Notes from Waipori.

Otago Witness, Issue 1957, 27 August 1891, Page 14

Notes from Waipori.

(From Oub Oww Oobbbspohdent.) j August 25. i A good many of the miners who have olaims on { the higher gullies of the Lammerlaw have been j working on the lower ground for the last two i months, but now on the approaoh of more genial > weather they are gradually returning to the higher ! gnd richer country. There was, however, a con- : siderable covering of snow on the mountains yester- , day, but, a warm wind prevailing to-day, it has to a { great extent diiappeared. This has given an ample : supply of water to the Deep Lead and other iluioing olaims. In the former there is nothing new to < report. Work has been steadily prosecuted since , the break-up of the frost, with tbe exception of a short stoppage through tbe breaking away of the headrace. The manager is busy preparing a site for a second elevator, or rather a fresh site for the one elevator, at there is not sufficient water to work the two ejectors at the same time. There was considerable stir in this usually quiet village last week consequent on the arrival all at the same time of four or five waggons with parti of the Golden Bar dredge, which is to be rebuilt at Waipori, and a team of 22 horses with the new boiler for tbe Jutland Flat dredge- This was a ponderous load weighing, with the carriage on which it was placed, over 11 tons. Mr Drummond, waggoner, of Outram, was the contractor for its removal to Waipori, and he Is to be congratulated on the feat he has performed of bringing suoh a heavy load over 40 miles of such hilly country as lies between here and Dunedin at a season when the roads were at their worst. The very yoking up of a team of 22 horses to one waggon, so as to distribute their powor most effectively, was quite a triumph of the teamster's craft. A alight delay was caused by the sinking of the waggon in a soft part of the ford when crosting the Waipori river. It is expected bat at leait a month will elapse before this dredge will start work. The manager is Mr Edmonds, formerly of the Macetown district. Another trip of tbe three or four waggon teams will suffioe to bring down all that remains of the Golden Bar dredge.

On Friday Banger Hughan and one of the memben of the Miners' Association proceeded to the Waipori bush to mark off an area of 100 acres, which is to be kept intact as a reserve for the benefit of lode mining. It was high time this was done, for sinoe the Dredging Company took to burning manuka In their furnaces the bush was being cut into right and left, and It was only a question of time when not a stiok of mining timber oould have been obtained, and as there will be three dredges consuming 13 or 14 cords a week at no distant dute, the time in question would be very short. It would be a congenial task for some member or supporter of the present Liberal Ministry to inquire what return acorues to tbe State for all this scarce and valuable timber whioh goes up in ourling wreaths at the rate of 13 cords a week from the smoke stack of the big dredge.