~orth Britain da Wrights Reef

Wrights Reef 380 0

167 0 0 0

0 0

2 158 8 2i3

50 10 67 15

4 0

110 feet 280 feet

-----shy--- shy ---- shyTotals 5006 0 0 0 8 489 2053 7 4

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

I I BEECHWORTH DIVISION

Rocky Point 1 460 0 o i omiddot 7 6Homeward Bound Tribute 166 15 0 600 feet Shakspeare Reef Stanley bullbullbull 43 0 0 2middot14 1283 117 5 0 50 feet

shyHurdle Flat 800 0 0 014 225 563 15 0 90 feetWallaby Tribute Marco Polo Hurdle Flat 95 0 0 o 17 1l37 83 0 0 90 feet Sunday Beef Three-mile Creek 39 0 0 2 4 1169 86 15 0 120 feet Reform Myrtleford 1063 0 0 0 6 591 332 0 0 450 feet Nil Desperandum 11yrtleford 196 0 0 0 6 1175 63 12 0 100 feet Carthew and Co Myrtleford 16 0 0 0 4 0 3 4 0

------ shy --- shy ---__- Surfaee

Totals 2712 0 0 o 10 1067 1416 6 0 YACKANDANDAH SOUTH ------ shy ---- shy ----- shy

SUBDIVISION

Bigelowe and Clingam Hillsborough 130 0 0 0 8 8 54 3 6 40 feet Pride and Stringer Baek Creek 130 0 0 1 6 0 169 6 0 100 feet Iron Hand Twists Creek 35 0 0 0 2 14 4 10 8 20 feet Schnackenberg Bros Sandy Creek 60 0 0 4 10 0 270 0 0 60 feet Crowe and Farrell Sandy Creek 22 0 0 o 18 436 20 0 0 36 feet Patrick McClinehy Sandy Creek 6 0 0 II 13 8 70 0 0 30 feet

INDIGO DIVISION

Gallagher and CoshyDe lI1amiel and Co

Totals

Not known Golden Bar Reef

383 0 0 ------- shy

6 0 0 8 0 0

I 10 1687 587 19 14

1shy 9 = 1 II 2 Surfaee to 40 feet 0 16 18 6 14 0 30 to 40 feet

Hellyar and Co Indigo Reef 3 0 0 0 14 13 2 3 15 20 to 28 feet Pomeroy and Co Banners Reef 15 0 0 017 U2 13 2 0 60 feet Williams and Co Not known 20 0 0 o 16 18 16 15 0 Not known Spearing and Co Demon 28 0 0 1 15 171 49 2 0 60 to 80 feet Barras rind Co Caledonian Reef 48 0 0 o 17 235 43 3 0 100 feet Trevillian and Co Indigo Lead Reef 45 0 0 o 18 2134 42 10 0 138 feet Buehan and Co Pass-by Reef 13 0 0 17 18 II07 233 0 0 175 feet Archer and Co Touehstone Reef 12 0 0 I 4 0 14 8 0 Smfaee to 2(1 feet Laurie and Co Golden Bar 8 10 0 1 10 1411 13 0 0 30 to 80 feet Eustace and Co Bradys Hill 13 0 0 o 13 2033 9 0 0 Surface to 20 fcer Bigby and Co WaHaces Gully 10 0 0 2 15 0 27 10 0 80 to I00 f~CL Burton and Co Eureka Heef 25 0 0 o 14 0 17 10 0 60 to 80 feet Various companies Various reefs 19 10 0 o 14 1969 14 9 0 Various depths Hooly and Co We Speek Reef 25 0 0 1 10 0 37 10 0 60 to 100 feet Lord and Co Campbells Reef 24 0 0 4 5 10 102 10 o I 80 to 90 feet Brown and Co Garibalui Heef 12 0 0 o 17 4 10 6 0 60 to 70 flof

----- shy --- shy --- shyTotals 335 0 0 I 19 1247 661 19 3

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crllshed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

AverogeDivision and Subdivision Yield of Gold Quartz Crushedand Where Qnartz was obtained

per TonName 01 Company

BUCllLAD DIVISIOY

J A Wallace Jones and Co Dl-vies and Co

o

o

H arrietville Land Tax Rcef Buck-eye Tiddle-de-addle-de

Gillies and Co The Admiral Douglas and Co Anderson and Co Stephen and Co o

H Curry and Co O Anderson and Co Boss Cockies Shippen and Cobullbullbull King and Co Clemens and Co Radcliffe and Fowler Brady and Co

Bucldand o bull

lt

bullbullbull

Davies and Co Maguire and Co Harp of Erin Co Maguire aud Co Beveridge and Co Coxon and Co Grennep and Wilson Honeychnrch and Co

Frecburgh Oriental Hill Three Stars Tramway Heef Three Stars bullbullbull

Oriental Hill Reliance Reef Lisbon Reef

Maefadzean aud Co J Butler and Go

Bright

Belle of the Ball Stackey Gully

The Hope Q M Running Creek

Happy Valley Reef Root Hog and Die Running Creek

Totals

WANDILIOONO SUBDIVISIO

Prince Arthur Mill Williams and Co Tributers Williams and Co Tributers Davies and Hearn Tri-

buters Birthday Mill

Three public crushings Queen of South Mill

Two small crushings Hit or Miss Mill

Harrietville Oriental Mill

Nine parcels for public Try Again Mill

Hood and Contts Frasers Mill

Myrtle Co London Co James and Co Londonderry bullbull

Prince Arthur Lease Anstralasia Lease Prince A Lease

Various

Buck-eye

Try Again Myrtle Reef London Reef Londonderry

Native Industry Reef

and Co Attridge and Co Native Industry Symes

Old Albion Never 100 Late Mill

Stephens and Co Pride of Kildare Gregory and Co Louisa

Forlorn Hope Vale and Co Wbo Knows

Home ~fill Hazeton E M Gill Home Reef

Stephens Mill Mills and Co Advance Australia H Mitchell HM Reef J Phillips New Years Gift

tons cwt qr

258 0 0 19 0 0

205 0 0

156 0 0

90 0 0 16 0 0

13 0 0 12 0 0 35 0 0

4 0 0 7 0 0

14 0 0 40 0 0

6 0 0 7 0 0

54 0 0 34 0 0

100 0 0 40 0 0 5 0 0

11 0 0 17 0 0 17 0 0

49 10 0 19 0 0

312 0 0

3 0 0

oz dwt gr

1 8 1451 9 5 632 1 12 468

o 10 2154

1 7 1866 1 10 0 5 4 l477 1 11 16 0 7 1028 1 6 6 2 1 1886 2 17 1029 0 4 72 4 6 16 1 7 0

2 2 2311 210 0 o 18 0 o 17 0 1 3 0 1 10 0 1 0 0 4 14 282

o 14 1309 o 15 189

0 1 2331

I 8 0

1543 10 I 3 2124 __ o i

28 0 0 I 13 0 16 0 0 o 17 12 77 0 0 7 0 686

85 0 0 0 9 1552

11 10 0 1 5 0

64 0 0 3 13 105

376 0 0 0 4 963

150 0 0 0 7 48

780 0 0 0 4 16 42 0 0 0 8 228 24 0 0 0 7 12 33 10 0 I 17 211

13 18 0 3 7 2089

24 0 0 1 o 20 28 0 0 I 3 1371 23 0 0 1 19 313 43 0 0 I 1 949

0 4 1294178 0 0

35 0 0 3 I 1714 49 0 0 o 16 1763 99 0 0 0 Ii 109

Remarks relative to the Total Yield of Depth at which theGold Quartz WJ obtained ampc _-----shyoz dwt gr

369 O 0 400 feet 176 0 0 150 feet 330 0 0 220 feet water leve

100 feet 85 0 0 150 feet

125 0 0 60 feet 24 0 0 20 feet 68 0 0 80 feet 19 0 0 Surface 13 0 0 20 feet 5 5 0 40 feet

14 12 12 40 feet 40 4 0 50 feet 8 12 0 35 feet

26 0 0 Surface 9 9 0 25 feet

116 0 0 SO feet 85 0 0 50 feet 90 0 0 120 feet 34 0 0 60 feet

5 15 0 Surface 16 10 0 40 feet 17 0 0 Surface to 10 feet 80 0 0

36 0 0 30 feet 15 0 0 50 feet

30 15 0 300 feet water level 100 feet

4 4 0 Surface

1843 ( 12 ----shy

46 -1 0 Surface to 40 feet 14 0 0 Surface to 40 feet

540 2 0 Surface to 40 feet

41 0 0

14 7 12

235 0 0 150 feet

82 15 0

100 to 300 feet54 0 0

450 feet 17 0 0

182 0 0 300 feet

9 0 0 170 feet 63 10 0 70 feet

43 0 0

middot25 0 0 33 0 0 45 0 0 310 feet 46 0 0 90 feet

40 8 0 120 feet deep

108 0 0 30 feet 41 0 0 50 feet 27 0 0 5 to 60 feet

Eleven small parcels Various 153 0 1

0 9 1082 72 6 0O

1779 12 12 Totals 2332 18 0 o 15 616

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION

The Try Again Paps Reef 2 0 0 1 8 0 2 16 0 Surface to 50 feet Peter Mannoni and party Durham Gully Reef 14 0 0 9 10 0 133 0 0 Snrface to 40 feet Selby and Johnson Candlelight Reef 25 0 0 0 7 48 9 0 0 Surface to 50 feet

--- shy -- shy ----- shy ---- shy -Totalsmiddot 41 0 0 3 10 1522 144 16 0

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QUANTITY of- QUARTZ Crushed in eacK Division and StiMivsioriJduring the QUfiiter Iampc-colltinued

Division and Subdlvlson 1 I Average I l Remark~el~tfveto the t and Quartz Cru~hed i YieldOf Gold TotaGrl~d of

Nameof Company bull per Ton bull

-----------I--to-n-s-cwt--q-10p -o~ Dny CnEElt SUBDIVISION

R G Meade Une~(Quattz Table ipoundiIiabiy Creek 350 0 0 0 23 Claim

-~~ t71~ 1- -~

GAFFNEYS CnEEllSUBshyDIVISION

Al G M Tributers I bullbull Castle reefs 400 00 o 13 1626 Rose of DenmarkTributers Eureka Heef 1 i 60 0 0 o 6 Hi Wallaby Tributers - WallabyReef bull f600 0 0 o 15 1244 Sundry lots ~i ~ bullbull Homeward Bound Reef 1)400 0 0 o 018

~-----shyTotals bullbullbull

WOODS POINT SJJBDIVISIONbullbull

The Revival (Fords Tribute) Sir Tohn Franklin reefs Lady Franklin Tributers bull Johnsons Reef Morning Star Prospectors Mornini Star Heef

Tributers North WaverJy~ i Waverly Reefmiddot Axton and Ryan Morning Star Reef

Totals

BIG RIVEn SUBDIVISION

Londonderry S M bullbullbull Hailway Heef Lucks All Q Mmiddot I WarnersReef i

Totals

MITTA MITTA NORTH SUBshyDIVISION

Happy Go Lucky ~rount Firebrace Prospecting Mill I ~ Cotton Tree Hore and Co -CottOn Tree bullbullbull Coleman Cotton Tree Philip bullbullbull Cotton Tree Gregson Cotton Tree PeadoIiBrothers Cotton Tree Clarke Brtithers bull Qotton Tree Padgett Cotton Tree Peach and party CottonTree n

Sutherland Cotton Tree Christy and Co CottonTree Frazer and Co Cotton Tree Miller and Co Cotton Tree Lee Cotton Tree Doctor and party Cotton Tree Flag Staff Compo Bethariga Trewalla Compo Bethanga

Totals

MITTA JliIITTA Scn)Tii SUB- DIVISIN

I

Enterprise bull Junction Mitta Mitta Christmas Tunction Mitta Mitta Christmas (2nd lot) Junction Mitta Mitta Welcome Tunction Mitta rfitta Yellow Girl Junction Mitta 1l1itta Watson and Scalesmiddot I Granite Fiat ~ Littlejohn and Williams b t Granite Flat A Hodder Granite ]Iat Empress Granite ll1it Empress (No2) Granite Flat Jtichards Bros Granite Flat llose of Kilkenny Granite Flat Pioneer Juncti~n Mitta 11itta

Totals bull

JA~IIESON SUBDrVI8ION

Ventu~e ( Macks Creek Sailor Bill ( tiailor Bill Greek

Totals

2460 0 0 0 6 1436

800q 0 o 8 21)-72

130 0 0 o 2 1366 800 0 0 03 072

1400 00 0 3 924

)t60 0 0 I o 4 4

d 40J 00

273 ll 0

20 ) 0 465 1gt1 0

52 10 0 -----shy

811 12 0

I

354 IPIS 16 14 0

121 4 0

)67 1~0 10 ~ 0

Depth at which the Quartz was obtained ampc

---------shy

About 70 feet T

About 200 feet About middot100 feetmiddot About200 feet

~ i ~~~ j 0

Ahptlt 200 feet f~ r About 100 feet About 70 fcet

Aboutl30 feet y Surface 7

2190 0 0 o 1 511 I 572 12 18

co i

900 0 0 o 4 16 183 0 0 I About 300 feet ~~~172 0 uO 1 21223 c190 0 0 About 250 feet

1072 0 0 0 6 2301 373 9 0 ---- shy _---shy

_ 300-0 0 o 10 192 162 0 0 295 00 o 13144 200 12 0

32- 0 0 o 12 0 19 4 0 16 12 Omiddot27 0 0 o 12 711

4 10 0 o 9 266 2 I 0 I300 1 3 8 3 10 0

6 4 9

0 0 0 0 00

o iI 16 o i 0 o ~5- in 33

3 100 216 0

213 0 6 0 0 o 5 16 I 14 0 9 0 0 o 10 8 13 0

6 0 0 o 15 16 41~ 0 500

22 00 o 9 144 o 19 0

280 20 la 0

11 12

0 0 00 i

o 16 o 7

218 8

8 17 4lt 8

0 0

186 0 O o 10 1853 100 314 83 0 0 o 11 1424 48 2 6

1020 100 0 11 2235 608 15 20 1

12 0 0 o 1 20 I ) 0 12 0 0 o 5 20 3 10 0

700 o 8 2057 3 2 0 50 0 0 o 544 14 10 0

o 14 0 14 o 0 c i 20 Q 9 o I 6 0 F2 12 10 Q o o 3 343 j 2 14 0~ 14 Q o o I 18 0 7 0400

38 0 0 o 9 503 17]00 o 4 1664 11 14 16 50 0 deg 700 Vb2171 8

16 O l o 8 45 6 0 I r J

15 o l 0 o 3~3 deg2 l deg ---- ~ - I ltshy

255 middot0 0 0 6 1538 ------ --__shy

600 b 0 0 3 256 93 14 0 100 feet Fmiddot

480 00 0100 240 O 01 40()feet 1

o ~ o1080 ~ 0

11

Total Yield 01 Reruarksrelatve to the Gold Depth at which the

~_____ Qn~r~~ T~~ Obtp7dbullampe

tons oz dwt gr

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHUllST DIVISION Albert Beehive bullbullbull Bendigo and Melbourne Birds Reef Catherine ReefU C Garden Gully United bull G G Consolidated Great Extended Hustlers

Reef Great Britain bull bullbull Great Southern Hercules and Energetic bull Johnsons Reef G M bullbullbull Lazarus bull Louisa Metropolitan bullbull Marong CrushillgWorksl New-chum and Victoria Newmiddotchum United New Kelson bull Old Tom J V)~ipstick Shenandoah Victoria Conaols Victoria Reef G M _ Vilsons Reef

KILMORE DIYISION~ Crown Doyles GoIden Crown Beaconsfield bullbullbull Red Rover Loudon and party Trezise and party Overlander Doyles Battery robins neef bull

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND VVARANGA SOUTH

SUBDIVISION Alison

Collins

DIVISION Good Luck Nobull1 Hgpe o(Denmar~ ~ Lost Love Taylorand Crowe Cambridge and Warwick West Growlers TaylorBros __ Marsland and Co Holmes Lease King Billy Francis and Co Rowan and Co Hodge Bros Loughlin Jose and Co WnistIers OBrien and Co Telford and Co

Diamond tIilt E~glhawk bullbullbull Kangaroo Flat Kangaroo blat

Eaglehawk Garden Gully Reef Golden Gully bull Hustlers Reef

Golden Square Garden Gully Reef Victoria neef bullbull California Gully

New-chum Gully Eaglehawk GoIde-q SQllare I I yenarong bullbull - Ironbark New-chum Gully KeIson Reef bull

Newmiddotchm Ililcf Victoria R~ef

Totals 1

Doyles ned Doyles Reef GCrown Reef i Magenta Reef Upper Reedy London Reef bullbull Russells Reef Overlander Reef I Various places Sunday Creek

529 00 o 6 1279 5360 0 0 o 91855

389 00 o 6 283 o B 206I 1389 OJii

3196 0 4441l0

I 1078 O bull 258 0 bull 1170 0

3783 0 3994 0 6980 0 4362 0 1789 0 141~ 0

237 0 il189 0 1773 0 1927 0

1 240 0

_ 2i32 0 r 2554 0 1

VictoriaRlcf 4330 _0 Marong 305 0

i------ii

o 5 1825 0 0

1 1 056 0 o 4 1206 0 o 8 947

o 0 5 372 o 0 61l47 o 0 5 1202 o 0 4 912 o 0 9 1372 o 0 6 1321 o 0 4 2332 o 0 5 966 o 0 8 ijs 60S 94deg 0 6 163i 0 0bull 186l

o 0 4 2219o 0 2 132 o 0 8 389 o 0 7 2289

280 0 0 4 0 0 190 0 0 1 15 0

13 0middot0 1 10 0 --20 0 0 0 15 0

15 oj 0 0 10 0 5 0 0 1 0 0

12 0 0 2 14 0 16 0 0 0 8 0

0160 0 0 5 0 6 0 Oimiddotl 0 0

)

dii5 23 2619 4 0

119 0 0 56111 12 920 11 i

4670 8 0 242 14 I

1083 15 0

507 16 deg 1225 7 0 1098 11 0 1528 14 0

2~~ i~ g 362 9 0

6314 12 2151 2 0 743 19 0

643 12 0 16middot6 12 623 10 iJ 325 ui 12 1767 0

121 6 0

00 332 10

19 10 0 0

1120 0

15 0 00 Kll b 1 el7 1 ~ a ove water- ev

3~ i g ~~ ~resent

15 0 0 rJ J 6 0 0

Totals 617 0 0 2 10 13 15596 0

Lower Costerfield 48 0 0 1 ii 0 48 0 0 Redcastle 343 0 0 0 14 2365 257 0 0

Totals li~~3_~_1_0-0-l-_0_15gt1_4_4-2 1_3_05_0__0_

Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth Rushworth

Rushworth

Rushworth Rushworth Whroo Whroo Whroo Wllroo

Whroo Coys Diggings Coys Diggings Coys Diggings

Totals

54 0 0 0 3 2266 29

9 0 0

0 0

1 1 579i 12 16

2 0 0 3 13 12 40 Ii 0 0 5 1335 29 0 0 0 I H17 -5-middot0 0 L3 0

5 19 30

7 13 9 2

5 22 12

6

0 00 7 96 0 0 0 4 deg 0 0 1 12 if 00 0111714 0 0 0 4 0 0middot0 2 16 12 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 6 48 0 0 I 8 3 1527 0 0 0 4 6 00 2 316

298 O 0 I 1 3 1049

I

I I I

(ifixed lots from va rious reefs See II page 30)

I I

[

J

1I

j 1

10 13 0 I 30 16 0 i4 14 0 770

11 2 6 2 2 12

5150 I1 17 O 3 16 0

30 15 0 Al)above water-Ieve

4 2 0 II2 12 025 8 12 100 1 11 0 I

180 0 0 I 2 11 0 I

13 2 0 J -----s

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT -

MARYBOROUGH DIVIllON Bristol Hill James Kay Reade and 90 bull

Western Reef Bristol Hill Viarious pl~ces

883 10 0 97 00

0 3 1655 o 4 5

163 iO 20 8

0 5

306 to 430 feet Various

(public crushiugs) Waldley and party

Leviathan Reef China 352 0 0 o 13 095

1 229 10 0 70 to 80 feet

mans Wilson and Dark Lord Napier Reef Chinashy 61 0 0 0 7 904 221( 0 11~feetl

mans Fisher and party North German Reefmiddot1 39 0 0 0 5 1538 11 0 0 60 feet

Chinamans

totals

1432 19 0 0 6 557 446 8 5 -

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QUANTITY of QUAlnz Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued -

AYclage 1Division and Subdivision Uemnrks relative to the _and Yioldo Gold 1 Total YIeld of Depth at whIch the

Name of Company Quartz Crushedthere Quartz was obtained

per Ton Gold Quartz was 0 btained amp0

oz dwt grtons cwt qr oz dwt gr

AMHERST DIVISION

Croydon 35 12 18 Laura Reef 230 0 0 0 3 237 40 to 80 feet No 1 South Croydon --

Iaura Reef 0 2 493 15 8 18140 0 0 Surface to 30 feet No2 South Croydon 0 1 20-82 9 6 18 40 feetLaura Reef 100 0 0

288 11 12Union Q M C 200 feet Trickey and party

Church Hill Reef 144 0 0 -2 0 192 9 3 12Dundee Beef 0 2 789 60 feet

Perseveranee 77 0 0

0 8 1111 11 15 6 40 feet Sundries Prince of Wales Reef 27 0 0

18 8 0_143 0 0 0 _2 1376Various ----s6~1--~0~1--6i21Totals

-I AVOCA SUBDIVISION

Monte Christo 15 10 0Murdoehs Reef 14 0 0 I 2 342

DUNOLLY ~ND TARNAGULLA DiVISIONS

Queens Birthday o 12 031 2223 0 8 300 to 500 feet Queens Reef

3701 0 0Bealiba Reef 64 18 0Queens Reef 130 feet713 0 0 0 1 1969

Kentish Reef 15 11 11 Kentish Reef 48 0 0 0 6 1l73 60 feet Harvest Home 33 0 0Harvest Home 40 feet30 0 0 1 2 0 Harrop and Lees 26 0 0 40 feet Yorkshire G M bull 0 1 o 1520 0 0

566 4 12 160 to 200 feetWatts Reef Tarnagulla 1474 0 7 1638o 0 1

2928 _75966 1 0 0 9 1963Totals 1~ --- shyINGLEWOOD DIVISION

Jersey Reef Quartz Mining 103 3 20Jersey Reef 182 0 0 011 815 Dalmatia G M 1 3 0

tyres Smugglers Gi~n McI~ I 20 0 0 0 1 36

104 6 20202 0 0 010 794Totals REDBANK SUBDIVISION

TormeyEi Claim 52 16 0Station Reef 22 0 0 2 8 0

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION

Greenock Reef 39 0 070 feet to 170 feet (above 45 0 0 o 17 80 70 to 170 feet water-level)

Adams and party - -9 12 030 0 0 0 6 96 50 feetSpinster Ueef bull IT-Kersleyand party Greenock Reef 17 0 o i 0 10 0 1 8 10 0 15 feet

_ 92 0 0 0 12 991 57 2 0Totals ST ARNAUD NORTH

SUBDIVISION shyWorking Miners 0 7 268 248 18 6 200 to 260 feet Chrysolite Tribute Quartz

New Bendigo 700 0 0 0 2 2331 52 0 0 150 feet level

Mining Co Registered Chrysolite Reef - 350 0 0

300 18 6Totals 1Q50 0 0 0 5 1755

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLElILltiINE D1VISION

Eureka Cardwell Argus United McWalters Central bull Wattle Gully Sebastopol Crushing Utle Nuggety Arehbold and Co

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

English Australian G M Perseverance Burdett-Coutts New Era Blaek Haivk Rowe Bros Rowe nros Duke Oornwall Small and Co Macdonald and Co Meins Freehold G M

Eureka Reef Town Reef Argus Flat-

Burns Reef Wattle Gully Wattle Gully Lady Gully Nuggety Reef bullbullbullI

Public crushings Totals bullbull

Golden Gully Cattles Reef Cattles Ueef Ferrons Reef Cattles Reef Cattles Heef Ferrons Reef bullbull Cattle Reef Cattles Reef German Gully Guilford Hill

Totals

718 0 0 41 0 0

530 0 0 8J 0 0

759 0 0 505 0 0 247 0 0

52 0 0 155 0 0

3091 0 0

862 0 0 200 0 0

20 0 0 6310 0 0

123 0 0 1419 0 0

417 0 0 166 0 0 50 0 0 24 0 0

3560 0 0 i shy

13151 0 01

0 6 1666 o 19 12-3 0 7 65 o 17 12 0 4 424 0 2 983 0 3 162 0 7 203 o 15 4-18

0 6 341

0 4 98 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 3 324 0 1 20-87 0 7 668 0 4 2169 0 4 144 0 2 96 o 10 0 0 1 1839

0 3 904

1

240 7 0 360 feet 40 0 0 62 feet

192 13 12 73 10 0 160 feet

158 10 0 350 feet 60 17 0 45 18 20 8 0 230 feet

117 12 0

949 5 6

190 0 0 320 feet 40 0 0 180 feet

5 0 0 230 feet 989 3 0 100 to 380 feet

11 10 0 150 feet 516 8 0 150 to 200 feet 102 5 0 20 to 80 feet 33 14 0 20 to 200 feet

6 0 0 190 feet 12 0 0 90 feet

314 8 0

2220 8 0

shy

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Average Remarks relative to theDivision and Subdivision Total Yield ofWhere Quartz was obtained I Qnartz Crushed I Yield of Gold Depth at which theand Gold Quartz was obtained amp0per TonName of Company

---------_

tone owt qr loz dwt gr oz dwt gr

HEPBUllN DIVISION

Argus Italian mil 566 0 0 30 to 150 feet New North Cornish

74 11 100 2 1506 n

Wombat Hill 105 0 0 Surface to 35 feet Richardsons

0 3 396 16 12 8 Bismarck Reef 13 0 0 30 feet1 0 0 13 0 0IWomans Gully 23 0 0 10 feet0 4 834 5 0 0Ansonia

60 0 o i 0 3 0Pitchers Reef 25 feet Panham 9 0 0Fuseo

Pitchers Reef 52 0 0 40 feet Bray and party

0 1 1661 4 8 0 Frenchmans Reef 70 feet12 0 0 2 8 00 4 0

King and Co

Willards Reef 60 0 0 70 feet0 4 0 12 0 0 ISt Georges Reef 630 0 0 0 1 038 32 0 0 140 feetUnion Nuggety HeeL 690 0 0 230 0 0 I20 to 280 feet

Keep-it-Dark Companies 0 6 16Ajax Keep-it-Dark

120 0 0 50 0 0 I 100 to 140 feet0 8 8

Totals 2331 0 0 0 3 2044 448 19 18

TARADALE AND KYNETON SUBDIVISION

Taradale 945 0 0 0 1 1562 United Kingdom ~ 78 0 0 Glenlyon 140 I) 0 0 9 1406 Little Wonder 67 2 0

1085 0 0Totals 0 2 1619 145 2 0 ----shy

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Caledonian Mills Parkins Linscotts Nelshy 92 0 0 o 17 0 200 to 300 feet78 4 0 son amp Valkers reefs

Eaglehawk Linscotts 622 0 0 0 12 1744 395 16 0 50 to 270 feetLinscotts Mills and Nuggety reefs

Phwnix Mills Beehive Swipers Gershy 1000 0 0 1 9 1227 1475 11 12 80 to 300 feet man Victoria amp Irish Billys reefs

Great Western Beehive Reef 120 0 0 0 4 0 24 0 0 40 to 80 feet

Totals bullbull 1834 0 0 I 1 1253 197311 12 -~-----

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

United Company Hoddles Creek 180 0 0 0 9 204 88 13 0 35 feet Lyre Bird Hoddles Creek 25 0 0 o 13 0 16 5 0 27 feet Sunday Reef McCraes Hill S 0 0 0 1 12 o 12 0 20 feet Sheppard and party Warburton 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 10 feet Central Mining Hurst and Co

Reef ton MountainB

38 10 1 0

0 0

1 13 24 2 17 20

63 14 2 17

8 2

180 feet Surface

Murray and Hirt Smith and Hirt Hartley and Co

You-You You-You You-You

3 2 7

10 0 0

0 0 0

1 10 2057 I 10 12 o 10 1714

5 8 3 1

1 15

0 0 0

50 feet 30 feet 60 feet

Hopkinson You-You 2 0 0 1 10 0 3 0 0 60 feet Apted and Co Pioneer 6 0 0 o 18 8 5 10 0 ISO feet Progress Panton Hill 218 0 0 0 7 146 82 18 15 120 feet Napoleons March Panton Hill 18 0 0 o 11 1977 1012 20 40 feet Bignell and Co Fourth Hill Warrandyte 7 0 0 3 0 0 i 21 0 0 30 feet

517 0 0Totals o 11 2247 308 10 21

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Wimmera North and South Wales Pioneer and Galatea New St George Scotchmans Moonlight W onga and Birmingham

RAGLAN DIVISION

The Victory Quartz Gold Mining

Stawell reefs

Stawell reefs Stawell reefs Stilwell reefs Stawell reefs Stawell reefs

Totals

Reef near Waterloo

5788 0 0 is 9 0

4624 0 0 3196 0 0 3353 10 0 3580 0 0 2069 0 0

22688 19 0

17 0 0

011 595 1 5 739 o 14 721 o 11 26 0 7 9 0 14 2207 0 2 1853

0 11 319

1 4 224

3255 4 3 200 to 1000 feet 99 5 10 40 to 100 feet

3306 6 8 200 to 1100 feet 1i75 2 0 4S0 to 1200 feet 1236 II 18 100 to 850 feet 2670 IS 0 410 to 1120 feet

286 15 21 24 to 100 feet

12629 18 12

20 10 0

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~iiANfiTYofCltr ARTz0rusliedjirieacnDi visi~ri~andgtSohdi vision during the Qulilter ~ampc-continuedbull _ _ ~~ ~M_~

---1--- DivislonnndSnbdivisioh bull

OlJ 1j and~ I ~Yhere Qua~ was ogttamed __ Na~~O Company______ ______ ___

GIPPSLAND ~C C ~ Q)fElO ~

~ Srifts Creek Fashion Reef

CROOKED RIVE~ DiVISIoN

Robert Moore -- ~ Upper Dargo bullbull Wentworth Parslow and Co

Totals DONNELLYSC~EEK DIVISION

DonnellyS Creek Bismarck United

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION

Long Tunnel f Cohens Reef Cohens Reef Walhalla (Tributers) I

I Totals ABERFELDY SUBDIVISlON Aberpoundeldy Reef -James Rices Mine

----~-

AverageQuartz Crushed Yie1T ONMld

per Ton

tons ewt qr oz dwt gr

MINING DISTRICT u

I 10 0 0 I 12 b

---- shy

20 0 0 0 10144 30 0 600 0

50 0 0 0 7 2016

42 0 0 0 14 4

5034 0 0 1 8 191 0 8 1078997 d 0

06031 0 1 5 1038

650 d 0 0 6 144

Remarks relative to thoTotal Yield Depth at which theof Gold Quartz was obtalnedampc

Oz dwt gr

-

i 16 0 0

10 12 0 Surfaee to 20 feet 9 00

---- shy19 12 0

29 15 0 400 feet

17248 0 0 i 343 to 623 feet 421 4 0

7669 4 )

]96 19 0 150 feet 50 feet

water level

~ laquo

~

QUARTZ TAILINGS MULLOClETC THE follo~in~ infor~ation has beenobtai~edfromReturn~made bythe-Mi~lng Surveyorsand R~gist~a~s

relative to the Quantity OfQUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK ampc Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each -Mining District -during the ~uarter and the GOJD obtained therefrom

I ______

DiviSion and Snbdlvislon I Where Quartz Tailings and I Quartz Tailings Average Ttl y ld ~r ~Remarksielative to the and Mullock ampc were and Mnlloek ampc Yield of Gold 0 ItG I~c Depth at which tbeI

Same of Company i obt~n~~ l I~~~I )ler~on~ 0 MUll~C~amp~1e~ ~btalne~ --- shy tons cwt qr oz dwt gr 0 dwtgr

r bull - JBALLARATMININGDISTRICT

I ICENTRAL DtvIsioN 1

~

11259 19130 Isuriac~ ~~Ofe~~ IBallarat East 2580 00 0Canadian

Mount Clear 1050 00Baker and Co I 0 12308 103 00 Surface to 20middotfeet t

pi 1+Totals ~ q630 0 0 o 1 1562 bull ni

STEIGLITZ SUBl)JVISION I

Minerva Eiaine 220 0 0 o 3 218 34 0 0 20 0 0Wee Speek bullbull Do o 4 96 4 8 0

180 0 0 0 016DUIIlIDott and Co Steiglitz 6 O o

Totals 420 0 0 0 2 274 44 8 0

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEcrrwoRTH DIVISION

Marco Polo Hurdle Flat - 48 0 0 0 2 0

I

4 16 0 Various depths l~_ gt

INDIGO DIVISION

Magentll MIYfntR Reef middot Places Mill Variou~

Totals -

I

-

0632 300

shy

0 0 0 0 I

I 0 o I

0 0

0

I 991 44 13 0 2 0middotmiddot 30 0 0

1444 t1 74 13 0

Surface to 50ifeet ChieH y surfacemiddotfrom

old workings

MrlTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION

Trewalla Bethanga

23 middot0 0 gt)

0 7 417

8

5 0

r

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK crushed in each Division and Subdivision ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Where Quart Tailings and Quartz Tallogs I Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and and MuJlock ampc Gold lfuUock ampc were Depth at which the

erolIlld I I~ IP t I obtained Mullock ampc were obtamcltL --middot---------------~-------I-----I-------=-___c_-~-I------~--

Name of Company

tons ewt qr oz dwtgr

SANDHURSTMlNING DISTRICT~~ L I i

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIshyVISION

Alison JoIlins

Lower Costerfield Redcastle

Totals

i

1000 0 150 (l 0

0 0

3 0 2 224

15 0 22 0

0 0

shy

d

~1

250 P 0 0 2 2304 37 0 0

(I

MARYBOROUGH MiNI~G DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE MINI~G DISTRICTv

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION

Crown Ninirod Reef bullbullbull Nuggety NuggetyReef D avies and Co

Donkey Gully A jax Tribute ~ Bolivia Reef

Totals n i - shy

HEPBUBN DIVISION

Francis bullbullbull f bullbull1 Wombat Hill ~ bullbull

ST ANDRlFws D1VISION

middotCentral Mining bull~ Reefton bullbullbull United bullbullbull HoddlesCreek

Totals

1140 0 0 0 1 0-1 57 5 0

- 0 0 0 I 12 5210 0_ 700 680 0 0 0 1 235 37middot 612 510 0 0 0 1l(66middot 36( 16 15

3030 0 0

400 00

Ilt

i 174 0 0 I 25 0 0I

199 0 0

0 1 5l3 183 18 3

0 0 -12 l 10 0 0

t I bull

0 3 15-22 31 12 9 0 0 192 1- 0 0

)

-- 6671-~

Surface Surface

Shllow

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

W onga and Bir~ingham

~ I

Stawell reefs 35 0 0 0 2 13-54 4 9 18 f ~ I ~ i f

1I

middotGIPFStAN]) IMINliNG vDISiFRI(iJT

DONNELLYS CllEEKD~ISIOl

Bismarck ITnited

i

1

~OO j

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PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the Quantity of PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on in the several Divisions -and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Dlvision and Subdivision Remarks relatlve to the I Pyrites I Average I I iWhere Pyr~B an~ Blanketmgs and Blnnketings Yield 01 Gold Tota Y old of and Depth at which the wele obtamed I operated on per Ton GoldName 01 Oompany - PyritesJ ampc were ubtained

I tons cwt qr oz dwt gr I oz dwt gr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION Llanberris 18 0 0 1 16 1466 32 19 0Gumtree Flatbullbullbull

CRESWIOK DIVISION Port Phillip Clunes 471 5 0107 0 o I 4 8 202 New North Clunes 93 16 12Clunes 19 0 o i 4 18 1831

67 5 o 7 I 2382South Clunes 477 9 0Clunes 193 5 0 1 5 7 2145 1042 1012

STEIGLITZ SIJDDIVISION Totals

Enterprise Elaine- 103 0 0 o 18 349 93 9 0 Dummott and Co 5 12 0Steiglitz 22 0 0 0 5 218

Totals 99 1 0 BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND

BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION

125 0 0 o 15 2035

Barrys Reef bullbullbull 14 10 0 4 9 1572 65 0 0Sultan

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEOHWORTH DlVISION Reform Myrtleford 39 0 0 o 15 0 29 5 0

1

YAOKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVlSION

Bigelowe and Clingam WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION E M Gill

Homeward Bound Hills-borough

Various localities

25

50

0

0

0

0

o 15middot 504

o 18 0

19

45

0

0

6

0

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

S

SANDHURST DIVISION 884 16 122 2 2286Pinchgut Gully 412 0 0United Pyrites 244 4 01 9 2311 163 0 0Jackass Flat andhurst amp Eaglehawk PE 281 7 121 11 013Derwent Gully 181 10 0L iddell and Co

1410 8 01 17 69756 10 0Totals HEATHOOTE DIVISION AND ---------shy

WARANGA SOUTH SUB-JDIVISION

33 0 J1 0 033 0 0Alison Lower Costerfield I

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION Bristol Hill

DlJNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS

Queens Birthday

Western Reef Bristol Hill 13 11 0 2 7 208 81 18 12

Bealiba Reef 15 0 0 1 6 16 20 0 0

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr Yeats Castlemaine 129 0 0 1 12 409

- 207 10 0

HEPBURN DIVISION J Williams Ajax

3 7

0 0

0 0

o 16 1 14

16 685

210 12 0

0 0

250 feet 250 feet

Totals 10 0 01 1 9 0 14 10 0

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

_DIVISlUrSTRINGERS 2 9 3-21 42 18 017 9 0Cohens Reef Long Tunnel

12 14 01 9 4648 14 0 Cohens Reef Walhalla - 55 12 02 2 1213- 26 3 0Totals

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

1

Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

I

INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

18

QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

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PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

t

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NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

---

--

--------------

176

21

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

______ ~i I

DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

25

The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

No 83 D

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

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JIINING SURVEYURS AND REGISTRARS RETURNS

QUARTZ

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars lelative to the QUANlITY OF QUARTZ Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GoLD obtained therefrom

Divislon ~nd Subdivision I Average I T IYi Remarks relative toti and WheTe Quartz was obtained Quartz Crushed Yield of Gold ta ld of Depth at which the

Name of Companybull per Ton Gold Quartz was obtained amp0 ~-----------------I--------7--------I-------~-I------------------1-----------------

tons owt qr j oz dwt gr I oz dwtgr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Band and Albion Consols Ballarat West bullbullbull 3269 0 0 0 13 776 2177 15 0 1250 feet Black Hill Ballarat East bullbull 3358 0 0 0 5 1236 925 19 20 Surface to 500 feet Llanberris bullbullbull Ballarat East bullbull 2435 0 0 0 2 1599 324 12 12 300 feet Temperance Little Bendigo 1500 0 0 0 7 2227 594 12 0 430 to 950 feet Serjeants Freehold Endeavor

Ballarat West Specimen Gully

270 603

0 0

0 0

0 11 2295 0 4 421

161 8 125 18

6 0

280 feet 100 feet

Britannia Duchcss

bullbullbull bullbull

Specimen Gully Ballarat East

457 913

0 0

0 0

0 0

2 440 7 1953

49 17 21 356 14 4

165 feet ISO to 300 feet

Parade Ballarat East 230 0 0 0 15 448 174 13 0 400 feet Countess Ballarat East 90 0 0 0 4 1373 20 11 12 70 to 150 feet Canadian Canadian 1925 0 0 0 5 l1S3 52S 15 0 SO to 140 feet Baker and Co bull Mount Clear 1250 0middotmiddot0 0 8 1217 631 14 0 Surface to 100 feet Hanthorn and Co Mount Clear 145 0 0 0 6 082 43 15 0 80 to 150 feet Black Hill Lnited Ballarat East 132 0 0 0 19 1889 129 4 10 400 feet New Dirnocks Little Bendigo 2160 0 o 0 3 266 336 0 0 260 to 860 feet North Dimocks Little Bendigo 708 0 0 I 0 3 823 liS 7 0 300 to 400 feet New Koh-i-noor Ballarat West 190 0 0 Band of Hope Quartz Ballarat West 1104 0 0

Public crushings bull Ballar~~~~d wes~ 2

SOUrUElIN DIVISION

Speedwell Tribute Staffordshire Reef 1090 0 0 Hopewell Tributers Staffordshire Reef 50 0 0 New Kangaroo Kangaroo 2117 0 0 Williams Fancy Kangaroo 900 0 0 Nil Desperandum Kangaroo 511 0 0 New Try Again Kangaroo 400 0 0

Totals 5068 0 0

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Imperial Q M bull Hiscock Reef bull 1520 0 0 Olle-and-All Hiscocks Fairweather 1379 0 0

0 8 757 79 0 0 280 to 300 feet 0 8 558 454 8 18 300 feet

~~19~2 1 1 ~ IVarious depths 11

o 2 751 126 I 10 150 feet 4 feet wide o 6 012 15 0 6 121 feet o 2 004 211 18 0 278 feet 8 feet wide o 3 1028 154 5 18 130 feet 6 feet wide o 2 185middot 70 16 0 120 feet 8 feet wide o I 1269 30 11 12 130 feet 4 feet wide

---- 0 2 964 608 12 22

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0 6 204 462 9 6 1I2 feet 0 Ill 99 103 8 2 80 to 200 feet

1Reefs Tributers Olle-and-All Public crushing~ I Various depths up to

150 feet Llewellyn Magpie Ranges

486 0 0 0 II 1213 279 11 18

180 feet

Totals ~~-+I ~23middot 9 ---1-----shy -------SIYTHESDALE DIVISION

720 0 0 0 1 166 60 17 11 264 feet Bristol Linton Ranges Srnythesdale Consols German Reef SrnythesdaJe

7 10 0 150 feet30 0 o 0 5 0

750 0 0 0 I 1974 68 7 11Totals

CRESWICK DIVISJON

1396 0 0Port Phi Ilip Clunes reefs o 4 1573 32419 12 100 to 990 feet12514 0 0Port Phillip Tributcrs Clunes reefs o 5 159 3170 1 12

New North Clunes Clunes reefs 394 0 0 o 2 962 47 6 12 240 to 1105 feet2063 10 0 725 10 0 South Clunes Clunes reefs New North ClunesTributers Clunes reefs o 7 076

812 2 03119 0 0 o 5 497 70 to 600 feet8486 0 0 2]03 0 0 New Lothair Clunes reefs South Clnlles Tnbuters I Clunes reefs o 4 2295

1340 0 0 o 5 1525 264 to 564 feet United Spring Hill Reef

377 12 0 194 0 0 o 5 162 55 1 0 70 feet

Working Miners Georges Reef 320 0 0 o 3 20middot97 70 feet61 19 15

Totals bullbullbull 29826 10 0 0 5 355 7677 12 3

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Division and SubdiviSion Average Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of and Where Quartz was obtained I Quartz Crushed Yleld of Gold Depth at which theGoldName of Company pel ~ron Quart was obtained ampcbull ---- shy -----_ ------------ shy

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr oz dwt grGORDON SUBDIVISION

Black-horse United Egerton 400 to 600 feet7356 0 0 0 3 239 11469 16 0 The Egerton Limited Egerton 500 to 758 feet10104 0 0 0 6 9833238 3 14 Parkers United bullbull Gordon 60 0 0 0 5 235 17 18 18 ioo feet IUnited Miners ~orth of Gordon 150 0 0 0 3 0 22 10 0 Surface to 20 feet shy

Totals 17670 O 0 0 5 899 4748 8 8 i STEIGLITZ SUBDIvisION

Minerva Elaine I 5 133 23 0 o Ibull i 18 0 0 Elaine 52 0 middot0Watson and party 0 5 1846 15 0 0

Copperwaite and party Elaine o 18 02 0 6 0 9 0 Wee Speck Elaine 0 3 023 0 0 3 8 0 Mortimer and party Elaine o 17 III 24 10 028 0 0 Dunlop and party Elaine 4 4 45721 0 0 88 8 0 Dennis and Co Steiglitz 16middot 0 O I 2 12 18 0 0 Herring Steiglitz 2 14 96 13 12 05 0 0 Morris and Co Steiglitz 4 12 016 O oj 0 5 18 Barrett Steiglitz 1 13 o i4 0 0 0 8 6 Seott and Co New-ehum I 9 343 30 12 021 0 0

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BLACKWOOD DIVISION un) BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH

Totals

206middot 0 0 1 I 1712 223 13 01

SUBDIVISION Sultan Barrys Reef 1623 0 0 o 19 1798 1602 13 0 270 to 770 feet Moullter Bros BarryS Reef 99 0 0 o 17 ll88 86 12 0 400 feet Big Hill Simmons Reef 1800 0 0 0 1 680 1I5 10 0 50 feet Cornish Simmons Reef 450 0 0 0 1 643 23 10 15 100 feet

rownC Simmons Beef 250 0 0 0 2 2221 36 II 9 150 feet N~orth Star Union Reef 30 0 0 0 8 16 13middot 0 0 110 feet Victoria Yankee Reef 207 0 0 0 5 116 52 5 0 40 to i5 feet N I ~orth Britain da Wrights Reef

