MINING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10359, 14 May 1895, Page 6

MINING.

, THE PRESERVATION INLET. GOLDFIELDS. Tbie correspondent of the Southland Times Supplies the following items:—, , The alluvial gold is virtually a thing of, the past "as regards Wilson, river-and Preservation Inlet. +' On Coal Island Payne and Wilson are'still working, but the*claim. J.fancy is not as good as of yoye. For nearly six years this claim.has been working and. has yielded slightly, better than wages all the time. Campbell is still'working in No. 2 creekAand so also is Ramsay and party. Cullen and Clark have Moonlight to themselves; Sandilands aid-party havejusi; gotapunip down for the purpose of doing some sluicing On the /riorth.east corner of the island. 7 What a pity it is ' -"that scarcity of water should be..the cause of so ■ :• much'paying ground being left unwerked. ..On Crayfish* Kennedy and. Anderson ave.goihg over, the old workings, on the north-eastern' corner, -. making slightly better than tucker. ,///. 7 a*. Quite* an exodus of - old : experienced .diggers. and new chums, took place last /week 'from ' the,greatly over-estimated Te Whera; the men .being simply unable * to. make tucker, ■ Even in Glennie'a claim four men divided l_bz of gold for a fortnight'swork, and out of this had to come dynamite, (Sc. What has become of the 91oz, Aci so much talked of?; You can get ".colours" everywhere you try, but that is all. In the Wilson, Gobbetts' party are doing fairly well,: but that is the only claim really worth having in the river. Gunn and party, Kinnard and M'Fadyen, Mulville and Cork; Parker and party, and a few others are battling away *for very little. A*".' ' "- The party of Auckland miners brought down to ' drive 300 ft on the Monte Christo claim, Crayfish Island, finished their contract and went out by A lapt steamer. They have put in two drives, one 158 ft' and the other 142 ft, but without any success. Mr Alf. Trent, who has been" siiperintend.Z_ng .this job, is very sanguine of, success, and -intends returning aifter the winter has passed and continuing the. north,drive anotaer 100 ft at all events.' -The-sensatibnal Nugget claim seems to be-hang-' '■ ing fire. Should a reef exist there such as is' said to be the case,-it is. a pity that it should! remain covered up so long. . , -. Tenders are called for a 100 ft drive on the St. .George claim, Cuttle Cove ; let iis'hopfe that it ' will be successful. , -/. .-■'• .' The Morning Star is being pushed on.vigor- . ously—three shifts ih both levels driving on the reef, which is now very nicely defined in both ~* levels ;^not so wide as the outcrop, but-showing" . nice stone, dipping slightly to the westward with: a nice pug seam on the hanging wall' •'.' "Louis" should soon be getting close to.the reef at Sealers, and when it is struck, if the stone . in.the-reef .is at aU analogous to. the specimens ' picked up there, it will be a dandy.*..*-.'' '••■■' .'■-.• ■'_- ''■■ *.' - The Golden Site is'coming up- again, thanks to / the Anew find made recently. The contract for extending the drive.* oh the north side 100ft:has just been concluded, this makinjr the total length : of the drive on the west side of the river 25-ft. The manager purposes rising up from this ;level to the new find,, which will take two'moriths, and until such rise is finished he does* notv anticipate starting the battery, so that this causes a,temporary suspension of all the hands excepting «i*rht..A'. •■'-.:"> '■'■ ■■'~-■ * -■Tenders are ont for deepening the shaft inthe Break of Day No. 1 north. ;. ;; '; / -: ■•■-.■: The Surprise;, Triangle Extended, >and the, "Hesperides—all-contiguous to each-other on the 7south/side, of the river—have stopped.working ;. * all this labour and prospecting on that side havingfaUed to find a body/of payable stone: : ' The Lucky-Shot, at one time so continuously ." blazoned beforethe public as containing numerous.' leefs-runnipg in various directions, has' been ',' »bandohed. '.'■'■;•.'•.■'•'."* -M'Kenna and party have got some pretty/gold A in their sluicing churn at Gulches, but the concern wants a lot of capital to make a proper job - of it.' ,'*:■ ■ .'.'•'. '■'. ,-.-,*'., -./ . Docherty has been fossicking about Coalflsland . and.found .alode. Opinions differ as to component , * parts.'/ J fancy it is mostly, pyrites (mundic), anti-. mony, and galena, with.a little silver. -However, ' he has taken some of it out, and will soon hear if Itis good.' . ' X. Smythies,_TraiU. and Shepherd have-just con- ' eluded cutting a 15-.h_.in water rase to command.; a. range of terraces above the Gorge. There is .everyindication.of this turning out a.profitable .'"Spec ' ■■ -. . '--■ -'■. ■ ~-.

The Upper Waipori Alluvial Gold Dredging Company (Limited) obtained from No. 1 dredge 23oz.l0dwt 6gr ofgold forl3s_hours' dredging last week. ■■••■•■-;■•■ .*. .. .

.-' Mr' Reeves reports a return from the' Enterprise dredge, Alexandra, fpr the week: ended the 11th Jnst.', ef 240z Bdwt of gold for 135 hours' dredging. The: Secretary of the Jutland Flat (Waipori) Gold Mining Company (Limited) reports, for the ■week: ending Uth irist,, 20o_* 13dwt gold for 144 wagesHime, 137 hours' dredging. .■'..• a*