MINING NEWS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 15, 14 May 1869, Page 3

MINING NEWS.

from the differentworkm& this neighborhood still continue ■jof a very favorable character— Mt er for sluicing purposes being demand, unless? severe frost, there is every ■Pect of the supply remaining, abunE| as there is a quantity of snow un- ■ Ron the'hills. From-'Surface pvKlearn that the shareholders in ■prions claims are pushing ■' operations with tiie ? most favqrHfcesults. Several new claims have Weaken up, and in' ieach*' case the - ■fects have been satisfactory.Hrel commandable by the water., is being vigorously prose-. The Great Extended - .Water on saddle, No. 1 is draw-' piear completion, and it will be pesary that two similar fliimings , 111 be constructed ere the land at ■seat undergoing the process" of tun■j&g can be rendered amenable to ■fiuenees of water. . Contrary to the miners at Clarks still their snowy locality"; they busily .engaged -washingto taking their' deparh to lower ground, and a less severe bate, to pass the winter. At the ll .of the Main Gully, the Celestials Becoming quite domesticated, and ■'Apposed to be doing moderately Wl They are occupied during their Be hours in collecting quantities of W grass, which they are storing-for ■gsfuel. Erom Kyeburn there is . remarkably stirring—mining Hiions are still being carried on, 'we have heard nothing of importance, the accounts are the-country between, and Hogburn, the various making preparations for. a wash-up, in anticipation of the which is usually met locality during the winter have been favored with a view Bsmail sample of "gold from the new Kfngs on Surface Hill. The sample K-ed to weighed in our presence beHi four and five grains, and was Hpd ■ from a single dish of earth. Ruper end of Surface Hill, whence Hknle was obtained, has until very entirely unprospected, ■cipally from- there being at present ■rater available to command ground' Hick an elevation. -Surely, if ground Bch as this would promise" to be, is By way plentiful (and we-have every - Bn to believe such to be the" case) ■fcater.race companies will find it to to lose no. time hi - conto the spot.