Wrights Reef 380 0

167 0 0 0

0 0

2 158 8 2i3

50 10 67 15

4 0

110 feet 280 feet

-----shy--- shy ---- shyTotals 5006 0 0 0 8 489 2053 7 4

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

I I BEECHWORTH DIVISION

Rocky Point 1 460 0 o i omiddot 7 6Homeward Bound Tribute 166 15 0 600 feet Shakspeare Reef Stanley bullbullbull 43 0 0 2middot14 1283 117 5 0 50 feet

shyHurdle Flat 800 0 0 014 225 563 15 0 90 feetWallaby Tribute Marco Polo Hurdle Flat 95 0 0 o 17 1l37 83 0 0 90 feet Sunday Beef Three-mile Creek 39 0 0 2 4 1169 86 15 0 120 feet Reform Myrtleford 1063 0 0 0 6 591 332 0 0 450 feet Nil Desperandum 11yrtleford 196 0 0 0 6 1175 63 12 0 100 feet Carthew and Co Myrtleford 16 0 0 0 4 0 3 4 0

------ shy --- shy ---__- Surfaee

Totals 2712 0 0 o 10 1067 1416 6 0 YACKANDANDAH SOUTH ------ shy ---- shy ----- shy

SUBDIVISION

Bigelowe and Clingam Hillsborough 130 0 0 0 8 8 54 3 6 40 feet Pride and Stringer Baek Creek 130 0 0 1 6 0 169 6 0 100 feet Iron Hand Twists Creek 35 0 0 0 2 14 4 10 8 20 feet Schnackenberg Bros Sandy Creek 60 0 0 4 10 0 270 0 0 60 feet Crowe and Farrell Sandy Creek 22 0 0 o 18 436 20 0 0 36 feet Patrick McClinehy Sandy Creek 6 0 0 II 13 8 70 0 0 30 feet

INDIGO DIVISION

Gallagher and CoshyDe lI1amiel and Co

Totals

Not known Golden Bar Reef

383 0 0 ------- shy

6 0 0 8 0 0

I 10 1687 587 19 14

1shy 9 = 1 II 2 Surfaee to 40 feet 0 16 18 6 14 0 30 to 40 feet

Hellyar and Co Indigo Reef 3 0 0 0 14 13 2 3 15 20 to 28 feet Pomeroy and Co Banners Reef 15 0 0 017 U2 13 2 0 60 feet Williams and Co Not known 20 0 0 o 16 18 16 15 0 Not known Spearing and Co Demon 28 0 0 1 15 171 49 2 0 60 to 80 feet Barras rind Co Caledonian Reef 48 0 0 o 17 235 43 3 0 100 feet Trevillian and Co Indigo Lead Reef 45 0 0 o 18 2134 42 10 0 138 feet Buehan and Co Pass-by Reef 13 0 0 17 18 II07 233 0 0 175 feet Archer and Co Touehstone Reef 12 0 0 I 4 0 14 8 0 Smfaee to 2(1 feet Laurie and Co Golden Bar 8 10 0 1 10 1411 13 0 0 30 to 80 feet Eustace and Co Bradys Hill 13 0 0 o 13 2033 9 0 0 Surface to 20 fcer Bigby and Co WaHaces Gully 10 0 0 2 15 0 27 10 0 80 to I00 f~CL Burton and Co Eureka Heef 25 0 0 o 14 0 17 10 0 60 to 80 feet Various companies Various reefs 19 10 0 o 14 1969 14 9 0 Various depths Hooly and Co We Speek Reef 25 0 0 1 10 0 37 10 0 60 to 100 feet Lord and Co Campbells Reef 24 0 0 4 5 10 102 10 o I 80 to 90 feet Brown and Co Garibalui Heef 12 0 0 o 17 4 10 6 0 60 to 70 flof

----- shy --- shy --- shyTotals 335 0 0 I 19 1247 661 19 3

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crllshed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

AverogeDivision and Subdivision Yield of Gold Quartz Crushedand Where Qnartz was obtained

per TonName 01 Company

BUCllLAD DIVISIOY

J A Wallace Jones and Co Dl-vies and Co

o

o

H arrietville Land Tax Rcef Buck-eye Tiddle-de-addle-de

Gillies and Co The Admiral Douglas and Co Anderson and Co Stephen and Co o

H Curry and Co O Anderson and Co Boss Cockies Shippen and Cobullbullbull King and Co Clemens and Co Radcliffe and Fowler Brady and Co

Bucldand o bull

lt

bullbullbull

Davies and Co Maguire and Co Harp of Erin Co Maguire aud Co Beveridge and Co Coxon and Co Grennep and Wilson Honeychnrch and Co

Frecburgh Oriental Hill Three Stars Tramway Heef Three Stars bullbullbull

Oriental Hill Reliance Reef Lisbon Reef

Maefadzean aud Co J Butler and Go

Bright

Belle of the Ball Stackey Gully

The Hope Q M Running Creek

Happy Valley Reef Root Hog and Die Running Creek

Totals

WANDILIOONO SUBDIVISIO

Prince Arthur Mill Williams and Co Tributers Williams and Co Tributers Davies and Hearn Tri-

buters Birthday Mill

Three public crushings Queen of South Mill

Two small crushings Hit or Miss Mill

Harrietville Oriental Mill

Nine parcels for public Try Again Mill

Hood and Contts Frasers Mill

Myrtle Co London Co James and Co Londonderry bullbull

Prince Arthur Lease Anstralasia Lease Prince A Lease

Various

Buck-eye

Try Again Myrtle Reef London Reef Londonderry

Native Industry Reef

and Co Attridge and Co Native Industry Symes

Old Albion Never 100 Late Mill

Stephens and Co Pride of Kildare Gregory and Co Louisa

Forlorn Hope Vale and Co Wbo Knows

Home ~fill Hazeton E M Gill Home Reef

Stephens Mill Mills and Co Advance Australia H Mitchell HM Reef J Phillips New Years Gift

tons cwt qr

258 0 0 19 0 0

205 0 0

156 0 0

90 0 0 16 0 0

13 0 0 12 0 0 35 0 0

4 0 0 7 0 0

14 0 0 40 0 0

6 0 0 7 0 0

54 0 0 34 0 0

100 0 0 40 0 0 5 0 0

11 0 0 17 0 0 17 0 0

49 10 0 19 0 0

312 0 0

3 0 0

oz dwt gr

1 8 1451 9 5 632 1 12 468

o 10 2154

1 7 1866 1 10 0 5 4 l477 1 11 16 0 7 1028 1 6 6 2 1 1886 2 17 1029 0 4 72 4 6 16 1 7 0

2 2 2311 210 0 o 18 0 o 17 0 1 3 0 1 10 0 1 0 0 4 14 282

o 14 1309 o 15 189

0 1 2331

I 8 0

1543 10 I 3 2124 __ o i

28 0 0 I 13 0 16 0 0 o 17 12 77 0 0 7 0 686

85 0 0 0 9 1552

11 10 0 1 5 0

64 0 0 3 13 105

376 0 0 0 4 963

150 0 0 0 7 48

780 0 0 0 4 16 42 0 0 0 8 228 24 0 0 0 7 12 33 10 0 I 17 211

13 18 0 3 7 2089

24 0 0 1 o 20 28 0 0 I 3 1371 23 0 0 1 19 313 43 0 0 I 1 949

0 4 1294178 0 0

35 0 0 3 I 1714 49 0 0 o 16 1763 99 0 0 0 Ii 109

Remarks relative to the Total Yield of Depth at which theGold Quartz WJ obtained ampc _-----shyoz dwt gr

369 O 0 400 feet 176 0 0 150 feet 330 0 0 220 feet water leve

100 feet 85 0 0 150 feet

125 0 0 60 feet 24 0 0 20 feet 68 0 0 80 feet 19 0 0 Surface 13 0 0 20 feet 5 5 0 40 feet

14 12 12 40 feet 40 4 0 50 feet 8 12 0 35 feet

26 0 0 Surface 9 9 0 25 feet

116 0 0 SO feet 85 0 0 50 feet 90 0 0 120 feet 34 0 0 60 feet

5 15 0 Surface 16 10 0 40 feet 17 0 0 Surface to 10 feet 80 0 0

36 0 0 30 feet 15 0 0 50 feet

30 15 0 300 feet water level 100 feet

4 4 0 Surface

1843 ( 12 ----shy

46 -1 0 Surface to 40 feet 14 0 0 Surface to 40 feet

540 2 0 Surface to 40 feet

41 0 0

14 7 12

235 0 0 150 feet

82 15 0

100 to 300 feet54 0 0

450 feet 17 0 0

182 0 0 300 feet

9 0 0 170 feet 63 10 0 70 feet

43 0 0

middot25 0 0 33 0 0 45 0 0 310 feet 46 0 0 90 feet

40 8 0 120 feet deep

108 0 0 30 feet 41 0 0 50 feet 27 0 0 5 to 60 feet

Eleven small parcels Various 153 0 1

0 9 1082 72 6 0O

1779 12 12 Totals 2332 18 0 o 15 616

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION

The Try Again Paps Reef 2 0 0 1 8 0 2 16 0 Surface to 50 feet Peter Mannoni and party Durham Gully Reef 14 0 0 9 10 0 133 0 0 Snrface to 40 feet Selby and Johnson Candlelight Reef 25 0 0 0 7 48 9 0 0 Surface to 50 feet

--- shy -- shy ----- shy ---- shy -Totalsmiddot 41 0 0 3 10 1522 144 16 0

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QUANTITY of- QUARTZ Crushed in eacK Division and StiMivsioriJduring the QUfiiter Iampc-colltinued

Division and Subdlvlson 1 I Average I l Remark~el~tfveto the t and Quartz Cru~hed i YieldOf Gold TotaGrl~d of

Nameof Company bull per Ton bull

-----------I--to-n-s-cwt--q-10p -o~ Dny CnEElt SUBDIVISION

R G Meade Une~(Quattz Table ipoundiIiabiy Creek 350 0 0 0 23 Claim

-~~ t71~ 1- -~

GAFFNEYS CnEEllSUBshyDIVISION

Al G M Tributers I bullbull Castle reefs 400 00 o 13 1626 Rose of DenmarkTributers Eureka Heef 1 i 60 0 0 o 6 Hi Wallaby Tributers - WallabyReef bull f600 0 0 o 15 1244 Sundry lots ~i ~ bullbull Homeward Bound Reef 1)400 0 0 o 018

~-----shyTotals bullbullbull

WOODS POINT SJJBDIVISIONbullbull

The Revival (Fords Tribute) Sir Tohn Franklin reefs Lady Franklin Tributers bull Johnsons Reef Morning Star Prospectors Mornini Star Heef

Tributers North WaverJy~ i Waverly Reefmiddot Axton and Ryan Morning Star Reef

Totals

BIG RIVEn SUBDIVISION

Londonderry S M bullbullbull Hailway Heef Lucks All Q Mmiddot I WarnersReef i

Totals

MITTA MITTA NORTH SUBshyDIVISION

Happy Go Lucky ~rount Firebrace Prospecting Mill I ~ Cotton Tree Hore and Co -CottOn Tree bullbullbull Coleman Cotton Tree Philip bullbullbull Cotton Tree Gregson Cotton Tree PeadoIiBrothers Cotton Tree Clarke Brtithers bull Qotton Tree Padgett Cotton Tree Peach and party CottonTree n

Sutherland Cotton Tree Christy and Co CottonTree Frazer and Co Cotton Tree Miller and Co Cotton Tree Lee Cotton Tree Doctor and party Cotton Tree Flag Staff Compo Bethariga Trewalla Compo Bethanga

Totals

MITTA JliIITTA Scn)Tii SUB- DIVISIN

I

Enterprise bull Junction Mitta Mitta Christmas Tunction Mitta Mitta Christmas (2nd lot) Junction Mitta Mitta Welcome Tunction Mitta rfitta Yellow Girl Junction Mitta 1l1itta Watson and Scalesmiddot I Granite Fiat ~ Littlejohn and Williams b t Granite Flat A Hodder Granite ]Iat Empress Granite ll1it Empress (No2) Granite Flat Jtichards Bros Granite Flat llose of Kilkenny Granite Flat Pioneer Juncti~n Mitta 11itta

Totals bull

JA~IIESON SUBDrVI8ION

Ventu~e ( Macks Creek Sailor Bill ( tiailor Bill Greek

Totals

2460 0 0 0 6 1436

800q 0 o 8 21)-72

130 0 0 o 2 1366 800 0 0 03 072

1400 00 0 3 924

)t60 0 0 I o 4 4

d 40J 00

273 ll 0

20 ) 0 465 1gt1 0

52 10 0 -----shy

811 12 0

I

354 IPIS 16 14 0

121 4 0

)67 1~0 10 ~ 0

Depth at which the Quartz was obtained ampc

---------shy

About 70 feet T

About 200 feet About middot100 feetmiddot About200 feet

~ i ~~~ j 0

Ahptlt 200 feet f~ r About 100 feet About 70 fcet

Aboutl30 feet y Surface 7

2190 0 0 o 1 511 I 572 12 18

co i

900 0 0 o 4 16 183 0 0 I About 300 feet ~~~172 0 uO 1 21223 c190 0 0 About 250 feet

1072 0 0 0 6 2301 373 9 0 ---- shy _---shy

_ 300-0 0 o 10 192 162 0 0 295 00 o 13144 200 12 0

32- 0 0 o 12 0 19 4 0 16 12 Omiddot27 0 0 o 12 711

4 10 0 o 9 266 2 I 0 I300 1 3 8 3 10 0

6 4 9

0 0 0 0 00

o iI 16 o i 0 o ~5- in 33

3 100 216 0

213 0 6 0 0 o 5 16 I 14 0 9 0 0 o 10 8 13 0

6 0 0 o 15 16 41~ 0 500

22 00 o 9 144 o 19 0

280 20 la 0

11 12

0 0 00 i

o 16 o 7

218 8

8 17 4lt 8

0 0

186 0 O o 10 1853 100 314 83 0 0 o 11 1424 48 2 6

1020 100 0 11 2235 608 15 20 1

12 0 0 o 1 20 I ) 0 12 0 0 o 5 20 3 10 0

700 o 8 2057 3 2 0 50 0 0 o 544 14 10 0

o 14 0 14 o 0 c i 20 Q 9 o I 6 0 F2 12 10 Q o o 3 343 j 2 14 0~ 14 Q o o I 18 0 7 0400

38 0 0 o 9 503 17]00 o 4 1664 11 14 16 50 0 deg 700 Vb2171 8

16 O l o 8 45 6 0 I r J

15 o l 0 o 3~3 deg2 l deg ---- ~ - I ltshy

255 middot0 0 0 6 1538 ------ --__shy

600 b 0 0 3 256 93 14 0 100 feet Fmiddot

480 00 0100 240 O 01 40()feet 1

o ~ o1080 ~ 0

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Total Yield 01 Reruarksrelatve to the Gold Depth at which the

~_____ Qn~r~~ T~~ Obtp7dbullampe

tons oz dwt gr

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHUllST DIVISION Albert Beehive bullbullbull Bendigo and Melbourne Birds Reef Catherine ReefU C Garden Gully United bull G G Consolidated Great Extended Hustlers

Reef Great Britain bull bullbull Great Southern Hercules and Energetic bull Johnsons Reef G M bullbullbull Lazarus bull Louisa Metropolitan bullbull Marong CrushillgWorksl New-chum and Victoria Newmiddotchum United New Kelson bull Old Tom J V)~ipstick Shenandoah Victoria Conaols Victoria Reef G M _ Vilsons Reef

KILMORE DIYISION~ Crown Doyles GoIden Crown Beaconsfield bullbullbull Red Rover Loudon and party Trezise and party Overlander Doyles Battery robins neef bull

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND VVARANGA SOUTH

SUBDIVISION Alison

Collins

DIVISION Good Luck Nobull1 Hgpe o(Denmar~ ~ Lost Love Taylorand Crowe Cambridge and Warwick West Growlers TaylorBros __ Marsland and Co Holmes Lease King Billy Francis and Co Rowan and Co Hodge Bros Loughlin Jose and Co WnistIers OBrien and Co Telford and Co

Diamond tIilt E~glhawk bullbullbull Kangaroo Flat Kangaroo blat

Eaglehawk Garden Gully Reef Golden Gully bull Hustlers Reef

Golden Square Garden Gully Reef Victoria neef bullbull California Gully

New-chum Gully Eaglehawk GoIde-q SQllare I I yenarong bullbull - Ironbark New-chum Gully KeIson Reef bull

Newmiddotchm Ililcf Victoria R~ef

Totals 1

Doyles ned Doyles Reef GCrown Reef i Magenta Reef Upper Reedy London Reef bullbull Russells Reef Overlander Reef I Various places Sunday Creek

529 00 o 6 1279 5360 0 0 o 91855

389 00 o 6 283 o B 206I 1389 OJii

3196 0 4441l0

I 1078 O bull 258 0 bull 1170 0

3783 0 3994 0 6980 0 4362 0 1789 0 141~ 0

237 0 il189 0 1773 0 1927 0

1 240 0

_ 2i32 0 r 2554 0 1

VictoriaRlcf 4330 _0 Marong 305 0

i------ii

o 5 1825 0 0

1 1 056 0 o 4 1206 0 o 8 947

o 0 5 372 o 0 61l47 o 0 5 1202 o 0 4 912 o 0 9 1372 o 0 6 1321 o 0 4 2332 o 0 5 966 o 0 8 ijs 60S 94deg 0 6 163i 0 0bull 186l

o 0 4 2219o 0 2 132 o 0 8 389 o 0 7 2289

280 0 0 4 0 0 190 0 0 1 15 0

13 0middot0 1 10 0 --20 0 0 0 15 0

15 oj 0 0 10 0 5 0 0 1 0 0

12 0 0 2 14 0 16 0 0 0 8 0

0160 0 0 5 0 6 0 Oimiddotl 0 0

)

dii5 23 2619 4 0

119 0 0 56111 12 920 11 i

4670 8 0 242 14 I

1083 15 0

507 16 deg 1225 7 0 1098 11 0 1528 14 0

2~~ i~ g 362 9 0

6314 12 2151 2 0 743 19 0

643 12 0 16middot6 12 623 10 iJ 325 ui 12 1767 0

121 6 0

00 332 10

19 10 0 0

1120 0

15 0 00 Kll b 1 el7 1 ~ a ove water- ev

3~ i g ~~ ~resent

15 0 0 rJ J 6 0 0

Totals 617 0 0 2 10 13 15596 0

Lower Costerfield 48 0 0 1 ii 0 48 0 0 Redcastle 343 0 0 0 14 2365 257 0 0

Totals li~~3_~_1_0-0-l-_0_15gt1_4_4-2 1_3_05_0__0_

Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth Rushworth

Rushworth

Rushworth Rushworth Whroo Whroo Whroo Wllroo

Whroo Coys Diggings Coys Diggings Coys Diggings

Totals

54 0 0 0 3 2266 29

9 0 0

0 0

1 1 579i 12 16

2 0 0 3 13 12 40 Ii 0 0 5 1335 29 0 0 0 I H17 -5-middot0 0 L3 0

5 19 30

7 13 9 2

5 22 12

6

0 00 7 96 0 0 0 4 deg 0 0 1 12 if 00 0111714 0 0 0 4 0 0middot0 2 16 12 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 6 48 0 0 I 8 3 1527 0 0 0 4 6 00 2 316

298 O 0 I 1 3 1049

I

I I I

(ifixed lots from va rious reefs See II page 30)

I I

[

J

1I

j 1

10 13 0 I 30 16 0 i4 14 0 770

11 2 6 2 2 12

5150 I1 17 O 3 16 0

30 15 0 Al)above water-Ieve

4 2 0 II2 12 025 8 12 100 1 11 0 I

180 0 0 I 2 11 0 I

13 2 0 J -----s

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT -

MARYBOROUGH DIVIllON Bristol Hill James Kay Reade and 90 bull

Western Reef Bristol Hill Viarious pl~ces

883 10 0 97 00

0 3 1655 o 4 5

163 iO 20 8

0 5

306 to 430 feet Various

(public crushiugs) Waldley and party

Leviathan Reef China 352 0 0 o 13 095

1 229 10 0 70 to 80 feet

mans Wilson and Dark Lord Napier Reef Chinashy 61 0 0 0 7 904 221( 0 11~feetl

mans Fisher and party North German Reefmiddot1 39 0 0 0 5 1538 11 0 0 60 feet

Chinamans

totals

1432 19 0 0 6 557 446 8 5 -

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QUANTITY of QUAlnz Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued -

AYclage 1Division and Subdivision Uemnrks relative to the _and Yioldo Gold 1 Total YIeld of Depth at whIch the

Name of Company Quartz Crushedthere Quartz was obtained

per Ton Gold Quartz was 0 btained amp0

oz dwt grtons cwt qr oz dwt gr

AMHERST DIVISION

Croydon 35 12 18 Laura Reef 230 0 0 0 3 237 40 to 80 feet No 1 South Croydon --

Iaura Reef 0 2 493 15 8 18140 0 0 Surface to 30 feet No2 South Croydon 0 1 20-82 9 6 18 40 feetLaura Reef 100 0 0

288 11 12Union Q M C 200 feet Trickey and party

Church Hill Reef 144 0 0 -2 0 192 9 3 12Dundee Beef 0 2 789 60 feet

Perseveranee 77 0 0

0 8 1111 11 15 6 40 feet Sundries Prince of Wales Reef 27 0 0

18 8 0_143 0 0 0 _2 1376Various ----s6~1--~0~1--6i21Totals

-I AVOCA SUBDIVISION

Monte Christo 15 10 0Murdoehs Reef 14 0 0 I 2 342

DUNOLLY ~ND TARNAGULLA DiVISIONS

Queens Birthday o 12 031 2223 0 8 300 to 500 feet Queens Reef

3701 0 0Bealiba Reef 64 18 0Queens Reef 130 feet713 0 0 0 1 1969

Kentish Reef 15 11 11 Kentish Reef 48 0 0 0 6 1l73 60 feet Harvest Home 33 0 0Harvest Home 40 feet30 0 0 1 2 0 Harrop and Lees 26 0 0 40 feet Yorkshire G M bull 0 1 o 1520 0 0

566 4 12 160 to 200 feetWatts Reef Tarnagulla 1474 0 7 1638o 0 1

2928 _75966 1 0 0 9 1963Totals 1~ --- shyINGLEWOOD DIVISION

Jersey Reef Quartz Mining 103 3 20Jersey Reef 182 0 0 011 815 Dalmatia G M 1 3 0

tyres Smugglers Gi~n McI~ I 20 0 0 0 1 36

104 6 20202 0 0 010 794Totals REDBANK SUBDIVISION

TormeyEi Claim 52 16 0Station Reef 22 0 0 2 8 0

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION

Greenock Reef 39 0 070 feet to 170 feet (above 45 0 0 o 17 80 70 to 170 feet water-level)

Adams and party - -9 12 030 0 0 0 6 96 50 feetSpinster Ueef bull IT-Kersleyand party Greenock Reef 17 0 o i 0 10 0 1 8 10 0 15 feet

_ 92 0 0 0 12 991 57 2 0Totals ST ARNAUD NORTH

SUBDIVISION shyWorking Miners 0 7 268 248 18 6 200 to 260 feet Chrysolite Tribute Quartz

New Bendigo 700 0 0 0 2 2331 52 0 0 150 feet level

Mining Co Registered Chrysolite Reef - 350 0 0

300 18 6Totals 1Q50 0 0 0 5 1755

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLElILltiINE D1VISION

Eureka Cardwell Argus United McWalters Central bull Wattle Gully Sebastopol Crushing Utle Nuggety Arehbold and Co

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

English Australian G M Perseverance Burdett-Coutts New Era Blaek Haivk Rowe Bros Rowe nros Duke Oornwall Small and Co Macdonald and Co Meins Freehold G M

Eureka Reef Town Reef Argus Flat-

Burns Reef Wattle Gully Wattle Gully Lady Gully Nuggety Reef bullbullbullI

Public crushings Totals bullbull

Golden Gully Cattles Reef Cattles Ueef Ferrons Reef Cattles Reef Cattles Heef Ferrons Reef bullbull Cattle Reef Cattles Reef German Gully Guilford Hill

Totals

718 0 0 41 0 0

530 0 0 8J 0 0

759 0 0 505 0 0 247 0 0

52 0 0 155 0 0

3091 0 0

862 0 0 200 0 0

20 0 0 6310 0 0

123 0 0 1419 0 0

417 0 0 166 0 0 50 0 0 24 0 0

3560 0 0 i shy

13151 0 01

0 6 1666 o 19 12-3 0 7 65 o 17 12 0 4 424 0 2 983 0 3 162 0 7 203 o 15 4-18

0 6 341

0 4 98 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 3 324 0 1 20-87 0 7 668 0 4 2169 0 4 144 0 2 96 o 10 0 0 1 1839

0 3 904

1

240 7 0 360 feet 40 0 0 62 feet

192 13 12 73 10 0 160 feet

158 10 0 350 feet 60 17 0 45 18 20 8 0 230 feet

117 12 0

949 5 6

190 0 0 320 feet 40 0 0 180 feet

5 0 0 230 feet 989 3 0 100 to 380 feet

11 10 0 150 feet 516 8 0 150 to 200 feet 102 5 0 20 to 80 feet 33 14 0 20 to 200 feet

6 0 0 190 feet 12 0 0 90 feet

314 8 0

2220 8 0

shy

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Average Remarks relative to theDivision and Subdivision Total Yield ofWhere Quartz was obtained I Qnartz Crushed I Yield of Gold Depth at which theand Gold Quartz was obtained amp0per TonName of Company

---------_

tone owt qr loz dwt gr oz dwt gr

HEPBUllN DIVISION

Argus Italian mil 566 0 0 30 to 150 feet New North Cornish

74 11 100 2 1506 n

Wombat Hill 105 0 0 Surface to 35 feet Richardsons

0 3 396 16 12 8 Bismarck Reef 13 0 0 30 feet1 0 0 13 0 0IWomans Gully 23 0 0 10 feet0 4 834 5 0 0Ansonia

60 0 o i 0 3 0Pitchers Reef 25 feet Panham 9 0 0Fuseo

Pitchers Reef 52 0 0 40 feet Bray and party

0 1 1661 4 8 0 Frenchmans Reef 70 feet12 0 0 2 8 00 4 0

King and Co

Willards Reef 60 0 0 70 feet0 4 0 12 0 0 ISt Georges Reef 630 0 0 0 1 038 32 0 0 140 feetUnion Nuggety HeeL 690 0 0 230 0 0 I20 to 280 feet

Keep-it-Dark Companies 0 6 16Ajax Keep-it-Dark

120 0 0 50 0 0 I 100 to 140 feet0 8 8

Totals 2331 0 0 0 3 2044 448 19 18

TARADALE AND KYNETON SUBDIVISION

Taradale 945 0 0 0 1 1562 United Kingdom ~ 78 0 0 Glenlyon 140 I) 0 0 9 1406 Little Wonder 67 2 0

1085 0 0Totals 0 2 1619 145 2 0 ----shy

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Caledonian Mills Parkins Linscotts Nelshy 92 0 0 o 17 0 200 to 300 feet78 4 0 son amp Valkers reefs

Eaglehawk Linscotts 622 0 0 0 12 1744 395 16 0 50 to 270 feetLinscotts Mills and Nuggety reefs

Phwnix Mills Beehive Swipers Gershy 1000 0 0 1 9 1227 1475 11 12 80 to 300 feet man Victoria amp Irish Billys reefs

Great Western Beehive Reef 120 0 0 0 4 0 24 0 0 40 to 80 feet

Totals bullbull 1834 0 0 I 1 1253 197311 12 -~-----

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

United Company Hoddles Creek 180 0 0 0 9 204 88 13 0 35 feet Lyre Bird Hoddles Creek 25 0 0 o 13 0 16 5 0 27 feet Sunday Reef McCraes Hill S 0 0 0 1 12 o 12 0 20 feet Sheppard and party Warburton 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 10 feet Central Mining Hurst and Co

Reef ton MountainB

38 10 1 0

0 0

1 13 24 2 17 20

63 14 2 17

8 2

180 feet Surface

Murray and Hirt Smith and Hirt Hartley and Co

You-You You-You You-You

3 2 7

10 0 0

0 0 0

1 10 2057 I 10 12 o 10 1714

5 8 3 1

1 15

0 0 0

50 feet 30 feet 60 feet

Hopkinson You-You 2 0 0 1 10 0 3 0 0 60 feet Apted and Co Pioneer 6 0 0 o 18 8 5 10 0 ISO feet Progress Panton Hill 218 0 0 0 7 146 82 18 15 120 feet Napoleons March Panton Hill 18 0 0 o 11 1977 1012 20 40 feet Bignell and Co Fourth Hill Warrandyte 7 0 0 3 0 0 i 21 0 0 30 feet

517 0 0Totals o 11 2247 308 10 21

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Wimmera North and South Wales Pioneer and Galatea New St George Scotchmans Moonlight W onga and Birmingham

RAGLAN DIVISION

The Victory Quartz Gold Mining

Stawell reefs

Stawell reefs Stawell reefs Stilwell reefs Stawell reefs Stawell reefs

Totals

Reef near Waterloo

5788 0 0 is 9 0

4624 0 0 3196 0 0 3353 10 0 3580 0 0 2069 0 0

22688 19 0

17 0 0

011 595 1 5 739 o 14 721 o 11 26 0 7 9 0 14 2207 0 2 1853

0 11 319

1 4 224

3255 4 3 200 to 1000 feet 99 5 10 40 to 100 feet

3306 6 8 200 to 1100 feet 1i75 2 0 4S0 to 1200 feet 1236 II 18 100 to 850 feet 2670 IS 0 410 to 1120 feet

286 15 21 24 to 100 feet

12629 18 12

20 10 0

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~iiANfiTYofCltr ARTz0rusliedjirieacnDi visi~ri~andgtSohdi vision during the Qulilter ~ampc-continuedbull _ _ ~~ ~M_~

---1--- DivislonnndSnbdivisioh bull

OlJ 1j and~ I ~Yhere Qua~ was ogttamed __ Na~~O Company______ ______ ___

GIPPSLAND ~C C ~ Q)fElO ~

~ Srifts Creek Fashion Reef

CROOKED RIVE~ DiVISIoN

Robert Moore -- ~ Upper Dargo bullbull Wentworth Parslow and Co

Totals DONNELLYSC~EEK DIVISION

DonnellyS Creek Bismarck United

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION

Long Tunnel f Cohens Reef Cohens Reef Walhalla (Tributers) I

I Totals ABERFELDY SUBDIVISlON Aberpoundeldy Reef -James Rices Mine

----~-

AverageQuartz Crushed Yie1T ONMld

per Ton

tons ewt qr oz dwt gr

MINING DISTRICT u

I 10 0 0 I 12 b

---- shy

20 0 0 0 10144 30 0 600 0

50 0 0 0 7 2016

42 0 0 0 14 4

5034 0 0 1 8 191 0 8 1078997 d 0

06031 0 1 5 1038

650 d 0 0 6 144

Remarks relative to thoTotal Yield Depth at which theof Gold Quartz was obtalnedampc

Oz dwt gr

-

i 16 0 0

10 12 0 Surfaee to 20 feet 9 00

---- shy19 12 0

29 15 0 400 feet

17248 0 0 i 343 to 623 feet 421 4 0

7669 4 )

]96 19 0 150 feet 50 feet

water level

~ laquo

~

QUARTZ TAILINGS MULLOClETC THE follo~in~ infor~ation has beenobtai~edfromReturn~made bythe-Mi~lng Surveyorsand R~gist~a~s

relative to the Quantity OfQUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK ampc Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each -Mining District -during the ~uarter and the GOJD obtained therefrom

I ______

DiviSion and Snbdlvislon I Where Quartz Tailings and I Quartz Tailings Average Ttl y ld ~r ~Remarksielative to the and Mullock ampc were and Mnlloek ampc Yield of Gold 0 ItG I~c Depth at which tbeI

Same of Company i obt~n~~ l I~~~I )ler~on~ 0 MUll~C~amp~1e~ ~btalne~ --- shy tons cwt qr oz dwt gr 0 dwtgr

r bull - JBALLARATMININGDISTRICT

I ICENTRAL DtvIsioN 1

~

11259 19130 Isuriac~ ~~Ofe~~ IBallarat East 2580 00 0Canadian

Mount Clear 1050 00Baker and Co I 0 12308 103 00 Surface to 20middotfeet t

pi 1+Totals ~ q630 0 0 o 1 1562 bull ni

STEIGLITZ SUBl)JVISION I

Minerva Eiaine 220 0 0 o 3 218 34 0 0 20 0 0Wee Speek bullbull Do o 4 96 4 8 0

180 0 0 0 016DUIIlIDott and Co Steiglitz 6 O o

Totals 420 0 0 0 2 274 44 8 0

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEcrrwoRTH DIVISION

Marco Polo Hurdle Flat - 48 0 0 0 2 0

I

4 16 0 Various depths l~_ gt

INDIGO DIVISION

Magentll MIYfntR Reef middot Places Mill Variou~

Totals -

I

-

0632 300

shy

0 0 0 0 I

I 0 o I

0 0

0

I 991 44 13 0 2 0middotmiddot 30 0 0

1444 t1 74 13 0

Surface to 50ifeet ChieH y surfacemiddotfrom

old workings

MrlTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION

Trewalla Bethanga

23 middot0 0 gt)

0 7 417

8

5 0

r

-

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK crushed in each Division and Subdivision ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Where Quart Tailings and Quartz Tallogs I Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and and MuJlock ampc Gold lfuUock ampc were Depth at which the

erolIlld I I~ IP t I obtained Mullock ampc were obtamcltL --middot---------------~-------I-----I-------=-___c_-~-I------~--

Name of Company

tons ewt qr oz dwtgr

SANDHURSTMlNING DISTRICT~~ L I i

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIshyVISION

Alison JoIlins

Lower Costerfield Redcastle

Totals

i

1000 0 150 (l 0

0 0

3 0 2 224

15 0 22 0

0 0

shy

d

~1

250 P 0 0 2 2304 37 0 0

(I

MARYBOROUGH MiNI~G DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE MINI~G DISTRICTv

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION

Crown Ninirod Reef bullbullbull Nuggety NuggetyReef D avies and Co

Donkey Gully A jax Tribute ~ Bolivia Reef

Totals n i - shy

HEPBUBN DIVISION

Francis bullbullbull f bullbull1 Wombat Hill ~ bullbull

ST ANDRlFws D1VISION

middotCentral Mining bull~ Reefton bullbullbull United bullbullbull HoddlesCreek

Totals

1140 0 0 0 1 0-1 57 5 0

- 0 0 0 I 12 5210 0_ 700 680 0 0 0 1 235 37middot 612 510 0 0 0 1l(66middot 36( 16 15

3030 0 0

400 00

Ilt

i 174 0 0 I 25 0 0I

199 0 0

0 1 5l3 183 18 3

0 0 -12 l 10 0 0

t I bull

0 3 15-22 31 12 9 0 0 192 1- 0 0

)

-- 6671-~

Surface Surface

Shllow

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

W onga and Bir~ingham

~ I

Stawell reefs 35 0 0 0 2 13-54 4 9 18 f ~ I ~ i f

1I

middotGIPFStAN]) IMINliNG vDISiFRI(iJT

DONNELLYS CllEEKD~ISIOl

Bismarck ITnited

i

1

~OO j

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PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the Quantity of PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on in the several Divisions -and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Dlvision and Subdivision Remarks relatlve to the I Pyrites I Average I I iWhere Pyr~B an~ Blanketmgs and Blnnketings Yield 01 Gold Tota Y old of and Depth at which the wele obtamed I operated on per Ton GoldName 01 Oompany - PyritesJ ampc were ubtained

I tons cwt qr oz dwt gr I oz dwt gr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION Llanberris 18 0 0 1 16 1466 32 19 0Gumtree Flatbullbullbull

CRESWIOK DIVISION Port Phillip Clunes 471 5 0107 0 o I 4 8 202 New North Clunes 93 16 12Clunes 19 0 o i 4 18 1831

67 5 o 7 I 2382South Clunes 477 9 0Clunes 193 5 0 1 5 7 2145 1042 1012

STEIGLITZ SIJDDIVISION Totals

Enterprise Elaine- 103 0 0 o 18 349 93 9 0 Dummott and Co 5 12 0Steiglitz 22 0 0 0 5 218

Totals 99 1 0 BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND

BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION

125 0 0 o 15 2035

Barrys Reef bullbullbull 14 10 0 4 9 1572 65 0 0Sultan

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEOHWORTH DlVISION Reform Myrtleford 39 0 0 o 15 0 29 5 0

1

YAOKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVlSION

Bigelowe and Clingam WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION E M Gill

Homeward Bound Hills-borough

Various localities

25

50

0

0

0

0

o 15middot 504

o 18 0

19

45

0

0

6

0

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

S

SANDHURST DIVISION 884 16 122 2 2286Pinchgut Gully 412 0 0United Pyrites 244 4 01 9 2311 163 0 0Jackass Flat andhurst amp Eaglehawk PE 281 7 121 11 013Derwent Gully 181 10 0L iddell and Co

1410 8 01 17 69756 10 0Totals HEATHOOTE DIVISION AND ---------shy

WARANGA SOUTH SUB-JDIVISION

33 0 J1 0 033 0 0Alison Lower Costerfield I

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION Bristol Hill

DlJNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS

Queens Birthday

Western Reef Bristol Hill 13 11 0 2 7 208 81 18 12

Bealiba Reef 15 0 0 1 6 16 20 0 0

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr Yeats Castlemaine 129 0 0 1 12 409

- 207 10 0

HEPBURN DIVISION J Williams Ajax

3 7

0 0

0 0

o 16 1 14

16 685

210 12 0

0 0

250 feet 250 feet

Totals 10 0 01 1 9 0 14 10 0

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

_DIVISlUrSTRINGERS 2 9 3-21 42 18 017 9 0Cohens Reef Long Tunnel

12 14 01 9 4648 14 0 Cohens Reef Walhalla - 55 12 02 2 1213- 26 3 0Totals

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

1

Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

I

INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

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QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

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PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

t

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NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

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176

21

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

25

The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Division and SubdiviSion Average Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of and Where Quartz was obtained I Quartz Crushed Yleld of Gold Depth at which theGoldName of Company pel ~ron Quart was obtained ampcbull ---- shy -----_ ------------ shy

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr oz dwt grGORDON SUBDIVISION

Black-horse United Egerton 400 to 600 feet7356 0 0 0 3 239 11469 16 0 The Egerton Limited Egerton 500 to 758 feet10104 0 0 0 6 9833238 3 14 Parkers United bullbull Gordon 60 0 0 0 5 235 17 18 18 ioo feet IUnited Miners ~orth of Gordon 150 0 0 0 3 0 22 10 0 Surface to 20 feet shy

Totals 17670 O 0 0 5 899 4748 8 8 i STEIGLITZ SUBDIvisION

Minerva Elaine I 5 133 23 0 o Ibull i 18 0 0 Elaine 52 0 middot0Watson and party 0 5 1846 15 0 0

Copperwaite and party Elaine o 18 02 0 6 0 9 0 Wee Speck Elaine 0 3 023 0 0 3 8 0 Mortimer and party Elaine o 17 III 24 10 028 0 0 Dunlop and party Elaine 4 4 45721 0 0 88 8 0 Dennis and Co Steiglitz 16middot 0 O I 2 12 18 0 0 Herring Steiglitz 2 14 96 13 12 05 0 0 Morris and Co Steiglitz 4 12 016 O oj 0 5 18 Barrett Steiglitz 1 13 o i4 0 0 0 8 6 Seott and Co New-ehum I 9 343 30 12 021 0 0

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BLACKWOOD DIVISION un) BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH

Totals

206middot 0 0 1 I 1712 223 13 01

SUBDIVISION Sultan Barrys Reef 1623 0 0 o 19 1798 1602 13 0 270 to 770 feet Moullter Bros BarryS Reef 99 0 0 o 17 ll88 86 12 0 400 feet Big Hill Simmons Reef 1800 0 0 0 1 680 1I5 10 0 50 feet Cornish Simmons Reef 450 0 0 0 1 643 23 10 15 100 feet

rownC Simmons Beef 250 0 0 0 2 2221 36 II 9 150 feet N~orth Star Union Reef 30 0 0 0 8 16 13middot 0 0 110 feet Victoria Yankee Reef 207 0 0 0 5 116 52 5 0 40 to i5 feet N I ~orth Britain da Wrights Reef

Wrights Reef 380 0

167 0 0 0

0 0

2 158 8 2i3

50 10 67 15

4 0

110 feet 280 feet

-----shy--- shy ---- shyTotals 5006 0 0 0 8 489 2053 7 4

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

I I BEECHWORTH DIVISION

Rocky Point 1 460 0 o i omiddot 7 6Homeward Bound Tribute 166 15 0 600 feet Shakspeare Reef Stanley bullbullbull 43 0 0 2middot14 1283 117 5 0 50 feet

shyHurdle Flat 800 0 0 014 225 563 15 0 90 feetWallaby Tribute Marco Polo Hurdle Flat 95 0 0 o 17 1l37 83 0 0 90 feet Sunday Beef Three-mile Creek 39 0 0 2 4 1169 86 15 0 120 feet Reform Myrtleford 1063 0 0 0 6 591 332 0 0 450 feet Nil Desperandum 11yrtleford 196 0 0 0 6 1175 63 12 0 100 feet Carthew and Co Myrtleford 16 0 0 0 4 0 3 4 0

------ shy --- shy ---__- Surfaee

Totals 2712 0 0 o 10 1067 1416 6 0 YACKANDANDAH SOUTH ------ shy ---- shy ----- shy

SUBDIVISION

Bigelowe and Clingam Hillsborough 130 0 0 0 8 8 54 3 6 40 feet Pride and Stringer Baek Creek 130 0 0 1 6 0 169 6 0 100 feet Iron Hand Twists Creek 35 0 0 0 2 14 4 10 8 20 feet Schnackenberg Bros Sandy Creek 60 0 0 4 10 0 270 0 0 60 feet Crowe and Farrell Sandy Creek 22 0 0 o 18 436 20 0 0 36 feet Patrick McClinehy Sandy Creek 6 0 0 II 13 8 70 0 0 30 feet

INDIGO DIVISION

Gallagher and CoshyDe lI1amiel and Co

Totals

Not known Golden Bar Reef

383 0 0 ------- shy

6 0 0 8 0 0

I 10 1687 587 19 14

1shy 9 = 1 II 2 Surfaee to 40 feet 0 16 18 6 14 0 30 to 40 feet

Hellyar and Co Indigo Reef 3 0 0 0 14 13 2 3 15 20 to 28 feet Pomeroy and Co Banners Reef 15 0 0 017 U2 13 2 0 60 feet Williams and Co Not known 20 0 0 o 16 18 16 15 0 Not known Spearing and Co Demon 28 0 0 1 15 171 49 2 0 60 to 80 feet Barras rind Co Caledonian Reef 48 0 0 o 17 235 43 3 0 100 feet Trevillian and Co Indigo Lead Reef 45 0 0 o 18 2134 42 10 0 138 feet Buehan and Co Pass-by Reef 13 0 0 17 18 II07 233 0 0 175 feet Archer and Co Touehstone Reef 12 0 0 I 4 0 14 8 0 Smfaee to 2(1 feet Laurie and Co Golden Bar 8 10 0 1 10 1411 13 0 0 30 to 80 feet Eustace and Co Bradys Hill 13 0 0 o 13 2033 9 0 0 Surface to 20 fcer Bigby and Co WaHaces Gully 10 0 0 2 15 0 27 10 0 80 to I00 f~CL Burton and Co Eureka Heef 25 0 0 o 14 0 17 10 0 60 to 80 feet Various companies Various reefs 19 10 0 o 14 1969 14 9 0 Various depths Hooly and Co We Speek Reef 25 0 0 1 10 0 37 10 0 60 to 100 feet Lord and Co Campbells Reef 24 0 0 4 5 10 102 10 o I 80 to 90 feet Brown and Co Garibalui Heef 12 0 0 o 17 4 10 6 0 60 to 70 flof

----- shy --- shy --- shyTotals 335 0 0 I 19 1247 661 19 3

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crllshed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

AverogeDivision and Subdivision Yield of Gold Quartz Crushedand Where Qnartz was obtained

per TonName 01 Company

BUCllLAD DIVISIOY

J A Wallace Jones and Co Dl-vies and Co

o

o

H arrietville Land Tax Rcef Buck-eye Tiddle-de-addle-de

Gillies and Co The Admiral Douglas and Co Anderson and Co Stephen and Co o

H Curry and Co O Anderson and Co Boss Cockies Shippen and Cobullbullbull King and Co Clemens and Co Radcliffe and Fowler Brady and Co

Bucldand o bull

lt

bullbullbull

Davies and Co Maguire and Co Harp of Erin Co Maguire aud Co Beveridge and Co Coxon and Co Grennep and Wilson Honeychnrch and Co

