WHITE'S REEF OLD MAN RANGE

Otago Witness, Issue 1834, 14 January 1887, Page 12

WHITE'S REEF OLD MAN RANGE

Tbe mine manager reports for the week i ing December 31 : — •' I< have two men repairing main tunnel and one man repairing making up water races before starting the tery, and to keep oub the water from mitt the water makes the main tunnel, very wet the ground heavy to work. I have not been to start taking out' quartz for want of pr< timber. As soon as timber arrives I 'shall t taking out quarts, to open out midway bet* main tunnel and present workings, to prove shoot of stone lower* down, and to etope quartz from above. Tbe prospeots of the A are looking well." v j Since the above report was written we an formed by tbe legal manager that the reef thick) has been struck in a crosscut from j main tunnel, and prospects about an ounc| the ton. , ,■,,'•_ f, > Wellington^ January \l Reporting on the gold find at Marton,| Hector says:—" The sample is grey,. and b| sand, with about 50 fiakey specks of alluf beach gold, weighing about '7 of n grain.! this is the result of a shovelful of wash it w| give less than ldwt per ton. It is probably! rived from an old raised beach at the base of I post tertiary formation that forms the snl ficial stratum at Marton. If found on the <| beach ib would not be considered at all a £ prospect." ' * {