MINING
CROMWELL GOLD. The nature of. this is emphatically virgin ground, evidently of exceptional value, and, let ushbpe, of considerable extent. Prospecting in such ground is of infinitely tribre value than the.retrial of such worked-out fields' as Cardrona, to which the Government chiefly directed the prospectors whom it assisted as an* unemployment relief measure. It »s----to be hoped that 'the gold yield, of Otago will be substantially augmented by this latest very promising activity, and that the old township' of Crom- : . well, redolent of vivid' memories, will regain, and more, its one-time import once and activity. One suggestion that might be made is that some of the proceeds of mining there might iii Some way be earmarked for the development of the ’ adjacent Upper Clut.ha Valley' by means of hvdro-ele':-tfic powed development and irrigatioi and closer settlement. A goldfield is a wasting asset, but. it might leave behind it a permanent memorial in a long stretch, of smiling and highly produet’vq country' in tlie district.. —Dunedin ‘‘Sfor.-” ': * ;• ;v '
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1932, Page 6
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