Mining Intelligence.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1521, 26 February 1886, Page 2

Mining Intelligence.

J. Jack and P. Kenneth, who have lately been prospecting the Dart Valley, bring very favorable reports—the most serious drawback, it would seen, being the difficulty of getting provisions, etc., to the workings, on account of the danger which has to l»e repeatedly incurred -except when the stream is low—in crossing the Dart, The party started from the Diamoixl Lake saddle and reached the old workings, (some 32 miles up,) in eleven days. Several terraces were tested along the route, and gold was fonud in nearly every instance. Near the old workings the country is quite open and contains a large fiat well suited for grazing purposes. It is too late this season to attempt to settle down to work, but we understand that the party intend to make a good trial of the country next spring.

(FROM OCR OWN CORRKSPOK DENTS.) The Tipperary Co. have cleaned up a crushing of about 350 tons—a cake of 37Soz. of retorted gold being the result. Messrs Seolcs, Williams and party have let the contract to tunnel through a rockv spur near Golden Point, Arrow River, to S. Williams and Co. The tunnel will he of very large dimensions—and is to carry the whole of the Arrow River through it, thus draining a large bend iu the river about 2000 feet in leugth, which for the larger portion has not yet been worked. From the enormously lieh yields—in former days—that were produced from the river bed above and below the present claim, there is every reason to hope and to believe that this venture promises to be highly remunerative to the plucky undertakers. The batteries of the Premier Co. and of the New All Nations are still idle, owing to the want of water; but the work of taking out stone is being actively continued, in order to begiu crushing aa soon as water is available.

The Gallant Tip at Skippers have made a start with crushing, and a handsome cake may expected before winter sets iu, as good stone has been got out for some time past. The alluvial terraces at Macetown are looking up, and are likely to eclipse the reefs in productiveness. Of the eight parties who are working or prospecting these deposits, the greater number are on payable gold, and the rest are either bnsy opening their claims by rock drainage tunnels, or are doing other preliminary work, having previously obtained prospects to encourage them to undertake such heavy "specs." Since the early digging times these terraces have been known to be very rich in gold, and it is rather surprising that they should have left so long unworktd. In reefing matters there is not much new to report. The Premier are sinking their shaft deeper, in order to get below the sh<>ot of stone worked in their bottom level. The New All Nations are pnshiug their main working level further along into the reef, anil have just come upon indications of a new shoot of stone. The Tipperary cake, which caine down last Saturday, weighs 3780z., and is the result of six weeks' crushing with shortness of water, which still continues to lie felt by miners in thid as well as every other part of the district.