MINING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10308, 29 March 1894, Page 6

MINING.

tli Wtalgng goldfield. [firsciiii to Fkibb Abbooutiok.l SYDNEY, Masch 28. " TJ» magistrate at Wyalong has wired to , the flovernmentthat the field ia overdone fay thdaaands,There are now tea thousand people ‘pa ‘the field, which at present can airily fopport fifteen hundred. Men are inivißg;at tie rats of a thousand per day. ■- ■nßiriir*jp*n«» association.^ BEBFTON, Mabch 28. The-Eeefton; manager of the . Big Elver ffoppfwy reportrhaving found two feet of •tone, driving from the winze under No. 2 level on Tuesday. Four hundred shares ia the company have changed hand at four ihiUiagi«ro> The" special reporter of the Sydney Vemny 3er<tld, who recently visited Wyalong, writes-that'the place is a reefing field, which, although full of possibilities, la not likaly-to support properly more than about onediali its -present population of 8000. He adds that to call it a great field ia to utter nothipg more than a great piece of nonsense. It is a place to which no man should; go mining without a stock 0! money- sufficient to defray his cost of living for six months. ''One can live,” he ■ays. /Wquiie r ie" cheaply at Wyalong as at Syfiney. bnt in all my travels I have ■aver met a place so near to permanent settlement which is less forward in point of . accommodation for travellers for the time it -has been a field.” Ha adds that to send moneyless parsons there would be an aot of-cruelty; There is every prospect of both': mining and • storekeeping being overdone. - All’ the- claims on the seven lines of reaf have been marked out, so that there fjd little chance for uewootners. - ..The ciushisga np to March 17' totalled 183 tons tor 4740 z, which oould descwbed .as’ ihigh re. ■QltB. Altogether 800 claims have been narked out oa the Hn«s of roe!, whioh, if placed In a straight line,-would give a total length of fifteen miles. Besides these *: prospecting is being eerried-OTi‘;bflfcdf the alluvial is not discovered, the place will not support more 200 a persons. In dry weather the seeds toiihe-place are easily passable, but with rain tire light loam outs up, and ean only be., traversed with the utmost difficulty. ; '