Mount Zeehan.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 4996, 10 June 1891, Page 4

Mount Zeehan.

(Grey River Aegus.) We have had kindly placed at our disposal an interesting private letter from Mount Zcehan to Mr John Gleseking. the contents of which will of course be of some interest to our readers, many of whom are contemplating a visit to that new silver centre, and to which almost hundreds may be said t«> be crowding daily. The writer describes tiie climate as humid in the extreme—worse almost than the coast at its worst—we should imagine by the slushy picture he draws —and he cannot think just yet of allowing his wife and family joining him. While we look at Zcehan and its prospects in purple and gold colors, he considers tilings very quiet intleed. and are likely to remain M ' until the connection by railway is completed. and that is not expected to take place before a few months. But for the fast four weeks (at the time of writing. May 9) there had been almost incessant rain, and the result was that the whole place was an ocean of mud and everything was in a muddle. To mend matters, or rather make them worse, there was typhoid fever all around, scores sick and a few deaths here and there. He is very careful not to advise anybody in any decent way of business here to leave it for Mount Zeehan, as he says that there are too many places already being epjeted as compared with the outlook. And as for public houses, they predominate over all other description of business places, and are far and away beyond the requirements of the place. Everyone seems to think that he can sell whisky to everyone else. Besides, it is such an easy job in the estimation of all but the man who really understands the business. A few weeks ago there were only tliree houses, but now there are eight in full swing, jill going ahead like a house on lire, •with three more going up. How is that for high i Although the day may come when all these will be wanted, at present they are four times too many. !*o man should leave 2*ew Zealand for good without first coming here and seeing things with his own eyes and forming his own impressions from what he sees going on around him. There can be no question that very many good bargains are going about ready to be snapped up _by any"one wide awake enough and with enterprise enough to invest; because the mud and horribly wet and depressing weather are frightening hundreds away. Of course, it is the very worst time of the year. , . We expect the railway to be through m about three months, though I am doubtful on that point. A Melbourne syndicate is running a railway to Dundas, and they expect to be finished alwnt the same time. Dundas is about eight miles away, and bids fair to be the place, as all the Melbourne capital is invested there. As yet there is only one publichouse and one store, but a township will shortly be surveyed.