Frecburgh Oriental Hill Three Stars Tramway Heef Three Stars bullbullbull

Oriental Hill Reliance Reef Lisbon Reef

Maefadzean aud Co J Butler and Go

Bright

Belle of the Ball Stackey Gully

The Hope Q M Running Creek

Happy Valley Reef Root Hog and Die Running Creek

Totals

WANDILIOONO SUBDIVISIO

Prince Arthur Mill Williams and Co Tributers Williams and Co Tributers Davies and Hearn Tri-

buters Birthday Mill

Three public crushings Queen of South Mill

Two small crushings Hit or Miss Mill

Harrietville Oriental Mill

Nine parcels for public Try Again Mill

Hood and Contts Frasers Mill

Myrtle Co London Co James and Co Londonderry bullbull

Prince Arthur Lease Anstralasia Lease Prince A Lease

Various

Buck-eye

Try Again Myrtle Reef London Reef Londonderry

Native Industry Reef

and Co Attridge and Co Native Industry Symes

Old Albion Never 100 Late Mill

Stephens and Co Pride of Kildare Gregory and Co Louisa

Forlorn Hope Vale and Co Wbo Knows

Home ~fill Hazeton E M Gill Home Reef

Stephens Mill Mills and Co Advance Australia H Mitchell HM Reef J Phillips New Years Gift

tons cwt qr

258 0 0 19 0 0

205 0 0

156 0 0

90 0 0 16 0 0

13 0 0 12 0 0 35 0 0

4 0 0 7 0 0

14 0 0 40 0 0

6 0 0 7 0 0

54 0 0 34 0 0

100 0 0 40 0 0 5 0 0

11 0 0 17 0 0 17 0 0

49 10 0 19 0 0

312 0 0

3 0 0

oz dwt gr

1 8 1451 9 5 632 1 12 468

o 10 2154

1 7 1866 1 10 0 5 4 l477 1 11 16 0 7 1028 1 6 6 2 1 1886 2 17 1029 0 4 72 4 6 16 1 7 0

2 2 2311 210 0 o 18 0 o 17 0 1 3 0 1 10 0 1 0 0 4 14 282

o 14 1309 o 15 189

0 1 2331

I 8 0

1543 10 I 3 2124 __ o i

28 0 0 I 13 0 16 0 0 o 17 12 77 0 0 7 0 686

85 0 0 0 9 1552

11 10 0 1 5 0

64 0 0 3 13 105

376 0 0 0 4 963

150 0 0 0 7 48

780 0 0 0 4 16 42 0 0 0 8 228 24 0 0 0 7 12 33 10 0 I 17 211

13 18 0 3 7 2089

24 0 0 1 o 20 28 0 0 I 3 1371 23 0 0 1 19 313 43 0 0 I 1 949

0 4 1294178 0 0

35 0 0 3 I 1714 49 0 0 o 16 1763 99 0 0 0 Ii 109

Remarks relative to the Total Yield of Depth at which theGold Quartz WJ obtained ampc _-----shyoz dwt gr

369 O 0 400 feet 176 0 0 150 feet 330 0 0 220 feet water leve

100 feet 85 0 0 150 feet

125 0 0 60 feet 24 0 0 20 feet 68 0 0 80 feet 19 0 0 Surface 13 0 0 20 feet 5 5 0 40 feet

14 12 12 40 feet 40 4 0 50 feet 8 12 0 35 feet

26 0 0 Surface 9 9 0 25 feet

116 0 0 SO feet 85 0 0 50 feet 90 0 0 120 feet 34 0 0 60 feet

5 15 0 Surface 16 10 0 40 feet 17 0 0 Surface to 10 feet 80 0 0

36 0 0 30 feet 15 0 0 50 feet

30 15 0 300 feet water level 100 feet

4 4 0 Surface

1843 ( 12 ----shy

46 -1 0 Surface to 40 feet 14 0 0 Surface to 40 feet

540 2 0 Surface to 40 feet

41 0 0

14 7 12

235 0 0 150 feet

82 15 0

100 to 300 feet54 0 0

450 feet 17 0 0

182 0 0 300 feet

9 0 0 170 feet 63 10 0 70 feet

43 0 0

middot25 0 0 33 0 0 45 0 0 310 feet 46 0 0 90 feet

40 8 0 120 feet deep

108 0 0 30 feet 41 0 0 50 feet 27 0 0 5 to 60 feet

Eleven small parcels Various 153 0 1

0 9 1082 72 6 0O

1779 12 12 Totals 2332 18 0 o 15 616

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION

The Try Again Paps Reef 2 0 0 1 8 0 2 16 0 Surface to 50 feet Peter Mannoni and party Durham Gully Reef 14 0 0 9 10 0 133 0 0 Snrface to 40 feet Selby and Johnson Candlelight Reef 25 0 0 0 7 48 9 0 0 Surface to 50 feet

--- shy -- shy ----- shy ---- shy -Totalsmiddot 41 0 0 3 10 1522 144 16 0

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QUANTITY of- QUARTZ Crushed in eacK Division and StiMivsioriJduring the QUfiiter Iampc-colltinued

Division and Subdlvlson 1 I Average I l Remark~el~tfveto the t and Quartz Cru~hed i YieldOf Gold TotaGrl~d of

Nameof Company bull per Ton bull

-----------I--to-n-s-cwt--q-10p -o~ Dny CnEElt SUBDIVISION

R G Meade Une~(Quattz Table ipoundiIiabiy Creek 350 0 0 0 23 Claim

-~~ t71~ 1- -~

GAFFNEYS CnEEllSUBshyDIVISION

Al G M Tributers I bullbull Castle reefs 400 00 o 13 1626 Rose of DenmarkTributers Eureka Heef 1 i 60 0 0 o 6 Hi Wallaby Tributers - WallabyReef bull f600 0 0 o 15 1244 Sundry lots ~i ~ bullbull Homeward Bound Reef 1)400 0 0 o 018

~-----shyTotals bullbullbull

WOODS POINT SJJBDIVISIONbullbull

The Revival (Fords Tribute) Sir Tohn Franklin reefs Lady Franklin Tributers bull Johnsons Reef Morning Star Prospectors Mornini Star Heef

Tributers North WaverJy~ i Waverly Reefmiddot Axton and Ryan Morning Star Reef

Totals

BIG RIVEn SUBDIVISION

Londonderry S M bullbullbull Hailway Heef Lucks All Q Mmiddot I WarnersReef i

Totals

MITTA MITTA NORTH SUBshyDIVISION

Happy Go Lucky ~rount Firebrace Prospecting Mill I ~ Cotton Tree Hore and Co -CottOn Tree bullbullbull Coleman Cotton Tree Philip bullbullbull Cotton Tree Gregson Cotton Tree PeadoIiBrothers Cotton Tree Clarke Brtithers bull Qotton Tree Padgett Cotton Tree Peach and party CottonTree n

Sutherland Cotton Tree Christy and Co CottonTree Frazer and Co Cotton Tree Miller and Co Cotton Tree Lee Cotton Tree Doctor and party Cotton Tree Flag Staff Compo Bethariga Trewalla Compo Bethanga

Totals

MITTA JliIITTA Scn)Tii SUB- DIVISIN

I

Enterprise bull Junction Mitta Mitta Christmas Tunction Mitta Mitta Christmas (2nd lot) Junction Mitta Mitta Welcome Tunction Mitta rfitta Yellow Girl Junction Mitta 1l1itta Watson and Scalesmiddot I Granite Fiat ~ Littlejohn and Williams b t Granite Flat A Hodder Granite ]Iat Empress Granite ll1it Empress (No2) Granite Flat Jtichards Bros Granite Flat llose of Kilkenny Granite Flat Pioneer Juncti~n Mitta 11itta

Totals bull

JA~IIESON SUBDrVI8ION

Ventu~e ( Macks Creek Sailor Bill ( tiailor Bill Greek

Totals

2460 0 0 0 6 1436

800q 0 o 8 21)-72

130 0 0 o 2 1366 800 0 0 03 072

1400 00 0 3 924

)t60 0 0 I o 4 4

d 40J 00

273 ll 0

20 ) 0 465 1gt1 0

52 10 0 -----shy

811 12 0

I

354 IPIS 16 14 0

121 4 0

)67 1~0 10 ~ 0

Depth at which the Quartz was obtained ampc

---------shy

About 70 feet T

About 200 feet About middot100 feetmiddot About200 feet

~ i ~~~ j 0

Ahptlt 200 feet f~ r About 100 feet About 70 fcet

Aboutl30 feet y Surface 7

2190 0 0 o 1 511 I 572 12 18

co i

900 0 0 o 4 16 183 0 0 I About 300 feet ~~~172 0 uO 1 21223 c190 0 0 About 250 feet

1072 0 0 0 6 2301 373 9 0 ---- shy _---shy

_ 300-0 0 o 10 192 162 0 0 295 00 o 13144 200 12 0

32- 0 0 o 12 0 19 4 0 16 12 Omiddot27 0 0 o 12 711

4 10 0 o 9 266 2 I 0 I300 1 3 8 3 10 0

6 4 9

0 0 0 0 00

o iI 16 o i 0 o ~5- in 33

3 100 216 0

213 0 6 0 0 o 5 16 I 14 0 9 0 0 o 10 8 13 0

6 0 0 o 15 16 41~ 0 500

22 00 o 9 144 o 19 0

280 20 la 0

11 12

0 0 00 i

o 16 o 7

218 8

8 17 4lt 8

0 0

186 0 O o 10 1853 100 314 83 0 0 o 11 1424 48 2 6

1020 100 0 11 2235 608 15 20 1

12 0 0 o 1 20 I ) 0 12 0 0 o 5 20 3 10 0

700 o 8 2057 3 2 0 50 0 0 o 544 14 10 0

o 14 0 14 o 0 c i 20 Q 9 o I 6 0 F2 12 10 Q o o 3 343 j 2 14 0~ 14 Q o o I 18 0 7 0400

38 0 0 o 9 503 17]00 o 4 1664 11 14 16 50 0 deg 700 Vb2171 8

16 O l o 8 45 6 0 I r J

15 o l 0 o 3~3 deg2 l deg ---- ~ - I ltshy

255 middot0 0 0 6 1538 ------ --__shy

600 b 0 0 3 256 93 14 0 100 feet Fmiddot

480 00 0100 240 O 01 40()feet 1

o ~ o1080 ~ 0

11

Total Yield 01 Reruarksrelatve to the Gold Depth at which the

~_____ Qn~r~~ T~~ Obtp7dbullampe

tons oz dwt gr

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHUllST DIVISION Albert Beehive bullbullbull Bendigo and Melbourne Birds Reef Catherine ReefU C Garden Gully United bull G G Consolidated Great Extended Hustlers

Reef Great Britain bull bullbull Great Southern Hercules and Energetic bull Johnsons Reef G M bullbullbull Lazarus bull Louisa Metropolitan bullbull Marong CrushillgWorksl New-chum and Victoria Newmiddotchum United New Kelson bull Old Tom J V)~ipstick Shenandoah Victoria Conaols Victoria Reef G M _ Vilsons Reef

KILMORE DIYISION~ Crown Doyles GoIden Crown Beaconsfield bullbullbull Red Rover Loudon and party Trezise and party Overlander Doyles Battery robins neef bull

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND VVARANGA SOUTH

SUBDIVISION Alison

Collins

DIVISION Good Luck Nobull1 Hgpe o(Denmar~ ~ Lost Love Taylorand Crowe Cambridge and Warwick West Growlers TaylorBros __ Marsland and Co Holmes Lease King Billy Francis and Co Rowan and Co Hodge Bros Loughlin Jose and Co WnistIers OBrien and Co Telford and Co

Diamond tIilt E~glhawk bullbullbull Kangaroo Flat Kangaroo blat

Eaglehawk Garden Gully Reef Golden Gully bull Hustlers Reef

Golden Square Garden Gully Reef Victoria neef bullbull California Gully

New-chum Gully Eaglehawk GoIde-q SQllare I I yenarong bullbull - Ironbark New-chum Gully KeIson Reef bull

Newmiddotchm Ililcf Victoria R~ef

Totals 1

Doyles ned Doyles Reef GCrown Reef i Magenta Reef Upper Reedy London Reef bullbull Russells Reef Overlander Reef I Various places Sunday Creek

529 00 o 6 1279 5360 0 0 o 91855

389 00 o 6 283 o B 206I 1389 OJii

3196 0 4441l0

I 1078 O bull 258 0 bull 1170 0

3783 0 3994 0 6980 0 4362 0 1789 0 141~ 0

237 0 il189 0 1773 0 1927 0

1 240 0

_ 2i32 0 r 2554 0 1

VictoriaRlcf 4330 _0 Marong 305 0

i------ii

o 5 1825 0 0

1 1 056 0 o 4 1206 0 o 8 947

o 0 5 372 o 0 61l47 o 0 5 1202 o 0 4 912 o 0 9 1372 o 0 6 1321 o 0 4 2332 o 0 5 966 o 0 8 ijs 60S 94deg 0 6 163i 0 0bull 186l

o 0 4 2219o 0 2 132 o 0 8 389 o 0 7 2289

280 0 0 4 0 0 190 0 0 1 15 0

13 0middot0 1 10 0 --20 0 0 0 15 0

15 oj 0 0 10 0 5 0 0 1 0 0

12 0 0 2 14 0 16 0 0 0 8 0

0160 0 0 5 0 6 0 Oimiddotl 0 0

)

dii5 23 2619 4 0

119 0 0 56111 12 920 11 i

4670 8 0 242 14 I

1083 15 0

507 16 deg 1225 7 0 1098 11 0 1528 14 0

2~~ i~ g 362 9 0

6314 12 2151 2 0 743 19 0

643 12 0 16middot6 12 623 10 iJ 325 ui 12 1767 0

121 6 0

00 332 10

19 10 0 0

1120 0

15 0 00 Kll b 1 el7 1 ~ a ove water- ev

3~ i g ~~ ~resent

15 0 0 rJ J 6 0 0

Totals 617 0 0 2 10 13 15596 0

Lower Costerfield 48 0 0 1 ii 0 48 0 0 Redcastle 343 0 0 0 14 2365 257 0 0

Totals li~~3_~_1_0-0-l-_0_15gt1_4_4-2 1_3_05_0__0_

Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth Rushworth

Rushworth

Rushworth Rushworth Whroo Whroo Whroo Wllroo

Whroo Coys Diggings Coys Diggings Coys Diggings

Totals

54 0 0 0 3 2266 29

9 0 0

0 0

1 1 579i 12 16

2 0 0 3 13 12 40 Ii 0 0 5 1335 29 0 0 0 I H17 -5-middot0 0 L3 0

5 19 30

7 13 9 2

5 22 12

6

0 00 7 96 0 0 0 4 deg 0 0 1 12 if 00 0111714 0 0 0 4 0 0middot0 2 16 12 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 6 48 0 0 I 8 3 1527 0 0 0 4 6 00 2 316

298 O 0 I 1 3 1049

I

I I I

(ifixed lots from va rious reefs See II page 30)

I I

[

J

1I

j 1

10 13 0 I 30 16 0 i4 14 0 770

11 2 6 2 2 12

5150 I1 17 O 3 16 0

30 15 0 Al)above water-Ieve

4 2 0 II2 12 025 8 12 100 1 11 0 I

180 0 0 I 2 11 0 I

13 2 0 J -----s

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT -

MARYBOROUGH DIVIllON Bristol Hill James Kay Reade and 90 bull

Western Reef Bristol Hill Viarious pl~ces

883 10 0 97 00

0 3 1655 o 4 5

163 iO 20 8

0 5

306 to 430 feet Various

(public crushiugs) Waldley and party

Leviathan Reef China 352 0 0 o 13 095

1 229 10 0 70 to 80 feet

mans Wilson and Dark Lord Napier Reef Chinashy 61 0 0 0 7 904 221( 0 11~feetl

mans Fisher and party North German Reefmiddot1 39 0 0 0 5 1538 11 0 0 60 feet

Chinamans

totals

1432 19 0 0 6 557 446 8 5 -

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QUANTITY of QUAlnz Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued -

AYclage 1Division and Subdivision Uemnrks relative to the _and Yioldo Gold 1 Total YIeld of Depth at whIch the

Name of Company Quartz Crushedthere Quartz was obtained

per Ton Gold Quartz was 0 btained amp0

oz dwt grtons cwt qr oz dwt gr

AMHERST DIVISION

Croydon 35 12 18 Laura Reef 230 0 0 0 3 237 40 to 80 feet No 1 South Croydon --

Iaura Reef 0 2 493 15 8 18140 0 0 Surface to 30 feet No2 South Croydon 0 1 20-82 9 6 18 40 feetLaura Reef 100 0 0

288 11 12Union Q M C 200 feet Trickey and party

Church Hill Reef 144 0 0 -2 0 192 9 3 12Dundee Beef 0 2 789 60 feet

Perseveranee 77 0 0

0 8 1111 11 15 6 40 feet Sundries Prince of Wales Reef 27 0 0

18 8 0_143 0 0 0 _2 1376Various ----s6~1--~0~1--6i21Totals

-I AVOCA SUBDIVISION

Monte Christo 15 10 0Murdoehs Reef 14 0 0 I 2 342

DUNOLLY ~ND TARNAGULLA DiVISIONS

Queens Birthday o 12 031 2223 0 8 300 to 500 feet Queens Reef

3701 0 0Bealiba Reef 64 18 0Queens Reef 130 feet713 0 0 0 1 1969

Kentish Reef 15 11 11 Kentish Reef 48 0 0 0 6 1l73 60 feet Harvest Home 33 0 0Harvest Home 40 feet30 0 0 1 2 0 Harrop and Lees 26 0 0 40 feet Yorkshire G M bull 0 1 o 1520 0 0

566 4 12 160 to 200 feetWatts Reef Tarnagulla 1474 0 7 1638o 0 1

2928 _75966 1 0 0 9 1963Totals 1~ --- shyINGLEWOOD DIVISION

Jersey Reef Quartz Mining 103 3 20Jersey Reef 182 0 0 011 815 Dalmatia G M 1 3 0

tyres Smugglers Gi~n McI~ I 20 0 0 0 1 36

104 6 20202 0 0 010 794Totals REDBANK SUBDIVISION

TormeyEi Claim 52 16 0Station Reef 22 0 0 2 8 0

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION

Greenock Reef 39 0 070 feet to 170 feet (above 45 0 0 o 17 80 70 to 170 feet water-level)

Adams and party - -9 12 030 0 0 0 6 96 50 feetSpinster Ueef bull IT-Kersleyand party Greenock Reef 17 0 o i 0 10 0 1 8 10 0 15 feet

_ 92 0 0 0 12 991 57 2 0Totals ST ARNAUD NORTH

SUBDIVISION shyWorking Miners 0 7 268 248 18 6 200 to 260 feet Chrysolite Tribute Quartz

New Bendigo 700 0 0 0 2 2331 52 0 0 150 feet level

Mining Co Registered Chrysolite Reef - 350 0 0

300 18 6Totals 1Q50 0 0 0 5 1755

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLElILltiINE D1VISION

Eureka Cardwell Argus United McWalters Central bull Wattle Gully Sebastopol Crushing Utle Nuggety Arehbold and Co

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

English Australian G M Perseverance Burdett-Coutts New Era Blaek Haivk Rowe Bros Rowe nros Duke Oornwall Small and Co Macdonald and Co Meins Freehold G M

Eureka Reef Town Reef Argus Flat-

Burns Reef Wattle Gully Wattle Gully Lady Gully Nuggety Reef bullbullbullI

Public crushings Totals bullbull

Golden Gully Cattles Reef Cattles Ueef Ferrons Reef Cattles Reef Cattles Heef Ferrons Reef bullbull Cattle Reef Cattles Reef German Gully Guilford Hill

Totals

718 0 0 41 0 0

530 0 0 8J 0 0

759 0 0 505 0 0 247 0 0

52 0 0 155 0 0

3091 0 0

862 0 0 200 0 0

20 0 0 6310 0 0

123 0 0 1419 0 0

417 0 0 166 0 0 50 0 0 24 0 0

3560 0 0 i shy

13151 0 01

0 6 1666 o 19 12-3 0 7 65 o 17 12 0 4 424 0 2 983 0 3 162 0 7 203 o 15 4-18

0 6 341

0 4 98 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 3 324 0 1 20-87 0 7 668 0 4 2169 0 4 144 0 2 96 o 10 0 0 1 1839

0 3 904

1

240 7 0 360 feet 40 0 0 62 feet

192 13 12 73 10 0 160 feet

158 10 0 350 feet 60 17 0 45 18 20 8 0 230 feet

117 12 0

949 5 6

190 0 0 320 feet 40 0 0 180 feet

5 0 0 230 feet 989 3 0 100 to 380 feet

11 10 0 150 feet 516 8 0 150 to 200 feet 102 5 0 20 to 80 feet 33 14 0 20 to 200 feet

6 0 0 190 feet 12 0 0 90 feet

314 8 0

2220 8 0

shy

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Average Remarks relative to theDivision and Subdivision Total Yield ofWhere Quartz was obtained I Qnartz Crushed I Yield of Gold Depth at which theand Gold Quartz was obtained amp0per TonName of Company

---------_

tone owt qr loz dwt gr oz dwt gr

HEPBUllN DIVISION

Argus Italian mil 566 0 0 30 to 150 feet New North Cornish

74 11 100 2 1506 n

Wombat Hill 105 0 0 Surface to 35 feet Richardsons

0 3 396 16 12 8 Bismarck Reef 13 0 0 30 feet1 0 0 13 0 0IWomans Gully 23 0 0 10 feet0 4 834 5 0 0Ansonia

60 0 o i 0 3 0Pitchers Reef 25 feet Panham 9 0 0Fuseo

Pitchers Reef 52 0 0 40 feet Bray and party

0 1 1661 4 8 0 Frenchmans Reef 70 feet12 0 0 2 8 00 4 0

King and Co

Willards Reef 60 0 0 70 feet0 4 0 12 0 0 ISt Georges Reef 630 0 0 0 1 038 32 0 0 140 feetUnion Nuggety HeeL 690 0 0 230 0 0 I20 to 280 feet

Keep-it-Dark Companies 0 6 16Ajax Keep-it-Dark

120 0 0 50 0 0 I 100 to 140 feet0 8 8

Totals 2331 0 0 0 3 2044 448 19 18

TARADALE AND KYNETON SUBDIVISION

Taradale 945 0 0 0 1 1562 United Kingdom ~ 78 0 0 Glenlyon 140 I) 0 0 9 1406 Little Wonder 67 2 0

1085 0 0Totals 0 2 1619 145 2 0 ----shy

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Caledonian Mills Parkins Linscotts Nelshy 92 0 0 o 17 0 200 to 300 feet78 4 0 son amp Valkers reefs

Eaglehawk Linscotts 622 0 0 0 12 1744 395 16 0 50 to 270 feetLinscotts Mills and Nuggety reefs

Phwnix Mills Beehive Swipers Gershy 1000 0 0 1 9 1227 1475 11 12 80 to 300 feet man Victoria amp Irish Billys reefs

Great Western Beehive Reef 120 0 0 0 4 0 24 0 0 40 to 80 feet

Totals bullbull 1834 0 0 I 1 1253 197311 12 -~-----

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

United Company Hoddles Creek 180 0 0 0 9 204 88 13 0 35 feet Lyre Bird Hoddles Creek 25 0 0 o 13 0 16 5 0 27 feet Sunday Reef McCraes Hill S 0 0 0 1 12 o 12 0 20 feet Sheppard and party Warburton 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 10 feet Central Mining Hurst and Co

Reef ton MountainB

38 10 1 0

0 0

1 13 24 2 17 20

63 14 2 17

8 2

180 feet Surface

Murray and Hirt Smith and Hirt Hartley and Co

You-You You-You You-You

3 2 7

10 0 0

0 0 0

1 10 2057 I 10 12 o 10 1714

5 8 3 1

1 15

0 0 0

50 feet 30 feet 60 feet

Hopkinson You-You 2 0 0 1 10 0 3 0 0 60 feet Apted and Co Pioneer 6 0 0 o 18 8 5 10 0 ISO feet Progress Panton Hill 218 0 0 0 7 146 82 18 15 120 feet Napoleons March Panton Hill 18 0 0 o 11 1977 1012 20 40 feet Bignell and Co Fourth Hill Warrandyte 7 0 0 3 0 0 i 21 0 0 30 feet

517 0 0Totals o 11 2247 308 10 21

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Wimmera North and South Wales Pioneer and Galatea New St George Scotchmans Moonlight W onga and Birmingham

RAGLAN DIVISION

The Victory Quartz Gold Mining

Stawell reefs

Stawell reefs Stawell reefs Stilwell reefs Stawell reefs Stawell reefs

Totals

Reef near Waterloo

5788 0 0 is 9 0

4624 0 0 3196 0 0 3353 10 0 3580 0 0 2069 0 0

22688 19 0

17 0 0

011 595 1 5 739 o 14 721 o 11 26 0 7 9 0 14 2207 0 2 1853

0 11 319

1 4 224

3255 4 3 200 to 1000 feet 99 5 10 40 to 100 feet

3306 6 8 200 to 1100 feet 1i75 2 0 4S0 to 1200 feet 1236 II 18 100 to 850 feet 2670 IS 0 410 to 1120 feet

286 15 21 24 to 100 feet

12629 18 12

20 10 0

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~iiANfiTYofCltr ARTz0rusliedjirieacnDi visi~ri~andgtSohdi vision during the Qulilter ~ampc-continuedbull _ _ ~~ ~M_~

---1--- DivislonnndSnbdivisioh bull

OlJ 1j and~ I ~Yhere Qua~ was ogttamed __ Na~~O Company______ ______ ___

GIPPSLAND ~C C ~ Q)fElO ~

~ Srifts Creek Fashion Reef

CROOKED RIVE~ DiVISIoN

Robert Moore -- ~ Upper Dargo bullbull Wentworth Parslow and Co

Totals DONNELLYSC~EEK DIVISION

DonnellyS Creek Bismarck United

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION

Long Tunnel f Cohens Reef Cohens Reef Walhalla (Tributers) I

I Totals ABERFELDY SUBDIVISlON Aberpoundeldy Reef -James Rices Mine

----~-

AverageQuartz Crushed Yie1T ONMld

per Ton

tons ewt qr oz dwt gr

MINING DISTRICT u

I 10 0 0 I 12 b

---- shy

20 0 0 0 10144 30 0 600 0

50 0 0 0 7 2016

42 0 0 0 14 4

5034 0 0 1 8 191 0 8 1078997 d 0

06031 0 1 5 1038

650 d 0 0 6 144

Remarks relative to thoTotal Yield Depth at which theof Gold Quartz was obtalnedampc

Oz dwt gr

-

i 16 0 0

10 12 0 Surfaee to 20 feet 9 00

---- shy19 12 0

29 15 0 400 feet

17248 0 0 i 343 to 623 feet 421 4 0

7669 4 )

]96 19 0 150 feet 50 feet

water level

~ laquo

~

QUARTZ TAILINGS MULLOClETC THE follo~in~ infor~ation has beenobtai~edfromReturn~made bythe-Mi~lng Surveyorsand R~gist~a~s

relative to the Quantity OfQUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK ampc Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each -Mining District -during the ~uarter and the GOJD obtained therefrom

I ______

DiviSion and Snbdlvislon I Where Quartz Tailings and I Quartz Tailings Average Ttl y ld ~r ~Remarksielative to the and Mullock ampc were and Mnlloek ampc Yield of Gold 0 ItG I~c Depth at which tbeI

Same of Company i obt~n~~ l I~~~I )ler~on~ 0 MUll~C~amp~1e~ ~btalne~ --- shy tons cwt qr oz dwt gr 0 dwtgr

r bull - JBALLARATMININGDISTRICT

I ICENTRAL DtvIsioN 1

~

11259 19130 Isuriac~ ~~Ofe~~ IBallarat East 2580 00 0Canadian

Mount Clear 1050 00Baker and Co I 0 12308 103 00 Surface to 20middotfeet t

pi 1+Totals ~ q630 0 0 o 1 1562 bull ni

STEIGLITZ SUBl)JVISION I

Minerva Eiaine 220 0 0 o 3 218 34 0 0 20 0 0Wee Speek bullbull Do o 4 96 4 8 0

180 0 0 0 016DUIIlIDott and Co Steiglitz 6 O o

Totals 420 0 0 0 2 274 44 8 0

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEcrrwoRTH DIVISION

Marco Polo Hurdle Flat - 48 0 0 0 2 0

I

4 16 0 Various depths l~_ gt

INDIGO DIVISION

Magentll MIYfntR Reef middot Places Mill Variou~

Totals -

I

-

0632 300

shy

0 0 0 0 I

I 0 o I

0 0

0

I 991 44 13 0 2 0middotmiddot 30 0 0

1444 t1 74 13 0

Surface to 50ifeet ChieH y surfacemiddotfrom

old workings

MrlTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION

Trewalla Bethanga

23 middot0 0 gt)

0 7 417

8

5 0

r

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK crushed in each Division and Subdivision ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Where Quart Tailings and Quartz Tallogs I Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and and MuJlock ampc Gold lfuUock ampc were Depth at which the

erolIlld I I~ IP t I obtained Mullock ampc were obtamcltL --middot---------------~-------I-----I-------=-___c_-~-I------~--

Name of Company

tons ewt qr oz dwtgr

SANDHURSTMlNING DISTRICT~~ L I i

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIshyVISION

Alison JoIlins

Lower Costerfield Redcastle

Totals

i

1000 0 150 (l 0

0 0

3 0 2 224

15 0 22 0

0 0

shy

d

~1

250 P 0 0 2 2304 37 0 0

(I

MARYBOROUGH MiNI~G DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE MINI~G DISTRICTv

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION

Crown Ninirod Reef bullbullbull Nuggety NuggetyReef D avies and Co

Donkey Gully A jax Tribute ~ Bolivia Reef

Totals n i - shy

HEPBUBN DIVISION

Francis bullbullbull f bullbull1 Wombat Hill ~ bullbull

ST ANDRlFws D1VISION

middotCentral Mining bull~ Reefton bullbullbull United bullbullbull HoddlesCreek

Totals

1140 0 0 0 1 0-1 57 5 0

- 0 0 0 I 12 5210 0_ 700 680 0 0 0 1 235 37middot 612 510 0 0 0 1l(66middot 36( 16 15

3030 0 0

400 00

Ilt

i 174 0 0 I 25 0 0I

199 0 0

0 1 5l3 183 18 3

0 0 -12 l 10 0 0

t I bull

0 3 15-22 31 12 9 0 0 192 1- 0 0

)

-- 6671-~

Surface Surface

Shllow

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

W onga and Bir~ingham

~ I

Stawell reefs 35 0 0 0 2 13-54 4 9 18 f ~ I ~ i f

1I

middotGIPFStAN]) IMINliNG vDISiFRI(iJT

DONNELLYS CllEEKD~ISIOl

Bismarck ITnited

i

1

~OO j

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PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the Quantity of PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on in the several Divisions -and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Dlvision and Subdivision Remarks relatlve to the I Pyrites I Average I I iWhere Pyr~B an~ Blanketmgs and Blnnketings Yield 01 Gold Tota Y old of and Depth at which the wele obtamed I operated on per Ton GoldName 01 Oompany - PyritesJ ampc were ubtained

I tons cwt qr oz dwt gr I oz dwt gr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION Llanberris 18 0 0 1 16 1466 32 19 0Gumtree Flatbullbullbull

CRESWIOK DIVISION Port Phillip Clunes 471 5 0107 0 o I 4 8 202 New North Clunes 93 16 12Clunes 19 0 o i 4 18 1831

67 5 o 7 I 2382South Clunes 477 9 0Clunes 193 5 0 1 5 7 2145 1042 1012

STEIGLITZ SIJDDIVISION Totals

Enterprise Elaine- 103 0 0 o 18 349 93 9 0 Dummott and Co 5 12 0Steiglitz 22 0 0 0 5 218

Totals 99 1 0 BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND

BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION

125 0 0 o 15 2035

Barrys Reef bullbullbull 14 10 0 4 9 1572 65 0 0Sultan

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEOHWORTH DlVISION Reform Myrtleford 39 0 0 o 15 0 29 5 0

1

YAOKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVlSION

Bigelowe and Clingam WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION E M Gill

Homeward Bound Hills-borough

Various localities

25

50

0

0

0

0

o 15middot 504

o 18 0

19

45

0

0

6

0

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

S

SANDHURST DIVISION 884 16 122 2 2286Pinchgut Gully 412 0 0United Pyrites 244 4 01 9 2311 163 0 0Jackass Flat andhurst amp Eaglehawk PE 281 7 121 11 013Derwent Gully 181 10 0L iddell and Co

1410 8 01 17 69756 10 0Totals HEATHOOTE DIVISION AND ---------shy

WARANGA SOUTH SUB-JDIVISION

33 0 J1 0 033 0 0Alison Lower Costerfield I

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION Bristol Hill

DlJNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS

Queens Birthday

Western Reef Bristol Hill 13 11 0 2 7 208 81 18 12

Bealiba Reef 15 0 0 1 6 16 20 0 0

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr Yeats Castlemaine 129 0 0 1 12 409

- 207 10 0

HEPBURN DIVISION J Williams Ajax

3 7

0 0

0 0

o 16 1 14

16 685

210 12 0

0 0

250 feet 250 feet

Totals 10 0 01 1 9 0 14 10 0

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

_DIVISlUrSTRINGERS 2 9 3-21 42 18 017 9 0Cohens Reef Long Tunnel

12 14 01 9 4648 14 0 Cohens Reef Walhalla - 55 12 02 2 1213- 26 3 0Totals

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

1

Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

I

INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

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QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

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PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

t

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NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

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176

21

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

25

The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crllshed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

AverogeDivision and Subdivision Yield of Gold Quartz Crushedand Where Qnartz was obtained

per TonName 01 Company

BUCllLAD DIVISIOY

J A Wallace Jones and Co Dl-vies and Co

o

o

H arrietville Land Tax Rcef Buck-eye Tiddle-de-addle-de

Gillies and Co The Admiral Douglas and Co Anderson and Co Stephen and Co o

H Curry and Co O Anderson and Co Boss Cockies Shippen and Cobullbullbull King and Co Clemens and Co Radcliffe and Fowler Brady and Co

Bucldand o bull

lt

bullbullbull

Davies and Co Maguire and Co Harp of Erin Co Maguire aud Co Beveridge and Co Coxon and Co Grennep and Wilson Honeychnrch and Co

Frecburgh Oriental Hill Three Stars Tramway Heef Three Stars bullbullbull

Oriental Hill Reliance Reef Lisbon Reef

Maefadzean aud Co J Butler and Go

Bright

Belle of the Ball Stackey Gully

The Hope Q M Running Creek

Happy Valley Reef Root Hog and Die Running Creek

Totals

WANDILIOONO SUBDIVISIO

Prince Arthur Mill Williams and Co Tributers Williams and Co Tributers Davies and Hearn Tri-

buters Birthday Mill

Three public crushings Queen of South Mill

Two small crushings Hit or Miss Mill

Harrietville Oriental Mill

Nine parcels for public Try Again Mill

Hood and Contts Frasers Mill

Myrtle Co London Co James and Co Londonderry bullbull

Prince Arthur Lease Anstralasia Lease Prince A Lease

Various

Buck-eye

Try Again Myrtle Reef London Reef Londonderry

Native Industry Reef

and Co Attridge and Co Native Industry Symes

Old Albion Never 100 Late Mill

Stephens and Co Pride of Kildare Gregory and Co Louisa

Forlorn Hope Vale and Co Wbo Knows

Home ~fill Hazeton E M Gill Home Reef

Stephens Mill Mills and Co Advance Australia H Mitchell HM Reef J Phillips New Years Gift

tons cwt qr

258 0 0 19 0 0

205 0 0

156 0 0

90 0 0 16 0 0

13 0 0 12 0 0 35 0 0

4 0 0 7 0 0

14 0 0 40 0 0

6 0 0 7 0 0

54 0 0 34 0 0

100 0 0 40 0 0 5 0 0

11 0 0 17 0 0 17 0 0

49 10 0 19 0 0

312 0 0

3 0 0

oz dwt gr

1 8 1451 9 5 632 1 12 468

o 10 2154

1 7 1866 1 10 0 5 4 l477 1 11 16 0 7 1028 1 6 6 2 1 1886 2 17 1029 0 4 72 4 6 16 1 7 0

2 2 2311 210 0 o 18 0 o 17 0 1 3 0 1 10 0 1 0 0 4 14 282

o 14 1309 o 15 189

0 1 2331

I 8 0

1543 10 I 3 2124 __ o i

28 0 0 I 13 0 16 0 0 o 17 12 77 0 0 7 0 686

85 0 0 0 9 1552

11 10 0 1 5 0

64 0 0 3 13 105

376 0 0 0 4 963

150 0 0 0 7 48

780 0 0 0 4 16 42 0 0 0 8 228 24 0 0 0 7 12 33 10 0 I 17 211

13 18 0 3 7 2089

24 0 0 1 o 20 28 0 0 I 3 1371 23 0 0 1 19 313 43 0 0 I 1 949

0 4 1294178 0 0

35 0 0 3 I 1714 49 0 0 o 16 1763 99 0 0 0 Ii 109

Remarks relative to the Total Yield of Depth at which theGold Quartz WJ obtained ampc _-----shyoz dwt gr

369 O 0 400 feet 176 0 0 150 feet 330 0 0 220 feet water leve

100 feet 85 0 0 150 feet

125 0 0 60 feet 24 0 0 20 feet 68 0 0 80 feet 19 0 0 Surface 13 0 0 20 feet 5 5 0 40 feet

14 12 12 40 feet 40 4 0 50 feet 8 12 0 35 feet

26 0 0 Surface 9 9 0 25 feet

116 0 0 SO feet 85 0 0 50 feet 90 0 0 120 feet 34 0 0 60 feet

5 15 0 Surface 16 10 0 40 feet 17 0 0 Surface to 10 feet 80 0 0

36 0 0 30 feet 15 0 0 50 feet

30 15 0 300 feet water level 100 feet

4 4 0 Surface

1843 ( 12 ----shy

46 -1 0 Surface to 40 feet 14 0 0 Surface to 40 feet

540 2 0 Surface to 40 feet

41 0 0

14 7 12

235 0 0 150 feet

82 15 0

100 to 300 feet54 0 0

450 feet 17 0 0

182 0 0 300 feet

9 0 0 170 feet 63 10 0 70 feet

43 0 0

middot25 0 0 33 0 0 45 0 0 310 feet 46 0 0 90 feet

40 8 0 120 feet deep

108 0 0 30 feet 41 0 0 50 feet 27 0 0 5 to 60 feet

Eleven small parcels Various 153 0 1

0 9 1082 72 6 0O

1779 12 12 Totals 2332 18 0 o 15 616

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION

The Try Again Paps Reef 2 0 0 1 8 0 2 16 0 Surface to 50 feet Peter Mannoni and party Durham Gully Reef 14 0 0 9 10 0 133 0 0 Snrface to 40 feet Selby and Johnson Candlelight Reef 25 0 0 0 7 48 9 0 0 Surface to 50 feet

--- shy -- shy ----- shy ---- shy -Totalsmiddot 41 0 0 3 10 1522 144 16 0

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QUANTITY of- QUARTZ Crushed in eacK Division and StiMivsioriJduring the QUfiiter Iampc-colltinued

Division and Subdlvlson 1 I Average I l Remark~el~tfveto the t and Quartz Cru~hed i YieldOf Gold TotaGrl~d of

Nameof Company bull per Ton bull

-----------I--to-n-s-cwt--q-10p -o~ Dny CnEElt SUBDIVISION

R G Meade Une~(Quattz Table ipoundiIiabiy Creek 350 0 0 0 23 Claim

-~~ t71~ 1- -~

GAFFNEYS CnEEllSUBshyDIVISION

Al G M Tributers I bullbull Castle reefs 400 00 o 13 1626 Rose of DenmarkTributers Eureka Heef 1 i 60 0 0 o 6 Hi Wallaby Tributers - WallabyReef bull f600 0 0 o 15 1244 Sundry lots ~i ~ bullbull Homeward Bound Reef 1)400 0 0 o 018

~-----shyTotals bullbullbull

WOODS POINT SJJBDIVISIONbullbull

The Revival (Fords Tribute) Sir Tohn Franklin reefs Lady Franklin Tributers bull Johnsons Reef Morning Star Prospectors Mornini Star Heef

Tributers North WaverJy~ i Waverly Reefmiddot Axton and Ryan Morning Star Reef

Totals

BIG RIVEn SUBDIVISION

Londonderry S M bullbullbull Hailway Heef Lucks All Q Mmiddot I WarnersReef i

Totals

MITTA MITTA NORTH SUBshyDIVISION

Happy Go Lucky ~rount Firebrace Prospecting Mill I ~ Cotton Tree Hore and Co -CottOn Tree bullbullbull Coleman Cotton Tree Philip bullbullbull Cotton Tree Gregson Cotton Tree PeadoIiBrothers Cotton Tree Clarke Brtithers bull Qotton Tree Padgett Cotton Tree Peach and party CottonTree n

Sutherland Cotton Tree Christy and Co CottonTree Frazer and Co Cotton Tree Miller and Co Cotton Tree Lee Cotton Tree Doctor and party Cotton Tree Flag Staff Compo Bethariga Trewalla Compo Bethanga

Totals

MITTA JliIITTA Scn)Tii SUB- DIVISIN

I

Enterprise bull Junction Mitta Mitta Christmas Tunction Mitta Mitta Christmas (2nd lot) Junction Mitta Mitta Welcome Tunction Mitta rfitta Yellow Girl Junction Mitta 1l1itta Watson and Scalesmiddot I Granite Fiat ~ Littlejohn and Williams b t Granite Flat A Hodder Granite ]Iat Empress Granite ll1it Empress (No2) Granite Flat Jtichards Bros Granite Flat llose of Kilkenny Granite Flat Pioneer Juncti~n Mitta 11itta

Totals bull

JA~IIESON SUBDrVI8ION

Ventu~e ( Macks Creek Sailor Bill ( tiailor Bill Greek

Totals

2460 0 0 0 6 1436

800q 0 o 8 21)-72

130 0 0 o 2 1366 800 0 0 03 072

1400 00 0 3 924

)t60 0 0 I o 4 4

d 40J 00

273 ll 0

20 ) 0 465 1gt1 0

52 10 0 -----shy

811 12 0

I

354 IPIS 16 14 0

121 4 0

)67 1~0 10 ~ 0

Depth at which the Quartz was obtained ampc

---------shy

About 70 feet T

About 200 feet About middot100 feetmiddot About200 feet

~ i ~~~ j 0

Ahptlt 200 feet f~ r About 100 feet About 70 fcet

Aboutl30 feet y Surface 7

2190 0 0 o 1 511 I 572 12 18

co i

900 0 0 o 4 16 183 0 0 I About 300 feet ~~~172 0 uO 1 21223 c190 0 0 About 250 feet

1072 0 0 0 6 2301 373 9 0 ---- shy _---shy

_ 300-0 0 o 10 192 162 0 0 295 00 o 13144 200 12 0

32- 0 0 o 12 0 19 4 0 16 12 Omiddot27 0 0 o 12 711

4 10 0 o 9 266 2 I 0 I300 1 3 8 3 10 0

6 4 9

0 0 0 0 00

o iI 16 o i 0 o ~5- in 33

3 100 216 0

213 0 6 0 0 o 5 16 I 14 0 9 0 0 o 10 8 13 0

6 0 0 o 15 16 41~ 0 500

22 00 o 9 144 o 19 0

280 20 la 0

11 12

0 0 00 i

o 16 o 7

218 8

8 17 4lt 8

0 0

186 0 O o 10 1853 100 314 83 0 0 o 11 1424 48 2 6

1020 100 0 11 2235 608 15 20 1

12 0 0 o 1 20 I ) 0 12 0 0 o 5 20 3 10 0

700 o 8 2057 3 2 0 50 0 0 o 544 14 10 0

o 14 0 14 o 0 c i 20 Q 9 o I 6 0 F2 12 10 Q o o 3 343 j 2 14 0~ 14 Q o o I 18 0 7 0400

38 0 0 o 9 503 17]00 o 4 1664 11 14 16 50 0 deg 700 Vb2171 8

16 O l o 8 45 6 0 I r J

15 o l 0 o 3~3 deg2 l deg ---- ~ - I ltshy

255 middot0 0 0 6 1538 ------ --__shy

600 b 0 0 3 256 93 14 0 100 feet Fmiddot

480 00 0100 240 O 01 40()feet 1

o ~ o1080 ~ 0

11

Total Yield 01 Reruarksrelatve to the Gold Depth at which the

~_____ Qn~r~~ T~~ Obtp7dbullampe

tons oz dwt gr

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHUllST DIVISION Albert Beehive bullbullbull Bendigo and Melbourne Birds Reef Catherine ReefU C Garden Gully United bull G G Consolidated Great Extended Hustlers

Reef Great Britain bull bullbull Great Southern Hercules and Energetic bull Johnsons Reef G M bullbullbull Lazarus bull Louisa Metropolitan bullbull Marong CrushillgWorksl New-chum and Victoria Newmiddotchum United New Kelson bull Old Tom J V)~ipstick Shenandoah Victoria Conaols Victoria Reef G M _ Vilsons Reef

