THE DART GOLDFIELD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 763, 1 December 1876, Page 3

THE DART GOLDFIELD.

Mr Quinn, who returned from the Dart diggings last week, gives some further partioulars. He states that the river has of late been too high from melting of the snow to permit of any hut the back beaches being worked. Men are only able to make from L2 to L 3 per week now, but they will probably earn from L 7 to LlO during the midsummer weather. Just before the last fresh three men took 2oz sdwts of rough gold off the bottom of a small paddock on ono of the lower beaches. A party of throe —M‘Donald, M‘Henry, and O’Dea—went up to the Forks about ten days previously, and had not returned when Mr Quinn camo down. Apparently they were comparatively comfortable as smoke was seen issuing from the bush at the head of the river, and as the men took a good stock of provisions, it is probable they will make an effort to give the locality a fair trial. Quinn’s party have built another hut—much larger than the first one, and lower down, on the opposite side of the river—for the purpose, we believe, of storing goods. Our informant states that the absence of a passable track must prove a very serious obstacle to miners going up. At present it is necessary to cross the river nineteen times, but all this could be avoided by tho expenditure of some L4OO or LSOO, as the engineering difficulties are nothing—only one bluff which would cost about L2O to cut a road round, the remainder being simply dense bush to cut through. Tho body of Ben Eden has not yet been recovered.—Wakatip Mail.