Bendigo General History - Department of Planning and Community ...

The Shenandoah Co has, in conjunction with the North Shenandoah Company, done purely
progressive work. The Shamrock Company opened up a promising reef at 1210 feet, but it did not
pay, and they have resumed sinking. The North Shamrock Company is working at 846 feet, but the
stone is at present poor. Craven’s New Chum Company is idle. The Ellesmere ground being worked
solely by tributers. The New Chum United Company’s yields have latterly been comparatively poor.
The Lazarus and Lazarus No. 1 companies have been prospecting reefs at 1,250, 1300 and 1,520 feet,
with but moderate results so far. The Old Chum has succeeded in reaching 1,400 feet. New Chum
and Victoria Company have got excellent results from this reef at 1,500 and 1,600 feet. The North
New Chum has got large yields. Lansell’s 180 mine has produced payable yields. The Victoria
Quartz Company, who are driving on the reef from Lansell’s 180, are breaking rich stone. The Great
Central Victoria, Victoria Consols, and Ironbark companies are pushing down their shafts. The
Hercules company has been getting good stone at 600 and 780 feet. On the Garden Gully line , the
Great Southern Company is sinking a new shaft. The Londonderry Company is sinking for the
Victory and Pandora Reef, and is down 1,452 feet. The Ulster and the New Garden Gully Freehold
companies have both decided to resume work. The Garden Gully United Company have had
moderate yields ... The Victory and Pandora Company crushed 112 tons for 110ozs from a new reef
at 1,860 feet, a highly payable result ... The Unity Company are sinking for this reef, and are down
1,335 feet, and the Carlisle will probably follow suit. Koch’s Pioneer Company is prospecting. On
Hustler’s Line, the Hustler’s Reserve No. 2 Company, the Park Company, and the Royal Hustler’s
Company are prospecting. The Great Extended Hustler’s Tribute Company is cross-cutting at 1552
feet... The Hustler’s Reef Company has opened up a strong lode at 1,017 feet ... The United Hustler
and Redan Company has been getting payable stone at a shallow depth. Among the outside lines, the
Tambour Major Company has resumed sinking. The Golden Gully mines are very dull, though
latterly some tributers on the Carshalton line have improved prospects. Britt’s Freehold Company, at
Bagshot, has not yet been able to overcome the water. June 1885: Eaglehawk - The most noteworthy
feature to report is the continued success of the United Devonshire Company, on the Devonshire
Reef. The Acadia Catherine and the Virginia companies have added to the list of dividend paying
mines. Duke of Edinburgh Company is about to resume sinking the shaft. Pearl Tribute Company -
450 feet eastern cross-cut has been driven 40 feet from shaft. Great Extended Victoria Company is
sinking their engine shaft; depth 810 feet. Devon Tribute Company - are at present erecting a
penthouse, preparatory to resuming sinking the shaft. New Victoria Catherine Company is sinking
their shaft, now 746 feet ... Water heavy, being about 30,600 gallons per week. Duke of Edinburgh
Company - contractors sinking the shaft. Victorian St. Mungo Company - have sunk their shaft to a
depth of 789 feet. The Duchess Tribute Company sinking their shaft, present depth 701 feet. South
Devonshire Company - main shaft sunk to depth of 680 feet. Duchess of Edinburgh Company -
eastern cross-cut extended. United Devonshire Company - still continue to give splendid yields.
Princess Alexandra Company - shaft sunk to depth of 840 feet. Extended St. Mungo Company -
Very little work is now being done. Phoenix Company - The north level, at 840 feet, has been
extended. Unicorn Company - plant at 315 feet completed. South St Mungo Company - shaft sunk a
total depth of 766 feet. Lady Barkly Company - main shaft has been sunk 826 feet. The Sadowa
Company - stopes at the 690-foot level are also showing gold Eastwood’s Company - the level at 790
feet has been driven 20 feet. Ellenborough Company - at 880 feet the eastern cross-cut has been
extended. Belmont and Saxby United Company - the stopes at the No 3 level are showing a little
gold. La Belle Company intends continuing the stopes above the 790-foot level. York and Durham
Company - the western cross-cut at 960 feet, has been extended. Acadia Catherine Company - the
western cross-cut, at 985 feet, has been driven 14 feet. Williams United Company - the eastern
cross-cut at 600 feet, has been extended. The Catherine Reef United Company - at the 1,060 foot
level the ground is very hard. The North Rose Denmark Company - crosscut at 405 feet has been
extended. Confidence Extended Company - the engine shaft has been sunk 976 feet. Frederick the
Great Company - the winze at the 580-foot level has been sunk 19 feet. Bruhn’s Tribute Company is
breaking stone from the second stope north from the main winze. Nil Company - The shaft sunk to a
depth of 462 feet; water heavy. 1
Sept 1885: Sandhurst Division - The question of deep sinking has continued to occupy a very prominent position
during the quarter and additional testimony of a most gratifying nature has been given with regard to
the quality of the reefs being opened up in the deep ground. Indeed the evidence at this point, during
the last year or two, has accumulated so much, and has been of such a pronounced character that it
has ceased to be a matter for difference of opinion, and mining companies now look forward to the
probable results of sinking to 1,500 feet or 2,000 feet with as much confidence as was shown in times
gone by in sinking a few hundred feet. It can scarcely be otherwise, even were the past success of the
New Chum and Victoria, the North Old Chum, Lansell’s 180 claim, and the Victoria Quartz
Company, at various levels from 1500 feet to 1870 feet, not emphasised by further developments.
1 Mining Surveyors’ Reports, June 1885