KILMORE DIYISION~ Crown Doyles GoIden Crown Beaconsfield bullbullbull Red Rover Loudon and party Trezise and party Overlander Doyles Battery robins neef bull

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND VVARANGA SOUTH

SUBDIVISION Alison

Collins

DIVISION Good Luck Nobull1 Hgpe o(Denmar~ ~ Lost Love Taylorand Crowe Cambridge and Warwick West Growlers TaylorBros __ Marsland and Co Holmes Lease King Billy Francis and Co Rowan and Co Hodge Bros Loughlin Jose and Co WnistIers OBrien and Co Telford and Co

Diamond tIilt E~glhawk bullbullbull Kangaroo Flat Kangaroo blat

Eaglehawk Garden Gully Reef Golden Gully bull Hustlers Reef

Golden Square Garden Gully Reef Victoria neef bullbull California Gully

New-chum Gully Eaglehawk GoIde-q SQllare I I yenarong bullbull - Ironbark New-chum Gully KeIson Reef bull

Newmiddotchm Ililcf Victoria R~ef

Totals 1

Doyles ned Doyles Reef GCrown Reef i Magenta Reef Upper Reedy London Reef bullbull Russells Reef Overlander Reef I Various places Sunday Creek

529 00 o 6 1279 5360 0 0 o 91855

389 00 o 6 283 o B 206I 1389 OJii

3196 0 4441l0

I 1078 O bull 258 0 bull 1170 0

3783 0 3994 0 6980 0 4362 0 1789 0 141~ 0

237 0 il189 0 1773 0 1927 0

1 240 0

_ 2i32 0 r 2554 0 1

VictoriaRlcf 4330 _0 Marong 305 0

i------ii

o 5 1825 0 0

1 1 056 0 o 4 1206 0 o 8 947

o 0 5 372 o 0 61l47 o 0 5 1202 o 0 4 912 o 0 9 1372 o 0 6 1321 o 0 4 2332 o 0 5 966 o 0 8 ijs 60S 94deg 0 6 163i 0 0bull 186l

o 0 4 2219o 0 2 132 o 0 8 389 o 0 7 2289

280 0 0 4 0 0 190 0 0 1 15 0

13 0middot0 1 10 0 --20 0 0 0 15 0

15 oj 0 0 10 0 5 0 0 1 0 0

12 0 0 2 14 0 16 0 0 0 8 0

0160 0 0 5 0 6 0 Oimiddotl 0 0

)

dii5 23 2619 4 0

119 0 0 56111 12 920 11 i

4670 8 0 242 14 I

1083 15 0

507 16 deg 1225 7 0 1098 11 0 1528 14 0

2~~ i~ g 362 9 0

6314 12 2151 2 0 743 19 0

643 12 0 16middot6 12 623 10 iJ 325 ui 12 1767 0

121 6 0

00 332 10

19 10 0 0

1120 0

15 0 00 Kll b 1 el7 1 ~ a ove water- ev

3~ i g ~~ ~resent

15 0 0 rJ J 6 0 0

Totals 617 0 0 2 10 13 15596 0

Lower Costerfield 48 0 0 1 ii 0 48 0 0 Redcastle 343 0 0 0 14 2365 257 0 0

Totals li~~3_~_1_0-0-l-_0_15gt1_4_4-2 1_3_05_0__0_

Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth Rushworth

Rushworth

Rushworth Rushworth Whroo Whroo Whroo Wllroo

Whroo Coys Diggings Coys Diggings Coys Diggings

Totals

54 0 0 0 3 2266 29

9 0 0

0 0

1 1 579i 12 16

2 0 0 3 13 12 40 Ii 0 0 5 1335 29 0 0 0 I H17 -5-middot0 0 L3 0

5 19 30

7 13 9 2

5 22 12

6

0 00 7 96 0 0 0 4 deg 0 0 1 12 if 00 0111714 0 0 0 4 0 0middot0 2 16 12 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 6 48 0 0 I 8 3 1527 0 0 0 4 6 00 2 316

298 O 0 I 1 3 1049

I

I I I

(ifixed lots from va rious reefs See II page 30)

I I

[

J

1I

j 1

10 13 0 I 30 16 0 i4 14 0 770

11 2 6 2 2 12

5150 I1 17 O 3 16 0

30 15 0 Al)above water-Ieve

4 2 0 II2 12 025 8 12 100 1 11 0 I

180 0 0 I 2 11 0 I

13 2 0 J -----s

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT -

MARYBOROUGH DIVIllON Bristol Hill James Kay Reade and 90 bull

Western Reef Bristol Hill Viarious pl~ces

883 10 0 97 00

0 3 1655 o 4 5

163 iO 20 8

0 5

306 to 430 feet Various

(public crushiugs) Waldley and party

Leviathan Reef China 352 0 0 o 13 095

1 229 10 0 70 to 80 feet

mans Wilson and Dark Lord Napier Reef Chinashy 61 0 0 0 7 904 221( 0 11~feetl

mans Fisher and party North German Reefmiddot1 39 0 0 0 5 1538 11 0 0 60 feet

Chinamans

totals

1432 19 0 0 6 557 446 8 5 -

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QUANTITY of QUAlnz Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued -

AYclage 1Division and Subdivision Uemnrks relative to the _and Yioldo Gold 1 Total YIeld of Depth at whIch the

Name of Company Quartz Crushedthere Quartz was obtained

per Ton Gold Quartz was 0 btained amp0

oz dwt grtons cwt qr oz dwt gr

AMHERST DIVISION

Croydon 35 12 18 Laura Reef 230 0 0 0 3 237 40 to 80 feet No 1 South Croydon --

Iaura Reef 0 2 493 15 8 18140 0 0 Surface to 30 feet No2 South Croydon 0 1 20-82 9 6 18 40 feetLaura Reef 100 0 0

288 11 12Union Q M C 200 feet Trickey and party

Church Hill Reef 144 0 0 -2 0 192 9 3 12Dundee Beef 0 2 789 60 feet

Perseveranee 77 0 0

0 8 1111 11 15 6 40 feet Sundries Prince of Wales Reef 27 0 0

18 8 0_143 0 0 0 _2 1376Various ----s6~1--~0~1--6i21Totals

-I AVOCA SUBDIVISION

Monte Christo 15 10 0Murdoehs Reef 14 0 0 I 2 342

DUNOLLY ~ND TARNAGULLA DiVISIONS

Queens Birthday o 12 031 2223 0 8 300 to 500 feet Queens Reef

3701 0 0Bealiba Reef 64 18 0Queens Reef 130 feet713 0 0 0 1 1969

Kentish Reef 15 11 11 Kentish Reef 48 0 0 0 6 1l73 60 feet Harvest Home 33 0 0Harvest Home 40 feet30 0 0 1 2 0 Harrop and Lees 26 0 0 40 feet Yorkshire G M bull 0 1 o 1520 0 0

566 4 12 160 to 200 feetWatts Reef Tarnagulla 1474 0 7 1638o 0 1

2928 _75966 1 0 0 9 1963Totals 1~ --- shyINGLEWOOD DIVISION

Jersey Reef Quartz Mining 103 3 20Jersey Reef 182 0 0 011 815 Dalmatia G M 1 3 0

tyres Smugglers Gi~n McI~ I 20 0 0 0 1 36

104 6 20202 0 0 010 794Totals REDBANK SUBDIVISION

TormeyEi Claim 52 16 0Station Reef 22 0 0 2 8 0

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION

Greenock Reef 39 0 070 feet to 170 feet (above 45 0 0 o 17 80 70 to 170 feet water-level)

Adams and party - -9 12 030 0 0 0 6 96 50 feetSpinster Ueef bull IT-Kersleyand party Greenock Reef 17 0 o i 0 10 0 1 8 10 0 15 feet

_ 92 0 0 0 12 991 57 2 0Totals ST ARNAUD NORTH

SUBDIVISION shyWorking Miners 0 7 268 248 18 6 200 to 260 feet Chrysolite Tribute Quartz

New Bendigo 700 0 0 0 2 2331 52 0 0 150 feet level

Mining Co Registered Chrysolite Reef - 350 0 0

300 18 6Totals 1Q50 0 0 0 5 1755

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLElILltiINE D1VISION

Eureka Cardwell Argus United McWalters Central bull Wattle Gully Sebastopol Crushing Utle Nuggety Arehbold and Co

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

English Australian G M Perseverance Burdett-Coutts New Era Blaek Haivk Rowe Bros Rowe nros Duke Oornwall Small and Co Macdonald and Co Meins Freehold G M

Eureka Reef Town Reef Argus Flat-

Burns Reef Wattle Gully Wattle Gully Lady Gully Nuggety Reef bullbullbullI

Public crushings Totals bullbull

Golden Gully Cattles Reef Cattles Ueef Ferrons Reef Cattles Reef Cattles Heef Ferrons Reef bullbull Cattle Reef Cattles Reef German Gully Guilford Hill

Totals

718 0 0 41 0 0

530 0 0 8J 0 0

759 0 0 505 0 0 247 0 0

52 0 0 155 0 0

3091 0 0

862 0 0 200 0 0

20 0 0 6310 0 0

123 0 0 1419 0 0

417 0 0 166 0 0 50 0 0 24 0 0

3560 0 0 i shy

13151 0 01

0 6 1666 o 19 12-3 0 7 65 o 17 12 0 4 424 0 2 983 0 3 162 0 7 203 o 15 4-18

0 6 341

0 4 98 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 3 324 0 1 20-87 0 7 668 0 4 2169 0 4 144 0 2 96 o 10 0 0 1 1839

0 3 904

1

240 7 0 360 feet 40 0 0 62 feet

192 13 12 73 10 0 160 feet

158 10 0 350 feet 60 17 0 45 18 20 8 0 230 feet

117 12 0

949 5 6

190 0 0 320 feet 40 0 0 180 feet

5 0 0 230 feet 989 3 0 100 to 380 feet

11 10 0 150 feet 516 8 0 150 to 200 feet 102 5 0 20 to 80 feet 33 14 0 20 to 200 feet

6 0 0 190 feet 12 0 0 90 feet

314 8 0

2220 8 0

shy

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Average Remarks relative to theDivision and Subdivision Total Yield ofWhere Quartz was obtained I Qnartz Crushed I Yield of Gold Depth at which theand Gold Quartz was obtained amp0per TonName of Company

---------_

tone owt qr loz dwt gr oz dwt gr

HEPBUllN DIVISION

Argus Italian mil 566 0 0 30 to 150 feet New North Cornish

74 11 100 2 1506 n

Wombat Hill 105 0 0 Surface to 35 feet Richardsons

0 3 396 16 12 8 Bismarck Reef 13 0 0 30 feet1 0 0 13 0 0IWomans Gully 23 0 0 10 feet0 4 834 5 0 0Ansonia

60 0 o i 0 3 0Pitchers Reef 25 feet Panham 9 0 0Fuseo

Pitchers Reef 52 0 0 40 feet Bray and party

0 1 1661 4 8 0 Frenchmans Reef 70 feet12 0 0 2 8 00 4 0

King and Co

Willards Reef 60 0 0 70 feet0 4 0 12 0 0 ISt Georges Reef 630 0 0 0 1 038 32 0 0 140 feetUnion Nuggety HeeL 690 0 0 230 0 0 I20 to 280 feet

Keep-it-Dark Companies 0 6 16Ajax Keep-it-Dark

120 0 0 50 0 0 I 100 to 140 feet0 8 8

Totals 2331 0 0 0 3 2044 448 19 18

TARADALE AND KYNETON SUBDIVISION

Taradale 945 0 0 0 1 1562 United Kingdom ~ 78 0 0 Glenlyon 140 I) 0 0 9 1406 Little Wonder 67 2 0

1085 0 0Totals 0 2 1619 145 2 0 ----shy

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Caledonian Mills Parkins Linscotts Nelshy 92 0 0 o 17 0 200 to 300 feet78 4 0 son amp Valkers reefs

Eaglehawk Linscotts 622 0 0 0 12 1744 395 16 0 50 to 270 feetLinscotts Mills and Nuggety reefs

Phwnix Mills Beehive Swipers Gershy 1000 0 0 1 9 1227 1475 11 12 80 to 300 feet man Victoria amp Irish Billys reefs

Great Western Beehive Reef 120 0 0 0 4 0 24 0 0 40 to 80 feet

Totals bullbull 1834 0 0 I 1 1253 197311 12 -~-----

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

United Company Hoddles Creek 180 0 0 0 9 204 88 13 0 35 feet Lyre Bird Hoddles Creek 25 0 0 o 13 0 16 5 0 27 feet Sunday Reef McCraes Hill S 0 0 0 1 12 o 12 0 20 feet Sheppard and party Warburton 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 10 feet Central Mining Hurst and Co

Reef ton MountainB

38 10 1 0

0 0

1 13 24 2 17 20

63 14 2 17

8 2

180 feet Surface

Murray and Hirt Smith and Hirt Hartley and Co

You-You You-You You-You

3 2 7

10 0 0

0 0 0

1 10 2057 I 10 12 o 10 1714

5 8 3 1

1 15

0 0 0

50 feet 30 feet 60 feet

Hopkinson You-You 2 0 0 1 10 0 3 0 0 60 feet Apted and Co Pioneer 6 0 0 o 18 8 5 10 0 ISO feet Progress Panton Hill 218 0 0 0 7 146 82 18 15 120 feet Napoleons March Panton Hill 18 0 0 o 11 1977 1012 20 40 feet Bignell and Co Fourth Hill Warrandyte 7 0 0 3 0 0 i 21 0 0 30 feet

517 0 0Totals o 11 2247 308 10 21

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Wimmera North and South Wales Pioneer and Galatea New St George Scotchmans Moonlight W onga and Birmingham

RAGLAN DIVISION

The Victory Quartz Gold Mining

Stawell reefs

Stawell reefs Stawell reefs Stilwell reefs Stawell reefs Stawell reefs

Totals

Reef near Waterloo

5788 0 0 is 9 0

4624 0 0 3196 0 0 3353 10 0 3580 0 0 2069 0 0

22688 19 0

17 0 0

011 595 1 5 739 o 14 721 o 11 26 0 7 9 0 14 2207 0 2 1853

0 11 319

1 4 224

3255 4 3 200 to 1000 feet 99 5 10 40 to 100 feet

3306 6 8 200 to 1100 feet 1i75 2 0 4S0 to 1200 feet 1236 II 18 100 to 850 feet 2670 IS 0 410 to 1120 feet

286 15 21 24 to 100 feet

12629 18 12

20 10 0

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~iiANfiTYofCltr ARTz0rusliedjirieacnDi visi~ri~andgtSohdi vision during the Qulilter ~ampc-continuedbull _ _ ~~ ~M_~

---1--- DivislonnndSnbdivisioh bull

OlJ 1j and~ I ~Yhere Qua~ was ogttamed __ Na~~O Company______ ______ ___

GIPPSLAND ~C C ~ Q)fElO ~

~ Srifts Creek Fashion Reef

CROOKED RIVE~ DiVISIoN

Robert Moore -- ~ Upper Dargo bullbull Wentworth Parslow and Co

Totals DONNELLYSC~EEK DIVISION

DonnellyS Creek Bismarck United

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION

Long Tunnel f Cohens Reef Cohens Reef Walhalla (Tributers) I

I Totals ABERFELDY SUBDIVISlON Aberpoundeldy Reef -James Rices Mine

----~-

AverageQuartz Crushed Yie1T ONMld

per Ton

tons ewt qr oz dwt gr

MINING DISTRICT u

I 10 0 0 I 12 b

---- shy

20 0 0 0 10144 30 0 600 0

50 0 0 0 7 2016

42 0 0 0 14 4

5034 0 0 1 8 191 0 8 1078997 d 0

06031 0 1 5 1038

650 d 0 0 6 144

Remarks relative to thoTotal Yield Depth at which theof Gold Quartz was obtalnedampc

Oz dwt gr

-

i 16 0 0

10 12 0 Surfaee to 20 feet 9 00

---- shy19 12 0

29 15 0 400 feet

17248 0 0 i 343 to 623 feet 421 4 0

7669 4 )

]96 19 0 150 feet 50 feet

water level

~ laquo

~

QUARTZ TAILINGS MULLOClETC THE follo~in~ infor~ation has beenobtai~edfromReturn~made bythe-Mi~lng Surveyorsand R~gist~a~s

relative to the Quantity OfQUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK ampc Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each -Mining District -during the ~uarter and the GOJD obtained therefrom

I ______

DiviSion and Snbdlvislon I Where Quartz Tailings and I Quartz Tailings Average Ttl y ld ~r ~Remarksielative to the and Mullock ampc were and Mnlloek ampc Yield of Gold 0 ItG I~c Depth at which tbeI

Same of Company i obt~n~~ l I~~~I )ler~on~ 0 MUll~C~amp~1e~ ~btalne~ --- shy tons cwt qr oz dwt gr 0 dwtgr

r bull - JBALLARATMININGDISTRICT

I ICENTRAL DtvIsioN 1

~

11259 19130 Isuriac~ ~~Ofe~~ IBallarat East 2580 00 0Canadian

Mount Clear 1050 00Baker and Co I 0 12308 103 00 Surface to 20middotfeet t

pi 1+Totals ~ q630 0 0 o 1 1562 bull ni

STEIGLITZ SUBl)JVISION I

Minerva Eiaine 220 0 0 o 3 218 34 0 0 20 0 0Wee Speek bullbull Do o 4 96 4 8 0

180 0 0 0 016DUIIlIDott and Co Steiglitz 6 O o

Totals 420 0 0 0 2 274 44 8 0

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEcrrwoRTH DIVISION

Marco Polo Hurdle Flat - 48 0 0 0 2 0

I

4 16 0 Various depths l~_ gt

INDIGO DIVISION

Magentll MIYfntR Reef middot Places Mill Variou~

Totals -

I

-

0632 300

shy

0 0 0 0 I

I 0 o I

0 0

0

I 991 44 13 0 2 0middotmiddot 30 0 0

1444 t1 74 13 0

Surface to 50ifeet ChieH y surfacemiddotfrom

old workings

MrlTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION

Trewalla Bethanga

23 middot0 0 gt)

0 7 417

8

5 0

r

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK crushed in each Division and Subdivision ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Where Quart Tailings and Quartz Tallogs I Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and and MuJlock ampc Gold lfuUock ampc were Depth at which the

erolIlld I I~ IP t I obtained Mullock ampc were obtamcltL --middot---------------~-------I-----I-------=-___c_-~-I------~--

Name of Company

tons ewt qr oz dwtgr

SANDHURSTMlNING DISTRICT~~ L I i

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIshyVISION

Alison JoIlins

Lower Costerfield Redcastle

Totals

i

1000 0 150 (l 0

0 0

3 0 2 224

15 0 22 0

0 0

shy

d

~1

250 P 0 0 2 2304 37 0 0

(I

MARYBOROUGH MiNI~G DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE MINI~G DISTRICTv

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION

Crown Ninirod Reef bullbullbull Nuggety NuggetyReef D avies and Co

Donkey Gully A jax Tribute ~ Bolivia Reef

Totals n i - shy

HEPBUBN DIVISION

Francis bullbullbull f bullbull1 Wombat Hill ~ bullbull

ST ANDRlFws D1VISION

middotCentral Mining bull~ Reefton bullbullbull United bullbullbull HoddlesCreek

Totals

1140 0 0 0 1 0-1 57 5 0

- 0 0 0 I 12 5210 0_ 700 680 0 0 0 1 235 37middot 612 510 0 0 0 1l(66middot 36( 16 15

3030 0 0

400 00

Ilt

i 174 0 0 I 25 0 0I

199 0 0

0 1 5l3 183 18 3

0 0 -12 l 10 0 0

t I bull

0 3 15-22 31 12 9 0 0 192 1- 0 0

)

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Surface Surface

Shllow

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

W onga and Bir~ingham

~ I

Stawell reefs 35 0 0 0 2 13-54 4 9 18 f ~ I ~ i f

1I

middotGIPFStAN]) IMINliNG vDISiFRI(iJT

DONNELLYS CllEEKD~ISIOl

Bismarck ITnited

i

1

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PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the Quantity of PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on in the several Divisions -and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Dlvision and Subdivision Remarks relatlve to the I Pyrites I Average I I iWhere Pyr~B an~ Blanketmgs and Blnnketings Yield 01 Gold Tota Y old of and Depth at which the wele obtamed I operated on per Ton GoldName 01 Oompany - PyritesJ ampc were ubtained

I tons cwt qr oz dwt gr I oz dwt gr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION Llanberris 18 0 0 1 16 1466 32 19 0Gumtree Flatbullbullbull

CRESWIOK DIVISION Port Phillip Clunes 471 5 0107 0 o I 4 8 202 New North Clunes 93 16 12Clunes 19 0 o i 4 18 1831

67 5 o 7 I 2382South Clunes 477 9 0Clunes 193 5 0 1 5 7 2145 1042 1012

STEIGLITZ SIJDDIVISION Totals

Enterprise Elaine- 103 0 0 o 18 349 93 9 0 Dummott and Co 5 12 0Steiglitz 22 0 0 0 5 218

Totals 99 1 0 BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND

BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION

125 0 0 o 15 2035

Barrys Reef bullbullbull 14 10 0 4 9 1572 65 0 0Sultan

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEOHWORTH DlVISION Reform Myrtleford 39 0 0 o 15 0 29 5 0

1

YAOKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVlSION

Bigelowe and Clingam WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION E M Gill

Homeward Bound Hills-borough

Various localities

25

50

0

0

0

0

o 15middot 504

o 18 0

19

45

0

0

6

0

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

S

SANDHURST DIVISION 884 16 122 2 2286Pinchgut Gully 412 0 0United Pyrites 244 4 01 9 2311 163 0 0Jackass Flat andhurst amp Eaglehawk PE 281 7 121 11 013Derwent Gully 181 10 0L iddell and Co

1410 8 01 17 69756 10 0Totals HEATHOOTE DIVISION AND ---------shy

WARANGA SOUTH SUB-JDIVISION

33 0 J1 0 033 0 0Alison Lower Costerfield I

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION Bristol Hill

DlJNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS

Queens Birthday

Western Reef Bristol Hill 13 11 0 2 7 208 81 18 12

Bealiba Reef 15 0 0 1 6 16 20 0 0

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr Yeats Castlemaine 129 0 0 1 12 409

- 207 10 0

HEPBURN DIVISION J Williams Ajax

3 7

0 0

0 0

o 16 1 14

16 685

210 12 0

0 0

250 feet 250 feet

Totals 10 0 01 1 9 0 14 10 0

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

_DIVISlUrSTRINGERS 2 9 3-21 42 18 017 9 0Cohens Reef Long Tunnel

12 14 01 9 4648 14 0 Cohens Reef Walhalla - 55 12 02 2 1213- 26 3 0Totals

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

1

Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

I

INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

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QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

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PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

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NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

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--

--------------

176

21

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

______ ~i I

DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

25

The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

No 83 D

26

CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

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QUANTITY of- QUARTZ Crushed in eacK Division and StiMivsioriJduring the QUfiiter Iampc-colltinued

Division and Subdlvlson 1 I Average I l Remark~el~tfveto the t and Quartz Cru~hed i YieldOf Gold TotaGrl~d of

Nameof Company bull per Ton bull

-----------I--to-n-s-cwt--q-10p -o~ Dny CnEElt SUBDIVISION

R G Meade Une~(Quattz Table ipoundiIiabiy Creek 350 0 0 0 23 Claim

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GAFFNEYS CnEEllSUBshyDIVISION

Al G M Tributers I bullbull Castle reefs 400 00 o 13 1626 Rose of DenmarkTributers Eureka Heef 1 i 60 0 0 o 6 Hi Wallaby Tributers - WallabyReef bull f600 0 0 o 15 1244 Sundry lots ~i ~ bullbull Homeward Bound Reef 1)400 0 0 o 018

~-----shyTotals bullbullbull

WOODS POINT SJJBDIVISIONbullbull

The Revival (Fords Tribute) Sir Tohn Franklin reefs Lady Franklin Tributers bull Johnsons Reef Morning Star Prospectors Mornini Star Heef

Tributers North WaverJy~ i Waverly Reefmiddot Axton and Ryan Morning Star Reef

Totals

BIG RIVEn SUBDIVISION

Londonderry S M bullbullbull Hailway Heef Lucks All Q Mmiddot I WarnersReef i

Totals

MITTA MITTA NORTH SUBshyDIVISION

Happy Go Lucky ~rount Firebrace Prospecting Mill I ~ Cotton Tree Hore and Co -CottOn Tree bullbullbull Coleman Cotton Tree Philip bullbullbull Cotton Tree Gregson Cotton Tree PeadoIiBrothers Cotton Tree Clarke Brtithers bull Qotton Tree Padgett Cotton Tree Peach and party CottonTree n

Sutherland Cotton Tree Christy and Co CottonTree Frazer and Co Cotton Tree Miller and Co Cotton Tree Lee Cotton Tree Doctor and party Cotton Tree Flag Staff Compo Bethariga Trewalla Compo Bethanga

Totals

MITTA JliIITTA Scn)Tii SUB- DIVISIN

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Enterprise bull Junction Mitta Mitta Christmas Tunction Mitta Mitta Christmas (2nd lot) Junction Mitta Mitta Welcome Tunction Mitta rfitta Yellow Girl Junction Mitta 1l1itta Watson and Scalesmiddot I Granite Fiat ~ Littlejohn and Williams b t Granite Flat A Hodder Granite ]Iat Empress Granite ll1it Empress (No2) Granite Flat Jtichards Bros Granite Flat llose of Kilkenny Granite Flat Pioneer Juncti~n Mitta 11itta

Totals bull

JA~IIESON SUBDrVI8ION

Ventu~e ( Macks Creek Sailor Bill ( tiailor Bill Greek

Totals

2460 0 0 0 6 1436

800q 0 o 8 21)-72

130 0 0 o 2 1366 800 0 0 03 072

1400 00 0 3 924

)t60 0 0 I o 4 4

d 40J 00

273 ll 0

20 ) 0 465 1gt1 0

52 10 0 -----shy

811 12 0

I

354 IPIS 16 14 0

121 4 0

)67 1~0 10 ~ 0

Depth at which the Quartz was obtained ampc

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About 70 feet T

About 200 feet About middot100 feetmiddot About200 feet

~ i ~~~ j 0

Ahptlt 200 feet f~ r About 100 feet About 70 fcet

Aboutl30 feet y Surface 7

2190 0 0 o 1 511 I 572 12 18

co i

900 0 0 o 4 16 183 0 0 I About 300 feet ~~~172 0 uO 1 21223 c190 0 0 About 250 feet

1072 0 0 0 6 2301 373 9 0 ---- shy _---shy

_ 300-0 0 o 10 192 162 0 0 295 00 o 13144 200 12 0

32- 0 0 o 12 0 19 4 0 16 12 Omiddot27 0 0 o 12 711

4 10 0 o 9 266 2 I 0 I300 1 3 8 3 10 0

6 4 9

0 0 0 0 00

o iI 16 o i 0 o ~5- in 33

3 100 216 0

213 0 6 0 0 o 5 16 I 14 0 9 0 0 o 10 8 13 0

6 0 0 o 15 16 41~ 0 500

22 00 o 9 144 o 19 0

280 20 la 0

11 12

0 0 00 i

o 16 o 7

218 8

8 17 4lt 8

0 0

186 0 O o 10 1853 100 314 83 0 0 o 11 1424 48 2 6

1020 100 0 11 2235 608 15 20 1

12 0 0 o 1 20 I ) 0 12 0 0 o 5 20 3 10 0

700 o 8 2057 3 2 0 50 0 0 o 544 14 10 0

o 14 0 14 o 0 c i 20 Q 9 o I 6 0 F2 12 10 Q o o 3 343 j 2 14 0~ 14 Q o o I 18 0 7 0400

38 0 0 o 9 503 17]00 o 4 1664 11 14 16 50 0 deg 700 Vb2171 8

16 O l o 8 45 6 0 I r J

15 o l 0 o 3~3 deg2 l deg ---- ~ - I ltshy

255 middot0 0 0 6 1538 ------ --__shy

600 b 0 0 3 256 93 14 0 100 feet Fmiddot

480 00 0100 240 O 01 40()feet 1

o ~ o1080 ~ 0

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Total Yield 01 Reruarksrelatve to the Gold Depth at which the

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tons oz dwt gr

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHUllST DIVISION Albert Beehive bullbullbull Bendigo and Melbourne Birds Reef Catherine ReefU C Garden Gully United bull G G Consolidated Great Extended Hustlers

Reef Great Britain bull bullbull Great Southern Hercules and Energetic bull Johnsons Reef G M bullbullbull Lazarus bull Louisa Metropolitan bullbull Marong CrushillgWorksl New-chum and Victoria Newmiddotchum United New Kelson bull Old Tom J V)~ipstick Shenandoah Victoria Conaols Victoria Reef G M _ Vilsons Reef

KILMORE DIYISION~ Crown Doyles GoIden Crown Beaconsfield bullbullbull Red Rover Loudon and party Trezise and party Overlander Doyles Battery robins neef bull

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND VVARANGA SOUTH

SUBDIVISION Alison

Collins

DIVISION Good Luck Nobull1 Hgpe o(Denmar~ ~ Lost Love Taylorand Crowe Cambridge and Warwick West Growlers TaylorBros __ Marsland and Co Holmes Lease King Billy Francis and Co Rowan and Co Hodge Bros Loughlin Jose and Co WnistIers OBrien and Co Telford and Co

Diamond tIilt E~glhawk bullbullbull Kangaroo Flat Kangaroo blat

Eaglehawk Garden Gully Reef Golden Gully bull Hustlers Reef

Golden Square Garden Gully Reef Victoria neef bullbull California Gully

New-chum Gully Eaglehawk GoIde-q SQllare I I yenarong bullbull - Ironbark New-chum Gully KeIson Reef bull

Newmiddotchm Ililcf Victoria R~ef

Totals 1

Doyles ned Doyles Reef GCrown Reef i Magenta Reef Upper Reedy London Reef bullbull Russells Reef Overlander Reef I Various places Sunday Creek

529 00 o 6 1279 5360 0 0 o 91855

389 00 o 6 283 o B 206I 1389 OJii

3196 0 4441l0

I 1078 O bull 258 0 bull 1170 0

3783 0 3994 0 6980 0 4362 0 1789 0 141~ 0

237 0 il189 0 1773 0 1927 0

1 240 0

_ 2i32 0 r 2554 0 1

VictoriaRlcf 4330 _0 Marong 305 0

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o 5 1825 0 0

1 1 056 0 o 4 1206 0 o 8 947

o 0 5 372 o 0 61l47 o 0 5 1202 o 0 4 912 o 0 9 1372 o 0 6 1321 o 0 4 2332 o 0 5 966 o 0 8 ijs 60S 94deg 0 6 163i 0 0bull 186l

o 0 4 2219o 0 2 132 o 0 8 389 o 0 7 2289

280 0 0 4 0 0 190 0 0 1 15 0

13 0middot0 1 10 0 --20 0 0 0 15 0

15 oj 0 0 10 0 5 0 0 1 0 0

12 0 0 2 14 0 16 0 0 0 8 0

0160 0 0 5 0 6 0 Oimiddotl 0 0

)

dii5 23 2619 4 0

119 0 0 56111 12 920 11 i

4670 8 0 242 14 I

1083 15 0

507 16 deg 1225 7 0 1098 11 0 1528 14 0

2~~ i~ g 362 9 0

6314 12 2151 2 0 743 19 0

643 12 0 16middot6 12 623 10 iJ 325 ui 12 1767 0

121 6 0

00 332 10

19 10 0 0

1120 0

15 0 00 Kll b 1 el7 1 ~ a ove water- ev

3~ i g ~~ ~resent

15 0 0 rJ J 6 0 0

Totals 617 0 0 2 10 13 15596 0

Lower Costerfield 48 0 0 1 ii 0 48 0 0 Redcastle 343 0 0 0 14 2365 257 0 0

Totals li~~3_~_1_0-0-l-_0_15gt1_4_4-2 1_3_05_0__0_

Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth Rushworth

Rushworth

Rushworth Rushworth Whroo Whroo Whroo Wllroo

Whroo Coys Diggings Coys Diggings Coys Diggings

Totals

54 0 0 0 3 2266 29

9 0 0

0 0

1 1 579i 12 16

2 0 0 3 13 12 40 Ii 0 0 5 1335 29 0 0 0 I H17 -5-middot0 0 L3 0

5 19 30

7 13 9 2

5 22 12

6

0 00 7 96 0 0 0 4 deg 0 0 1 12 if 00 0111714 0 0 0 4 0 0middot0 2 16 12 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 6 48 0 0 I 8 3 1527 0 0 0 4 6 00 2 316

298 O 0 I 1 3 1049

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(ifixed lots from va rious reefs See II page 30)

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10 13 0 I 30 16 0 i4 14 0 770

11 2 6 2 2 12

5150 I1 17 O 3 16 0

30 15 0 Al)above water-Ieve

4 2 0 II2 12 025 8 12 100 1 11 0 I

180 0 0 I 2 11 0 I

13 2 0 J -----s

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT -

MARYBOROUGH DIVIllON Bristol Hill James Kay Reade and 90 bull

Western Reef Bristol Hill Viarious pl~ces

883 10 0 97 00

0 3 1655 o 4 5

163 iO 20 8

0 5

306 to 430 feet Various

(public crushiugs) Waldley and party

Leviathan Reef China 352 0 0 o 13 095

1 229 10 0 70 to 80 feet

mans Wilson and Dark Lord Napier Reef Chinashy 61 0 0 0 7 904 221( 0 11~feetl

mans Fisher and party North German Reefmiddot1 39 0 0 0 5 1538 11 0 0 60 feet

Chinamans

totals

1432 19 0 0 6 557 446 8 5 -

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QUANTITY of QUAlnz Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued -

AYclage 1Division and Subdivision Uemnrks relative to the _and Yioldo Gold 1 Total YIeld of Depth at whIch the

Name of Company Quartz Crushedthere Quartz was obtained

per Ton Gold Quartz was 0 btained amp0

oz dwt grtons cwt qr oz dwt gr

AMHERST DIVISION

Croydon 35 12 18 Laura Reef 230 0 0 0 3 237 40 to 80 feet No 1 South Croydon --

Iaura Reef 0 2 493 15 8 18140 0 0 Surface to 30 feet No2 South Croydon 0 1 20-82 9 6 18 40 feetLaura Reef 100 0 0

288 11 12Union Q M C 200 feet Trickey and party

Church Hill Reef 144 0 0 -2 0 192 9 3 12Dundee Beef 0 2 789 60 feet

Perseveranee 77 0 0

0 8 1111 11 15 6 40 feet Sundries Prince of Wales Reef 27 0 0

18 8 0_143 0 0 0 _2 1376Various ----s6~1--~0~1--6i21Totals

-I AVOCA SUBDIVISION

Monte Christo 15 10 0Murdoehs Reef 14 0 0 I 2 342

DUNOLLY ~ND TARNAGULLA DiVISIONS

Queens Birthday o 12 031 2223 0 8 300 to 500 feet Queens Reef

3701 0 0Bealiba Reef 64 18 0Queens Reef 130 feet713 0 0 0 1 1969

Kentish Reef 15 11 11 Kentish Reef 48 0 0 0 6 1l73 60 feet Harvest Home 33 0 0Harvest Home 40 feet30 0 0 1 2 0 Harrop and Lees 26 0 0 40 feet Yorkshire G M bull 0 1 o 1520 0 0

566 4 12 160 to 200 feetWatts Reef Tarnagulla 1474 0 7 1638o 0 1

2928 _75966 1 0 0 9 1963Totals 1~ --- shyINGLEWOOD DIVISION

Jersey Reef Quartz Mining 103 3 20Jersey Reef 182 0 0 011 815 Dalmatia G M 1 3 0

tyres Smugglers Gi~n McI~ I 20 0 0 0 1 36

104 6 20202 0 0 010 794Totals REDBANK SUBDIVISION

TormeyEi Claim 52 16 0Station Reef 22 0 0 2 8 0

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION

Greenock Reef 39 0 070 feet to 170 feet (above 45 0 0 o 17 80 70 to 170 feet water-level)

Adams and party - -9 12 030 0 0 0 6 96 50 feetSpinster Ueef bull IT-Kersleyand party Greenock Reef 17 0 o i 0 10 0 1 8 10 0 15 feet

_ 92 0 0 0 12 991 57 2 0Totals ST ARNAUD NORTH

SUBDIVISION shyWorking Miners 0 7 268 248 18 6 200 to 260 feet Chrysolite Tribute Quartz

New Bendigo 700 0 0 0 2 2331 52 0 0 150 feet level

Mining Co Registered Chrysolite Reef - 350 0 0

300 18 6Totals 1Q50 0 0 0 5 1755

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLElILltiINE D1VISION

Eureka Cardwell Argus United McWalters Central bull Wattle Gully Sebastopol Crushing Utle Nuggety Arehbold and Co

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

English Australian G M Perseverance Burdett-Coutts New Era Blaek Haivk Rowe Bros Rowe nros Duke Oornwall Small and Co Macdonald and Co Meins Freehold G M

Eureka Reef Town Reef Argus Flat-

Burns Reef Wattle Gully Wattle Gully Lady Gully Nuggety Reef bullbullbullI

Public crushings Totals bullbull

Golden Gully Cattles Reef Cattles Ueef Ferrons Reef Cattles Reef Cattles Heef Ferrons Reef bullbull Cattle Reef Cattles Reef German Gully Guilford Hill

Totals

718 0 0 41 0 0

530 0 0 8J 0 0

759 0 0 505 0 0 247 0 0

52 0 0 155 0 0

3091 0 0

862 0 0 200 0 0

20 0 0 6310 0 0

123 0 0 1419 0 0

417 0 0 166 0 0 50 0 0 24 0 0

3560 0 0 i shy

13151 0 01

0 6 1666 o 19 12-3 0 7 65 o 17 12 0 4 424 0 2 983 0 3 162 0 7 203 o 15 4-18

0 6 341

0 4 98 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 3 324 0 1 20-87 0 7 668 0 4 2169 0 4 144 0 2 96 o 10 0 0 1 1839

0 3 904

1

240 7 0 360 feet 40 0 0 62 feet

192 13 12 73 10 0 160 feet

158 10 0 350 feet 60 17 0 45 18 20 8 0 230 feet

117 12 0

949 5 6

190 0 0 320 feet 40 0 0 180 feet

5 0 0 230 feet 989 3 0 100 to 380 feet

11 10 0 150 feet 516 8 0 150 to 200 feet 102 5 0 20 to 80 feet 33 14 0 20 to 200 feet

6 0 0 190 feet 12 0 0 90 feet

314 8 0

2220 8 0

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Average Remarks relative to theDivision and Subdivision Total Yield ofWhere Quartz was obtained I Qnartz Crushed I Yield of Gold Depth at which theand Gold Quartz was obtained amp0per TonName of Company

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tone owt qr loz dwt gr oz dwt gr

HEPBUllN DIVISION

Argus Italian mil 566 0 0 30 to 150 feet New North Cornish

74 11 100 2 1506 n

Wombat Hill 105 0 0 Surface to 35 feet Richardsons

0 3 396 16 12 8 Bismarck Reef 13 0 0 30 feet1 0 0 13 0 0IWomans Gully 23 0 0 10 feet0 4 834 5 0 0Ansonia

60 0 o i 0 3 0Pitchers Reef 25 feet Panham 9 0 0Fuseo

Pitchers Reef 52 0 0 40 feet Bray and party

0 1 1661 4 8 0 Frenchmans Reef 70 feet12 0 0 2 8 00 4 0

King and Co

Willards Reef 60 0 0 70 feet0 4 0 12 0 0 ISt Georges Reef 630 0 0 0 1 038 32 0 0 140 feetUnion Nuggety HeeL 690 0 0 230 0 0 I20 to 280 feet

Keep-it-Dark Companies 0 6 16Ajax Keep-it-Dark

120 0 0 50 0 0 I 100 to 140 feet0 8 8

Totals 2331 0 0 0 3 2044 448 19 18

TARADALE AND KYNETON SUBDIVISION

Taradale 945 0 0 0 1 1562 United Kingdom ~ 78 0 0 Glenlyon 140 I) 0 0 9 1406 Little Wonder 67 2 0

1085 0 0Totals 0 2 1619 145 2 0 ----shy

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Caledonian Mills Parkins Linscotts Nelshy 92 0 0 o 17 0 200 to 300 feet78 4 0 son amp Valkers reefs

Eaglehawk Linscotts 622 0 0 0 12 1744 395 16 0 50 to 270 feetLinscotts Mills and Nuggety reefs

Phwnix Mills Beehive Swipers Gershy 1000 0 0 1 9 1227 1475 11 12 80 to 300 feet man Victoria amp Irish Billys reefs

Great Western Beehive Reef 120 0 0 0 4 0 24 0 0 40 to 80 feet

Totals bullbull 1834 0 0 I 1 1253 197311 12 -~-----

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

United Company Hoddles Creek 180 0 0 0 9 204 88 13 0 35 feet Lyre Bird Hoddles Creek 25 0 0 o 13 0 16 5 0 27 feet Sunday Reef McCraes Hill S 0 0 0 1 12 o 12 0 20 feet Sheppard and party Warburton 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 10 feet Central Mining Hurst and Co

Reef ton MountainB

38 10 1 0

0 0

1 13 24 2 17 20

63 14 2 17

8 2

180 feet Surface

Murray and Hirt Smith and Hirt Hartley and Co

You-You You-You You-You

3 2 7

10 0 0

0 0 0

1 10 2057 I 10 12 o 10 1714

5 8 3 1

1 15

0 0 0

50 feet 30 feet 60 feet

Hopkinson You-You 2 0 0 1 10 0 3 0 0 60 feet Apted and Co Pioneer 6 0 0 o 18 8 5 10 0 ISO feet Progress Panton Hill 218 0 0 0 7 146 82 18 15 120 feet Napoleons March Panton Hill 18 0 0 o 11 1977 1012 20 40 feet Bignell and Co Fourth Hill Warrandyte 7 0 0 3 0 0 i 21 0 0 30 feet

517 0 0Totals o 11 2247 308 10 21

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Wimmera North and South Wales Pioneer and Galatea New St George Scotchmans Moonlight W onga and Birmingham

RAGLAN DIVISION

The Victory Quartz Gold Mining

Stawell reefs

Stawell reefs Stawell reefs Stilwell reefs Stawell reefs Stawell reefs

Totals

Reef near Waterloo

5788 0 0 is 9 0

4624 0 0 3196 0 0 3353 10 0 3580 0 0 2069 0 0

22688 19 0

17 0 0

011 595 1 5 739 o 14 721 o 11 26 0 7 9 0 14 2207 0 2 1853

0 11 319

1 4 224

3255 4 3 200 to 1000 feet 99 5 10 40 to 100 feet

3306 6 8 200 to 1100 feet 1i75 2 0 4S0 to 1200 feet 1236 II 18 100 to 850 feet 2670 IS 0 410 to 1120 feet

286 15 21 24 to 100 feet

12629 18 12

20 10 0

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~iiANfiTYofCltr ARTz0rusliedjirieacnDi visi~ri~andgtSohdi vision during the Qulilter ~ampc-continuedbull _ _ ~~ ~M_~

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OlJ 1j and~ I ~Yhere Qua~ was ogttamed __ Na~~O Company______ ______ ___

GIPPSLAND ~C C ~ Q)fElO ~

~ Srifts Creek Fashion Reef

CROOKED RIVE~ DiVISIoN

Robert Moore -- ~ Upper Dargo bullbull Wentworth Parslow and Co

Totals DONNELLYSC~EEK DIVISION

DonnellyS Creek Bismarck United

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION

Long Tunnel f Cohens Reef Cohens Reef Walhalla (Tributers) I

I Totals ABERFELDY SUBDIVISlON Aberpoundeldy Reef -James Rices Mine

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AverageQuartz Crushed Yie1T ONMld

per Ton

tons ewt qr oz dwt gr

MINING DISTRICT u

I 10 0 0 I 12 b

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20 0 0 0 10144 30 0 600 0

50 0 0 0 7 2016

42 0 0 0 14 4

5034 0 0 1 8 191 0 8 1078997 d 0

06031 0 1 5 1038

650 d 0 0 6 144

Remarks relative to thoTotal Yield Depth at which theof Gold Quartz was obtalnedampc

Oz dwt gr

-

i 16 0 0

10 12 0 Surfaee to 20 feet 9 00

---- shy19 12 0

29 15 0 400 feet

17248 0 0 i 343 to 623 feet 421 4 0

7669 4 )

]96 19 0 150 feet 50 feet

water level

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QUARTZ TAILINGS MULLOClETC THE follo~in~ infor~ation has beenobtai~edfromReturn~made bythe-Mi~lng Surveyorsand R~gist~a~s

relative to the Quantity OfQUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK ampc Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each -Mining District -during the ~uarter and the GOJD obtained therefrom

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DiviSion and Snbdlvislon I Where Quartz Tailings and I Quartz Tailings Average Ttl y ld ~r ~Remarksielative to the and Mullock ampc were and Mnlloek ampc Yield of Gold 0 ItG I~c Depth at which tbeI

