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Show as the vein is extensive, being spread , . over much territory, the mine bids fair . ; to last for centuries. All of the paying veins In Australia . run north and south, and have a dip . of 25 degrees east and) west. In work- . : ing the mines a shaft is sunk until the j vein is truck. Then the miners work upward, allowing the ore to fallback-ward fallback-ward and downward to the shafts ( through which? it is raised to the. sur-, face, where it is milled. The workmen in the Band, Barton and Albion are much more comf orta- t ( ble than the workers in a coal mine. There are no noxious gases and no danger from explosions. Furc air is forced in through various shafts, and thus into the drivers. The tunnels arc i drilled far apart, so that there will be no danger of the city above, where all ' is trade and bustle. X. Y. Tribune. THE WORLD'S RICHEST MINE, j It lias Produced Gold Worth 9150,000,-OOO 9150,000,-OOO In Thirty Years. j The richest gold mane in the world is located under the thriving town of ; Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The town has about 25,000 inhabitants, nearly all of .whom are employed in the mine.' There are more than 100 miles of tun- nels under the city, some ofithem. be-j ing at a depth of 2,000 feet. The en-, trance to tbe mine, which is controlled by a corporation and is known as the ' Band, Barton and Albion Councils, is outside the city. The region around Ballarat has been dug over several times by miners. It was formerly covered by a dense forest, for-est, but the trees have been chopped down, and the mark of the miner's shovel shov-el and pick is visible on all sides. Not one of these workers struck pay dirt, and the work was all done in vain. The rock in which the gold is found beneath Ballarat is not rich in tbe yellow yel-low metal. It yields but half an ounce of standard gold to the ton, and yet the Band, Barton and Albion mine has yielded more than $150,000,000 of gold since it was opened, 30 years ago. The work is done so systematically and so thoroughly that it is enormously profitable prof-itable in spite of the low grade of the ore. The supply of paying quartz eeems practically inexhaustible, and |