THE GOLDFIELDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12478, 23 January 1904, Page 6

THE GOLDFIELDS.

.. O. WAIHI GRAND JUNCTION G.M. CC

THE NEW BATTERY. The local attorney for the Wailii Gran Junction Gold Mining Company (Mr. Job Chambers) has received a cable from th Home directors confirming, and giving pat ticulars of, the purchase of the Kauri Free hold Gold Estates' battery and plant a Opitonui. At the present time a sta! specially sent down is engaged in dismantl ing the plant, and our advertising column contain ar advertisement calling for scow to convey the plant to Waihi. Under th contract the work of removal has to b completed during the next three months A battery site has been selected at th mine, and the election of the plant will b commenced at once. In the mine itsel sinking and driving are still proceeding No. 2 shaft is to be sunk a further IOOf below the present 638 ft level (No. 3), an< tenders are about to bo called for t-hi work. The drive going north towards tin reef is mo v. in about 180 ft, leaving sorai distance fet to drive to intersect the lode.

u DISCOVERY OP GOLD-BEARING ORE. •*'. [P,t TKLEGKAI'H.OWN COKEKSPOXDEN'T.] • Wajhi, Friday. VRegarding the reported new. find of gold • Whaugaomta. district, from what '• hejred-tfcore is no reason to doubt ca he discovery of gold-bearing ore >u that ;,, w h a ( W a« formerly known, la r ' c ' fc " •• «d ix claim. situated about two h« th* I'li.r at' (he Gold water mine, worked •" p S . "earlier days of this field. This new l n J hits "been made by Mr. Win. Tib-ley, ,' n Prospector of considerable experience. 1 J'Vrea covering bis discovery has been ,a !> j-'fld for, but beyond that, no fresh „ij,. J iid adjoining has so far been taken up. p'/Ast. experience of Whanqamata shows Jhat the rich vein matter fails to live downJivards. and .until work of a, deep-level char- : /'actcr has been carried out on this new find § it is unwise to expi«ss on opinion of too f optimistic a character.; At the same time it is the opinion of mining authorities that the previous workings on this fieui have been.carried out at too shallow a depth. So far as the deep area section of its veins is concerned, practically nothing whatever is known of their character or value. If the veins of Tairua, AVaihi, and Karangahake carry their values juto the deeper, country, why not the veins of the Whanga-mat-d district. It- is to tip hoped that this find wil' give a permanent lease of life for the Whangamata district.