MINING NEWS. WALTEKAURI, August 1.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5247, 5 August 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

MINING NEWS. WALTEKAURI, August 1.

WAiii:iv\in;r CcnwvNK - TiiiiIk-i my up tho Leahy level of tins mine is progressing as fast as can bo expected considcuug the largo ami heavy sots that aic being used. In tho low level the i iso is up about 40ft. Another COft. will take it up to the siuf.ico level. Good stone is being broken down, gold being visiblo in Homo of it. The drive going noith on the s.ime level is in about (50ft., canyiug a splendid body of quart/, which prospects well. Thoio ia about 200 tons of stone in tho hopper, and tho manager started this morning to send it down to tho machine, which ih nearly ready for reducing stone, and would have been linished by this if it had not boon for the exceedingly wet woathcr wo have experienced lately, which has put the work back in connection with tho water wheel, which is complete, with the exception of putting the lining on inside tho buckets, which lias to bo all tancd, and, of course, fine we.ither is needed for that. Youno Nk\v Zi:aj.,ani>. — The shareholders having appointed a mine manager, woik has been pushed ahead in a moie systematic manner than heretofore. A tramway was commenced to connect with the road to Wick's machine, as arrangements were partly made to have the first crushing at his mill, but it seems that the Welcome pcoplo, in whoso interest it was erected, broke off tho arrangement, as they wanted to have tho uso of tho battery first themselves, so tho shareholders h.id to make terms for tho uso of some of the Waitekauri Company's stamper, and have engaged eight head, and intend crushing 50 tons a? soon as possible. Last Thursday thoy stai tod packing stone over to the head of tho Waitekauri tramway, whero thoy liavo built a hopper to hold about GO tons. It is rather a slow way of getting quartz along, but tho distance is not above one mile and a half at tho outside, so tho horses aro able to make five or six trips a day. It only wants plenty of horso-flosli, and it will not take long to take the 50 tons ovor ; and if that turns out well, 1 belicvo it is tho intention of tho shareholders to lay a tramway to connect with tho company's. Wick's Battery, or Welcome Machine. — This battery was finished ready for work last Thursday, and sledging quartz from the Welcome mine was started, but when the water was turned on it was found that some new piping (which had been manufactured in Urahainstown) would not stand the pressure, the water being forced out in all directions. The water had to be turned off at once to prevent damago being dono. Tho defect in the pipes will cause a delay of a week or ten days m tho starting of tho mill, as all tho Faulty pipes will require to be caulked. The power of this machino is nine head of stamps, .md in driven with a turbino wheel ; and the nice for bringing in tho water is one mile and a few yards in longth, and the length of piping to connect with tho turbine ia 210ft., with a diiect fall of about 165ft. The mill is about two miles distant from tho Welcome claim, with which it is connected by a good aledgo road. There will bo no difliculfcy in taking tho quart/ to the mill as it is all down hill, but still I think it would bo more economical if a self-acting tramway was hud. In the Welcome mino everything is in readiness for forwarding quait/ to tho batteiy, and gold is freely seen in most of tho stone biokcu out. Shannon and Fergus. — In this claim, which is situated between tho Welcome and Young New Zealand, a drive is being put in fiom the same level, and at the distance of liOOft. from whero tho Litter claim ia obtaining Hiieh splendid gold. The drive is in about 100ft. in splendid sandstone country, through which numerous stiingers aro running, and theieis a good body of water coming in from the face, so it is thought that no great distance will havo to be driven before a reef, which ia expected to be one of the Young Now Zealand ones, is cut.—[Correspondent.] A curious fact in natural history occuriod at Waitekauri lately (says a correspondent). A rooster, which had been blind of an eye from his birth, was taken up from Grahamstown, and, strange to tell, he had not been hero many wocks beforo his eyesight was completely restored. If snmo of your townspeople who are suffering ft out defective sight were to pay this distiict a visit it might be beneficial to them.

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