Same of Company i obt~n~~ l I~~~I )ler~on~ 0 MUll~C~amp~1e~ ~btalne~ --- shy tons cwt qr oz dwt gr 0 dwtgr

r bull - JBALLARATMININGDISTRICT

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11259 19130 Isuriac~ ~~Ofe~~ IBallarat East 2580 00 0Canadian

Mount Clear 1050 00Baker and Co I 0 12308 103 00 Surface to 20middotfeet t

pi 1+Totals ~ q630 0 0 o 1 1562 bull ni

STEIGLITZ SUBl)JVISION I

Minerva Eiaine 220 0 0 o 3 218 34 0 0 20 0 0Wee Speek bullbull Do o 4 96 4 8 0

180 0 0 0 016DUIIlIDott and Co Steiglitz 6 O o

Totals 420 0 0 0 2 274 44 8 0

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEcrrwoRTH DIVISION

Marco Polo Hurdle Flat - 48 0 0 0 2 0

I

4 16 0 Various depths l~_ gt

INDIGO DIVISION

Magentll MIYfntR Reef middot Places Mill Variou~

Totals -

I

-

0632 300

shy

0 0 0 0 I

I 0 o I

0 0

0

I 991 44 13 0 2 0middotmiddot 30 0 0

1444 t1 74 13 0

Surface to 50ifeet ChieH y surfacemiddotfrom

old workings

MrlTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION

Trewalla Bethanga

23 middot0 0 gt)

0 7 417

8

5 0

r

-

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK crushed in each Division and Subdivision ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Where Quart Tailings and Quartz Tallogs I Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and and MuJlock ampc Gold lfuUock ampc were Depth at which the

erolIlld I I~ IP t I obtained Mullock ampc were obtamcltL --middot---------------~-------I-----I-------=-___c_-~-I------~--

Name of Company

tons ewt qr oz dwtgr

SANDHURSTMlNING DISTRICT~~ L I i

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIshyVISION

Alison JoIlins

Lower Costerfield Redcastle

Totals

i

1000 0 150 (l 0

0 0

3 0 2 224

15 0 22 0

0 0

shy

d

~1

250 P 0 0 2 2304 37 0 0

(I

MARYBOROUGH MiNI~G DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE MINI~G DISTRICTv

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION

Crown Ninirod Reef bullbullbull Nuggety NuggetyReef D avies and Co

Donkey Gully A jax Tribute ~ Bolivia Reef

Totals n i - shy

HEPBUBN DIVISION

Francis bullbullbull f bullbull1 Wombat Hill ~ bullbull

ST ANDRlFws D1VISION

middotCentral Mining bull~ Reefton bullbullbull United bullbullbull HoddlesCreek

Totals

1140 0 0 0 1 0-1 57 5 0

- 0 0 0 I 12 5210 0_ 700 680 0 0 0 1 235 37middot 612 510 0 0 0 1l(66middot 36( 16 15

3030 0 0

400 00

Ilt

i 174 0 0 I 25 0 0I

199 0 0

0 1 5l3 183 18 3

0 0 -12 l 10 0 0

t I bull

0 3 15-22 31 12 9 0 0 192 1- 0 0

)

-- 6671-~

Surface Surface

Shllow

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

W onga and Bir~ingham

~ I

Stawell reefs 35 0 0 0 2 13-54 4 9 18 f ~ I ~ i f

1I

middotGIPFStAN]) IMINliNG vDISiFRI(iJT

DONNELLYS CllEEKD~ISIOl

Bismarck ITnited

i

1

~OO j

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PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the Quantity of PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on in the several Divisions -and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Dlvision and Subdivision Remarks relatlve to the I Pyrites I Average I I iWhere Pyr~B an~ Blanketmgs and Blnnketings Yield 01 Gold Tota Y old of and Depth at which the wele obtamed I operated on per Ton GoldName 01 Oompany - PyritesJ ampc were ubtained

I tons cwt qr oz dwt gr I oz dwt gr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION Llanberris 18 0 0 1 16 1466 32 19 0Gumtree Flatbullbullbull

CRESWIOK DIVISION Port Phillip Clunes 471 5 0107 0 o I 4 8 202 New North Clunes 93 16 12Clunes 19 0 o i 4 18 1831

67 5 o 7 I 2382South Clunes 477 9 0Clunes 193 5 0 1 5 7 2145 1042 1012

STEIGLITZ SIJDDIVISION Totals

Enterprise Elaine- 103 0 0 o 18 349 93 9 0 Dummott and Co 5 12 0Steiglitz 22 0 0 0 5 218

Totals 99 1 0 BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND

BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION

125 0 0 o 15 2035

Barrys Reef bullbullbull 14 10 0 4 9 1572 65 0 0Sultan

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEOHWORTH DlVISION Reform Myrtleford 39 0 0 o 15 0 29 5 0

1

YAOKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVlSION

Bigelowe and Clingam WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION E M Gill

Homeward Bound Hills-borough

Various localities

25

50

0

0

0

0

o 15middot 504

o 18 0

19

45

0

0

6

0

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

S

SANDHURST DIVISION 884 16 122 2 2286Pinchgut Gully 412 0 0United Pyrites 244 4 01 9 2311 163 0 0Jackass Flat andhurst amp Eaglehawk PE 281 7 121 11 013Derwent Gully 181 10 0L iddell and Co

1410 8 01 17 69756 10 0Totals HEATHOOTE DIVISION AND ---------shy

WARANGA SOUTH SUB-JDIVISION

33 0 J1 0 033 0 0Alison Lower Costerfield I

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION Bristol Hill

DlJNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS

Queens Birthday

Western Reef Bristol Hill 13 11 0 2 7 208 81 18 12

Bealiba Reef 15 0 0 1 6 16 20 0 0

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr Yeats Castlemaine 129 0 0 1 12 409

- 207 10 0

HEPBURN DIVISION J Williams Ajax

3 7

0 0

0 0

o 16 1 14

16 685

210 12 0

0 0

250 feet 250 feet

Totals 10 0 01 1 9 0 14 10 0

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

_DIVISlUrSTRINGERS 2 9 3-21 42 18 017 9 0Cohens Reef Long Tunnel

12 14 01 9 4648 14 0 Cohens Reef Walhalla - 55 12 02 2 1213- 26 3 0Totals

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

1

Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

I

INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

18

QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

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PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

t

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NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

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176

21

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

22

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

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The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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Total Yield 01 Reruarksrelatve to the Gold Depth at which the

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tons oz dwt gr

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHUllST DIVISION Albert Beehive bullbullbull Bendigo and Melbourne Birds Reef Catherine ReefU C Garden Gully United bull G G Consolidated Great Extended Hustlers

Reef Great Britain bull bullbull Great Southern Hercules and Energetic bull Johnsons Reef G M bullbullbull Lazarus bull Louisa Metropolitan bullbull Marong CrushillgWorksl New-chum and Victoria Newmiddotchum United New Kelson bull Old Tom J V)~ipstick Shenandoah Victoria Conaols Victoria Reef G M _ Vilsons Reef

KILMORE DIYISION~ Crown Doyles GoIden Crown Beaconsfield bullbullbull Red Rover Loudon and party Trezise and party Overlander Doyles Battery robins neef bull

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND VVARANGA SOUTH

SUBDIVISION Alison

Collins

DIVISION Good Luck Nobull1 Hgpe o(Denmar~ ~ Lost Love Taylorand Crowe Cambridge and Warwick West Growlers TaylorBros __ Marsland and Co Holmes Lease King Billy Francis and Co Rowan and Co Hodge Bros Loughlin Jose and Co WnistIers OBrien and Co Telford and Co

Diamond tIilt E~glhawk bullbullbull Kangaroo Flat Kangaroo blat

Eaglehawk Garden Gully Reef Golden Gully bull Hustlers Reef

Golden Square Garden Gully Reef Victoria neef bullbull California Gully

New-chum Gully Eaglehawk GoIde-q SQllare I I yenarong bullbull - Ironbark New-chum Gully KeIson Reef bull

Newmiddotchm Ililcf Victoria R~ef

Totals 1

Doyles ned Doyles Reef GCrown Reef i Magenta Reef Upper Reedy London Reef bullbull Russells Reef Overlander Reef I Various places Sunday Creek

529 00 o 6 1279 5360 0 0 o 91855

389 00 o 6 283 o B 206I 1389 OJii

3196 0 4441l0

I 1078 O bull 258 0 bull 1170 0

3783 0 3994 0 6980 0 4362 0 1789 0 141~ 0

237 0 il189 0 1773 0 1927 0

1 240 0

_ 2i32 0 r 2554 0 1

VictoriaRlcf 4330 _0 Marong 305 0

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o 5 1825 0 0

1 1 056 0 o 4 1206 0 o 8 947

o 0 5 372 o 0 61l47 o 0 5 1202 o 0 4 912 o 0 9 1372 o 0 6 1321 o 0 4 2332 o 0 5 966 o 0 8 ijs 60S 94deg 0 6 163i 0 0bull 186l

o 0 4 2219o 0 2 132 o 0 8 389 o 0 7 2289

280 0 0 4 0 0 190 0 0 1 15 0

13 0middot0 1 10 0 --20 0 0 0 15 0

15 oj 0 0 10 0 5 0 0 1 0 0

12 0 0 2 14 0 16 0 0 0 8 0

0160 0 0 5 0 6 0 Oimiddotl 0 0

)

dii5 23 2619 4 0

119 0 0 56111 12 920 11 i

4670 8 0 242 14 I

1083 15 0

507 16 deg 1225 7 0 1098 11 0 1528 14 0

2~~ i~ g 362 9 0

6314 12 2151 2 0 743 19 0

643 12 0 16middot6 12 623 10 iJ 325 ui 12 1767 0

121 6 0

00 332 10

19 10 0 0

1120 0

15 0 00 Kll b 1 el7 1 ~ a ove water- ev

3~ i g ~~ ~resent

15 0 0 rJ J 6 0 0

Totals 617 0 0 2 10 13 15596 0

Lower Costerfield 48 0 0 1 ii 0 48 0 0 Redcastle 343 0 0 0 14 2365 257 0 0

Totals li~~3_~_1_0-0-l-_0_15gt1_4_4-2 1_3_05_0__0_

Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth bullbullbull Rushworth Rushworth Rushworth

Rushworth

Rushworth Rushworth Whroo Whroo Whroo Wllroo

Whroo Coys Diggings Coys Diggings Coys Diggings

Totals

54 0 0 0 3 2266 29

9 0 0

0 0

1 1 579i 12 16

2 0 0 3 13 12 40 Ii 0 0 5 1335 29 0 0 0 I H17 -5-middot0 0 L3 0

5 19 30

7 13 9 2

5 22 12

6

0 00 7 96 0 0 0 4 deg 0 0 1 12 if 00 0111714 0 0 0 4 0 0middot0 2 16 12 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 6 48 0 0 I 8 3 1527 0 0 0 4 6 00 2 316

298 O 0 I 1 3 1049

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(ifixed lots from va rious reefs See II page 30)

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j 1

10 13 0 I 30 16 0 i4 14 0 770

11 2 6 2 2 12

5150 I1 17 O 3 16 0

30 15 0 Al)above water-Ieve

4 2 0 II2 12 025 8 12 100 1 11 0 I

180 0 0 I 2 11 0 I

13 2 0 J -----s

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT -

MARYBOROUGH DIVIllON Bristol Hill James Kay Reade and 90 bull

Western Reef Bristol Hill Viarious pl~ces

883 10 0 97 00

0 3 1655 o 4 5

163 iO 20 8

0 5

306 to 430 feet Various

(public crushiugs) Waldley and party

Leviathan Reef China 352 0 0 o 13 095

1 229 10 0 70 to 80 feet

mans Wilson and Dark Lord Napier Reef Chinashy 61 0 0 0 7 904 221( 0 11~feetl

mans Fisher and party North German Reefmiddot1 39 0 0 0 5 1538 11 0 0 60 feet

Chinamans

totals

1432 19 0 0 6 557 446 8 5 -

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QUANTITY of QUAlnz Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued -

AYclage 1Division and Subdivision Uemnrks relative to the _and Yioldo Gold 1 Total YIeld of Depth at whIch the

Name of Company Quartz Crushedthere Quartz was obtained

per Ton Gold Quartz was 0 btained amp0

oz dwt grtons cwt qr oz dwt gr

AMHERST DIVISION

Croydon 35 12 18 Laura Reef 230 0 0 0 3 237 40 to 80 feet No 1 South Croydon --

Iaura Reef 0 2 493 15 8 18140 0 0 Surface to 30 feet No2 South Croydon 0 1 20-82 9 6 18 40 feetLaura Reef 100 0 0

288 11 12Union Q M C 200 feet Trickey and party

Church Hill Reef 144 0 0 -2 0 192 9 3 12Dundee Beef 0 2 789 60 feet

Perseveranee 77 0 0

0 8 1111 11 15 6 40 feet Sundries Prince of Wales Reef 27 0 0

18 8 0_143 0 0 0 _2 1376Various ----s6~1--~0~1--6i21Totals

-I AVOCA SUBDIVISION

Monte Christo 15 10 0Murdoehs Reef 14 0 0 I 2 342

DUNOLLY ~ND TARNAGULLA DiVISIONS

Queens Birthday o 12 031 2223 0 8 300 to 500 feet Queens Reef

3701 0 0Bealiba Reef 64 18 0Queens Reef 130 feet713 0 0 0 1 1969

Kentish Reef 15 11 11 Kentish Reef 48 0 0 0 6 1l73 60 feet Harvest Home 33 0 0Harvest Home 40 feet30 0 0 1 2 0 Harrop and Lees 26 0 0 40 feet Yorkshire G M bull 0 1 o 1520 0 0

566 4 12 160 to 200 feetWatts Reef Tarnagulla 1474 0 7 1638o 0 1

2928 _75966 1 0 0 9 1963Totals 1~ --- shyINGLEWOOD DIVISION

Jersey Reef Quartz Mining 103 3 20Jersey Reef 182 0 0 011 815 Dalmatia G M 1 3 0

tyres Smugglers Gi~n McI~ I 20 0 0 0 1 36

104 6 20202 0 0 010 794Totals REDBANK SUBDIVISION

TormeyEi Claim 52 16 0Station Reef 22 0 0 2 8 0

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION

Greenock Reef 39 0 070 feet to 170 feet (above 45 0 0 o 17 80 70 to 170 feet water-level)

Adams and party - -9 12 030 0 0 0 6 96 50 feetSpinster Ueef bull IT-Kersleyand party Greenock Reef 17 0 o i 0 10 0 1 8 10 0 15 feet

_ 92 0 0 0 12 991 57 2 0Totals ST ARNAUD NORTH

SUBDIVISION shyWorking Miners 0 7 268 248 18 6 200 to 260 feet Chrysolite Tribute Quartz

New Bendigo 700 0 0 0 2 2331 52 0 0 150 feet level

Mining Co Registered Chrysolite Reef - 350 0 0

300 18 6Totals 1Q50 0 0 0 5 1755

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLElILltiINE D1VISION

Eureka Cardwell Argus United McWalters Central bull Wattle Gully Sebastopol Crushing Utle Nuggety Arehbold and Co

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

English Australian G M Perseverance Burdett-Coutts New Era Blaek Haivk Rowe Bros Rowe nros Duke Oornwall Small and Co Macdonald and Co Meins Freehold G M

Eureka Reef Town Reef Argus Flat-

Burns Reef Wattle Gully Wattle Gully Lady Gully Nuggety Reef bullbullbullI

Public crushings Totals bullbull

Golden Gully Cattles Reef Cattles Ueef Ferrons Reef Cattles Reef Cattles Heef Ferrons Reef bullbull Cattle Reef Cattles Reef German Gully Guilford Hill

Totals

718 0 0 41 0 0

530 0 0 8J 0 0

759 0 0 505 0 0 247 0 0

52 0 0 155 0 0

3091 0 0

862 0 0 200 0 0

20 0 0 6310 0 0

123 0 0 1419 0 0

417 0 0 166 0 0 50 0 0 24 0 0

3560 0 0 i shy

13151 0 01

0 6 1666 o 19 12-3 0 7 65 o 17 12 0 4 424 0 2 983 0 3 162 0 7 203 o 15 4-18

0 6 341

0 4 98 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 3 324 0 1 20-87 0 7 668 0 4 2169 0 4 144 0 2 96 o 10 0 0 1 1839

0 3 904

1

240 7 0 360 feet 40 0 0 62 feet

192 13 12 73 10 0 160 feet

158 10 0 350 feet 60 17 0 45 18 20 8 0 230 feet

117 12 0

949 5 6

190 0 0 320 feet 40 0 0 180 feet

5 0 0 230 feet 989 3 0 100 to 380 feet

11 10 0 150 feet 516 8 0 150 to 200 feet 102 5 0 20 to 80 feet 33 14 0 20 to 200 feet

6 0 0 190 feet 12 0 0 90 feet

314 8 0

2220 8 0

shy

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Average Remarks relative to theDivision and Subdivision Total Yield ofWhere Quartz was obtained I Qnartz Crushed I Yield of Gold Depth at which theand Gold Quartz was obtained amp0per TonName of Company

---------_

tone owt qr loz dwt gr oz dwt gr

HEPBUllN DIVISION

Argus Italian mil 566 0 0 30 to 150 feet New North Cornish

74 11 100 2 1506 n

Wombat Hill 105 0 0 Surface to 35 feet Richardsons

0 3 396 16 12 8 Bismarck Reef 13 0 0 30 feet1 0 0 13 0 0IWomans Gully 23 0 0 10 feet0 4 834 5 0 0Ansonia

60 0 o i 0 3 0Pitchers Reef 25 feet Panham 9 0 0Fuseo

Pitchers Reef 52 0 0 40 feet Bray and party

0 1 1661 4 8 0 Frenchmans Reef 70 feet12 0 0 2 8 00 4 0

King and Co

Willards Reef 60 0 0 70 feet0 4 0 12 0 0 ISt Georges Reef 630 0 0 0 1 038 32 0 0 140 feetUnion Nuggety HeeL 690 0 0 230 0 0 I20 to 280 feet

Keep-it-Dark Companies 0 6 16Ajax Keep-it-Dark

120 0 0 50 0 0 I 100 to 140 feet0 8 8

Totals 2331 0 0 0 3 2044 448 19 18

TARADALE AND KYNETON SUBDIVISION

Taradale 945 0 0 0 1 1562 United Kingdom ~ 78 0 0 Glenlyon 140 I) 0 0 9 1406 Little Wonder 67 2 0

1085 0 0Totals 0 2 1619 145 2 0 ----shy

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Caledonian Mills Parkins Linscotts Nelshy 92 0 0 o 17 0 200 to 300 feet78 4 0 son amp Valkers reefs

Eaglehawk Linscotts 622 0 0 0 12 1744 395 16 0 50 to 270 feetLinscotts Mills and Nuggety reefs

Phwnix Mills Beehive Swipers Gershy 1000 0 0 1 9 1227 1475 11 12 80 to 300 feet man Victoria amp Irish Billys reefs

Great Western Beehive Reef 120 0 0 0 4 0 24 0 0 40 to 80 feet

Totals bullbull 1834 0 0 I 1 1253 197311 12 -~-----

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

United Company Hoddles Creek 180 0 0 0 9 204 88 13 0 35 feet Lyre Bird Hoddles Creek 25 0 0 o 13 0 16 5 0 27 feet Sunday Reef McCraes Hill S 0 0 0 1 12 o 12 0 20 feet Sheppard and party Warburton 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 10 feet Central Mining Hurst and Co

Reef ton MountainB

38 10 1 0

0 0

1 13 24 2 17 20

63 14 2 17

8 2

180 feet Surface

Murray and Hirt Smith and Hirt Hartley and Co

You-You You-You You-You

3 2 7

10 0 0

0 0 0

1 10 2057 I 10 12 o 10 1714

5 8 3 1

1 15

0 0 0

50 feet 30 feet 60 feet

Hopkinson You-You 2 0 0 1 10 0 3 0 0 60 feet Apted and Co Pioneer 6 0 0 o 18 8 5 10 0 ISO feet Progress Panton Hill 218 0 0 0 7 146 82 18 15 120 feet Napoleons March Panton Hill 18 0 0 o 11 1977 1012 20 40 feet Bignell and Co Fourth Hill Warrandyte 7 0 0 3 0 0 i 21 0 0 30 feet

517 0 0Totals o 11 2247 308 10 21

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Wimmera North and South Wales Pioneer and Galatea New St George Scotchmans Moonlight W onga and Birmingham

RAGLAN DIVISION

The Victory Quartz Gold Mining

Stawell reefs

Stawell reefs Stawell reefs Stilwell reefs Stawell reefs Stawell reefs

Totals

Reef near Waterloo

5788 0 0 is 9 0

4624 0 0 3196 0 0 3353 10 0 3580 0 0 2069 0 0

22688 19 0

17 0 0

011 595 1 5 739 o 14 721 o 11 26 0 7 9 0 14 2207 0 2 1853

0 11 319

1 4 224

3255 4 3 200 to 1000 feet 99 5 10 40 to 100 feet

3306 6 8 200 to 1100 feet 1i75 2 0 4S0 to 1200 feet 1236 II 18 100 to 850 feet 2670 IS 0 410 to 1120 feet

286 15 21 24 to 100 feet

12629 18 12

20 10 0

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~iiANfiTYofCltr ARTz0rusliedjirieacnDi visi~ri~andgtSohdi vision during the Qulilter ~ampc-continuedbull _ _ ~~ ~M_~

---1--- DivislonnndSnbdivisioh bull

OlJ 1j and~ I ~Yhere Qua~ was ogttamed __ Na~~O Company______ ______ ___

GIPPSLAND ~C C ~ Q)fElO ~

~ Srifts Creek Fashion Reef

CROOKED RIVE~ DiVISIoN

Robert Moore -- ~ Upper Dargo bullbull Wentworth Parslow and Co

Totals DONNELLYSC~EEK DIVISION

DonnellyS Creek Bismarck United

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION

Long Tunnel f Cohens Reef Cohens Reef Walhalla (Tributers) I

I Totals ABERFELDY SUBDIVISlON Aberpoundeldy Reef -James Rices Mine

----~-

AverageQuartz Crushed Yie1T ONMld

per Ton

tons ewt qr oz dwt gr

MINING DISTRICT u

I 10 0 0 I 12 b

---- shy

20 0 0 0 10144 30 0 600 0

50 0 0 0 7 2016

42 0 0 0 14 4

5034 0 0 1 8 191 0 8 1078997 d 0

06031 0 1 5 1038

650 d 0 0 6 144

Remarks relative to thoTotal Yield Depth at which theof Gold Quartz was obtalnedampc

Oz dwt gr

-

i 16 0 0

10 12 0 Surfaee to 20 feet 9 00

---- shy19 12 0

29 15 0 400 feet

17248 0 0 i 343 to 623 feet 421 4 0

7669 4 )

]96 19 0 150 feet 50 feet

water level

~ laquo

~

QUARTZ TAILINGS MULLOClETC THE follo~in~ infor~ation has beenobtai~edfromReturn~made bythe-Mi~lng Surveyorsand R~gist~a~s

relative to the Quantity OfQUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK ampc Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each -Mining District -during the ~uarter and the GOJD obtained therefrom

I ______

DiviSion and Snbdlvislon I Where Quartz Tailings and I Quartz Tailings Average Ttl y ld ~r ~Remarksielative to the and Mullock ampc were and Mnlloek ampc Yield of Gold 0 ItG I~c Depth at which tbeI

Same of Company i obt~n~~ l I~~~I )ler~on~ 0 MUll~C~amp~1e~ ~btalne~ --- shy tons cwt qr oz dwt gr 0 dwtgr

r bull - JBALLARATMININGDISTRICT

I ICENTRAL DtvIsioN 1

~

11259 19130 Isuriac~ ~~Ofe~~ IBallarat East 2580 00 0Canadian

Mount Clear 1050 00Baker and Co I 0 12308 103 00 Surface to 20middotfeet t

pi 1+Totals ~ q630 0 0 o 1 1562 bull ni

STEIGLITZ SUBl)JVISION I

Minerva Eiaine 220 0 0 o 3 218 34 0 0 20 0 0Wee Speek bullbull Do o 4 96 4 8 0

180 0 0 0 016DUIIlIDott and Co Steiglitz 6 O o

Totals 420 0 0 0 2 274 44 8 0

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEcrrwoRTH DIVISION

Marco Polo Hurdle Flat - 48 0 0 0 2 0

I

4 16 0 Various depths l~_ gt

INDIGO DIVISION

Magentll MIYfntR Reef middot Places Mill Variou~

Totals -

I

-

0632 300

shy

0 0 0 0 I

I 0 o I

0 0

0

I 991 44 13 0 2 0middotmiddot 30 0 0

1444 t1 74 13 0

Surface to 50ifeet ChieH y surfacemiddotfrom

old workings

MrlTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION

Trewalla Bethanga

23 middot0 0 gt)

0 7 417

8

5 0

r

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK crushed in each Division and Subdivision ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Where Quart Tailings and Quartz Tallogs I Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and and MuJlock ampc Gold lfuUock ampc were Depth at which the

erolIlld I I~ IP t I obtained Mullock ampc were obtamcltL --middot---------------~-------I-----I-------=-___c_-~-I------~--

Name of Company

tons ewt qr oz dwtgr

SANDHURSTMlNING DISTRICT~~ L I i

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIshyVISION

Alison JoIlins

Lower Costerfield Redcastle

Totals

i

1000 0 150 (l 0

0 0

3 0 2 224

15 0 22 0

0 0

shy

d

~1

250 P 0 0 2 2304 37 0 0

(I

MARYBOROUGH MiNI~G DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE MINI~G DISTRICTv

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION

Crown Ninirod Reef bullbullbull Nuggety NuggetyReef D avies and Co

Donkey Gully A jax Tribute ~ Bolivia Reef

Totals n i - shy

HEPBUBN DIVISION

Francis bullbullbull f bullbull1 Wombat Hill ~ bullbull

ST ANDRlFws D1VISION

middotCentral Mining bull~ Reefton bullbullbull United bullbullbull HoddlesCreek

Totals

1140 0 0 0 1 0-1 57 5 0

- 0 0 0 I 12 5210 0_ 700 680 0 0 0 1 235 37middot 612 510 0 0 0 1l(66middot 36( 16 15

3030 0 0

400 00

Ilt

i 174 0 0 I 25 0 0I

199 0 0

0 1 5l3 183 18 3

0 0 -12 l 10 0 0

t I bull

0 3 15-22 31 12 9 0 0 192 1- 0 0

)

-- 6671-~

Surface Surface

Shllow

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

W onga and Bir~ingham

~ I

Stawell reefs 35 0 0 0 2 13-54 4 9 18 f ~ I ~ i f

1I

middotGIPFStAN]) IMINliNG vDISiFRI(iJT

DONNELLYS CllEEKD~ISIOl

Bismarck ITnited

i

1

~OO j

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PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the Quantity of PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on in the several Divisions -and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Dlvision and Subdivision Remarks relatlve to the I Pyrites I Average I I iWhere Pyr~B an~ Blanketmgs and Blnnketings Yield 01 Gold Tota Y old of and Depth at which the wele obtamed I operated on per Ton GoldName 01 Oompany - PyritesJ ampc were ubtained

I tons cwt qr oz dwt gr I oz dwt gr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION Llanberris 18 0 0 1 16 1466 32 19 0Gumtree Flatbullbullbull

CRESWIOK DIVISION Port Phillip Clunes 471 5 0107 0 o I 4 8 202 New North Clunes 93 16 12Clunes 19 0 o i 4 18 1831

67 5 o 7 I 2382South Clunes 477 9 0Clunes 193 5 0 1 5 7 2145 1042 1012

STEIGLITZ SIJDDIVISION Totals

Enterprise Elaine- 103 0 0 o 18 349 93 9 0 Dummott and Co 5 12 0Steiglitz 22 0 0 0 5 218

Totals 99 1 0 BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND

BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION

125 0 0 o 15 2035

Barrys Reef bullbullbull 14 10 0 4 9 1572 65 0 0Sultan

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEOHWORTH DlVISION Reform Myrtleford 39 0 0 o 15 0 29 5 0

1

YAOKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVlSION

Bigelowe and Clingam WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION E M Gill

Homeward Bound Hills-borough

Various localities

25

50

0

0

0

0

o 15middot 504

o 18 0

19

45

0

0

6

0

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

S

SANDHURST DIVISION 884 16 122 2 2286Pinchgut Gully 412 0 0United Pyrites 244 4 01 9 2311 163 0 0Jackass Flat andhurst amp Eaglehawk PE 281 7 121 11 013Derwent Gully 181 10 0L iddell and Co

1410 8 01 17 69756 10 0Totals HEATHOOTE DIVISION AND ---------shy

WARANGA SOUTH SUB-JDIVISION

33 0 J1 0 033 0 0Alison Lower Costerfield I

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION Bristol Hill

DlJNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS

Queens Birthday

Western Reef Bristol Hill 13 11 0 2 7 208 81 18 12

Bealiba Reef 15 0 0 1 6 16 20 0 0

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr Yeats Castlemaine 129 0 0 1 12 409

- 207 10 0

HEPBURN DIVISION J Williams Ajax

3 7

0 0

0 0

o 16 1 14

16 685

210 12 0

0 0

250 feet 250 feet

Totals 10 0 01 1 9 0 14 10 0

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

_DIVISlUrSTRINGERS 2 9 3-21 42 18 017 9 0Cohens Reef Long Tunnel

12 14 01 9 4648 14 0 Cohens Reef Walhalla - 55 12 02 2 1213- 26 3 0Totals

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

1

Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

I

INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

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QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

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PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

t

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NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

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176

21

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

25

The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

No 83 D

26

CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

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QUANTITY of QUAlnz Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued -

AYclage 1Division and Subdivision Uemnrks relative to the _and Yioldo Gold 1 Total YIeld of Depth at whIch the

Name of Company Quartz Crushedthere Quartz was obtained

per Ton Gold Quartz was 0 btained amp0

oz dwt grtons cwt qr oz dwt gr

AMHERST DIVISION

Croydon 35 12 18 Laura Reef 230 0 0 0 3 237 40 to 80 feet No 1 South Croydon --

Iaura Reef 0 2 493 15 8 18140 0 0 Surface to 30 feet No2 South Croydon 0 1 20-82 9 6 18 40 feetLaura Reef 100 0 0

288 11 12Union Q M C 200 feet Trickey and party

Church Hill Reef 144 0 0 -2 0 192 9 3 12Dundee Beef 0 2 789 60 feet

Perseveranee 77 0 0

0 8 1111 11 15 6 40 feet Sundries Prince of Wales Reef 27 0 0

18 8 0_143 0 0 0 _2 1376Various ----s6~1--~0~1--6i21Totals

-I AVOCA SUBDIVISION

Monte Christo 15 10 0Murdoehs Reef 14 0 0 I 2 342

DUNOLLY ~ND TARNAGULLA DiVISIONS

Queens Birthday o 12 031 2223 0 8 300 to 500 feet Queens Reef

3701 0 0Bealiba Reef 64 18 0Queens Reef 130 feet713 0 0 0 1 1969

Kentish Reef 15 11 11 Kentish Reef 48 0 0 0 6 1l73 60 feet Harvest Home 33 0 0Harvest Home 40 feet30 0 0 1 2 0 Harrop and Lees 26 0 0 40 feet Yorkshire G M bull 0 1 o 1520 0 0

566 4 12 160 to 200 feetWatts Reef Tarnagulla 1474 0 7 1638o 0 1

2928 _75966 1 0 0 9 1963Totals 1~ --- shyINGLEWOOD DIVISION

Jersey Reef Quartz Mining 103 3 20Jersey Reef 182 0 0 011 815 Dalmatia G M 1 3 0

tyres Smugglers Gi~n McI~ I 20 0 0 0 1 36

104 6 20202 0 0 010 794Totals REDBANK SUBDIVISION

TormeyEi Claim 52 16 0Station Reef 22 0 0 2 8 0

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION

Greenock Reef 39 0 070 feet to 170 feet (above 45 0 0 o 17 80 70 to 170 feet water-level)

Adams and party - -9 12 030 0 0 0 6 96 50 feetSpinster Ueef bull IT-Kersleyand party Greenock Reef 17 0 o i 0 10 0 1 8 10 0 15 feet

_ 92 0 0 0 12 991 57 2 0Totals ST ARNAUD NORTH

SUBDIVISION shyWorking Miners 0 7 268 248 18 6 200 to 260 feet Chrysolite Tribute Quartz

New Bendigo 700 0 0 0 2 2331 52 0 0 150 feet level

Mining Co Registered Chrysolite Reef - 350 0 0

300 18 6Totals 1Q50 0 0 0 5 1755

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLElILltiINE D1VISION

Eureka Cardwell Argus United McWalters Central bull Wattle Gully Sebastopol Crushing Utle Nuggety Arehbold and Co

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

English Australian G M Perseverance Burdett-Coutts New Era Blaek Haivk Rowe Bros Rowe nros Duke Oornwall Small and Co Macdonald and Co Meins Freehold G M

Eureka Reef Town Reef Argus Flat-

Burns Reef Wattle Gully Wattle Gully Lady Gully Nuggety Reef bullbullbullI

Public crushings Totals bullbull

Golden Gully Cattles Reef Cattles Ueef Ferrons Reef Cattles Reef Cattles Heef Ferrons Reef bullbull Cattle Reef Cattles Reef German Gully Guilford Hill

Totals

718 0 0 41 0 0

530 0 0 8J 0 0

759 0 0 505 0 0 247 0 0

52 0 0 155 0 0

3091 0 0

862 0 0 200 0 0

20 0 0 6310 0 0

123 0 0 1419 0 0

417 0 0 166 0 0 50 0 0 24 0 0

3560 0 0 i shy

13151 0 01

0 6 1666 o 19 12-3 0 7 65 o 17 12 0 4 424 0 2 983 0 3 162 0 7 203 o 15 4-18

0 6 341

0 4 98 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 3 324 0 1 20-87 0 7 668 0 4 2169 0 4 144 0 2 96 o 10 0 0 1 1839

0 3 904

1

240 7 0 360 feet 40 0 0 62 feet

192 13 12 73 10 0 160 feet

158 10 0 350 feet 60 17 0 45 18 20 8 0 230 feet

117 12 0

949 5 6

190 0 0 320 feet 40 0 0 180 feet

5 0 0 230 feet 989 3 0 100 to 380 feet

11 10 0 150 feet 516 8 0 150 to 200 feet 102 5 0 20 to 80 feet 33 14 0 20 to 200 feet

6 0 0 190 feet 12 0 0 90 feet

314 8 0

2220 8 0

shy

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Average Remarks relative to theDivision and Subdivision Total Yield ofWhere Quartz was obtained I Qnartz Crushed I Yield of Gold Depth at which theand Gold Quartz was obtained amp0per TonName of Company

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tone owt qr loz dwt gr oz dwt gr

HEPBUllN DIVISION

Argus Italian mil 566 0 0 30 to 150 feet New North Cornish

74 11 100 2 1506 n

Wombat Hill 105 0 0 Surface to 35 feet Richardsons

0 3 396 16 12 8 Bismarck Reef 13 0 0 30 feet1 0 0 13 0 0IWomans Gully 23 0 0 10 feet0 4 834 5 0 0Ansonia

60 0 o i 0 3 0Pitchers Reef 25 feet Panham 9 0 0Fuseo

Pitchers Reef 52 0 0 40 feet Bray and party

0 1 1661 4 8 0 Frenchmans Reef 70 feet12 0 0 2 8 00 4 0

King and Co

Willards Reef 60 0 0 70 feet0 4 0 12 0 0 ISt Georges Reef 630 0 0 0 1 038 32 0 0 140 feetUnion Nuggety HeeL 690 0 0 230 0 0 I20 to 280 feet

Keep-it-Dark Companies 0 6 16Ajax Keep-it-Dark

120 0 0 50 0 0 I 100 to 140 feet0 8 8

Totals 2331 0 0 0 3 2044 448 19 18

TARADALE AND KYNETON SUBDIVISION

Taradale 945 0 0 0 1 1562 United Kingdom ~ 78 0 0 Glenlyon 140 I) 0 0 9 1406 Little Wonder 67 2 0

1085 0 0Totals 0 2 1619 145 2 0 ----shy

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Caledonian Mills Parkins Linscotts Nelshy 92 0 0 o 17 0 200 to 300 feet78 4 0 son amp Valkers reefs

Eaglehawk Linscotts 622 0 0 0 12 1744 395 16 0 50 to 270 feetLinscotts Mills and Nuggety reefs

Phwnix Mills Beehive Swipers Gershy 1000 0 0 1 9 1227 1475 11 12 80 to 300 feet man Victoria amp Irish Billys reefs

Great Western Beehive Reef 120 0 0 0 4 0 24 0 0 40 to 80 feet

Totals bullbull 1834 0 0 I 1 1253 197311 12 -~-----

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

United Company Hoddles Creek 180 0 0 0 9 204 88 13 0 35 feet Lyre Bird Hoddles Creek 25 0 0 o 13 0 16 5 0 27 feet Sunday Reef McCraes Hill S 0 0 0 1 12 o 12 0 20 feet Sheppard and party Warburton 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 10 feet Central Mining Hurst and Co

Reef ton MountainB

38 10 1 0

0 0

1 13 24 2 17 20

63 14 2 17

8 2

180 feet Surface

Murray and Hirt Smith and Hirt Hartley and Co

You-You You-You You-You

3 2 7

10 0 0

0 0 0

1 10 2057 I 10 12 o 10 1714

5 8 3 1

1 15

0 0 0

50 feet 30 feet 60 feet

Hopkinson You-You 2 0 0 1 10 0 3 0 0 60 feet Apted and Co Pioneer 6 0 0 o 18 8 5 10 0 ISO feet Progress Panton Hill 218 0 0 0 7 146 82 18 15 120 feet Napoleons March Panton Hill 18 0 0 o 11 1977 1012 20 40 feet Bignell and Co Fourth Hill Warrandyte 7 0 0 3 0 0 i 21 0 0 30 feet

517 0 0Totals o 11 2247 308 10 21

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Wimmera North and South Wales Pioneer and Galatea New St George Scotchmans Moonlight W onga and Birmingham

RAGLAN DIVISION

The Victory Quartz Gold Mining

Stawell reefs

Stawell reefs Stawell reefs Stilwell reefs Stawell reefs Stawell reefs

Totals

Reef near Waterloo

5788 0 0 is 9 0

4624 0 0 3196 0 0 3353 10 0 3580 0 0 2069 0 0

22688 19 0

17 0 0

011 595 1 5 739 o 14 721 o 11 26 0 7 9 0 14 2207 0 2 1853

0 11 319

1 4 224

3255 4 3 200 to 1000 feet 99 5 10 40 to 100 feet

3306 6 8 200 to 1100 feet 1i75 2 0 4S0 to 1200 feet 1236 II 18 100 to 850 feet 2670 IS 0 410 to 1120 feet

286 15 21 24 to 100 feet

12629 18 12

20 10 0

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~iiANfiTYofCltr ARTz0rusliedjirieacnDi visi~ri~andgtSohdi vision during the Qulilter ~ampc-continuedbull _ _ ~~ ~M_~

---1--- DivislonnndSnbdivisioh bull

OlJ 1j and~ I ~Yhere Qua~ was ogttamed __ Na~~O Company______ ______ ___

GIPPSLAND ~C C ~ Q)fElO ~

~ Srifts Creek Fashion Reef

CROOKED RIVE~ DiVISIoN

Robert Moore -- ~ Upper Dargo bullbull Wentworth Parslow and Co

Totals DONNELLYSC~EEK DIVISION

DonnellyS Creek Bismarck United

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION

Long Tunnel f Cohens Reef Cohens Reef Walhalla (Tributers) I

I Totals ABERFELDY SUBDIVISlON Aberpoundeldy Reef -James Rices Mine

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AverageQuartz Crushed Yie1T ONMld

per Ton

tons ewt qr oz dwt gr

MINING DISTRICT u

I 10 0 0 I 12 b

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20 0 0 0 10144 30 0 600 0

50 0 0 0 7 2016

42 0 0 0 14 4

5034 0 0 1 8 191 0 8 1078997 d 0

06031 0 1 5 1038

650 d 0 0 6 144

Remarks relative to thoTotal Yield Depth at which theof Gold Quartz was obtalnedampc

Oz dwt gr

-

i 16 0 0

10 12 0 Surfaee to 20 feet 9 00

---- shy19 12 0

29 15 0 400 feet

17248 0 0 i 343 to 623 feet 421 4 0

7669 4 )

]96 19 0 150 feet 50 feet

water level

~ laquo

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QUARTZ TAILINGS MULLOClETC THE follo~in~ infor~ation has beenobtai~edfromReturn~made bythe-Mi~lng Surveyorsand R~gist~a~s

relative to the Quantity OfQUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK ampc Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each -Mining District -during the ~uarter and the GOJD obtained therefrom

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DiviSion and Snbdlvislon I Where Quartz Tailings and I Quartz Tailings Average Ttl y ld ~r ~Remarksielative to the and Mullock ampc were and Mnlloek ampc Yield of Gold 0 ItG I~c Depth at which tbeI

Same of Company i obt~n~~ l I~~~I )ler~on~ 0 MUll~C~amp~1e~ ~btalne~ --- shy tons cwt qr oz dwt gr 0 dwtgr

r bull - JBALLARATMININGDISTRICT

I ICENTRAL DtvIsioN 1

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11259 19130 Isuriac~ ~~Ofe~~ IBallarat East 2580 00 0Canadian

Mount Clear 1050 00Baker and Co I 0 12308 103 00 Surface to 20middotfeet t

pi 1+Totals ~ q630 0 0 o 1 1562 bull ni

STEIGLITZ SUBl)JVISION I

Minerva Eiaine 220 0 0 o 3 218 34 0 0 20 0 0Wee Speek bullbull Do o 4 96 4 8 0

180 0 0 0 016DUIIlIDott and Co Steiglitz 6 O o

Totals 420 0 0 0 2 274 44 8 0

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEcrrwoRTH DIVISION

Marco Polo Hurdle Flat - 48 0 0 0 2 0

I

4 16 0 Various depths l~_ gt

INDIGO DIVISION

Magentll MIYfntR Reef middot Places Mill Variou~

Totals -

I

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0632 300

shy

0 0 0 0 I

I 0 o I

0 0

0

I 991 44 13 0 2 0middotmiddot 30 0 0

1444 t1 74 13 0

Surface to 50ifeet ChieH y surfacemiddotfrom

old workings

MrlTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION

Trewalla Bethanga

23 middot0 0 gt)

0 7 417

8

5 0

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK crushed in each Division and Subdivision ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Where Quart Tailings and Quartz Tallogs I Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and and MuJlock ampc Gold lfuUock ampc were Depth at which the

erolIlld I I~ IP t I obtained Mullock ampc were obtamcltL --middot---------------~-------I-----I-------=-___c_-~-I------~--

Name of Company

tons ewt qr oz dwtgr

SANDHURSTMlNING DISTRICT~~ L I i

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIshyVISION

Alison JoIlins

Lower Costerfield Redcastle

Totals

i

1000 0 150 (l 0

0 0

3 0 2 224

15 0 22 0

0 0

shy

d

~1

250 P 0 0 2 2304 37 0 0

(I

MARYBOROUGH MiNI~G DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE MINI~G DISTRICTv

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION

Crown Ninirod Reef bullbullbull Nuggety NuggetyReef D avies and Co

Donkey Gully A jax Tribute ~ Bolivia Reef

Totals n i - shy

HEPBUBN DIVISION

Francis bullbullbull f bullbull1 Wombat Hill ~ bullbull

ST ANDRlFws D1VISION

middotCentral Mining bull~ Reefton bullbullbull United bullbullbull HoddlesCreek

Totals

1140 0 0 0 1 0-1 57 5 0

- 0 0 0 I 12 5210 0_ 700 680 0 0 0 1 235 37middot 612 510 0 0 0 1l(66middot 36( 16 15

3030 0 0

400 00

Ilt

i 174 0 0 I 25 0 0I

199 0 0

0 1 5l3 183 18 3

0 0 -12 l 10 0 0

t I bull

0 3 15-22 31 12 9 0 0 192 1- 0 0

)

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Surface Surface

Shllow

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

W onga and Bir~ingham

~ I

Stawell reefs 35 0 0 0 2 13-54 4 9 18 f ~ I ~ i f

1I

middotGIPFStAN]) IMINliNG vDISiFRI(iJT

DONNELLYS CllEEKD~ISIOl

Bismarck ITnited

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PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the Quantity of PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on in the several Divisions -and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Dlvision and Subdivision Remarks relatlve to the I Pyrites I Average I I iWhere Pyr~B an~ Blanketmgs and Blnnketings Yield 01 Gold Tota Y old of and Depth at which the wele obtamed I operated on per Ton GoldName 01 Oompany - PyritesJ ampc were ubtained

I tons cwt qr oz dwt gr I oz dwt gr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION Llanberris 18 0 0 1 16 1466 32 19 0Gumtree Flatbullbullbull

CRESWIOK DIVISION Port Phillip Clunes 471 5 0107 0 o I 4 8 202 New North Clunes 93 16 12Clunes 19 0 o i 4 18 1831

