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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21404, 4 August 1931, Page 11

1 gistrar received seven applications. For the year 1931 to end of July 31, the number of applications received in respect of mining in its different phases was 34. Of this total 14 were received during July. Considerable attention is being attracted in local mining circles by the prospecting work being carried out by the Golden Crescent Sluicing Company in the cement deposits on its claim at Wetherstoncs. There is hardly any ground in the district where cement deposits are known to exist that has not been pegged out, and water races have also been pegged out in anticipation of there being a big demand for water. At the last meeting of the Borough Council an application was made for a pipe line to take water to an area of ground when it is proposed to commence operations at an early date. It is interesting to note that several of the applications that have been received at the Warden’s Court are for claims where work has been discontinued for- a number of years. Those associated with minirg locally are very sanguine that the district will experience a mining revival, if the necessary capital can be obtained to put on up-to-date plant with which to work the cement at a minimum cost.