Notes from Wakatipu.

Otago Witness, Issue 2490, 4 December 1901, Page 28

Notes from Wakatipu.

CFkom Our Own Coerespondext.) ABEOVTOWN, November 26. Though of late the weathe-r has been on the mend, much cannot be said for its future good behaviour. Threatening clouds hang heavily overhead, and the temperature is high — two sign? boding no good The G-lenrock Company (Macetown) cl&anecl up for November, obtaining lOloz 3dwt 16gr of smelted gold from 20j to.'s of stone. The oid chute haa now nearly given out, and the new one coming in is still very narrow. Owing to the old clnite splitting up a good deal a large quantity of mullock got mixed up with the stone put through for the above amount crushed. It appears that the Arthur's Point dredge will not make a start at present, but it has been decided to do so latei on. Xovcmbei 28. The Glenrock Company's c]ean-up for the

current month is lOloz Sdwt 16gr of smelted gold obtained from 205 tons of stone. This is a slight falling off from the yield per ton of last month, but the cause is readily explained by the fact that the chute has split up into a number of small veins, in following which a certain quantity of mullock got inevitably mixed up v.-itl»the quartz, reducing the value of the stone per ton. This mine has now been at worlr for about a quarter of a century, with very few, and that only short, -intermissions. .Taking in the Cladstone claim, which was on the same lode, something like a quarter of a million pounds worth of gold was. produced by the two claims. The Gladstone portion, though by iar the smaller of the two claims, was tIK: richest. The first crushing sent to the mill, consisting of 80 tons, yielded 3820z of gold, or over 4oz per ton, and for a time the mine paid highly satisfactory dividends. The lode has now been followed into the mountain for a distance of upwards of 2500ft— that is, from the outcrop in the old Gladstone claim, and is atill paying a surplus over working expenses in spite of the increasing difficulties of ventilating and working the mine. This is not a bad lecord, and goes to show that there are quartz lodes m Otago worth looking after. The King Edward Hydraulic Company is still idle^ the claim being shut down upwards of a week.

The Shotover River is keeping tip to a very' annoying degree for th« rjvar claim-holders, i and though they a;e not entirely idle, only poor headway is made with work, and that under considerable difficulties. The Arrow Big- Beach Hydraulic Company are hkeiy lo doan iri shortly, and a good yield « expected. The few scattered paitics woiking in gullies pnd rooks widely a : jait are much fa-soured by the copious downpours of ram we have had this searon Thei?. were frequent and faajy heavy shov-pra of lain last eight and this morning, l'aising the river to some little extent.