and started the battery again on Sunday night.  Yield 71 oz. from 120 tons
of stone, a little over nine days' crushing.  Rise from bottom level to
immediate shaft, 4 feet.  Still carrying the stope south back of immediate
level.  Gold showing in the face rise from back of same level 17 ft.  The
air in it is becoming light: if much lighter will have to sink from the
surface to meet it.  Shifted the men from the north cutting, and put them
to break stone where I got a prospect north of the furthest shaft south on
the lease.  A set of steel shoes, five of the old dies, four pinion
wheels, five drums of oil, and one case with canvas and other things
arrived on the 30th.  Re a main shaft to work the mine, as I am doing at
present, will require extra hands to sink it.  As a probable cost here for
the first 100 feet, taking all the drawbacks into consideration, such as
want of skilled labour, and high price of timber, I dare say from £7 to £8
per foot.  — (Signed)
HENRY RYAN.