MINING NOTES FROM WAKATIPU.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10513, 9 November 1895, Page 6

MINING NOTES FROM WAKATIPU.

fFROM Ocr Own Ooreespoudbnt.)

Arrow rowx, November 2.—The Victor Emmanuel tributers, Sfacetown, are, I hear on good authority, on excellent stone, and are making good headway in the mine as well as with crushing. They are so far the only p »rty which has started their battery either at Skippern or at Macetown, haviog begnn treating their stone early in September last. The tributers eecm to liava hit nu a. lucky sp«c. and fully deserve all heir success for the plucky manner in which they went on with the work.

The Glearock Company will now soon have tbeir electric hauling olant in full and permanent working order, and immediarely nfterward? the battcrr will be set goinß. tn the meantime, work in the mine is being pushed ahead with all possible sneed.

The Tipperaty (Macetown) contractors are making steady progress with tho low-level adit. The adit op<ms up the lode in the property at a lower level thin has be?n reached in any other mine at Macetown—that is, at a mean average of uslevation above sea level. The contention with someanthnriticsisthatthelodesinNorfhsraOttiKO do not go down any depth. Such, a statement per se, without indicating a level at a fixed elevation, is, of course, nieauinEtess. and no weight can be attached to it." Th« All Kations, Garibaldi, Sunrise, and some ether lodes have b».« w«rked at elevation < of betwee-i 40 K)ft and 5000 ft above sea

level, white the works of tho Glenrock, Tipperary, and many ntbur lodes are situated at an elevation of, siy, 2000 ft nearer the sea level. From this exposition it will be seen that a statement to the effect that our lodes do not go down required some qualification. At an; rate tho above figures show tliatlth'ere is a mtirjriu of between 2000 ft and SliOOft in which lodes of a'paying natuie have been proved to exiet at Macetown, and that is more than can be Raid, for most re^fißg districts.' At Skicpers aad Upper Shotover, too, things look very hnp^ful ana iM-oniising. Upon the water bern» drained from the Achilles Goldfields Company's mine it wa? found that the levels and pass's were all in a fair state of preservation. Mr FrfJ Kvans. the maaaeer, reportc that quartz Mising and crushiDg will hegin on or about' November 1 with a total of 67 men, working on

contracts calculated to raise 40 tons of stone of good> quality per day. This reads like business, and as otone of a first-class character is known to exist in the mine, hiurisoma cakes are likely to be heard of before long. This mint) is now raising sstone from a depth of 25Uit, below the water level of Skippers cre«k without there being any sign of the lode giving out. Indeed; it- is rather the other v/ay about. The Leviathan Company, at Skippers Point, are raising some excellent stone, proarwiufi fully loz to tbe ton. The sew eight-hevl bittery in course of erection is coming on very well, but owing to the frightfully wet weather and the consequent difficulty in the delivery of tbe heavy mateijal; it will probably be the middle of this mouth before the battery will be ready for crush-

insCooper and party, who own the adjoining licensed hoWUj to the above, are busy prospecting tbeir property, and are doing sn with a great pruiuiaK: of SUCC4SS. A trial crushing of several tons of stone is now ready to be put through so soon ass the leviathan; battory is ready, from which a highly payable result is confidently expected. As this raino joins tbe Leviathan tbe success of the one is complementary to that of the other.

Lynch and party, who have dona some arduous and systematic prospecting on another lino of lode at Skippers Point, have lately met with very encouraging prospects, and the anticipations of the party are that they are in for a Rood thing.