THE WAITOA GOLDFIELD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1753, 13 October 1887, Page 2

THE WAITOA GOLDFIELD.

A gentleman^ in Ihis town, who is well acquainted with the country, round Waitoa, where the recent golddieieoverief haye been made? speaks hopefully; of th*,, prospects tbere. Canterbury eonvpa4y, which gave £6400 and oerUun con>. cessionsrtp^yr. Smith for a large area pljf the supposed gold-bearing- land» Mr reported to have made very exhauitivf tests of the washdirtr and with highly satisfactory results. -Should tbi* 'desout : prove< at all equal to sample,, there mart of camp iQllowera to the Auckland district. For :there are "many hundreds of ftorei of apparently precisely similar land, on all, of which alluvial digging might tia carried on. Should these goldflelde go ahead there would speedily- be a Hie" ia the beef market on this coast, and the moet payable of all outlets for our* surplus meat wonld.b* opened up. . It* is satisfactory to bear from one who has a personal knowledge of the coontry, r tbat , the prospects are such, that if l the Waito* gold proves to be, in any degree, payable, tbere is a strong probability' of a large, field of. enterprise -being opened up, ; which . must .faVorablj affoot this coast, ..af, tte .nearesfc, large >soor,ce of supply of gpqdrbeef for the. seekers after gold. Mnuoq/as is 'well known djggers desbise. ""' " ";,.,' ..\.'.' ti , ,

A cornrepondentiiV Alexandra Write* to: .follows about the treatment otJ9f%\Utk wisbdirt: — The invention-of a machine for treatiqgj^he, wa?hdirt /at W t aito« by. Mr. Smden, o % f jjbis. tyUce 1 , and whjch hai' si^cebeen* patented, 'should n,6t,)be lost sight of at the presbnt lime. One of the lessons alleged that the Waitoa goldfield could; nqtjw worked bjr individual miners, or small companies of working men, it that expensive , machinery Jo, treat the gold, would be required, and the fact that the Canterbury Company .are. erecting •maotyitery- at the 'cost' of JB6OOO to treat 400 tons per; jreefc ii piled at a proof of the assertion. Mr. Sindeq has satisfied not only, Mr.- J, B. Sjmth himself, bat others', who have seep his idea demon* strated, that His machine, would^horonghly perform the work an'diavV-the gold* The machines could, "be -supplied at a ooit of only and Mr. . Sindea claims for them that they wonld put through twenty tons of Waitoa, washdirt per day. Tlria imdy or r uiay npt be'so, bqt if, Mr. linden can bro^e' this much, the o^oeition of whether the Waitoa may become a poor man's g'oldfield' ia set at rest. The practical test would be for Mr. Sindon to set one of his machines to work at Waitoa and prove its. value. It he can do *o, he has in his invention a larger fortune than Mr. J. B. Smith himself has found in bis 300 acres. Referring to the recent gold discoveries near Auckland, the- New Zealand Trade Review says ;— Two or three alleged dis> coveries of new goldfjelds have been announced recently, the most sensational of which is reported from Piako, in the Auckland district. It is described as a. bed of auriferous tufa underlying the swampy peat on the terraces of the Piako, It has been suggested that the gqld hai probably in bygone tim.es been brought op by hot springs from some volcano* crushed reef, and spread through, and left in, the crust that was found in the process. The locality where it has been ioqn.d is a block of land aibbut ai mile square which had been bought on speculation, and had] hitherto- threatened to prove a most unprofitable investment. Asa result, however, of, this find the owner has disposed of iOOO acres of the block to a Christchurch company for £14,000 and 1000 paid-up shares in the "company. Trials, made at random over 300 apres nave shown everywhere a good result of 2o;s to 2£ozs. to the ton, The district is question has been the scene of some most disastrous speculations inland, and. suon.l4 it now turn out that other neighbouring properties similar in character are equally cbargfd with the precious metal, th« result will be- hot : only to most happjy reverse the hitherto' bad Ibrtune* of tnt investors but to open up a field for labour that will draw off most of the unemployed m.en from the chief colonial centres. It is to be hoped- that the careful inquiries that are being made will confirm the favourable impression produced by. the 4«t trials. ■

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