67 5 o 7 I 2382South Clunes 477 9 0Clunes 193 5 0 1 5 7 2145 1042 1012

STEIGLITZ SIJDDIVISION Totals

Enterprise Elaine- 103 0 0 o 18 349 93 9 0 Dummott and Co 5 12 0Steiglitz 22 0 0 0 5 218

Totals 99 1 0 BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND

BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION

125 0 0 o 15 2035

Barrys Reef bullbullbull 14 10 0 4 9 1572 65 0 0Sultan

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEOHWORTH DlVISION Reform Myrtleford 39 0 0 o 15 0 29 5 0

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YAOKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVlSION

Bigelowe and Clingam WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION E M Gill

Homeward Bound Hills-borough

Various localities

25

50

0

0

0

0

o 15middot 504

o 18 0

19

45

0

0

6

0

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

S

SANDHURST DIVISION 884 16 122 2 2286Pinchgut Gully 412 0 0United Pyrites 244 4 01 9 2311 163 0 0Jackass Flat andhurst amp Eaglehawk PE 281 7 121 11 013Derwent Gully 181 10 0L iddell and Co

1410 8 01 17 69756 10 0Totals HEATHOOTE DIVISION AND ---------shy

WARANGA SOUTH SUB-JDIVISION

33 0 J1 0 033 0 0Alison Lower Costerfield I

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION Bristol Hill

DlJNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS

Queens Birthday

Western Reef Bristol Hill 13 11 0 2 7 208 81 18 12

Bealiba Reef 15 0 0 1 6 16 20 0 0

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr Yeats Castlemaine 129 0 0 1 12 409

- 207 10 0

HEPBURN DIVISION J Williams Ajax

3 7

0 0

0 0

o 16 1 14

16 685

210 12 0

0 0

250 feet 250 feet

Totals 10 0 01 1 9 0 14 10 0

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

_DIVISlUrSTRINGERS 2 9 3-21 42 18 017 9 0Cohens Reef Long Tunnel

12 14 01 9 4648 14 0 Cohens Reef Walhalla - 55 12 02 2 1213- 26 3 0Totals

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

1

Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

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INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

18

QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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19

CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

-----------------~-------------~---------------~-------------------

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

t

--

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--

------

---

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--

20

NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

---

--

--------------

176

21

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

22

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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23

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

______ ~i I

DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

25

The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ Crushed in each Division and Subdivision during the Quarter ampc-continued

Average Remarks relative to theDivision and Subdivision Total Yield ofWhere Quartz was obtained I Qnartz Crushed I Yield of Gold Depth at which theand Gold Quartz was obtained amp0per TonName of Company

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tone owt qr loz dwt gr oz dwt gr

HEPBUllN DIVISION

Argus Italian mil 566 0 0 30 to 150 feet New North Cornish

74 11 100 2 1506 n

Wombat Hill 105 0 0 Surface to 35 feet Richardsons

0 3 396 16 12 8 Bismarck Reef 13 0 0 30 feet1 0 0 13 0 0IWomans Gully 23 0 0 10 feet0 4 834 5 0 0Ansonia

60 0 o i 0 3 0Pitchers Reef 25 feet Panham 9 0 0Fuseo

Pitchers Reef 52 0 0 40 feet Bray and party

0 1 1661 4 8 0 Frenchmans Reef 70 feet12 0 0 2 8 00 4 0

King and Co

Willards Reef 60 0 0 70 feet0 4 0 12 0 0 ISt Georges Reef 630 0 0 0 1 038 32 0 0 140 feetUnion Nuggety HeeL 690 0 0 230 0 0 I20 to 280 feet

Keep-it-Dark Companies 0 6 16Ajax Keep-it-Dark

120 0 0 50 0 0 I 100 to 140 feet0 8 8

Totals 2331 0 0 0 3 2044 448 19 18

TARADALE AND KYNETON SUBDIVISION

Taradale 945 0 0 0 1 1562 United Kingdom ~ 78 0 0 Glenlyon 140 I) 0 0 9 1406 Little Wonder 67 2 0

1085 0 0Totals 0 2 1619 145 2 0 ----shy

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Caledonian Mills Parkins Linscotts Nelshy 92 0 0 o 17 0 200 to 300 feet78 4 0 son amp Valkers reefs

Eaglehawk Linscotts 622 0 0 0 12 1744 395 16 0 50 to 270 feetLinscotts Mills and Nuggety reefs

Phwnix Mills Beehive Swipers Gershy 1000 0 0 1 9 1227 1475 11 12 80 to 300 feet man Victoria amp Irish Billys reefs

Great Western Beehive Reef 120 0 0 0 4 0 24 0 0 40 to 80 feet

Totals bullbull 1834 0 0 I 1 1253 197311 12 -~-----

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

United Company Hoddles Creek 180 0 0 0 9 204 88 13 0 35 feet Lyre Bird Hoddles Creek 25 0 0 o 13 0 16 5 0 27 feet Sunday Reef McCraes Hill S 0 0 0 1 12 o 12 0 20 feet Sheppard and party Warburton 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 10 feet Central Mining Hurst and Co

Reef ton MountainB

38 10 1 0

0 0

1 13 24 2 17 20

63 14 2 17

8 2

180 feet Surface

Murray and Hirt Smith and Hirt Hartley and Co

You-You You-You You-You

3 2 7

10 0 0

0 0 0

1 10 2057 I 10 12 o 10 1714

5 8 3 1

1 15

0 0 0

50 feet 30 feet 60 feet

Hopkinson You-You 2 0 0 1 10 0 3 0 0 60 feet Apted and Co Pioneer 6 0 0 o 18 8 5 10 0 ISO feet Progress Panton Hill 218 0 0 0 7 146 82 18 15 120 feet Napoleons March Panton Hill 18 0 0 o 11 1977 1012 20 40 feet Bignell and Co Fourth Hill Warrandyte 7 0 0 3 0 0 i 21 0 0 30 feet

517 0 0Totals o 11 2247 308 10 21

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Wimmera North and South Wales Pioneer and Galatea New St George Scotchmans Moonlight W onga and Birmingham

RAGLAN DIVISION

The Victory Quartz Gold Mining

Stawell reefs

Stawell reefs Stawell reefs Stilwell reefs Stawell reefs Stawell reefs

Totals

Reef near Waterloo

5788 0 0 is 9 0

4624 0 0 3196 0 0 3353 10 0 3580 0 0 2069 0 0

22688 19 0

17 0 0

011 595 1 5 739 o 14 721 o 11 26 0 7 9 0 14 2207 0 2 1853

0 11 319

1 4 224

3255 4 3 200 to 1000 feet 99 5 10 40 to 100 feet

3306 6 8 200 to 1100 feet 1i75 2 0 4S0 to 1200 feet 1236 II 18 100 to 850 feet 2670 IS 0 410 to 1120 feet

286 15 21 24 to 100 feet

12629 18 12

20 10 0

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~iiANfiTYofCltr ARTz0rusliedjirieacnDi visi~ri~andgtSohdi vision during the Qulilter ~ampc-continuedbull _ _ ~~ ~M_~

---1--- DivislonnndSnbdivisioh bull

OlJ 1j and~ I ~Yhere Qua~ was ogttamed __ Na~~O Company______ ______ ___

GIPPSLAND ~C C ~ Q)fElO ~

~ Srifts Creek Fashion Reef

CROOKED RIVE~ DiVISIoN

Robert Moore -- ~ Upper Dargo bullbull Wentworth Parslow and Co

Totals DONNELLYSC~EEK DIVISION

DonnellyS Creek Bismarck United

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION

Long Tunnel f Cohens Reef Cohens Reef Walhalla (Tributers) I

I Totals ABERFELDY SUBDIVISlON Aberpoundeldy Reef -James Rices Mine

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AverageQuartz Crushed Yie1T ONMld

per Ton

tons ewt qr oz dwt gr

MINING DISTRICT u

I 10 0 0 I 12 b

---- shy

20 0 0 0 10144 30 0 600 0

50 0 0 0 7 2016

42 0 0 0 14 4

5034 0 0 1 8 191 0 8 1078997 d 0

06031 0 1 5 1038

650 d 0 0 6 144

Remarks relative to thoTotal Yield Depth at which theof Gold Quartz was obtalnedampc

Oz dwt gr

-

i 16 0 0

10 12 0 Surfaee to 20 feet 9 00

---- shy19 12 0

29 15 0 400 feet

17248 0 0 i 343 to 623 feet 421 4 0

7669 4 )

]96 19 0 150 feet 50 feet

water level

~ laquo

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QUARTZ TAILINGS MULLOClETC THE follo~in~ infor~ation has beenobtai~edfromReturn~made bythe-Mi~lng Surveyorsand R~gist~a~s

relative to the Quantity OfQUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK ampc Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each -Mining District -during the ~uarter and the GOJD obtained therefrom

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DiviSion and Snbdlvislon I Where Quartz Tailings and I Quartz Tailings Average Ttl y ld ~r ~Remarksielative to the and Mullock ampc were and Mnlloek ampc Yield of Gold 0 ItG I~c Depth at which tbeI

Same of Company i obt~n~~ l I~~~I )ler~on~ 0 MUll~C~amp~1e~ ~btalne~ --- shy tons cwt qr oz dwt gr 0 dwtgr

r bull - JBALLARATMININGDISTRICT

I ICENTRAL DtvIsioN 1

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11259 19130 Isuriac~ ~~Ofe~~ IBallarat East 2580 00 0Canadian

Mount Clear 1050 00Baker and Co I 0 12308 103 00 Surface to 20middotfeet t

pi 1+Totals ~ q630 0 0 o 1 1562 bull ni

STEIGLITZ SUBl)JVISION I

Minerva Eiaine 220 0 0 o 3 218 34 0 0 20 0 0Wee Speek bullbull Do o 4 96 4 8 0

180 0 0 0 016DUIIlIDott and Co Steiglitz 6 O o

Totals 420 0 0 0 2 274 44 8 0

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEcrrwoRTH DIVISION

Marco Polo Hurdle Flat - 48 0 0 0 2 0

I

4 16 0 Various depths l~_ gt

INDIGO DIVISION

Magentll MIYfntR Reef middot Places Mill Variou~

Totals -

I

-

0632 300

shy

0 0 0 0 I

I 0 o I

0 0

0

I 991 44 13 0 2 0middotmiddot 30 0 0

1444 t1 74 13 0

Surface to 50ifeet ChieH y surfacemiddotfrom

old workings

MrlTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION

Trewalla Bethanga

23 middot0 0 gt)

0 7 417

8

5 0

r

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK crushed in each Division and Subdivision ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Where Quart Tailings and Quartz Tallogs I Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and and MuJlock ampc Gold lfuUock ampc were Depth at which the

erolIlld I I~ IP t I obtained Mullock ampc were obtamcltL --middot---------------~-------I-----I-------=-___c_-~-I------~--

Name of Company

tons ewt qr oz dwtgr

SANDHURSTMlNING DISTRICT~~ L I i

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIshyVISION

Alison JoIlins

Lower Costerfield Redcastle

Totals

i

1000 0 150 (l 0

0 0

3 0 2 224

15 0 22 0

0 0

shy

d

~1

250 P 0 0 2 2304 37 0 0

(I

MARYBOROUGH MiNI~G DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE MINI~G DISTRICTv

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION

Crown Ninirod Reef bullbullbull Nuggety NuggetyReef D avies and Co

Donkey Gully A jax Tribute ~ Bolivia Reef

Totals n i - shy

HEPBUBN DIVISION

Francis bullbullbull f bullbull1 Wombat Hill ~ bullbull

ST ANDRlFws D1VISION

middotCentral Mining bull~ Reefton bullbullbull United bullbullbull HoddlesCreek

Totals

1140 0 0 0 1 0-1 57 5 0

- 0 0 0 I 12 5210 0_ 700 680 0 0 0 1 235 37middot 612 510 0 0 0 1l(66middot 36( 16 15

3030 0 0

400 00

Ilt

i 174 0 0 I 25 0 0I

199 0 0

0 1 5l3 183 18 3

0 0 -12 l 10 0 0

t I bull

0 3 15-22 31 12 9 0 0 192 1- 0 0

)

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Surface Surface

Shllow

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

W onga and Bir~ingham

~ I

Stawell reefs 35 0 0 0 2 13-54 4 9 18 f ~ I ~ i f

1I

middotGIPFStAN]) IMINliNG vDISiFRI(iJT

DONNELLYS CllEEKD~ISIOl

Bismarck ITnited

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PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the Quantity of PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on in the several Divisions -and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Dlvision and Subdivision Remarks relatlve to the I Pyrites I Average I I iWhere Pyr~B an~ Blanketmgs and Blnnketings Yield 01 Gold Tota Y old of and Depth at which the wele obtamed I operated on per Ton GoldName 01 Oompany - PyritesJ ampc were ubtained

I tons cwt qr oz dwt gr I oz dwt gr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION Llanberris 18 0 0 1 16 1466 32 19 0Gumtree Flatbullbullbull

CRESWIOK DIVISION Port Phillip Clunes 471 5 0107 0 o I 4 8 202 New North Clunes 93 16 12Clunes 19 0 o i 4 18 1831

67 5 o 7 I 2382South Clunes 477 9 0Clunes 193 5 0 1 5 7 2145 1042 1012

STEIGLITZ SIJDDIVISION Totals

Enterprise Elaine- 103 0 0 o 18 349 93 9 0 Dummott and Co 5 12 0Steiglitz 22 0 0 0 5 218

Totals 99 1 0 BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND

BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION

125 0 0 o 15 2035

Barrys Reef bullbullbull 14 10 0 4 9 1572 65 0 0Sultan

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEOHWORTH DlVISION Reform Myrtleford 39 0 0 o 15 0 29 5 0

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YAOKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVlSION

Bigelowe and Clingam WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION E M Gill

Homeward Bound Hills-borough

Various localities

25

50

0

0

0

0

o 15middot 504

o 18 0

19

45

0

0

6

0

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

S

SANDHURST DIVISION 884 16 122 2 2286Pinchgut Gully 412 0 0United Pyrites 244 4 01 9 2311 163 0 0Jackass Flat andhurst amp Eaglehawk PE 281 7 121 11 013Derwent Gully 181 10 0L iddell and Co

1410 8 01 17 69756 10 0Totals HEATHOOTE DIVISION AND ---------shy

WARANGA SOUTH SUB-JDIVISION

33 0 J1 0 033 0 0Alison Lower Costerfield I

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION Bristol Hill

DlJNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS

Queens Birthday

Western Reef Bristol Hill 13 11 0 2 7 208 81 18 12

Bealiba Reef 15 0 0 1 6 16 20 0 0

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr Yeats Castlemaine 129 0 0 1 12 409

- 207 10 0

HEPBURN DIVISION J Williams Ajax

3 7

0 0

0 0

o 16 1 14

16 685

210 12 0

0 0

250 feet 250 feet

Totals 10 0 01 1 9 0 14 10 0

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

_DIVISlUrSTRINGERS 2 9 3-21 42 18 017 9 0Cohens Reef Long Tunnel

12 14 01 9 4648 14 0 Cohens Reef Walhalla - 55 12 02 2 1213- 26 3 0Totals

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

1

Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

I

INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

18

QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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19

CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

-----------------~-------------~---------------~-------------------

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

t

--

---

--

------

---

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--

20

NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

---

--

--------------

176

21

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

22

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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23

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

______ ~i I

DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

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The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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~iiANfiTYofCltr ARTz0rusliedjirieacnDi visi~ri~andgtSohdi vision during the Qulilter ~ampc-continuedbull _ _ ~~ ~M_~

---1--- DivislonnndSnbdivisioh bull

OlJ 1j and~ I ~Yhere Qua~ was ogttamed __ Na~~O Company______ ______ ___

GIPPSLAND ~C C ~ Q)fElO ~

~ Srifts Creek Fashion Reef

CROOKED RIVE~ DiVISIoN

Robert Moore -- ~ Upper Dargo bullbull Wentworth Parslow and Co

Totals DONNELLYSC~EEK DIVISION

DonnellyS Creek Bismarck United

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION

Long Tunnel f Cohens Reef Cohens Reef Walhalla (Tributers) I

I Totals ABERFELDY SUBDIVISlON Aberpoundeldy Reef -James Rices Mine

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AverageQuartz Crushed Yie1T ONMld

per Ton

tons ewt qr oz dwt gr

MINING DISTRICT u

I 10 0 0 I 12 b

---- shy

20 0 0 0 10144 30 0 600 0

50 0 0 0 7 2016

42 0 0 0 14 4

5034 0 0 1 8 191 0 8 1078997 d 0

06031 0 1 5 1038

650 d 0 0 6 144

Remarks relative to thoTotal Yield Depth at which theof Gold Quartz was obtalnedampc

Oz dwt gr

-

i 16 0 0

10 12 0 Surfaee to 20 feet 9 00

---- shy19 12 0

29 15 0 400 feet

17248 0 0 i 343 to 623 feet 421 4 0

7669 4 )

]96 19 0 150 feet 50 feet

water level

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QUARTZ TAILINGS MULLOClETC THE follo~in~ infor~ation has beenobtai~edfromReturn~made bythe-Mi~lng Surveyorsand R~gist~a~s

relative to the Quantity OfQUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK ampc Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each -Mining District -during the ~uarter and the GOJD obtained therefrom

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DiviSion and Snbdlvislon I Where Quartz Tailings and I Quartz Tailings Average Ttl y ld ~r ~Remarksielative to the and Mullock ampc were and Mnlloek ampc Yield of Gold 0 ItG I~c Depth at which tbeI

Same of Company i obt~n~~ l I~~~I )ler~on~ 0 MUll~C~amp~1e~ ~btalne~ --- shy tons cwt qr oz dwt gr 0 dwtgr

r bull - JBALLARATMININGDISTRICT

I ICENTRAL DtvIsioN 1

~

11259 19130 Isuriac~ ~~Ofe~~ IBallarat East 2580 00 0Canadian

Mount Clear 1050 00Baker and Co I 0 12308 103 00 Surface to 20middotfeet t

pi 1+Totals ~ q630 0 0 o 1 1562 bull ni

STEIGLITZ SUBl)JVISION I

Minerva Eiaine 220 0 0 o 3 218 34 0 0 20 0 0Wee Speek bullbull Do o 4 96 4 8 0

180 0 0 0 016DUIIlIDott and Co Steiglitz 6 O o

Totals 420 0 0 0 2 274 44 8 0

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEcrrwoRTH DIVISION

Marco Polo Hurdle Flat - 48 0 0 0 2 0

I

4 16 0 Various depths l~_ gt

INDIGO DIVISION

Magentll MIYfntR Reef middot Places Mill Variou~

Totals -

I

-

0632 300

shy

0 0 0 0 I

I 0 o I

0 0

0

I 991 44 13 0 2 0middotmiddot 30 0 0

1444 t1 74 13 0

Surface to 50ifeet ChieH y surfacemiddotfrom

old workings

MrlTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION

Trewalla Bethanga

23 middot0 0 gt)

0 7 417

8

5 0

r

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK crushed in each Division and Subdivision ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Where Quart Tailings and Quartz Tallogs I Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and and MuJlock ampc Gold lfuUock ampc were Depth at which the

erolIlld I I~ IP t I obtained Mullock ampc were obtamcltL --middot---------------~-------I-----I-------=-___c_-~-I------~--

Name of Company

tons ewt qr oz dwtgr

SANDHURSTMlNING DISTRICT~~ L I i

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIshyVISION

Alison JoIlins

Lower Costerfield Redcastle

Totals

i

1000 0 150 (l 0

0 0

3 0 2 224

15 0 22 0

0 0

shy

d

~1

250 P 0 0 2 2304 37 0 0

(I

MARYBOROUGH MiNI~G DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE MINI~G DISTRICTv

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION

Crown Ninirod Reef bullbullbull Nuggety NuggetyReef D avies and Co

Donkey Gully A jax Tribute ~ Bolivia Reef

Totals n i - shy

HEPBUBN DIVISION

Francis bullbullbull f bullbull1 Wombat Hill ~ bullbull

ST ANDRlFws D1VISION

middotCentral Mining bull~ Reefton bullbullbull United bullbullbull HoddlesCreek

Totals

1140 0 0 0 1 0-1 57 5 0

- 0 0 0 I 12 5210 0_ 700 680 0 0 0 1 235 37middot 612 510 0 0 0 1l(66middot 36( 16 15

3030 0 0

400 00

Ilt

i 174 0 0 I 25 0 0I

199 0 0

0 1 5l3 183 18 3

0 0 -12 l 10 0 0

t I bull

0 3 15-22 31 12 9 0 0 192 1- 0 0

)

-- 6671-~

Surface Surface

Shllow

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

W onga and Bir~ingham

~ I

Stawell reefs 35 0 0 0 2 13-54 4 9 18 f ~ I ~ i f

1I

middotGIPFStAN]) IMINliNG vDISiFRI(iJT

DONNELLYS CllEEKD~ISIOl

Bismarck ITnited

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PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the Quantity of PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on in the several Divisions -and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Dlvision and Subdivision Remarks relatlve to the I Pyrites I Average I I iWhere Pyr~B an~ Blanketmgs and Blnnketings Yield 01 Gold Tota Y old of and Depth at which the wele obtamed I operated on per Ton GoldName 01 Oompany - PyritesJ ampc were ubtained

I tons cwt qr oz dwt gr I oz dwt gr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION Llanberris 18 0 0 1 16 1466 32 19 0Gumtree Flatbullbullbull

CRESWIOK DIVISION Port Phillip Clunes 471 5 0107 0 o I 4 8 202 New North Clunes 93 16 12Clunes 19 0 o i 4 18 1831

67 5 o 7 I 2382South Clunes 477 9 0Clunes 193 5 0 1 5 7 2145 1042 1012

STEIGLITZ SIJDDIVISION Totals

Enterprise Elaine- 103 0 0 o 18 349 93 9 0 Dummott and Co 5 12 0Steiglitz 22 0 0 0 5 218

Totals 99 1 0 BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND

BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION

125 0 0 o 15 2035

Barrys Reef bullbullbull 14 10 0 4 9 1572 65 0 0Sultan

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEOHWORTH DlVISION Reform Myrtleford 39 0 0 o 15 0 29 5 0

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YAOKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVlSION

Bigelowe and Clingam WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION E M Gill

Homeward Bound Hills-borough

Various localities

25

50

0

0

0

0

o 15middot 504

o 18 0

19

45

0

0

6

0

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

S

SANDHURST DIVISION 884 16 122 2 2286Pinchgut Gully 412 0 0United Pyrites 244 4 01 9 2311 163 0 0Jackass Flat andhurst amp Eaglehawk PE 281 7 121 11 013Derwent Gully 181 10 0L iddell and Co

1410 8 01 17 69756 10 0Totals HEATHOOTE DIVISION AND ---------shy

WARANGA SOUTH SUB-JDIVISION

33 0 J1 0 033 0 0Alison Lower Costerfield I

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION Bristol Hill

DlJNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS

Queens Birthday

Western Reef Bristol Hill 13 11 0 2 7 208 81 18 12

Bealiba Reef 15 0 0 1 6 16 20 0 0

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr Yeats Castlemaine 129 0 0 1 12 409

- 207 10 0

HEPBURN DIVISION J Williams Ajax

3 7

0 0

0 0

o 16 1 14

16 685

210 12 0

0 0

250 feet 250 feet

Totals 10 0 01 1 9 0 14 10 0

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

_DIVISlUrSTRINGERS 2 9 3-21 42 18 017 9 0Cohens Reef Long Tunnel

12 14 01 9 4648 14 0 Cohens Reef Walhalla - 55 12 02 2 1213- 26 3 0Totals

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

1

Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

I

INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

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QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

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PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

t

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NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

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--

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176

21

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

25

The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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QUANTITY of QUARTZ TAILINGS and MULLOCK crushed in each Division and Subdivision ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Where Quart Tailings and Quartz Tallogs I Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and and MuJlock ampc Gold lfuUock ampc were Depth at which the

erolIlld I I~ IP t I obtained Mullock ampc were obtamcltL --middot---------------~-------I-----I-------=-___c_-~-I------~--

Name of Company

tons ewt qr oz dwtgr

SANDHURSTMlNING DISTRICT~~ L I i

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIshyVISION

Alison JoIlins

Lower Costerfield Redcastle

Totals

i

1000 0 150 (l 0

0 0

3 0 2 224

15 0 22 0

0 0

shy

d

~1

250 P 0 0 2 2304 37 0 0

(I

MARYBOROUGH MiNI~G DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE MINI~G DISTRICTv

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION

Crown Ninirod Reef bullbullbull Nuggety NuggetyReef D avies and Co

Donkey Gully A jax Tribute ~ Bolivia Reef

Totals n i - shy

HEPBUBN DIVISION

Francis bullbullbull f bullbull1 Wombat Hill ~ bullbull

ST ANDRlFws D1VISION

middotCentral Mining bull~ Reefton bullbullbull United bullbullbull HoddlesCreek

Totals

1140 0 0 0 1 0-1 57 5 0

- 0 0 0 I 12 5210 0_ 700 680 0 0 0 1 235 37middot 612 510 0 0 0 1l(66middot 36( 16 15

3030 0 0

400 00

Ilt

i 174 0 0 I 25 0 0I

199 0 0

0 1 5l3 183 18 3

0 0 -12 l 10 0 0

t I bull

0 3 15-22 31 12 9 0 0 192 1- 0 0

)

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Surface Surface

Shllow

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

W onga and Bir~ingham

~ I

Stawell reefs 35 0 0 0 2 13-54 4 9 18 f ~ I ~ i f

1I

middotGIPFStAN]) IMINliNG vDISiFRI(iJT

DONNELLYS CllEEKD~ISIOl

Bismarck ITnited

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PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the Quantity of PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on in the several Divisions -and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Dlvision and Subdivision Remarks relatlve to the I Pyrites I Average I I iWhere Pyr~B an~ Blanketmgs and Blnnketings Yield 01 Gold Tota Y old of and Depth at which the wele obtamed I operated on per Ton GoldName 01 Oompany - PyritesJ ampc were ubtained

I tons cwt qr oz dwt gr I oz dwt gr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION Llanberris 18 0 0 1 16 1466 32 19 0Gumtree Flatbullbullbull

CRESWIOK DIVISION Port Phillip Clunes 471 5 0107 0 o I 4 8 202 New North Clunes 93 16 12Clunes 19 0 o i 4 18 1831

67 5 o 7 I 2382South Clunes 477 9 0Clunes 193 5 0 1 5 7 2145 1042 1012

STEIGLITZ SIJDDIVISION Totals

Enterprise Elaine- 103 0 0 o 18 349 93 9 0 Dummott and Co 5 12 0Steiglitz 22 0 0 0 5 218

Totals 99 1 0 BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND

BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION

125 0 0 o 15 2035

Barrys Reef bullbullbull 14 10 0 4 9 1572 65 0 0Sultan

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEOHWORTH DlVISION Reform Myrtleford 39 0 0 o 15 0 29 5 0

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YAOKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVlSION

Bigelowe and Clingam WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION E M Gill

Homeward Bound Hills-borough

Various localities

25

50

0

0

0

0

o 15middot 504

o 18 0

19

45

0

0

6

0

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

S

SANDHURST DIVISION 884 16 122 2 2286Pinchgut Gully 412 0 0United Pyrites 244 4 01 9 2311 163 0 0Jackass Flat andhurst amp Eaglehawk PE 281 7 121 11 013Derwent Gully 181 10 0L iddell and Co

1410 8 01 17 69756 10 0Totals HEATHOOTE DIVISION AND ---------shy

WARANGA SOUTH SUB-JDIVISION

33 0 J1 0 033 0 0Alison Lower Costerfield I

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION Bristol Hill

DlJNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS

Queens Birthday

Western Reef Bristol Hill 13 11 0 2 7 208 81 18 12

Bealiba Reef 15 0 0 1 6 16 20 0 0

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr Yeats Castlemaine 129 0 0 1 12 409

- 207 10 0

HEPBURN DIVISION J Williams Ajax

3 7

0 0

0 0

o 16 1 14

16 685

210 12 0

0 0

250 feet 250 feet

Totals 10 0 01 1 9 0 14 10 0

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

_DIVISlUrSTRINGERS 2 9 3-21 42 18 017 9 0Cohens Reef Long Tunnel

12 14 01 9 4648 14 0 Cohens Reef Walhalla - 55 12 02 2 1213- 26 3 0Totals

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

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Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

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INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

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QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

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SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

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PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

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NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

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Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

25

The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

No 83 D

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the Quantity of PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on in the several Divisions -and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Dlvision and Subdivision Remarks relatlve to the I Pyrites I Average I I iWhere Pyr~B an~ Blanketmgs and Blnnketings Yield 01 Gold Tota Y old of and Depth at which the wele obtamed I operated on per Ton GoldName 01 Oompany - PyritesJ ampc were ubtained

I tons cwt qr oz dwt gr I oz dwt gr

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION Llanberris 18 0 0 1 16 1466 32 19 0Gumtree Flatbullbullbull

CRESWIOK DIVISION Port Phillip Clunes 471 5 0107 0 o I 4 8 202 New North Clunes 93 16 12Clunes 19 0 o i 4 18 1831

67 5 o 7 I 2382South Clunes 477 9 0Clunes 193 5 0 1 5 7 2145 1042 1012

STEIGLITZ SIJDDIVISION Totals

Enterprise Elaine- 103 0 0 o 18 349 93 9 0 Dummott and Co 5 12 0Steiglitz 22 0 0 0 5 218

Totals 99 1 0 BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND

BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION

125 0 0 o 15 2035

Barrys Reef bullbullbull 14 10 0 4 9 1572 65 0 0Sultan

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEEOHWORTH DlVISION Reform Myrtleford 39 0 0 o 15 0 29 5 0

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YAOKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVlSION

Bigelowe and Clingam WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION E M Gill

Homeward Bound Hills-borough

Various localities

25

50

0

0

0

0

o 15middot 504

o 18 0

19

45

0

0

6

0

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

S

SANDHURST DIVISION 884 16 122 2 2286Pinchgut Gully 412 0 0United Pyrites 244 4 01 9 2311 163 0 0Jackass Flat andhurst amp Eaglehawk PE 281 7 121 11 013Derwent Gully 181 10 0L iddell and Co

1410 8 01 17 69756 10 0Totals HEATHOOTE DIVISION AND ---------shy

WARANGA SOUTH SUB-JDIVISION

33 0 J1 0 033 0 0Alison Lower Costerfield I

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION Bristol Hill

DlJNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS

Queens Birthday

Western Reef Bristol Hill 13 11 0 2 7 208 81 18 12

Bealiba Reef 15 0 0 1 6 16 20 0 0

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr Yeats Castlemaine 129 0 0 1 12 409

- 207 10 0

HEPBURN DIVISION J Williams Ajax

3 7

0 0

0 0

o 16 1 14

16 685

210 12 0

0 0

250 feet 250 feet

Totals 10 0 01 1 9 0 14 10 0

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

_DIVISlUrSTRINGERS 2 9 3-21 42 18 017 9 0Cohens Reef Long Tunnel

12 14 01 9 4648 14 0 Cohens Reef Walhalla - 55 12 02 2 1213- 26 3 0Totals

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

1

Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

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INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

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QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

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PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

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NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

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Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

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The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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WASHDIRT AND GEMENT

SUMMARY THE following information has been obtained relative to the Q~ANT~TY of W ASHDlRT Puddled and

Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Mining Districts Quantity

Puddled and Crushed

Average Yield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from

Washdtrt_-_ _shy ~-bull shy

lolining Districts

1

Ii Quantity

Puddled and uttished

AverageYield of Gold

per Ton

Total Yield of Gold from Cement

Washdirt tons cwt~qr oz dwt gr oz dwt gr Cement ~ qi oz dwt gr oz dwt gr

Ballarat Beechworth Sandlmrst

11696 0 17588 0

0 0

0 0

1 2219 2 612

1125 11 198 I

4 0

Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst

middotmiddotmiddot1

100 0

60 0

0

0

0

0

4 384 I 20

20 16 5 10

0

0 Maryborough 12160 () ) 0 5 1021 32H iii U Maryborough 319 0 U 0 3 1473 57 12 21 Castlemaine 80626 0 0 0 I 396 469 7 15 Castlemaine ibullbull I 460 0 0 0 3 1696 85 5 0 Ararat 720U U Il U 3 1313 1276 18 12 Ararat i 3615 4 0 0 3 178 676 6 8 Gippsland Gippsland

Totalll iI292 0 01 0 I 2 97 11 13 7 Totals 1454 4 0 0 3 l7U 845 10 5

NOTE-This Summary does not show the total quantities of washdirt puddled and sluiced and cement crtlshed but only the yield of certain crushings ampc reapectinl which the Minin~ Surveyors and Heglstrars have been able to ohtain information Owtng to the circumtullce thnt mnny of the machine~ovllersnre uIlilble to give or are precluded from giving infotI~atioIl~it is impossible to get~C9mplelercturns from every district nnd in con siit~ring the relative importance of each district as regards alluyi11 mining I ampc01 the tables relating to machinery should be examined and compared9

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN 1I1elbourne 15th October 1879 Secretary for Mines

WASHDIRT THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the ~Iiuing Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANfITY of WASHD~T fuddleltlor Sluiced in the ~everal Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtainedthelefrom

Division and Subdivision and Wbere Waahdlrt was obtained

Average Yield of Gold

perfon

I

Total Yield of Gold

Remarks relativ~ to the Depth t which the

Waahdirt was obtained ampc

oz dwt gr - oz dwt gr

Nnme of Company

tons cwt qr

BALL4-RAT MINING DISTRICT

CENTRAL DIVISION

Winters Freehold Parish of Cardigan

I

9700 0 0 omiddot 1 1993

i I

887 15 o 405 feet thickness of washdirt from 2 to 6

SOUTHERN DIVISION feet

Turner and party Break-o-b~y i796 U 0 0 1 1708 153 14 13 20 ft to 50 ft 2 ft 6 in thick

Weleome Pitfield Plains bull bullbull i 200 0 0 0 8 979 84 ~ I 15 80 feet 2 feet thick Totals 1 1996 U 01 0 2 99 237164

I

INDIGO DIVISION

Chiltern Valley Gold Mines

ALElLANl)RA SUBDIVISIOf

Sundry lots

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

i Chiltern Lead 17528 ( 0 026 19i7 II 0 330 to 338 feet

I shy

middot1 60 0 0 0 l 20 5 10 0 Aboutmiddot60 feet

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

IMARYBOROUGH DIVISION

Seaham I Alma l 450 0 0 0 3 32 70 10 0 Argus Chinamans 350 0 ) 0 4 0 70 0 0 i

Totals 800 0 0 9 3 123 140 10 0 A)lHERST DIVISION

Union G M

Holfnung G M

Mount Greenock Mount Greenockshy

--- shy

4300 0 0 1300 0 0

0 i

3 1205 6 3i

1---- shy

753 0 0 82 5 0

240 feet 100 feet

AVOCA SUBDIVISION orking Miners bullbullW

Totals

Companys ground

5600

5760

0

0

0

Q

0

(

2 2359

8 158

835 5 (l

shy232r 0 0

No 83 c

bullbullbull

18

QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

-

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19

CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

-----------------~-------------~---------------~-------------------

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

t

--

---

--

------

---

---

--

20

NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

---

--

--------------

176

21

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

22

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

--- ---

23

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

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The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

l

OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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QUANTITY of WASHDlRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions ampc-continued

Division and Subdivision Average and Where Washdlrt was obtained waShdlrt Puddled Yield of Gold

per Ton Narne of Company

--middot----------1-------middot--[--------- shyI tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

T tal YI Id I Remarks relative to the o e Depth at which the of Gold Washdllt was obtaIned ampc

oz dwt gr

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION

Vosti and Co Pennyweight 400 0 0 0 0 1Ol4 8 9 0 20 to 25 feet S Roberts and Co Kangaroo Hill 520 0 0 0 0 18 19 10 0 80 to 90 feet Arthur aud Co bullbull Butchers Hill 325 o 0 0 I 0 16 5 0 90 to 100 feet Ellis and Co Horseshoe Bend 650 0 0 0 I Omiddot 32 10 0 12 to 14 feet Parsons and Co Tonkin and Co

Murdering Flat Chokem Flat

3250 i SO

0 0

0 0

0 0

0 1536 1 0

104 0 39 0

0 0

15 feet 15 feet

Williams and Co New Years Flat 2600 0 0 0 () 6 32]0 0 15to1ifeei Stevens and party Trethewey and Co Thomas and Co

New Years Flat New Years Flat Bald Hill

I bullbull ~ i

1300 1300

600

0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0

() 7-2 0 12 1 0

J9 JO 32 10 30 0

0 0 0

19 feet 15 feet 90 feet

Confluence G M G1gtod Friday

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Robt Grigg and Co bullbullbull John Kmght and Co Jas Eddy and Co JOB Gibbs and Co Hetherington and Co T Mayland F Duers alld Co

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

Crown Sceptre Sceptre Tribute Burton and Co Warrandyte Freehold lJnion Lead Blaek Leather Britannia Sluicing 96 Europeans 54 Chinese

Ah Kay aud Co Spring Gully I 6240 0 0 0 0 6 78 0 0 16 to 18 feet Jenkins and Co Spring Gully SOO 0 0 0 0 54 9 0 0 12 feet Anderson and Co Spring Gully J300 0 0 0 0 369 10 0 0 12 feet Jessen and Co Specimen Hill 7S0 0 0 0 0 492 S 0 0 10 feet Miscellaneous Pennyweight 3000 0 0 0 0 12 75 ~i Various

I----------I---------~I----Totals 23845 U 0 0 0 1035 514 4 0 1

---------------------------shyHEPBURN DIVISION

New North Cornish WombatHi1l Surfaee to 35 feet Thorpes and Merritts Kidds Gully

600 0 0 o 0 66 S 5 0 10 to 20 feet

CampbeUsBakersBlaeks Doctors Gully o 0 5OS 19 10 01840 0 0 o 0 1253 34 17 0 7 8 10 20 feet1330 0 0

and Camerons Roleris Folitu8 and Phi- Stony Creek 81290 feeto 0 1127 89 5 03SOO 0 0

Ilippinis Folitus Camerolls Gully 8 feet Jas Spences Wombat Flat

o 0 18-19 36 0 o950 0 0 7 feet

Brow and party Italian Hill 200 0 0 o 0 84 3 10 o

90 feet Federal I Italian Hill

o I 1251 88 16 o510 0 0 175 feet

Calandni andBowles Elevated Plains 960 0 0 o 0 975 19 10 o

SO to 90 feet Suttons Fiddlers Gully

o 0 2153 48 0 o1070 0 0 7 feet

Power and Co Fuich and Table Hill o 0 859 17 0 o950 0 0

7640 feet Brown and Twining

Franklin Franklinford

o 0 6S2 26 13 oIS76 0 0

450 0 O deg 2 deg 45 0 0 140 feet 260 Chinese bull Hepburn 12000 0 0 I 0 1 72 I 780 0 0 I Various

fotals bull 26536 0 0 0 0 2 109 1166 6 0 I fARAIlALE AND KYNETON

I

SUBDIVISION

Ironstone Hill G M bullbull Taradale South 4476 0 0 0 5 161 1134 0 0 12S4 feet Malmsbury North 9555 0 0 0 I 602 I 600 0 0 260 feet

360 0 0 0 4 0 72 0 0 1158 feet --------1---shy

Totals ~ 24 j806 ~I

40 feet 30 feet 12 to 15 feet 35 feet Surface to 10 feet Surface Surface

Diorite Diorite Diorite Diorite 40 feet 120 feet 30 feet Surface Various shyVarious

Porcllpne Flat Por(upme Flat Porcupine -Flat Eaglehawk Muckleford Mu(kleford Sandy Creek

Totals

Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte Warrandyte

325 0 0 0 1 0 16 5 0 350 deg 0 0 deg IS 13 2 12 600 0 0 0 deg 18 22 10 0 250 0 0 0 0 IS 9 7 12 120 0 0 01 0 6 0 0 50 0 00 0 0 1056 I 2 0

390 0 0 0 492 4 0 0

2085 0 0 i deg 0 1665 72 7 0

500 0 0 - 0 2 597 56 4 12 82 0 0 0 1 15-S4 6 16 3 25 0 1 12-48 I 18 0deg 0 46 0 0 0 0 2160 2 I 10

SOO 0 0 02 2-36 S3 IS 12Warmndyte I

Hoddles Creek 1 120 0 0 deg 0 2291 5 14 14 Hoddles Creek i 600 0 0 0 2 898 71 4 12 Britannia Creek 96 0 deg 0 1 425 5 13 0 Britannia Creek 10000 0 0 0 I 144 800 0 0I IBritannia Creek 1500 0 0 0 I 96 105 0 0

Total middotIIm-oI~~1113S ~

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

RAGLAN DIVISION

New Victoria G M Waterloo i 7200 0 0 0 3 1313 1276 18 12 160 feet

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CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

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PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

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NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

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176

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

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The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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CEMENT

THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars

relative to the QUANTITY of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each

Mining District during the Quarter and the GOLD obtained therefrom

Division and Subdivision and Where Cement was obtained

Name of Company --------------shy

Average Cement Cruslled Yield of Gold

per Ton

tons cwt qr oz dwt gr

Remarks relative to theTotal Yield of ~ Gold Deptll at wilich the

Cement was obtained

oz dwt gr

SOUTHERN DIVISION

Crushed (on hire) by the Nil Desperandum Comshypanys battery

STEIGLITZ SUllDIVISION

Peterson and party Smith and party

Kangaroo

Dollys Creek Dollys Creek

Totals

50 0 0 ---- shy

35 0 0

15 0 0 ---- shy

bull 1 50 0 0

I

0 5 192 --- shy

0 3 1028 0 2 192 --- shy

0 3 576

12 14 0 ----- shy

6 0 0 2 2 0

--- shy8 2 0

60 to 70 feet 6 inches thick

1 foo

BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

WARANGA NORTH SUDDIVISION

Scott and Co Whroo 60 0 0 0 1 20 510 0

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION

James Kay Reade and Co Various places 30i 0 0 0 3 15 55 12 21 (public crushings)

Moon and party Alma 12 0 0 0 3 8 200

Totals 3J 9 0 0 0 3 1473 57 12 21

CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Thomas and Co Bald Hill 90 0 0 0 8 0 36 0 0 90 to 100 feet

HEPBURN DIVISION Leggo and party Township 45 0 0 0 3 0 6 15 0 170 feet Moffatts Betheras ani others

Wombat Hill Township

Totals

1 300 0 0 0 2 0 30 0 0 1 40 feet

25 0 0 0 10 0 12 10 0 75 feet---1-----

1 370 0 0 r 0 2 1589 49 5 0 I

ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

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PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION

Band of Hope 1441 0 0 0 21202 180 3 J8Deep Lead 2174 4 0 0 4 13-53 496 2 14North and tiouth Wales Dcep Lead

3615 4 0 0 3 17-8 Totals 676 6 8

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NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

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176

21

NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

25

The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

No 83 D

26

CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

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NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF lVIINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1879

(Ftom Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registmrs)

N arne of Place4 No

BALLARII DISTRICT Central Division

605 Ballarat East Ballarat West

1470 Jittle Bendigo J90 Sago Hill and Bunkers Hill 20

Southern Division 10

StaffordshIre Reef Long Gnlly 75

Italian Gully 10 4

Kangaroo Splitters Gully

100 10Moonlight 55

Rokewood Junction Bulldog 50

MO)1nt Misery 270 Jacksons Gully 10 Yankee Hill 15 Grassy Gully 30

8Spring Creek 13 Whim Holes

Sawpit Gnlly 25

Hard Hills 30 25Frenchmans 30

Breakmiddoto-Day Pinchgut

80 80

1 shyWestern Creek

BUlIinyong Division 20

Green i-lills and Devonshire Durham and tributaries

10 Scotchmans and Hard Hills 100 Buninyong and Union Jack 10 Hiscocks and Fairweather Reefs 140 Winters Flat and Cobblers 70 Black Lead and Gum-tree 60 Napoleon Kittys Ranges and Gympie 20 Prospecting and isolated parties bull 35

5Grenville 40Magpie Ranges

Smythesdale Division Smythesdale 80

70 Cape Clear Scarsdale and Newtown

10 60

Italian Gully Browns 5

Derwent Jacks 40 Piggoreet 20 Bottle Hill i 50 Snake Valley and Hard Hills 90 Happy Valley and Lucky Womans 160 Haddon 670

5 Maddens Flat Golden Lake

10H

140 Monkey Gully Lintons

12 10

Preston Hill Moonlight --

15

Cre8wich Division 30

Clnnes

Creswick 860 540

Red Streak Springhill

112 ~ ~ 8

Longpoint ~ Union Hill 15

Diamond Gully 10 Cobblers Gully 10 Bald Hills 20 Sulky Gully 10

35Slaty Creek 20Mopoke 15Hnmbug Hill 15lortugnese Flat 10Back Creek 15Bullarook

1-shyGordon S bd ilJision 344Egerton

Gordon 55

Carried forward middotmiddot1

Total -_ _--shy

2285

930

510

1447

1125

399 ~~--

7296

1 No TotalName of Place

--I-~middot

7296Brought forward Steiglitz Subdivisiot

14 Morrisons Steiglitz

50 90Elaine and Monnt Doran 22

Dollys Creek alld Little Forest Bamganie

14 190-Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain

South Subdivision Golden Point 80Hed Hill 50 Barrys Reef aud Split-tree bullbull 190 Yankee Reef and Creek 80 Simmons Heef - 50 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg 70 Blakeville bull 20Snake Gnlly bull 10 Goodmans Creek and vicinity 20 Ballan Flat 30 Garibaldi and vicinity 20 Wrights Reef H 20 Bacchns Marsh and vicinity 20 Mahers Hill 10

