Thirty feet from the east shaft and on the east side thereof, a tunnel has been driven to the south 26 feet, which cut a belt of lodes. On this belt tunnels have been driven east and west 25 feet, and the lode has been stoped overhead to the height of 15 feet, that length, on each side of the tunnel. In the west shaft on the same lode a tunnel has been driven west at the depth of 90 feet, for which length the lode has been stoped to a height of 35 feet. North of the Stryker lode 100 feet, two shafts have also been begun on the Snow lode. The stoping has been carried on in the usual manner.
Operations are however at present suspended.
The operations of the Caledonia Company on the Ferguson lode have been discontinued, and mining is now carried on by that company on the Caledonia or Wilson lode, about 30 feet north of the Ferguson lode. On this lode a shaft has been sunk 50 feet, and a tunnel driven in a slanting direction to the surface, the length of which is 200 feet. Mining has recently been resumed by the Meridian Company on the Stryker lode, in which their former operations were carried on. Two shafts have been sunk, the distance between them being 83 feet, The west shaft is now 120 feet deep, from which depth a tunnel has been driven westward 73 feet. The depth of the east shaft is 115 feet.