The ore is conveyed to day light by means of small waggons. The nature of the situation necessarily precludes the employment of any domestic animal, and the miners therefore act in their stead ; they are literally harnessed to the waggons, with collars and traces, and thus travel back and forward through these dismal regions. They are obliged to go at least half a mile with every load, and all the way through darkness, and very often their load is nothing but rubbish, for, it is indispensable that this be constantly removed, otherwise the gallery would be so obstructed, that no work could be done. Yet, they usually spend their whole lives here, and seem a very cheerful class of men. My guide had been twenty-five years in the mine, and his father and grand-father had consumed all their days in the same place.
Good to see the AGM well attended with lots being discussed.