670

Balian Subdivision 12

Between Werribeeand Eastern Branch Upper Werribee River

4bull of River vloorabool

Blakeville Hoad 4 1 shy 20

1- shyTotal for Ballarat District 8176

BEEOHWORTI DISTRICT Beechworth Division

105Spring Creek 25

Deep Creek Silver Creek 22

Hurdle Creek 22 50

Two-mile Creek Pennyweight Flat

60 Three-mile Creek 1~(j

40 Stony Creek Six-mile Creek

65 105

W ooragee ampc Myrtleford ampc middot100

38Reids Creek 105 H Wooished 100Sebastopol

180 Stanley and neighborhood Eldorado

340 25

1562 Buckland Gap

Yachandandah South Subdivision 45Clear Creek 16Bruarong

33Kirbys Flat 24 4(J

Rowdy]lat

Osbornes Flat 16Allans Flat 40

Twists Creek Staghorn Flat

40 35i1uddy Creek

14 Sandy Creek HilIsborongh

9U 46Township 20 6

Hayes Point Fell Timber Creek

465 Indigo Division

170Chiltern Hnd New Ballarat Leads 6Suffolk Lead

128Indigo r~ead 4Lancashire Lead 6Lanarkshire Lead

16 Clvdesdale r~eaa Caledonian Le~d

fi

Hobert Burns Lend I-shy

202iCarrie forward 1

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

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Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

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Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

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Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

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The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION OfMINERS 011 the Goldfields ampc-continued

NoName OfPlace

--------------------1--shy

Brou~ht forward

Indigo Division-clJntinued Rutherglcn Reefs 35 Chlltern Reefs bullbullbull 47 Kincardinshire Lead 7 Durham Lead 10 Newcastle Le8d bull 2 All England Lead bull 6 WhiteStar Lead bull 14

Wandiligong Su bdivision 170 lforses and Growlers Creeks __ shy

Buc41and Division 102

Harrietville to Bright Harrietville

484 Bright to Boundary including Runshy

ning Creek 260 Buckland bull 261

Alexandra Subdivision Alexandra and vicinity 20 Gobur andvicinity 22 Devils River and tributaries 20 Johnsons Creek and tributaries 6 Head of UT Creek 4

12 Doogalookl Gorilburn River

2 14Spring Creek joHiginblJtham

Tea-tree Creek and vicinity 10 26

middotMainiiample and Doon bullbull Acheron River bull

20 Yea 20 Merton and vicinity 10

10Scattered popUlation

Dry Creek Subdivision Brankeet Creek 9 Dry Creek 36 Hells Hole Creek 19 Table Land 32

Gaffneys Creek Subdivision Goulburn River 18 Gaffneys Creek 36 Cannolls Creek bullbull 10

Raspberry Creek ampc 30 Lyrebird Creek bullbull 2 Wallaby Reef ampe 13 Moving population 6 Ryans Creek 4 Moonlight Creek 2

Woods Point Subdivision Woods Point and Morning Star 25

Lower Goulburn 14 Right and left branches 20 GooleyS Creek bull 2 Harpers and Pheasant Creeks 8 Perkins Creek and Waverley 14 All Nations and Creek 16 Black River 12 Moving popUlation 8 Maori Creek 3 Never-mind Spur 45

Big River Subdivision Frenchmans Creek 2 Warners Creek bullbull 10 Enochs Point 8 Railway Creek 20 Jim Thomas Creek 4 Big River North 26 Big Ri ver South 4 Frys Creek 3 Moving population 4 GoulQurn Hiver 12

Mitta Mitta North Subdivision Bethanga I_inc 10 Mount Firebrace 20 Keivan Line 40 Harpers Line middot20 ~[arines Line 20 Horse Line 20 Matthews Line 19 Rhodes Line 20 The Old Soldier 20 The GohlenVine 11

shy

ICarried forward bullbull

Total Name of Place No

-~~---II---------~~middot--middot---middot---middot-middot---I--~

Brought forward 2027

Mitta Mittamiddot South Subdivision 17

Granite Flat lightning Creek

50 Mitta Mitta River 21 Junctionmiddot 47 Wheelers Creek 40

Jamieson Subdivision

460 1 Howqua River and tributaries

Goulburn River from Howqua bullbull to

Jamieson bull 25 170 Macks Creek 40

Goulburn River from Jamieson to SWfIllPY Creek

Sailor Bills Creek

70

100 Flume Creek 10

Total

4647

Bakers Creek 301 280

1107 Total for Beechworth Distric~

SANDHUB81 DISlRlC1 Sandh urst Division

Back Creek and Spring Gully 220 Sheepshead and Golden Gully 280 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat 440 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood 90 Marong and Bulloek Creek 140 Vietoria arid New-chum Reefs bullbullbull 490 LongMaiden and Derwent Gullies 480 Ironbark 490 Bendigo Flat 450 White Hills and Epsom 100 Huntly 150206 Sydney Flat and Whipstick 2j)0 Specimen Hill and Sailors Gully 260

Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse Flat 220 Windmill Hill and California Gully 330 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat 270

96 Snobs Hill and Pegleg Gully 340 Raywood 50 Elysian Flat 50 Sebastian bull bullbullbull 70 Kamarooka 45 Scattered and prospecting 300

5015 Reedy Creek 106 Snnday Creek middot10 Kilmore Diggings Ii

121

KilmQre Division

Strath Creek 8 136Heathcote Division and Waranga South

Subdivision Graytown 20 Redcastle 90 Heathcote I 150 Costerfield 210 Tooborac 25 Kimbolton and Campaspe 25 Coli ban and Myrtle Creek 30 Wild-duck 35

585 Rushworth 91

WarangaNortlt Subdivisionmiddot 167

Whroo 95 Coys Diggings 46

232

Total for Sandhurst District 6468

MARynoROUGH DISTRICT 1

M arybQrouyh Division Alma 350 Waterloo ~ 50 Inkerman 50 Moonlight Flat 5093 Adelaide Lead 1I5 Golden Point 70 Craigie 70 I Four-mile Flat 80 I Carisbrook 190 1 Mosquito 160 I bull

Bluchers 260 Newtown 150 Havelock 165 Chinamans 650 Blackmans IA~lid 50

200 [nryinrongh 175 1____ 283)

4647 1 Carried forWltrd _-_--------~--- -

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

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The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

Name of Place No Total Name of Place No Total

-----~------~---------~------~ishy-shyBrought forward 2835 Brought forward 7836

Majorca Subdivision Majorca bull ]~ngland8 Hill Lead Gibraltar Lead Scandinavian Lead McCallums Creek Rocky Flat

Amhest Division Abont Talbot bull

45 12 10 15 20 20

35 i

122

St Arnaud North Subdivision-continued Rostrons and Wattle Flat Emu ampc Carapooe Bell Rock ampc bull Blink Bonnie ampe Duchess of Edinburgh Jerejaw amp0 Victoria Reef amp0

20 25 15 20 10 20 20 20

1-shy 485 Scandinavian Lead Mount Greenock bullbull

10 62 Total for Maryborough District i77 1

Nuggety arid Long Gullies 36 shy

Kangaroo Gully and Flat Mia ~Iia Flat and Gully Daisy Hill and tributarJes Adelaide Lead South

bullbullbull

26 40

130 50

CASTLlltlMAINE DISTRICT

Castlemaine Division Blacksmiths Gully 16 Castlemaine 104 Emu and Cockatoo Browns Gnlly __

30 12

Eureka Reef Guildford

40 100

Norfolk Gully Rocky Flat Mount Glasgow

14 14 4

Campbells Creek Sailors Gully Barkers Creek

119 30 80

Lilicur Eglinton ~

Avoca Subdivisiou Amphitheatre bullbullbull Avoca Lead GreenHill Creek Percydale Homebush bullbull Lamplough Mountain Hut No I Creek bullbullbull No2 Creek Kimberley and Sardine Donkey Hill Middle Creek ampcbullbull Gullies east of Avoca

Ounoilyand Tarnagulla Divisions Dunolly Burnt Creek Goldsbrough Inkerman

6 4

50 75 60

150 215 130 25 45 70 15 30 20 20

410 100 350

60

489

905

lJyrtle Creek Moonlight Flat Chewton Wattle Gully Golden Point Diamond Gully

Prvers Creek Division GoMen Gully to Fryerstown Spring Gully to Specimen Hill Chokem Flat to Vaughan Butchers and Kangaroo Hills German and Mopoke Gullies Loddon Vaughan to Pennyweight Table Hill and Tarilta Guildford Hills toddon Vaughan to Holcombe Nuggety Hill and lrishtown Green and Sailors Gullies Pickpocket and Hard Hills Strathloddon and Hit-or-Miss

Hepburn Division

10 50

210 84 75 92

- shy

180 80

220 80

105 100 100 200 150 110 35 50

120

994

11180

Moliagul ampc Bealiba

bullbull

165 80

Dry Diggings Section Yandoit Section

55 80

Murphys Flat ampc Jones Creek ampc Tarnagulla Half-way ampc bull Llanelly ampc bullbull Wildmiddotdog ampc

Inglewood aul Wedderburn Divisions Inglewood BerlinDiggings Kingower McIntyres Synnotts Burkes Flat Opossum Hill Wehlo Kangdaar Creek bull Wedderburn bull bullbullbull Gariboldi Avoca Forest Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Kilhurnie

Redhank and St Arnaud South Subdivisions Stuartmill ampc Redbank ampc Fowlers Lead Hinds Moonambel amp0 Darling jlat bullbull Emerald Flat Sandy Creek Canterbury

St Arnand North Subdivision New Bendigo St Arnaud Stuartmill ampc Silver Mines amp0

15 70

llO 10 60 50 I

320 llO 80 50 20 50

100 30 ao 65 17

8 26 81

60 85 16 32

19G 33 61 13 16

-shy40

190 )5

20

1480

987

518

Boots Gnlly Section Italian Gully Section Spring Creek Section Doctors Gully Section Brandy-hot Section Deep Ureek Section Blind Creek Section Stony Creek Section Wombat Creek Section Daylesford Section Conners Gully Section

Taradale and Kyneton Subdivision Ttmdale Liberty Flat and Belltopper Redesdale Malmsbury Coliban IAturis ton Scattered

Tarrangower Division North Maldon Beehive Hill Eaglehawk bullbullbull Long Gully Porcupine mat Fiddlers Flat Mount Tarrangower Sandy Creek Nuggety Mia Mia Green Valley Mueldeford Clydesdale River roddon Porkills Reef German Heef Fentemans Reef

38 55 60 42 32 80

100 65 72

255 85

65 90 45 95 25 40 86

-shy50 39 45 41 34

2 60 61

2 26

8 12 55 II 25 40

I 4

shy

1019

446

515

Carried forward 7336 Canied forward I 4504 I

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

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The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields ampc-continued

_~_______N__m_e_of_P_l_c_e__~~~_~_ Brought forward

St Andrews Division Andersons Creek bullbullbull Long Gully Smiths Gully You-You Wild-dog Walshs Warburton Cherry-tree Cobblers Gully Watery Gully Reef ton Pioneer Queenstown Kingstown One-tree Hill McMahonS Emerald Starvation Creek Hoddles Creek Diamond Heefs Muddy Creek Wombat Creek Big Pats Wilsons Creek bullbull

Blue illountain NorIt Subdivision Trentham Newbury Garlicks

Total for Castlemaine District

1

~~I 4504 1

70 18 14 17 12 10 9

10 3 6

25 11 32 13

7 8 6

70 2 a

l 2 6

392 10 26 37 73

4969

Name of Place

Brought forward Crooked River Division

Grant Crooked Hiver Jungle Creek Twelve-mile Creek Twenty-jive-mile Creek Thirty-mile Creek Wentworth Uppcr Dargo Middle Dargo Iower Dargo Upper Mitchell Good Hope Good Luck Creek Granite Creek tVonnangatta Wongungarra

Jericho Division Dry Creek Lower Jordan Upper Jordan Red Jacket Creek Blue Jacket Creek B B Creek fhomson River Aberfeldy River

Donnellys Creek Division Donnellys Creek Aberfeldy Fultons Creek ampe

Stllngers Creek Division Walhalla (Cobens Heef) Aberfeldy Hiver

No I Total

998

5 40

8 4

12 10 43 38 19 14 14

6 6 6 2 6 I

__I 233

6 40 22 10

8 26 16 12

140-- 20 I 73

328 30

Thomson River 50 ARARAT DISTRICT Tubal Caill 4

Ararat Division Stringers Creek 4 Ararat Proper 145 Happy-go-lucky 6 Armstrongs 60 Fultons Creek 6 Philips Flat and Cathcart 50 I Ranges (prospecting) 5 Rhymney Reef and Sheas Flat 20 Aberfeldy Subdivision 433 Opossum Gully and Port Curtis 45 Aberfeldy River 40 Moyston and Londonderry bull Emu Rush at Fryingpan Plains

40I 200 Thomson River Lily of the Valley Co

22 30

Pleasant Creek Division Silver Shilling I-U li60 Aberfeldy Claim (Jas Rices lease)

Lone Star 30

4

Deep LeadForty-footamp Welshmans Flat 480 Russells Creek Division 126 Great Western bullbullbull bull 50 Crossover Creek 17 Stawell 840 Tanjil 25 Seventy-foot 25 Russells Creek 12 Germania 20 Hawthorn Creek 9 Welcome 6 Wombat Creek 2 Darlington 8 Tangil River 3 Ironbark 42 Camp Creek 2 Cosmopolitan 16 Columbia Reef 4

BarMy Division Landsborough Barkly Frenchmans Glenpatrick

Raglan Division Beaufort Sailors Gully Charlton Waterloo

65 55

160 22

90 40 50

270

1502

302

Kennys Creek Pheasant Creek Slaters Gully Stony Creek

Bendoc Subdivision Bendoc Bonang Delegate Hiver Bog and Queensborough Lower Bendoc

2 5 1 3

10 8 2

14 2

85

Old Main Lead I 120 570 Back Creek

Tarwin Subdivision 6

42 Total for Ararat District Foster 62

Turtons Creek 6 Benison Flat 4

GIPPSLAND DISTRlltlTbull Traralgon Subdivisioll 72 OnulO Subdivision Morewell 4

Livingstone Creek 150 Naraean Creek 25 Mitta Mitta River from Cobungra to Traralgon Creek 6

Wombat Creek 20 Flinns Creek 2 Wombat Creek 20 Tyers River and Creek 6 Gibbo River 17 Merrimans Creek bullbull 3 Swifts Creek 160 Moe 5 River Tambo 12 La Trobe 4 SassafrasWheelers and Saltpetre Creeks 300 Bennetts Creek 2

MilcltellRiver and Bogyy Creek Subdivisions Nicholson and Tambo Hivers and their

tributaries Boggy Creek and tributaries Merrijig Creek and tributaries

90 169 20

679 Eaglehawk Creek Sunny Creek Couchmans Creek Mosquito Creek

4 4

12 4

81 Sandys Creek and tributaries I~ 319 Total for Gippsland District 2283

I~-Carried forward 998 GRAND TOTAL 37703

Office of Mines THOS COUCHMAN Melbourne 15th October 18711 Secretary for Mines

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

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The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

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Page 25: MINING SURVEYORS &REGISTRARS.€¦ · Table showing the Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz raised during the Quarter in some of the Deepest Mines in Victoria; with Depth

MINtNG SURVEmiddotYOHS AND REGIS~rlARS REPOltTS ~

BALLARtT MINING DISTRICT

CENlRAL DIVISION

jll1 David Christy 1lIining Regist1a1

I have the honor to report that mining in this district has been pursued during the past qualter with unabated vigor The success of the Band and Albion Cousols Company iu their quartz mining has led to the formation of several compajlies on private land northerly from that companys boundary and from indicationsinet witli in sinkshying viz-cutting through leaders-it is with great confidence anticipated that a good paying reef will be obtained My statistics show however a slight falling off in the yield from last quarter still the yield of 7dwts12 grs per ton is con~i~ered a verysat~sf~tory return for Ballarat quartz-a return which will cover miners wages lllld permit of a fair dlVidend to capltahsts mterested

In alluvial mining I have nothing of interestto report beyondthe ordinary routine work save the diBc~very of a re~f-wash which has been struck by the Mount Clear Company at New Chum Gully on the eastern side of the Bumuyongroad and from which one machine of washdirt has yielded the admirable return of 30 ounces The extent of this reef-wash is not as yet known but from the situationit is supposed to be considerable I regret I am not in a position to report that the City of Ballarat Company is obtaining gold It will be seen

by the following paragraph from the manager that the prospects of the company are favorable - After pumping for upwards of three months we have succeeded in overcoming the immense body of water we had to eontend with and expeQt to obtain washdirt in the course of teri middotdays The water is much easier and appears to be permanently draining6tf-in fact all the works are now going on in a most satisfactory manner

The qua~tity of ~ter sold during the quater for mining purposes was 47420000 gailonsshy~ 3742000 gallons at 4d per 1000 gallons

7048000 l1t 2d 34577000 gtt at id

20l3OOO at a minimum of 15g ----- per month per 1000 47420000 gallons gallons for slnicing

purposes

SIATEM~NT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF A~LUVIAL GOLD OBTAiNED BY OOMPANnSWITIHN THE DIVIS~~~ pU~ING THE QUARTEn

oz dwt gr

Winters Freehold 887 15 0

Band and Albion Consols 641 7 0 New Ballarat Extension 106 1 0 Guiding Star 103 18 2 New Eureka bullbull __ 46 5 ~ Cooperative parties at Little Bendigo Canadian Sailors Gully and Niw A~ t

Chum-about 4000 00 (Including several parcels discovered at White Horse Ranges by private parties and sold to thegold buyers) Total 5785 6 8

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DIVIDENDS PAID FnoM ALLUVIAL A~ Q~ARTZ MINES DURING THE QUARTER

I pound sd Band and Albion Consols 8418 15 0 Teinperan~e Co 1450 deg 0 1Endeavor Co 300 0 0 New North Dimocks 00 2000 0 Baker amp Co 120 0 0

pound10488 15 deg

SOUTlfERN DIVISION

Mr Georue Perry Mining Registrar bullbullbull J bullbull 11

QUARTZ MINING 1

Tlle total yield of gold from this branch of mining shows an increase of nearly 115 Qzs overmiddotthat of theprevious quarter chiefly oving t the greater quantity of quartz crushed 1 bull

StaffOrdshIre Reef-The Hopewell Company have been prospectmg for some time past but notmeetIng With anytliing payable have ceased ()perations and the machinery has been sold This ismuch tob~ regre~tedas His the deepest mine ~iri the division and a great arnoullt of money h~ been eipended without satisfactorily proving the deep qlfl~tz reefs vhich are k~qWI) to exist in the ~laim Imiddot

The Hopewell Tnbuters h_ave su~k theu ~haft to the depth of 212 feet opened out at 208 feet and cut through the lode ~hich is 10 felt thick but finding the water too heavy had to discon~inue work at that level and operi Out higher up the ~fuft where they have struck the lode showing payable gold Fifty tons of quartz havemiddot been crushed which yielded 15 middotozs 0 dwts 6 grs I _middotUI)I

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The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

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The Speedwell Tribute Company are getting better yields Kangaroo-The New Kangaroo Company have lately been crushing very poor stone obuained from the n~rth

part of the mine but I am informed that there is better stOlle south which they are opening up with all possIble speed

The New Try Again Company have let the mine on tribute The stone clllshed is very poor The Williams Fancy Company have lately struck some excellent stone ill a winze at the bottom level but

they cannot work it until the shaft is sunk deeper rho Nil Desperandulll Company have been prospecting at the lower level but not finding anything payable

had to resume work in their upper levels intending to prospect further when their funds will allow The New Venture Company resumed work on the 7th July since which date they have struck the lode and

raised about 120 tons of stone therefrom which is being crushed at the Nil Desperandum Companys battery which will not be cleaned up in time for this report

ALLUVIAL

In this branch of mining there is no improvement of any consequence Kangaroo-rrhe Lucky Company are making gOod wages Pitfield Plains--The Welcome Company are doing exceedinglywell III the other parts of the division there is very little doing

BUNINYONG DIVISION

Mr Rohert M Harvey Mining Surveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The prospectors at Kittys Ranges are still at work but have riot yet been successful in finding gold-bearing quartz

On Hiscocks Reef the Imperial Company continue to get good stone in large quantities having crushed 1520 tons averaging over 6 dwts They are now repairing machinery and expect a long continuance of good returns

The One and lUI Company are sinking 011 the line of the Imperial Companys good stone about 120 fcet to the north They have already struck a gold-bearing vein but it is not supposed to be the same as that on which the Imshyperial are working

The public crushings at the One and All Company have yielded well This is the only battery for public crushing in the division For large quantities their price is now 5s per ton

AUUVIAL MiNING

I have no change to report The Hard Hills miners have been making generally good wages On Watsons lease pumping is still carried on deeper ground than was anticipated having been found and

hence more water The proprietor expects soon to be washing any trials made have given good prospects

WATER

The quantity of water used can only be approximately estimated Much has been wasted probably over 10000000 gallons have been used yielding a revenue of pound4108 This is from the Government reservoir under conshytrol of Buninyong Borough Council

SMYTHESDALE DIVISION

Mr John Lynch Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is an increase of 1115 ozs in the yield for this quarter over that of the last and the yields from the mines continue to improve The chief source of supply is Haddon an extensive valley containing widespread deposits very likely to last for a long time A most valuable discovery has rectJntly been made at Browns A party of miners some of whom having been acquainted with the locality commenced to prospect there some twelve months ago and despite of serious discouragements physically and financially persevered in their efforts which at last have been rewarded beyond their most sanguine expectations Their first weeks proceeds gave them pound38 per man and their second week pound55 lOs per man The ground is alluvial and the depth varies between 150 and 200 feet and the lead of gold is such as warrants the belief that it is of considerable extent aud not merely a patch This discovery has naturally caused a stir among the miners and has led them to take up a large extent of adjacent ground along the supposed course of this rich run There is no doubt that owing to the hasty and unsystematic working in past times of this once prolific goldfield a great deal of rich ground has been eithel left altogether undiscovered or at most but imperfectly tried Should the lucky instance at hand be followed up by one or more even of modtJrate success a general resuscitation ofmining along the entire basin must certainly ensue The Golden Belt Company Springdall~h has not of late mn-de the progrcss that could be desired but I believc the few untoward incidents which have beset it are now removed and that satisfactory progress may be expeeted for the future A great dcal of interest attaches to this claim as upon it depends the fate of deep sinking in this part of the district Towards the extreme south part of the district along by Cape Olear and its icinity there is nothing of importance going on At Lintons the Canterbury claim is keeping up pretty well its wonted amptatulf but those othels which have been prominent there for years show a tendency to recede Some good patches are occasionally met with in several parts of Lintons and the Happy Valley district but the more certain sources are becoming sensibly scarce as the deep leads are getting exhausted There is nothing of material import to notice in the Carngham district A few claims are doing fairly well at Bottle Hill but it must be allowed that in general this portion of thc mining division is very dull rhis remark applies only to its allu vial resources for I am under the impression that its lullrtz reefs contain vast stores of gold Various efforts 10 effectually deal with this branch of mining have heen made there up to the present but they have been all of too fitshyful a character to answer the necessary ends And this observation might be said to apply to quartz mining all over the division At Mullocky Point Browns a quartz claim has been taken up recently to test the well-known lodes existing there The ground occupied has been operated upon at intervals during the past 20 years but thouh good prospects have been found they do not seem to have led to permanent results as the place has been repeatedly abanshydoned The present company however declarc their resolve to give it a fair trial and as they have the means pecuniarily of giving effect to this resolve we may at last expect to see the question set at Test by them

rhe sluicing companies have done well whils the watel supply lasted hut owing to the defective provision made for the conservation of waleI the resources of our surbcing hills call ollly be intermittingly developed

The quarters yields from the prillcipal mines aTe as follow -Reform 2830 ozs Trunk Lead 1522 ozs Racecourse 1505 OZS City of Canterbury 541 ozs Smythesdale Consols (quartz) 61 ozs

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

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Page 27: MINING SURVEYORS &REGISTRARS.€¦ · Table showing the Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz raised during the Quarter in some of the Deepest Mines in Victoria; with Depth

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CRESWICK DIVISION

J1r James Stevenson 1I1inirig Regist1al

I have lhe honor to report that there is a decrease ill the average yield from quartz of over 1 dwt per ton but ~Wlllg to the increased quantity of stone crushed the total yield has only slightly decreased

The quantity of gold obtained from the alluvial is dmost Ule same as in the previous quarter I am glad to sll-Y that the New Auslralasiall Company have commenced washing with very favorable results NOlle of the other Jlrogressive mines have yet bottomed

The diamond drill is again at work on the claim of the Loughlin Company The yields of the principal mines with dividends and royalty are us follow viz -

YIELDS DIVIDENDS AND ROYALTY

oz tlwt gr pound s d

Ristori Freehold Company Springhill 11245 4 0 7323 13 deg De ifurskaFreehold CompanymiddotSpringhiU 1623 7 0 2905 5 0 Dykes Freehold Oompany Springhill 1097 12 0 807 3 6 Ryans Junction Freehold Company Springhill 1246 12 0905 7 deg New Australasiun Company Red Streak 608 7 deg New Hit or Miss Company Hed Streilk 108 7 16 Homeward Bound Company Bald Ihlls 70 0 0 Port Phillip Company Oluues 3613 19 4middot New North Clunes Cumpany Clunes

514 deg deg South Clunes Company Clunes 2000 0 0 Appryximatemiddot Yield of small claims 1000 0 deg

8658 4 16 pound18UO 12 10

The quantity of water used during the quarter was 97557000 gallons at l~d per 1000 gallons

GORDON SUBDIVISION

1111 Thomas Cowan Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL JYfINING

The Egerton Iead Prospecting Association All Nations Gully Egerton have been engaged during the quartel in sinking their shaft mentioned in my last report and which bottomed at a depth of 106 feet Washdirt was obtained at this depth but no test made as to its value as the shaft is being sunk to a greater depth before opening out The number of men employed is three

Three men have bcen engaged during the quarter prospecting at Parkers Gully Gordon but the results have not been of an encouraging nature only 3 ozs 2 dwts 19 grs of gold being obtained

QUARTZ MINING

Egerton-Black Horse United Company-During the past quarter the No9 level has been extended 181 feet making the total distance from shaft 400 feet it is still being pushed ahead It was anticipated that the lode would have been cut ere this distance had been reaehed and the fact of its not being struck is evidence that the slide met with in the upper levels has altered its course throwing the lode more to the east The winze referred to in my previous report was put down 30 feet in good stone but had to be stopped on accountmiddot of the flow of water increasing in proportion to the depth Vork cannot be resumed untilmiddot the water is drained by cutting the slide in the No9 level The immense body of stOi18 operated on in the upper levels to keep the new battery at work was discovered to be of such a low average that at present only the smaller part of the lode is being takeu Bufficient to keep 12 stamp-heads at work When the No9 level reaches the lode and is properly opened up it is anticipated that the greater portion ofthe battery will be kept at profitable work the remainder being retained for prospecting the various parts of the mine as needs be 7356 tons of stone have been crushed yielding] 469 ozs 16 dwts of gold or an average of 3 dwts 239 grs to the ton and pound1000 paid in dividends Number of men middot100

The Egerton Company during the quarter have been ellgaged in further siuking their Sister Rose shaft which is now a depthof 930 feet and in raising stone from the quarry shaft at a depth of from 500 to 758 feet 10104 tOllS have been raised and crushed which yielded 3238 ozs 3 dwts 14 grs or an average of 6 dwes 983 grs to the ton N nmber of men 190 pound12507 9s have been paid in dividends during the quarter

The South Learmonth and Egerton Amalgamated Company have been prospecting their ground at the 2iO-foot level A cross-cut has been constructed to a distance of i7 feet and at 51~ feet a lode about 1middot foot in thickness was cut A drive has been put in along the course of this lode to a distance of 141 feet but the stone metmiddotwithis not considered of a payable nature Thirteen men are employed

Various ()hinese parties consisting altogether of 38 men are-engaged washing the tailings from the Black Horse United and Egerton Companies batteries During the quarter 125 ozs ofmiddot gold have been obtained

No work has been done by the Rose and Shamrock Company Moorabool during the quarter but the machinery is still on the groundmiddot

Gordon-Parkels United Company-The cross-cut at the 700-foot level mentioned in my last report was put in to the north-west and at a distance of 54 feet from the shaft struck the lode A drive was constructed to the north along the course oBhe lode for a distance of 52 feet but the stone being poor in qual~ty~t was abandoned and a drive constructed to the south from whcre the lode was first struck Better stone has beenmet with in this drive and a trial crushing is now being raised Sixty tons of quartz from the lode wherdirst struck were crushed Vhich only yielded 17 ozs ] 8 dwts 18 grs or an average of 5 dwts 235 grs to the ton N umber of mell employed 50

The United Miners Company have abandoned their ground in consequence of the laststone crushed being very poor Their machinery has been sold and removed from the ground Two men however still occasionally prospect the ground

Lal Lai Iron Company Lal Lal-No ore baa been smelted duting thequarter About s() tons have been raised obtained from prospecting Four men are employedmiddot

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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Page 28: MINING SURVEYORS &REGISTRARS.€¦ · Table showing the Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz raised during the Quarter in some of the Deepest Mines in Victoria; with Depth

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STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION Mr D Murphy Mining Registrar

There has been a decided improvement in quartz mining in this division during the quarter some very payable reefs having been found in the Elaine portion especially one (a new reef) discovered in Clearys paddock near the Elaine township which yielded from a trial crushing of 21 tons the nice amount of 88 ozs 8 dwts Another very rich reef is also reported to have been found between Elaine and Mount Doran by an old indefatigable

prospector named Mortimer it is expected to yield between ten and twenty ounces to the ton Some very good alluvial prospects have also beeen found at Bamganie which is quite a new field A company is in course of formation for the purpose of trying some of the numerous reefs also in the locality of Bamganie which are said to be gold bearing lhere is not much doing in Steiglitz at present which is a pity for if there was only capital enough in the locality to prospect it is the opinion of some of the oldest practical miners that very rich reefs would be discovered

BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr John F Hansen Mining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Mining as a whole in this division continues in a very stagnant state The only item of importance has been the striking very recently of splendid gold-bearing quartz in the Sultan lode at the 400-foot level of Mounter Brothers mine The reef is the same on which the Sultan Company has so successfully operated for it long time back The size of Mounter Brothers claim is very limited comprising only about 130 feet on the line of reefs nevertheless the returns have proved very remunerative for the last twenty years On the strength of this discovery an application for a gold mining lease of the area lately held by the Sultana Company has been lodged at the wardens office

The returns from the Sultan Company show that the mine is worked on a very profitable system to the shareshyholders four dividends each of 7s 6d per share or a total amount of pound3750 have been declared during the quarter At the 500-foot level the Sultan Reef carries good gold in the lode and in leaders 30 feet wide this is the best section worked in the mine at present the drives at the ~OO-foot level are not being pushed ahead but stoping is being carried on between that and the 700-foot level The sinking of the main shaft is being prosecuted with vigor and prospecting is carried on in several parts of the mine

Some excitement was manifested at Blakeville when it became known that specimens of gold-bearing quartz had been obtained in that locality from two separate reefs one of the reefs is situated about 250 feet east of the Undaunted Reef and the other 8eems to be in a line with Ashtons Reef north of the old Flora McDonald claim Nothing definite however has as yet been forthcoming

The Morning Star Companys mine which has been lying unworked for some time back is now placed in the market to be formed into a public company The mine has only been worked to a depth of 75 feet (tunnel level) the heavy influx of water however makes it imperative that pumping machinery should be procured before sinking can be resumed The mine down to the level referred to above has produced close upon 5000 ozs of gold from these facts it may be well presumed that if the necessary capital for opening up the mine at a deeper level is available remunerative results will be forthcoming

ALLUVIAL MINING

Nothing of any importance to report has occurred that I am aware of No miners are employed in mining for metals or minerals other than gold The average quantity of water sold was ten sluice-heads at lOs per week per sluice-head The rainfall during the quarter has been as follows viz -July 280 ins August 364 ins September

360 ins total 104 ins

BALLAN SUBDIVISION Jlfr John F Hansen ~Mining Registrar

The late Ashtons freehold mine now in the hands of Messrs Mitchell Randall and Nivett of Ballar~t has started operations again A portable winding and pumping engine has been placed on the ground to pump the water out of the mine after which it is intended to sink the shaft a further depth of 52 feet or a total of 150 feet when stoping will be commenced

A quartz reef situated at the Upper Werribee from which several years ago a trial crushing of 8 tons was taken to Daylesford and operated upon at Freemans battery yielding 2 ozs of gold per ton has again been taken up The reef is about 12 inches thick underlaying weBt and is getting thicker as they go down

The shaft for deep alluvium in the same locality is about 70 feet in depth and wet the claim has not been registered but simply held under miners right and I have been unable to obtain any reliable information respecting the payable nature of the venture The gold obtained from it seems to be sold at DaylesfOrd

No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT

BEECHWORTH DIVISION Mr Alexander Alderdice Mining Registrar

Want of water for sluicing purposes still compels many claim holders to work only half time in this division and the production of alluvial gold for the past quarter is thJ smallest yet recorded

At Stony Creek a considerable quantity of washdirt has been raised but cannot be washed through want of water The Murmungee Company are making good headway with their tunnel at Bowmans Forest and it is thought that they will meet with payable ground before the claim is reached At the Gap a party of Chinese are making fair wages on the Government Lead which had been abandoned

At Eldorado nothing is doing the McEvoy company not having jet been re-formed It is well known that a considerable extent of payable ground exists in this companys holding and the next claim to it (the Wellington) but that it is very costly to work

The Hocky MountainRluicing Companys tunnel is almost finished over 800 yards having been cut The stone still continues hard although it is close to where boring has been done in soft rock

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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Quartz mining appears to be reviving an impetus having been given to it by the finding of gold in payable quantities in several old and abandoned notably one at Stanley known as the Shakspeare wluch gave 2 ozs 15 dwts per ton for 43 tons A second crushing is being made which it is assumed will give over 2 OZS per ton The Marco Polo (formerly the Kingston) at Hurdle Flat has also turned out well although left as being too

poor a few years back The Vvallaby Tribute contillu~s to pay good profits ne~rly 15 d wts per ton h~ving been got from 800 tons The present tribute has only a short tIme to run and when fimshed the propnetors llltend to put a

long tunnel into the mine for the purpose of working it more economically At Myrtleford the Reform and Nil Dcsperandum reefs arc still being worked although the stone fushed

during the past quarter has not paid well a little over 6 dwts per ton having only been obtained Great excItement took place at Barwidgec in consequence of the find of a very rich reef on the Waterloo Hill close to the Agamemnon and Waterloo reefs The stone is exceedingly rich in appearance but none has been crusheg The reef has not yet been traced for any great distance only a second claim having been taken up on it The locality has always been noted for rich reefs although they do not continue to pay well for any great depth This new one the Lone Star is supposed to be an offshoot from the Agamemnon Reet~ which paid well for a long time though not at present being worked

YACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

There is no mining as yet carried on in this subdivision

YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr J Smart Mining Registrar

In alluvial mining through the scarcity of water in this division several miners European and Chinese have been compelled to seek other employment and many of those remaining cannot work mOre than four hours each day for the want of water

Quartz Mining at Hillsborough-The yield of gold is smaller than usual this quarter I am in hopes it will improve Two prospecting claims have been registered within the last few days

At Sandy Creek there is a good prospect of a permanent quartz-reefing country opening up as within the last month three new reefs have been discovered showing good payable stone

INDIGO DIVISION Mr R Arrowsmith Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining has been somewhat dull during the quarter no large parcels of stone having been crushed The average yield however has been well maintained owing to the splendid crushings from the Pass-by Reef This claim is to be formed into a limited liability c()mpany with a capital of pound15000 in shares of pound1 each Another company is also in course of formation to work the Oreat Eastern Reef at Rutherglen with a similar capital This claim has yielded something like pound24000 worth of gold to the present proprietors 1llthough a depth of not more than 170 feet has been attained A company is also in course of formation to test the deeper levels in the neighborhood of Chiltern they have decided on the Robert Burns Reef as the scene of their operations There can be little doubt if capital be judiciously expended in exploring the extensive auriferous ranges in this locality reefs of great value will ultimately be discovered splendid returns having been obtained from time to time from little more than surface workings while the ranges have evidently been the feeders of the several rich leads that have been successfully worked for many years

There is nothing new to report in alluvial mining The Chiltern Valley Mines Company as usual is yielding satisfactory returns and the White Star Company at Rutherglen have bottomed their shaft and the prospects are said to be satisfactory

BUCKLAND DIVISION ~fr J Darbyshire Mining Surveyor and Registrar

1vfining affairs in this division have undergone but little alteration since last quarter The yield of gold from quartz shows an increase of about 1000 OZS and from alluvial 100 ozs The principal increase has been from old reefs taken up by young men and found profitable after being abandoned in former years

No account of any water having been sold for mining purposes

ALEXANDRA SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsworth Milling Surveyor and Registrar

There are indications of a slight revival in mining ill this subdivision A notable yield has been obtained from the Durham Gully dyke One of the crushings from this same claim (Peter Mannonis patty) gave 44 ozs 4 dwts for 2 tons equal to 22 ozs 2 dwts per ton The whole yield for the quarter-to wit 133 ozs-is the result of two mens work under not advantageous circumstances the mine not being as yet opened up One of the blocks adjoinin~ has been taken up by a Melbourne company The Hope of Richmond who are about erecting drainage and crushing machinery which may lead to the proper working of these veins poundhis line is in the same state as a hundred others in this division the ground has been taken up scratched and abandoned Some cooperative parties needing assistance as they mostly do from contributing shareholders find it difficult to obtain any and consequently are short-lived the prospects obtained in very many veins through the district have been withal unusually high and such as OIl other goldfields would have led to mining being prosecuted with enthusiasm and success

The Mysterious now Lady Normanby Company appear to me to be within short reach of payaLle stone judging from the quartz now in their drive The rest of the IJucky line remains idle

No mining save for gold is at present carried on in this subdivision and I hear of no water being sold In alluvial mining I have nothing new to report

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION lJIr Jonatlzan Pemberton M~ining Regist1lw

Prospecting is greatly increasing Some good results having been obtained) severallarge leases are applied for on a line of country running east and west with the same strata as those heing worked by Mr R G Meade The Perseerance Company are crushing Messrs Maddock and Co still driving tunnel Alluvial mining about the same as when I last reported

GAFFNEYS CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainsw01middottlt Mining Sur~eyor and Registrar

Mining in this subdivision shows its usual briskness The return from the Wallaby Reef tribute is excellent yielding nearly 16 dwts to the ton The tributers have moreover 523 ozs of amalgam from the plates and will wash up about the 5th instant The A 1 mine is let Ollce more to another trihute party composed maiuly of the old elements The Jjauraville has passed into other hands and a tribute party has heen formed to work it 1he Great Company are still prospecting and have lately obtained a few ounces which will appear in next quarters return the Eastern particulars not having yet reached me

The Golden Belt is still idle In the Danabrog what appears to be payable quartz has been obtained in the eastern wall of the tUlluei Dempseys claim tributers have put through their battery ahout 100 tons but will not wash up for some time The Hunts and Victoria mines are still being prospected and the Eldorado l~tely forfeited is now in the hands of Maxwell and partner who are prospecting likewise I trust next quarter to forward even higher returns than the present the appearances being unusually cheering

No miners save those working for gold are in this subdivision Water is abundant but I hear of none being sold Thealluvial miners have obtained quite up to their average during the past quarter

WOODS POINT SUBDIVISION Mr A B Ainswortlt Mining Surveyor and Registrar

The alluvial miners have done moderately well during the past quarter averaging about 27s per week At the Mountaineers Black River fair prospects seem likely to be obtained Messrs Mulholland and party

are preparing to erect machinery At the Leviathan Messrs Knopp and Mayall are breaking down stone of the usual quality and MesalS Thorpe and party are prospecting avery promising vein they struck lately

The Morning Star Hill at Woods Point is only being worked on the left branch in the prospectors mine the yields therefrom have been about payable

The tributers at the All Nations after shifting the companys machine were compelled by the poverty of the yields obtained to abandon their tribute they had relied on some mnllock heaps of old extraction repaying crushing which they did not The yield was nominal and has not been furnished to me

The North Waverley Company (lvIessrs Stackpoole and Co) continue to obtain payable erushings The Lady Franklin tributers have only had one washing up barely payable they wash up again to-morrow

2nd October The Lady Don is being prospected once more and very good prospects equal to 1 oz to the ton have heen

obtainedjn a patch above the main drive They will probably have a trial crushing shortly The Sir John Franklin Companys tributers have not had such high yields quite lately still they continue to

hold their position as against any other mine in the division I trust to forward much higher returns next quarter

No metals save gold are being worked for No water is being sold it is abundant

BIG RIVER SUBDIVIHION Mr A B Ainsworth Mining Surveyor and Registrar

There is a slight improvement in the yields of both quartz and alluvial workings for the quarter The Londonderry tributers are progressing steadily and continue to obtain very payable results Their

average is higher for the present quarter than for the last The Lucks All tributers are on a fine vein of stone and are likely to have excellent erushings for Bome time to

come Their machinery is being repaired and an amalgamating barrel is being fixed for blanketings These two are the only quartz mines now working but there is a slight stir through the locality which may

eventuate in further mines being opened up No metal or mineral save gold is being worked for in this locality Water is abundant and I hear of none now being sold When sold price is 48bull 6d per sluice-head per week

lUTTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr J C Forster Mining Registrar

The mining interest has in this portion of the district b~en in a very depressed condition during the Iast quarter Nothillg has occurred worthy of special comment except at Cotton Tree where a few claims are paying from 5 to 3 poullds per week

MIlTA MITTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Mr D H Gilmore Mining Registrar

ArLUVIAL

The only news of importance is the new rush to Wheelers Creek near the Sassafras which I mentioned in my last report lhe prospectors informed me a fortllight ago that only one other claim beside theirs was yielding payable gold the other clailllhoiders were busy making flood und tailraces

QUARTZ

)Iost of the reefs here have been tried at last and with one or two exceptions have proved very pOOl indeed so far as you will see by attached returns

The second crushing from the Christmas Reef was an improvement on the first The Welcome Reef also gets better as they go down the gold from this reef is very inferior only realizing pound2 lOs per oz A trial crushing from the Pony Reef is now going through the mill it is looking much better than any previous crushing

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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The last returns from the Yellow Girl and the Christmas Reefs show the only payable yields at the Junction The Empress and Richards Brothers at Granite Flat were payable but the quartz in the latter claim has

run out There are oDe qther claims at Granite Flat that are thought payable as the country is very soft

The battery at Granite Flat and also the one at the Junction have been idle part of their time for want of carters

JAMIESON SUBDIVISION Mr W H Edwards JJfining Ilegist1ar

The Sailor Bills Oompany washed up last week and the result proving very satisfactorily to the shareholders the mme wIll now be worked by wages men

The Try Again Company Swampy Creek-This reef has been taken up by a cooperative company and during the past month a tunnel has been driven 48 feet at which distance the reef has been met with averaging from 8 inches to 1 foot in thickness The company have also risen 9 feet on the reef which shows a little gold in the stone

The Venture Company are still breaking stone and sinking a shaft in No2 level where a little gold is to be seen in the stone

The Alabama mine has been again taken up two men being busily employed in prospecting A small leadel has been found carryinggold

I have not heard of any water being sold for mining purposes

SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT

SANDHURST DIVISION 1111 N G Stephens jJfil1ing Ilegist1a1

During the past three months a greater quantity of quartz has been crushed but the average yield is not sogt good as that of last quarter

From the subjoined tabular statement it will be seen that very good yields have been obtained from quartz obtained at from 800 to 1000 feet in depth _

New finds in old mines on the principal lines of reef have been numerous and some of them have proved valuable shy

It is generally believed that were the mines thoroughly prospected by means of crosscuts driven by the aid of speedy roekborers the finding of payable reefs would be of more frequent oecurrence

A few rock-borers are in use here at a saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of crosscutting and sinking Mining prospects have improved during the past quarter but unfortunately a strike of miners is immediately

expected which will probably seriously affect all concerned in mining About three weeks since the tributers in the St Mungo Companys lease struck a very rich leader at 60 feet

from the surfaee the first ton of which yielded 256 ozs of gold The stone continues exceedingly rich About the same time a nugget of gold weighing 38 ozs was found in the Whipstick 6 inches helow the surface At the present time it is rumored that a rich quartz reef has been diseovered about 4~ miles east of the forest

rangers residence in the Kamarooka and Egerton State forest fhe quantity of water sold during the quarter for mining purposes was-For crushing ampc 15680000

gallons for sltrieing 86660000 gallons total 102340000 gallons Vurther particulars respecting some of the Quartz ampc crushed during the past quarter and included in the

tables prefixed to these reports -

IiI Depth at whichAverageTotalmiddot ~Where Quartz amp0 IQuartz was Width of Reef ampc Yield of GoldName of Company Yielll of were obtained obtainedGold per Ton ---~-~ Ill

oz (lWe gr feet Garden Gully United oz (hytgr tons

From 2 feet to 12 feet New and extenshc winding machinery being erected over No3 shaft

