MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 5798, 18 September 1880, Page 3

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

News reaches us (says the Lake Wakatip | Mail) of cheering prospects at the Upper Shotover reefs during the ensuing summer. The Aurum (Nugget) Company are busy crushing. Messrs A. Southberg, A. Olsen, and W. Duncan (better known as Southberg and part;), who have been working hard, under advent) circumstances, since the floods of 1878, have struck what may be termed first-class stone in the old British American claim, both in the upper and another level about 30 feet lower—so far establishing the auriferous character of the intermediate lode. The party have also driven along the reef, which is some three feet thick. They will not, however, commence crushing for another three weeks, having first to repair their roadway and get thing a little ship shape. The Pboenix Company have, we hear, not been successful in getting experienced miners at the rates recently offered by the manager, owing chiefly to the expensivenesg of provisions ; but as they are detei mined to work the mine on an extensive scale, this will not retard operations, and as Boon as the amalgamator can be fixed crushing will no doubt proceed. The Hyde correspondent of the Palmerston Times writes : —" Mining operations are going ahead briskly, but if the weather, continues as fine as heretofore I am greatly afraid the water supply will rnn short. There fa nothing much to report in mining (says an Arrowtown correspondent). The Tipperary and Home ward Bound Companies are getting out stone very rapidly, and have got several tons to grass. The stone is looking well, and I am told will yield the biggest cake that has ever come down the hill.