NOTES FROM HINDON. (From Our Own Correspondent.)
April 7.— Since the New Year quartz mining has been at a standstill, but contracts have just been let for moving the old Jusfc-in-Time battery to the new site at the reef, best known as the Zealandia, and from which reef was lately orushi d some 5 tons of stone yielding 4Joz to the con. This stone was taken from near the surface, and ->s a Urg* quantity of " backs " can be obtained by putting iv a low-level tunnel, good dividend:, thould be paid by this company. The Mount Hyde Company has changed hands, and a small supply of water is to be brought in by the new company to supply the tables and concentrators at the new roller battery, and as the race will pass through some of the settlers' lands, compensation will have to be paid. Alluvial mining is as at its usual stage at this time of the year on account of the scarcity of water for sluicing, whioh will always be more or less the case until some company brings water to bear on the gullies, and it is to be hoped when this soheme is carried out— as it will be in the future— that the company will remember and not employ the engineers who surveyed the Ophir water race. ; •
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Otago Witness, Issue 1989, 10 April 1890, Page 21
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