Great Southern

1 1 056 500 to 760 feet Garden Gully Heef bull 4443 4670 8 0

Jorom I loot to 20 feet OIdmiddotchum 0 5 2122 2GO to 340 feet Garden qnlly Reef 3323 977 14 0

18 inehes Lazarus New~chum Ucef 1801 19 0 I 3 2175 960 to 1037 feet 1510

From 1 foot to 35 feet At a dtsmiddot tace of 129 feet eust of the

I enginc-shaft discovered the west I leg of n nev formation of quartz I at a depth of 1000 feet

N ortl Olu-clmm

140011 007 860 to 940 leet Ncw-chum Iteef 220S 1ll14 15 0

From I to G feet Have comshymenced to sink the shaft l1nothel 100 feet from present depth llSOfeet

472 11 0 o 10 925New-clmlU neef 300 to 1000 feet nIO

About 2 feet Laz1rllS No 1 I ew~chum Reef 571 feet bull New-chum necf 920 13 12 010 017Shamrock 1810

Average 10 feet Discovered a pennnnent-l()oklng west leg of 0

462 1 0 800 to 900 feet 1400 7 2341302

I new formation at the 1OOOfoot I level 129 feet CaBt of the enginemiddot

shnJI Victoria Reef 6 inches to 40 feet Victoria Consols

1767 3 0Yictolia Reef 4330 0 8 389 1300 to 976 feet Irregular

New~ellllln and VictorJa bullbull 198 [) 15 0 2 2345 524 und 844 feet Victoria Reef 1332

Various Hercules and Energetic

Vnrions 0 8 821 4967 2072 9 0Victoria Reef Various

South Devonshire 0 5 1202 420 to 1200 feet 1098 11 0Victoljn Reef 3994

About 2 feet South Catberine bull

140 fcct 114 37299 1 0Devonshire Reef 58 12 feet

Centlol Catherine 0 9 1007Catherine ]teet 279 G593 520 640 ~~d 700f~et From 1 foot to 3 feet Catherine Ueef United 0 6 18-46 180489 B deg0Catherine Ueef 1446

Smun veins North Johllsons Surface to 827 feet 1300 5 182592011 6Catherine Reef 3196

From 1 foot to 6 feet nose of Denmark o 14 ]()OS I 100 to 400 feet Johnson1s lteef 1214 16 231685

Various Johnsons Reef

Various 0 6 369165 17 0Jolmsons ned 539 Various

Great N ortlleuroln bull 200 to 680 feet 0 4 8061308 1 12 Johnsons Reef 6338 510 aud 570 feet

Belts nnd Walkol 0 6 445308 7 0Johnsons ltcef 997 Spurs varying from 2 hichcs to 1

rltlot Great Exlemel1 Hustlers I Hustlers Hocf

Between 70 amp300 ft o 16 lSbG338 16 12Persevtirauce Reef 404

109 From 3 incllcs to 10 indlS at 400 it Grent Extended Hustlers I Hustlers Itee 53

400 and gOO feet 0 8 75077415 01864 Nc the-surfnce 15 10 0 0 5 2037

Trlbule 86 Spnrs

New1-Ioon 225 feet 385 7 0 ) 7 1541091Grent Britain Alfred Reef

110 Small spurs from 1 i1lch to 121nohe8Surface to 360 feet0 7 1500206 12 21Moon l~ecf 542 -PrRITls

I 9 192 Old Cbum Nev~chum Ueef 22 7 015Shenandoah I New-chum lIeel

89 3 0 2 12 105834 i

NOTB-TIle abOve ligures are not to beadded to thOlle in the tables prebLed to these reports They are alrelldy mased and included in the tables

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

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Page 32: MINING SURVEYORS &REGISTRARS.€¦ · Table showing the Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz raised during the Quarter in some of the Deepest Mines in Victoria; with Depth

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KILMORE DIVISION iJI1 James W Osborn Mining Registrar

During the past quarter considerable activity has been shown in quartz mining The Crown (now crushing)is still on first-class stone and although the last three months does not show 80 well for the Doyles their prospcct is very good Since last report several new reefs have been opened one especially The Golden Crown had a trial crushing of 13 tons which yielded 19i ozs tbout 30 tons are again at grass and the Ieef being nearly 2 feet thick stone can soon be obtained in quantity The L L Company Strath Creek are drivmg on a very rich leader which is widening At the Saddle Reef Milne 1nd party are driving a tunnel to catch the run of the Crown Companys stone rhe St Anns Company are driving a tunnel and have crossed two gold bearing leaders the manager expects soon to strike 1 rcef 1he Shepherds Reef Company have struek a heavy body of water but are now raising quartz from a higher leve 1he machinery at the Kilmore diggings made a start about a fortnight since but the result from the material put through after cleaning up last Saturday was not very satisfactory

Other mines not yet proved payable are progressing Alluvial workings are confined to Chinese and a few Europeans who earn bare wages Creeks just beginning to run after being nearly dry all winter No water sold in this division No mettl but gold is now being sought for

HEATHCOTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION Ir E C Rell lJfining Registrar

The principal mines in this district have been doing dead work during the past quarter No improvement in alluvial milling has takenplace during the same period Hedleys Hydraulic Sluicing Claim CltJmpany is in full work at present but owing to the scarcity of water hitherto operations have been retarded but in the event of a more favorable season tilis claim will be a means of developing the old workings of McIvor The Royal Crown Company at Long Gully have been engaged Binking a new shaft to cakh the lode which the original proprietors abandoned at the 2ilO-fcJot level in consequence of excess of water The present company have been pumping and sinking two years last Angust and the capital of the company has been augmented twice during that period Still the shareholders have every coufidence for the future

No waleI sold

WARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION Afr Henry Hick~ 1Jlining Registrar

Alluvial dHning-No great success has attended the efforts of the miners in the above class A rush at Whroo previously reported by me is now with the exception of five claims abandoned Prospecting is active in various parts ofthe subdivision

Quartz Mining-With the exception of one or two claims the crushings during the quarter have been very poor and the present prospects are not encouraging

Antimolly-No work during the quarter

MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT

MARYBOROUGH DIVISION 11fr P Virtue jun llfiningRegistrar

ALIUVIAL MINING

Concerninll th~ alluvial mines in this division nothing of special importance has occurred during t~e quarter They are progressmg III the usual manner Unfortunately the stoppage of the Duke shll contlllues and IS likely to continue for a good many months to come But active preparations are now being made by the proprietors to place another lift of pumps in the mine

rhree prospecting and one extended claim were registered during the quarter The prospecting claims are all situate in the neighborhood of Adelaide Lead The Prince William claim at Slaughteryard Flat registered by Willial 1 Hall glne a prospect of 1 dwt to the dish Depth of sinking 35 feet width of gutter 4 feet The Shetland claim at Moonlight Flat registered by David Nicholson gave a prospect of 9 dwts to the load of coarse heavy gold one piece weighing 7 dwts Depth 9 feet gutter 15 f~et wide The iJdjoining claims on either side are yielding payable gold The extended claim registered by Messrs Grose and Pierce hall an area of 3 acres and forms a portion of the old Band of Hope lease

The Royal Dane Company Lower Alma have been engaged in sinking a new shaft They are now taking out washdirt The Count Bismarck have let their mine on tribute

The mines lt Carisbrook are slowly progressing The Goldbrook and Woolbrook have yielded fair returns The Young Phccnix Company have found the water so heavy that they will be compelled to erect steam machinery They hope shortly to be in payable washdirtmiddot lhe following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines inthis division during the quar~el-

J Oz dwt gr(Jount Bismarck Lower Alma 572 1 0

f Woolbrook Carisbtpojl 887 18 0 Goldbrook Caris brook 93 13 9

SeahamAlma 70 10 O Argus Alma bull 70 0 0 Royal Dane Lower Alma 3219 15I shy

1727 2 0 - ~ PI n bull

NQ dividends have been paid during the quarter

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

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QUARTZ MINING

The plant and property of the Queen Victoria Company at Mariners Reef have again changed hands They are now owned by Mr George Godfrey solicitor Melboull1e The men employed in the mine are driving and a sufficient quantity of stongt for a crushing will soon be obtained The Bristol Hill Compauy are still actively engaged in developing their mine Twelve men are engaged in siuking the maiu shaft The crosscut at 600 feet is now being driven by six men and the crosscut at 500 feet is also being driven by six men for the purpose of cutting the eastern reef During the quarter the company crushed 883 tons of quartz for 163 ozs and they treated 13 tons of pyrites for 31 ozs 18 dwts 12 grs The Leviathan Reef is turning out well ]rom 352 tons a yield of 2220zs 10 dwts was obtained by Messrs Wardley and party

One extended one co-operative seven ordinary and five prospecting claimswere registered during the quarter These c1ailns are situate at Craigie Mosquito Donkey Guliy adelaide Lead Havelock and Chinamans Flat The prospects obtained from them averaged from 5 dwts to 1 oz per ton

MAIQRCA SUBDIVISION Mr P Vi1middottue jun iJfining Registrar

Mining enterprise at Majorca is clearly in the ascendant and the prospects of this subdivision are now brighter than they have been for several years Two extended claims containing au aggregate area of 38 acres were registered during the quarter A splendid nugget of pure gold Weighing over 93 ozs was discovered at Garden Flat by Messrs Rowe and Mulligan on the 24th July A cast of it was procured and forwarded to the Mining Department The yield of gold from Forbes Freehold during the quarter was 15 ozs and the yield from the Perseshyverance was 101 ozs 6 dwts

The New Kong Meng Company have successfully floated their venture I regard their property as being a very valuable one the ground covered by their lease has already been proved to be very rich andthere is no quesshytion but that the company with prudent management have an exceedingly prosperous career before them

AMHERST DIVISION Mr Joseplt Smith Mining Registrar

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Union Gold Mining Company Mount Greenock produced during the quarter 753 ozs of gold but it was sold in Ballarat therefore the bank iu Talbot does not get the credit The Mount Greenock Extended Claim is proshygressing fast with the clearing of the shaft and the erection of steam machinery

QUARTZ MINlNG

The want of water has been a great drawback to the proper development of the mines shyThe Union Quartz Mining Company Church lIill has had a crushing of86 tons for a yield of 260 ozs 5 dwts bullbull

of gold which is an average of a little over 3 OZ8 per ton The remaining reefs in the division do not come up to the average The amount received for water sold for mining purposes was pound15 5s 6d

AVOCA SUBDIVISION Mr D OLeary tIining Surveyor and RegiSl1middotar

In both alluvial and quartz mining there has been during the quarter considerable change for the better At the small rush close to Moonambel there is a popuhtion of about 150 and the claims being worked have furnished payable yields Homebush however is the principal goldfield there the Working Miners claim for the last three months turned out 5760 tOllS of washdirt realizing 2323 ozs Now that the Homehush lead is well defined and as there is no longer any doubt as to its rich character five additional new leases comprising an area of about 1000 acres have been applied for A valuable plant has been erected on the ground of the Homebush Company and the sinking of the main shaft is being actively carried out The fortunate shareholders in the Working Miners have during the quarter received pound3450 in dividends

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

REDBANK SUBDIVISION J1fT n OLeary Mining Surveyor and Registrar

In this subdivision mining has been bliaker than has been the case for some time Tormeys Reef at Moonambel producing the excellent yield of 52 ozs Hi dwts from 22 tons of stone At the alluvial rush in this locality very flworable prospects have been obtained and a considerable number of miners are employed raising washshydirt which is expected to furnish very good returns

No water has been sold for mining purposes during the quarter

DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS M W G Couckman Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Quartz mining in this district has made very favorable progress during the last quarter Some llew companies have eommenced active operations and more ground has been takenup under the gold mining leasing regulations and the district bye-laws

Queens Birthday Company have crushed during the last quarter 3701 tons of quartz which yielded 2223 ozs odwts 8 grs of gold or an average of 12 dwts 031 gTS per ton which stone was taken principally from Nos 3 and 4 levels This is the lowest aerage yield obtained from the mine for more than two years past The heavy work in connection with No5 level isbein~ pushed on rapidly The main shaft is sunk to a depth of 534 feet from the surshyface and a plat opened out at 528 feet The chamber is cut and levels started on the course of the lode hoth north and south of the shaft and gold is frequently seen in the stone The reef to the north 30 feet from the shaft is 6 feet wide and south about the same distance it is 3 feet wide A western cross-cut has been driven about 79 feet when qnartz was met with but thewolkings at this point have beeu discontinued Four new batteries of five head each are near completion and will S0011 be available for crushing stone raised from the uew shaft

Kings Birthday Company are still sinking their main shaft and are down 330 feet from the surface and are opening a chamber preparatory to cross-cutting for the reef at that leveL

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

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Royal Birthday Company have suspended operations for the present North Birthday Company are cross-cutLing for the Ieefatthe 262-foot level and are now in 90 feet from t~e shaft (west) where soft slate country has been met with intersected ~ith quartz leaders lhe quantity of water IS fast increasing which indicates the proximity of a strong lode Tho shaft is still being sunk deeper

This Company has about 400 tOllS of stone Illised for crushing as soon as machinery is ayaliahle They are breaking out quartz from the No 3 leveL rhe reef still continues very regular in its course and has been driven 883 feet north of the Queens Birthday Companys most Horthern shaft ~hich they now have the use of as well as the pumping winding and crushing plants which originally belonged to the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company now extinct The lode is heavily charged with pyrites and galena and gold is frequently aeen in the solid stouO

Hard Hill Gold Mining Company have three faces put in to the cement on the hill and about 200 tons of stuff stackedaud ready for crushing The new shaft Oll the Canton Reef (which traverses the companys ground) has been timbered up and prepared for the reception of pumps and winding getr Theil machinery is now complete consisting of one 13middotin cylinder engine 2 Cornish liue boilers and two batteries of stamps each containing 5 heads with all modern appliatlCes

Queens Reef Company Moliagul have been principally engaged stoping stone from the western lode which 011

being crushed did not prove payable The 130-foot level has been continued along the course of tbe lode about 100 feet the prospects from which are not very promising up to the present A cross-cut 230 feet south or the engine shaft has been driven 46 feet east from the western reef and ollly leaders met with so far The machinery is in good working condition -

Harrop and Lees have taken upa lease of about 4 acres of ground at Munster Gully one mile east of Dunolly and opened out on stone about 40 feet from the surface where they took from a small leader a bucketfull of stone which yielded 26 OZ8 of gold Their prospects still continue equally good

Welcome Reef Company have their machinery now completed and are engaged pumping the vater out of the mine preparatory to a start

Sydenham Company have thejr pumping winding and crushing plants completed and are engaged in the mine driving main levels at 200 feet both north and south of the shaft and stoping up the backs from that level 70 feet rhe shareholders are very sanguine about the mine turning out well everything in connection with it is in good working order

Kentish Reef Company have had It crushing of 48 tons of stone taken from their mine which yielded an average of 6t dwts of gold per ton Driving to the north along the course of the lode is beng carried on

Windmill Hill Reef near Dunolly--A party of Beechworth men have taken up a large area of ground 011 this line of reef with the intention of lioating a company which doubtless will prove a payable venture if properly worked judging fr~ni the quantity of gold reportcd to have been obtained from the surface to the water level at which point it was abandoned some years since ill ~onsequence of the want of efficient machinery to keep dogtyn the

water andth~ hig~ prices charged for carting and crushing the stone

ALLUVIAL MINING

The Burnt Creek Tribute Company are pumping the water out of the mine andwill soon be prepared to break down washdirt The prospects of this company are reported to be very good The Red Streak rush near DUllOlly is

now worked out and there is nothing further of importance to report in this class of mining

TARNAGULLA DIVISION

The Yorkshire Company have been cllgag~d raising and crushing stone from their mine The lode is about 8 fe~t wide and has proved payabJe a dividend of 6d per 24OOOth share has been declared Two nelv comptnies are belDg floated to work ground held under lease both north and south of the Yorkshire Companys holding and have

started sinking shafts Poverty Reef Company are still idle A lnrgc area cf ground has been taken up both under lease and the dis

trict bye-laws south and south-west of this line of reef and active operations will shortly commence No water sold during the quarter for mining purposes

INGLEWOOD DIVISION hlr W H Coffey Mining Registrar

During the quarter the Jersey Reef Company have obtained some very fine specimens their last clushing

yi~ldingover an ounce to the ton from the quartz obtained from No2 shaft _ ~he gistrict generally appears to be improving

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WEDDERBURN DIVISION Air John Reach~ Mining Registr(u

There is a great improvement in alluviltl mining in this division the quantity of gold obtained being nearly double thatfor last quarter Sevemlnuggets have been unearthed principally in the neighborhood of the vVoolshed the largest being 19 ozs 7 dwts A prospecting clilim was registered by Jas Ogilvie on the 30th iu the W oolshed neighborhood abouteleven miles north-west from WeddelbulD the sinking is about 10 feet the prospect 2 awts to the tub

The rush to the Nine-mile has not turned out so well as was anticipated numbers have left the remainder are as far as I can learn generally satisfied some of them making good wllges

There is a great scarcity of water for mining purposes throughout the division

ST ARNAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION lib W G Couchman Mining Surveyor and Registrarmiddot

Mining operations in this subdivision during the last quarter have been particularly inactive Nothing of importance has occurred either in quartz or alluvial mining

ST AHNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION Mr W G Couchman jl1ining Surveyor and Registrmmiddot

In this subdi~ision quartz mil~ing has been in a very depresse~ state during the last quarter The Working Millers mme IS the only one from whlCh payable qurtz has been obtamed Seven hundred tons of ston~ taken from the 200 and 260-foot levels gave an average yield of 7 dwts 268 grs of gold per ton

In alluviallIlining there is nothing significant to report No 83 E

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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Page 35: MINING SURVEYORS &REGISTRARS.€¦ · Table showing the Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz raised during the Quarter in some of the Deepest Mines in Victoria; with Depth

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CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT

CASTLEMAINE DIVISION Mr T L Brown Mining Surveyor and Registrar

I have the honor to report a slight increase in the number of miners in both quartz and alluvial workings Although the yields have generally been small the prospects are more assuring and employment is likely to be given to a larger number of miners

The extension of races from the Coliban Water Supply gives much satisfaction An immense area of old alluvial workings as also large tracts of surface-hills up to the quartz outcrops will be available for sluicing

The quantity of water sold during the quarter was 177246000 gallons at id per 1000 750000 gallons at 4d per 1000 240000 gallons at 2d per 1000

FRYERS CREEK DIVISION Mr Mark Amos lJ1ining Surveyor and Registrar

ALLUVIAL MININO

In this branch of mining there is nothing to report of any special interest Considerable activity prevails amongst Bome of the puddlers and sluicers and so far as can be ascertained the returns are not unsatisfactory

QUARTZ MINING New Era Company-The manager of this company furnishes interesting details of mmmg operations for the

pa~t quarter 63LO tons of quartz having been reduced the result being an average of nearly 3t dwts to the ton whieh gives good dividends to the shareholders At the deepest crossmiddotcut viz 500 feet a leader 4 feet thick has bpcn cut with gnld visible in the stone at a distance of 20 feet west from the shaft this cross-cut has been continued a di~tallce of 110 feet The total depth of the main shaft is now 614 feet and the general prospects at the different levels are very satisfLCtory

Renaissance Company Specimen HilL-The water wheel alluded to in my last report has been placed in position and it is expected to statmiddott in a few d1tys in the meantime the battery of 20 heads is being worked by steam power 80 that it may be Rhtted active operations have commenced A vast quantity ofstone can 1)e easilyobtained and ean be made to pay by cheap clUshillg The success of this company will materially inftllence the future prospecting allel deyelopment of the large extent of auriferous ground lying to the south and connecting with the Anltlo-Anstraliall and New Era Companies works

Rowe Brothers Cattles Reef have realized good returns of late keeping well up to their usual average In their FetTons Heef lease prospects are improving liS compared with previous quarters

Duke of COlllwdl -The manager reports no great improvement in the general yield of gold but underground operatiom are being prosecnted with vigor and levels have been driven north and south 200 and 265 feet respectively

Black Hawk Company-fhe old company hnving collapsed and the leuse having been forfeited a new party iR heing organized under the management of NIt Tolstlup whose successful supervision in other direcshytions will inpire confidence in the new directory 1he works are now at a standstill but a fresh start will be made in two or three weeks

The BurdeLt C)utts Company-The returns up to the present time are not very great but the ground unrlerneath shows favorahle iudications sufficient to encourage the manager to extend his researches with the view of uldmat~lv Rtriking a well-defined arid payable reef

The Pcrselerance Company have been moderately sllccessful at the 18)middotfoot level the yield being 4 dwts to the ton

Small and Company-The grollnd is heing worked by tribllters but hitherto their efforts have not been so ~Ileco~sful a~ migbt be d~silel one of tlte trihnte parties are raising stone which shows gold and promises a fair crll~hin The j)()Silion of this claim is such as to justify the assumptioll that the main Cattles lode exists at a cotlidetahe depth heynnrl the ptesellt wOlliius and to I he westward of the engine shaft

( en Illl Vies-Oll the whole thete is no palmiddotliculatmiddot cause for despondency touching the progressive character of lttllH-rtz mining ill tltis divition at the SRme time there is room for the employment of more labor and the investment of more eapital The explorHtiull awl opening out of the deep ground in ptesumed favorable situations are attracting coniderahle ittention at the present time which are very essential to the discovery of permanent and well-defined lodes atgle~t rlepths There appears to he little diversity of opinion in this district as to the mode of testing the grollnd or liLtle doubt as to paJLies being repaid fur sinking 4eep shafts and cross-cutting at certain depths Iany persons interested in mining seem to loe sight of the fad that extensive tracts of country exist where thousauds of tOllS of quartz can he easilV raised at depths from 50 to 100 feet without the aid of machinery Many private parties enged in quartz mining have their energies cramped through waut of means this however might be paldy remedied by adopting the co-operative principle OIl a larger scale and proper basis without having recourse tn expensive managemeHI and theellIployment of ehthorate machinery In maIlY cises claims could be secured with an unlimited ~upply of qllitltz at from 2 to 3 dwts to the tun eonsequently with a sma11 inexpensive crushing plaut the parties of miners would be ensured moderate wages for the time being und being buoyed up with the hope of improved prospects importaut discoveries might result

The total number of tOilS of quartz crushed is 9591 tons averaging 4 dwts to the ton

HEPBURN DIVISION Jlr Thomas IIale ftfinilg Registrw

Many sluicing parti~s await tile washing lip of hrgo heaps of washdirt not altogether for waut of water but because a custom existsof allowing such work to stand till the terminatiou of the rainy or wet season inNovember

Mining generally during the quarter has been very slack and there is not much worth noting The Specimen Hill Qllartz Com puny are idle and the lGorganization of the company is being proceeded with The Argns Qwtrtz Company hale pumped out the water clown to the 573-foot level and arc clearing out the

lower drives Lhey ttC working by J1Hans of tribute parties Morgun and party are working ou Colliers Heef at the 40middotfoot level by mean~ of a shaft some aoo yards south of the maiu shaft

The Cornish Quartz Company are worldng in the VltlliOllS shallow shafts on their claim The Ajax Quartz Company are getting gold 45 mon are at work mostly on tribute The quantity of water sold dnring the qunrtcl hns heen hom 30 to 35 sluice-heads at 16s per eight-hour

shift per week but mmy race owners have shares in the claims

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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Page 36: MINING SURVEYORS &REGISTRARS.€¦ · Table showing the Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz raised during the Quarter in some of the Deepest Mines in Victoria; with Depth

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TARADALE AND IYNETON SUBDIVISION

Mr Stephen DOflnan Mining Registrar

Mining matters in this division during the past quarter have slightly impr~ved The yield of gold shows an increase over the past quarter of 170 ozs chIefly obtamed from deep alluvIal unnes I report also that s~veral claims have been taken Up on the line of reef at Bnrfold Ranges Gold has been obtamed and can be seen ltl the stone The success of the Good Friday claim has been the cause of a large portion of the Pemberley estate belllg tnken up and a company formed to work the same In shallow workings nothing worthy of note has transpired At JltLuriston and- Glenlyon very few miners are working the ground being too poor to obtain even small wages cOllsequently the place is almost entirely abandoned The same may be said of the shallow workmgs at Taradale and Liberty Flat

TARRANGOWER DIVISION

Mr Robert Nankivell lWining Sttrveyor and Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

The past quarter shows an increase of 466 ozs of gold over the previous quarter the last crushing from Locke and Companys claim on Irish Billys Reef gave 256 ozs 14 dwts from 33 tons of stone there is another crushing now on hand which to all appearance is likely to yield 10 ozs per ton Twelve other claims ha-c been taken up but there is only one beside Lockes getting gold This line of reef is an extension of Old Irish Billys which was profitably worked many years ago it was taken out to a depth of 90 feet and some of the stone gave 12 ozs per ton

The German Reef Tribute cbim is still doing well one lot of stone of 40 tons yielded 238 ozs 12 dwts and the stone now being taken out promises to be as good The reef is well defined and likely to continue

The South German Reef Tribute Company have been getting some good stone One crushing of 21 tons gave 69 ozs 9 dwts of gold but the golden portion of the reef is only about 1 foot wide and the water troublesome On the whole our quartz mines have a better appearance than they have done for some years past The Eaglehawk Union Company are still sinking their engine shaft the present depth of the mine is 1200 feet 200 feet below the last cross-cut The rock-borer and compressed air winch are answering well about 16 feet a fortnight are being sunk through rock of the worst kind with the water troublesome

The Prince of Wales Company on the Excelsior Reef have just completed the erection of their plant consisting of a steam-enlline for pumping and a battery of stampers The manager is confident that with a battery on the ground he will make the mine pay

The Welshmans Reef Company are also erecting a plant on their mine and will be ready to start in about a fortnight

The new reef known as Target Gully Reef on the north-east side of Mount Tarrangower is being worked with varied success two of the claims are getting payable stone and two or three others have gold but not as yet in payable quantities

In alluvial mining there is no change since my last report

ST ANDREWS DIVISION

JJfr Alfred Arm~trong lIfining Surveyor and Registrar

N early all the work in claims at present held under lease has been suspended during the quarter which has caused very great depression throughout this district The Progress Company at Panton Hill which employed a considerable number of men has not proved a success the yield of gold being too small from so thin a vein of quartz Work at the Scotchmans and Pig TaiLRecfs Warrandyte has been suspended from the same cause

In the Cpper Yarra district at Reefton the Reef ton Company under the management of Mr Porter have now only completed their lower level tunnel and their gold retnrnsare merely from the stone obtained in driving The reef having been cut in very good stone the prospects of the company are considered satisfactory Near the JUDction of Wombat and Hoddles creeks aprospecting claim has been applied for on a new reef called the Bonanza and also another on a reef near the old township Loose wash from the Bonanza has yielded half an ounce of gold to the dish

There are indications of increased activity in alluvial mining The Warburton Hydraulic Sluicing Company has been again revived and is iu full operation and at the Britannia Creek a new company has been formed to re-work the old ground This company will open up ground which could not be bottomed in former years owing to the quantity of water which it is now intended to drain by removing by blasting operations a large bar of reef known as the Britannia Falls and applying the hose to the ground thus rendered available Messrs Vildman and party at Hoddles Creek have also found good payable wash

The antimony mines at Ringwood are in a very depressed state and unless invigorated by increased expendishyture will be shortly suspended

At Kilcunda a new company has been formed to lay down rails and bring in the coal to Griffiths Point The coal is of such excellent quantity that it commands a ready sale and although the seam is thin it is estimated that withimproved means of transport the mine can be profitably worked

BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION

~lfr Graham McPherson Mining Registrar

I have very little to report upon with reference to mining matters in this subdivision As usual there is a number of sluicing parties and fossickers obtaining more 61 less gold Messrs Weir and Co are putting in a tunnel from Blue Creek to carry off the water from the ground north

of the Old Boundary Lead and if they have got their levels correct there is no doubt but they will be well remuneshyrated for their outlay

Robson and Sons (also at Garlicks) are still earning good wages

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

39

APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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ARARAT MINING DISTRICT

ARARAT DIVISION Mr Thomas Foyster Mining Registmr

Foremost of several alluvial rushes during the past quarter stands the Emu which skirts the Fyin~ Pan Plains along the Little Wimmera the exaet locality being almost on the boundary line of this and the Pleasant Creek dilisions lhis rush will open entirely new country vhich is DOW heing extensively prospected For a time about five hundred meu were on the ground but the present population is reduced to some two hundred miners many of whom are on payable gold and the place begins to wear an [~speet of stability Most of the gold however finds its way to Stawell which is much nearer and easier of access than Ararat

At the Rescue Company the main drives are being pushed forward with vigor and the wash obtained thereshyfrom gives evidence of the mine proving profitable

r~ test the deep grolnd under the basalt at the Blaek Lmtd a l~rge block has been taken up under lease by the SyndICate Company whICh company mtends to place powerful machmery on the claim and commence operations at an early date

Quartz reefing in the public prospecting ventures is at a standstill but private enterprise has caused Moores Reef and tho Pioneer Reef to be ag1in taken up and a new find near the Lexington statioli called the Pcrseverance Reef has attracted considerable attention so much so that ten claims have been marked oft aud registered but no stone )1~ yet been sent to the stampers although encouraging specimens have been met with

PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION Jl1r H C Bate iJfining Surveyor and Registrar

~1i~ing matters generally litve been dull during the quarter and as is shown by the tables accompflnying this the amount of QUll1middottz elused and the yield of gold therefrom are both much below the averages which have ruled inthis divis~on for some years past

Prospecting is going on as usual but no important find has been made The decrease in the population is to be accounted for hy tho fwt that a number of miners have left the

division to prospect at aud near the Green Hills in the Ararat division rhe quantity of watersold during the qUitrtel for mining purposes was 465000 gallons

BARKLYDIVISION Mi iI C Bate 1l1ining Survelfomiddot and Registral

There is nothing of importance to note with referenceto mining in this division durilig the tiuarter 1he amount of gold shown iu tablc represents only -ivhat was bought by Barkly and Landsborough gold b1lyers

It is probable that the total yield for the division for the quarter is in excess of 210 ozs but it is quite impossible to obtain precise information

RAGLAN DIVISION Mr C W 1l1inchin lJfining Registmr

iViining operations in the Waterloo and Charlton dis~riets still continue healthy and aclhe good retUnlS huvin(f been obtained during the quarter fromthe New Victoria Gold Mining Company and encouraging prospects in c~nnection with the aoart Pasha Gold Mining Comfany ~1l the same line Act~ve operatio~ls are proshyceeding throughout the several dIstrIcts of Waterloo Chariton Sailors Gully and Beaufort ill the erectiOn of new steam enOine plants ampc which it is to be hoped will ere long be busily engaged in testing the respective leaseholds

It large number of lease applications have been lodged at the watdens office for the district during the quarteI most of whieh are at present under considerationand many waitillg investigation ampc fhe mining populashy tion of the district is materially increasing

GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT

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OMEO SUBDIVISioN

lYIr J Odell Acting Jfining Registrar

QUARTZ MINING

Very little work has been done dudngthequaFter atSwifts Creek Jnd that has been chiefly of a prospecting nature One parcel of quartz has been crushed giving loz 12 dwts of gold per ton and about 20 tons more are ready for crushing

ALLUVI~L 1iINING

With the exception or Sussafras and Whoelers c~e~ks there i~ liothing particular to re~ort At the places referred to quite an influx of Iliners has set n There are at ~resen~ ~bout 300 on tile ground nth every prospect of the population increasing dunng the ~nsUlng quarter It IS antICipated that at the pres~nt there V1ll be so~e difficulty in obtaining stores and provlSlons but as the sprmg advances and the tracks are cleared the dIfficulty nll be overcome The parties who have opened out their claims are reported to be satisfied with t~eiesult~

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION Mr J G Peers Mining Surveyor and Registrar

Nothing worthrecording has occurred during the past quarter Mining generally throughout the district is in a depressed state There are several tried reefs in the neighborhood of Store Creek and Deptford NIcholson RIVer varyIng In

thickness from six inches to one foot which would in my opinion-if taken up and worked in a systematic mannershyyield very fair returns These reefs were discovered and partirtlly worked about ten years ago by miners who were not in a position to carryon operations properly and not being able to procure pecuniary assistance were compelled to abandon them

Gold is the only metal searched for No water is sold in this subdivision for mining purposes

BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION Mr J Fletcher 1l1ining Registrar

Several good finds have occurredi~ this district diIring the quarter Water has been plentiful although the average wages are small in consequence of the floods Jiaving in some instances retarded mining operations particu-Jarly in the vicinity of Boggy Creek

The Galway Reef is being worked the result of which-r anticipa~e will increase the yields for my next quarterly report

No water sold in my district

CROOKED RIVER DIVISION Mr Edward Harrison Mining Registrar

Quartz mining has experienced a slight improvement in this districtduting the pastthree monihs though very little stone has been crushed

There has been a new quartz leader discovered in the Good Hope No2 level at a depth of 300 feet by a party of tributerR The quartz is about 6 inches wide and shows gold freely None has been crushed yet

rhe Jewellers Shop has been recently taken up by tributers but thllY have not had sufficient time to test the part of the claim in which they are working

The Republic Reef which was ab)ndoned last quar~er )ms ngan be~n ~~k~n up but no returns have come from

it as YT~e reports from the BUdgee Reef Grrini~o Creek arovelmiddotyf~voribfebull The tunnel has been driven 25 feet and 18 tons of stone have been taken out Two parcels of stone have been assayed~ The first yielded 4 ozs 11 dwts 11 grs to the ton the second 121bs of quartz yielded at the rate of 8 ozs 10 dwts gold andmiddot2 ozslO dwts ail ver per ton

A new reef has been discovered at Teacup Creek near Wentworth which has beenl1liriiedmiddot tlie Triumph Reef There has been no stone crushed but the appearance of the reef is promising

The effects of the floods here are still felt by the alluvial miners and as the melting snow 011 the mountains keeps the rivers high it prevents any permanent headway being made Those claims however which are situated out of reach of flood water have yielded payable gold

There is no mining in this division formetals 01 rilineralsotherthhigold and there is no water sold for mining purposes

JERICHO DIVISION

M1 R J Donaldson Mining Registla1 The flooded state of the rivers and creeks has ~etarded mining operations very considerably in my division

during the quarter just ended Although the number of miners employed remains about the same the amount of gold obtained is very much

below the average of other years Where men are employed by the day the rate of wages remains unchanged No other metal than gold mined for No water sold

DONNELLYS CREEK DIVISION Ml O P Whitelaw Mining Surveyor and Regist1r

The returns for the quarter are decidedly bad Only one company the Bismarck United has crushed 42 tons yielding 29 ozs 15 dwts The Gippsland Consols had completed the crushing of 300 tons but had not cleaned up at the date of receiving report The yield is expected to be very small

Gold only is mined for

STRINGERS CREEK DIVISION Mr W M Smith Mining Registrar

QUARTZ

During the quarter the Walhalla Company in extending their No6 level south have reached the Empress shoot of stone thus showing that the southern shoots continue in depth middotThe lode is much better defined than it was in the No 3 level and the character of the stone has greatly improved showing a little gold

The Long Tunnel Companys mine exhibits no important change The Long Tunnel Extended Company have sunk their shaft about 200 feet from the surface There is nothing calling for special notice in any of the other companies in the division They are generally

engaged with the dead work necessary to develop their several claims ALLUVIAL

This being the season of floods the alluvial workings in the rivers and creeks have beel) much retarded but those who have been able to continue working have gcnerally met with fair returns

COPPER Mining and smelting operations in oonnection therewith have been carried on in the usual manner at Coopers

Creek

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

39

APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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ABERFELDY SUBDIVISION

Mr M Nugent Mininq Registra1

Mining operations have been much the same this quarter as during the lust The Aberfeldy Company have been crnshing during the quarter with good results The shaft has been sunk on

the reef for 100 feet and then tunnelled for toO feet showing quartz that is expected to go from 10 to 25 dwts to the ton

fhe Star and Thompson Company are now on the reef The shaft is sunk 120 feet on a reef carrying from 8 to 16 dwts to the ton and from 4 feet to 12 feet wide Levels are being driven at 120 feet and somb excellent prospects going from 2 to 3 ozs to the ton have been obtained It is the companys intention to drive 50 feet north and 50 feet

south on the reef and then to erect a battery

RUSSELLS CREEK- DIVISION

yen1 C H Williams Mining Registra1

I have nothing of importance to record this quarter The men working in the gullies have been able to get on much better since the heavy rains ahd as most of

them have stripped a considerable quantity 6f ground they should have some good washings judging from the prospects

The Columbia men are pushing on with the tunnel They hope to strike the reef in December They are in very good country

The Western Branch Reef the old Empire has been taken up ngain I hear a company has been formed to thoroughly test it

No water sold here for mining purposes

BENDOC SUBDIVISION

Mr John Nichol Mining Registrar

I have no improvement to report Mining generally throughout this subdivision is much the same as last quarter

Gold is the only metal searched for No water Bold in this subdivision for mining purposes

TARWIN SUBDIVISION

Mr H M Murphy jfining Registrar

During the quarter the Shakespeare Company have got their plant erected and have commenced work but have had a quantity of water to contend against and nothing important has been done

The Prospectors have had some good dividends and the pan OConnell expect 80011 to be in working order At Turtons Creek prospecting is still going on without anything new having been found Nothing further has been done relative either to the Franklin River tin or the Waratah Bay lime No water has been sold for mining purposes

TRARALGON SUBDIVISION

Mr Charles Denis Mining Registrar

Mining in this division is still improving slowly The number of miners is on the increase There are now several parties at work on the Narracan and its tributaries and all on an average making wages Payable gold has also been found lately in two different places near the head waters of the lraralgon Crcek but the particulars of the find are kept secret by the discoverers

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OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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APPENDIX

OBSERVATIONS ON NEW VEGETABLE FOSSILS OF THE AURIFEROUS DRIFTS

BY BARON IfERDINAND YON MUELLER KCMG MD PhD FRS GOVERNMENT BOTANIST

[ CONTIlUED ]

Araucaria Johnstonii

Branchlets slender dispersed leaves very short narrow- or linear-oblong convex slightly acute or rather blunt not much spreading or almost appressed few in each spiral coil strobilus small its terminal scales blunt and slightly truncated the downward succeeding scales attenuated into a very short and narrow acnmen

In the Travertin of Geilston-BllY Tasmania Rob 11 Johnston The above curt definition circumscribes provisory a Bew conifer of which impressions of branchlets

1ml the summit of a fruit-cone were very recently founel imbedded in the yellow tertiary freshwater-limeshystone near Hobarton by the assiduous and circnmspcct amateur-geologist of Launceston who observed this interesting coniferous fossil associated with fruits of the genera Penteune Plesiocapparis and Platycoila Noticing this association with congeneric and even perhaps conspecific types of plants from our Victorian Gold-drifts I felt justified to admit this new fossil iIltO the series of those prollluigated by the Department of Mines as pertaining to the auriferous drift-stll1ta ltlthough the tree HOW under consideration may not really be indicative of that formation Mr J ohn8ton has argued with great lucidity on the geologic relation of this conspicuous fossil now after ages for the first time disinterred by Lis searches and I shall avail myself of his notes to render the occnrrence of this conifer rightly understood in its palreontologie meaning

Before proceeding I wish it to be distinctly understood that I placed with diffidence and hesitation this conifer of a byegone time into the genns Arauearia as suggested by Mr Johnston already The impression of the solitary fruit-specimen hitherto obtained exhibits only the marks of the apices of the bractoal scales hence the cardinal character of the geuus Araucaria as acknowledged in the living species of that genus namely the consolidation of each nutlet with its two bracteal scales has yet to be traced out for generic confirmation in the new fossiL The shortness of the leaves gives it also a somewhat different aspect when compared to that of any living Araucaria reminding rather among fossil plants of the foliage of Walchia Voltzia Echinostrobus and Palissya Furthermore the shortness of the terminating aeumeu of the fruit-scales is not normal in existing Araucarias although in A Balansre (Brognialt and Gris in nouvelles Archives dll Museum Paris VII p 206-207 pI 13) it is also shorter than usnal certainly in the fossil A cretacea of France (as figureCl in Schimpers Paleontologie vegetale pI LXXVI 2) the seales are delineated as devoid of an acumen but as the coalescence ofthe bracts with the nutlet is not demonstrated the generic position of that fossil of the chalk-formation Reems as yet not free flom doubt But other species of Amucaria have as fossil been admitted before ill the work above quoted (tome II 253-254) from fairly preserved fruit-remnants obtained in the oolithie formation of Britain yet Carruthers was not fully convinced of their generic conformity and preferred to keep the English fossil species separate as AJaucarites which generic appellation might meanwhile be applied to the Geilston supposed congener also although ScLimper gave to that generic term recently again a different limitation

If at all a comparison of the new fossil Amucaria with living species is admissible it must particushylarly be with A Cnnninghami from which it differs however in far more slender branchlets with far less leaves in each spiml turn in the latter not being illcurved (and perhaps also never dimorphous) in their remarkable shortness in their apex being less pointed and furthermore in much smaller fruits (if what we have hitherto seen of A Johnstonii represents the fruit in an advanced state of growth) with scales extended into a much less clol1glttetl awlshapetl-linenr l1pex In speaking here of Araucarire of the present day it may be incidentally remarked that the A Muelleri (llr and Gr 1 c 2]9 pI Hi) represents the original A Rulei as xylographicaHy illustrated by me in Lindleys Gardeners Chronicle more than 20 years ago and I may be allowed further to point out pas singly as concerning existing conifelre that the genus BeEs (from (3EAC)() well established already in 1807 by Salisbury (in the transactions of the Linnean Society VIII 315-316) should in justice take precedence over Cunninghamia (R Brown in L C Richards Commentatio de COllifereis et Cyeadeis p 149 t 18 mlllo 1826) the name of the former genus being not more similar to Bellis than that of Bassia or Brassica to R Browns Brassia

The locality where this fossil supposed Araucaria was obtained is to us of classical interest Already Challes Darwin visited it during the stay of HM ship Beagle at Hobarton and it was alluded to by that illustrious llaturalist subseqnently in his journal p 44R ~s pointed out by Mr Johnston and Itlso in his work on vulcanie islands p 140 as quoted by Sir Paul de Strzelecki from a note of T Morris (Physical Description of New South Wales imd Van Diemens Land p 254) The last-named palreontoshylogist morcover figured ill Strzeleckis work several of the travertin-fossils from near Hoharton aS5igning to them a pliocene -age (pI VII fig 5-7) the leltf illnstrated by fig 5 representing the most abundant vegetable species in the ~edilllent there according to MI Johnston wbo however is inclined to consider these organic relics notwithstalldillg tho close affinity of some of th~m to forms of the present vegetation as belonging to the miocene period a viel also takell by rroc~sor 1[cCoy nnd to some extent supported

by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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by the latc Rev middotW B Clarkc Light on this spccial subjcct was thrown also by the latc Morton Allportmiddot who concluded from his local observations (Proceedings of the Royal Society or Tasmania June 1876) that the intrusion 1111(1 effusion of feldspathic Basalt has coveretl the travertin-bed fLud (as shown fLlso by MI Johnston) left to subsequent chailges npOItiollof this freshwfLter-limestone as fL superincumbent stratum concealing boncs of PllfLlnngistc arichlIypsiprymni HCllce as 11 Allport put it the outflow of Basalt Illiist have taken place earlier thanthc formation ot the rJilllviullI with Hs marsupial remnants but must still he regnrderJ of later date than that of the travertiuYiLh Hs yegetfLhle fossils to which latter now the Arancarian tree is added

Professor Ulrich asmiddot stated dso hy Mr JohnstolJ considers the Basalt of Geilst9n-Bay and of similar geologtciilocalities in Tasmania (coeval vith w lmt the laUer calls the Launeestoll tertiary bed) identical with what in Victoria is often designated as thc older vnlcanic formation which caps those fossiliferous layers belonging to a period when Spondylostrobus-Cypresses and sapindaeeous Phymatoshycaryon- and Pentellne-trees lendingly with other now extinct silvan vegetation luxuriated over extensive portions of at least South-Eastern Austmlia and over very many parts of the now Tasmanian Island also Mr Johnston with others confirms that the rich chocolate-coll1red soil in Tasmania as in Victoria is widely derived from feldspathic Basalt and further tlmt in auriferous and stanniferons regions middotit frequently oYershyspreads the dilllvial drifts whereas the Angite-Greenstone as pointed out by Professor Ulrich has provett non-auriferous wherewith often a clue is given for the likelysllccess in operations of gold mining hy cietl scientific uata

EXPLANATION OF LITHOGRAM

PLATE XVIII

FIG I-Branch withbrallchlets restored from fragmentary impressions 2-Impression of tile upper portion of a strobilus on trayertin-stone a-The same restored to its natural appearance 4-Some of the upper fruit scales in situ lIlllch enlargcd

Fig 1-3 natural size

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