MINING

Dunstan Times, Issue 3517, 13 April 1931, Page 5

MINING

There are many people who are of the opinion that the great chance New Zealand has in an early return to prosperity is a revival of the mining industry, and that is a view that wc very strongly support. There are indications that something more than talk is being done. In the neighborhood of Clyde some prospecting is being done. In the Waikerikeri Valley two parties are at work. Messrs Aitken and Butterfield are, we understand, making good progress with a tunnel which it is hoped will soon bring them to rich ground. Their enterprise deserves success

In other parts of the district there is work being done, From the * Wakatip Mail’ we learn that there is considerable activity in the QueenstownArrowtown district.—

There is quite a revival in mining in the Arrow district at the present time.

Mr 1). Betts, of Cromwell, has a party of men prospecting in the vicinity of the Five-mile Creek, Crown Terrace,

The old Enterprise quart/, mine, German 11 ill, Arrow Fiver, is being opened out by Messrs James Hamilton J nr., and A. Hamilton Jnr. There has been no work done in this mine since the eighties. Mr Thomas Shore, who has done a considerable amount of prospecting work in various parts of the Wakatipu district, is now engaged in prospecting in the vicinity of Arrowtown. Mr Bert Lister, who recently returned to the district, is trying some ground on the hillside above Big Beach Arrow Bivcr. Messrs B. McAllister and J. Boyd arc prospecting near Eight-mile, Arrow Liver. Mr ,)as. E. Smith is busily engaged in taking out a paddock in his Shamrock claim, and will have a wash-up before winter. Others engaged in mining are the veteran miners. Messrs VV. Soulier and I!. Mitscherlcili the former at Brackens Cully, and the latter at Cumberland Terrace, Arrow Bivcr-