SKIPPERS NOTES.

Lake County Press, Issue 2134, 6 September 1906, Page 5

SKIPPERS NOTES.

(Fit OM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT). Owing to tho very mild and opon winter, all the sluicing claims have been able to make an early start this spring, and are all now in full swing. Although the river still keeps fairly high, several of the river claims are still working away. _ Four men are now engaged in cleaning out the tunnel at the Shotover Q.M. Co.'* claim. Timber is also being brought up from Queenatown, so that it is likely that in a chorb time this mine will be in full working order again, and It is to be hoped with satisfactory results. Tho tributors, Messrs Lowis and Tripp, aro scill driving on the same Company's reef on the eastern side of tho river. Skippers has never been looked on as au ft"rieultural district, bun I might mention°that during the week Messrs Cotter Bros, have sent Ovo tons of potatoes to the Dunodin market. The potatoes are a aplendid sample and will, no doubt, bring top market price. Mr Meadows, of the Branches, has also gone in for potato wrowin" on an extensive scale, and is sending his crop to Queonstown. There is no doubt that if tho prosent road was continued, farming could bo mado pay at the Branches, as there is a large aroa of first-class agricultural land in that locality. Tho usual even tenor of our ways was disturbed on Saturday evening last, when most of the residents, both young and old, turned out to welcome in colonial fashion our popular membor of Lake County Council, Mr A. Lambie, who, with his bride, had returned the previous cvomni; <rou> their honeymoon trip to tho North Island. The residents of Skippers district purpose entertaining Mr and Mrs Lambie at a welcome homo social in- the Skippers lib'U' "-.all to-morrow evening.