Notes from Wakatipu. (From Our Own Correspondent.)
Arrow, May 7.— Up to date there is very little mining news to the fore. The four quartz crushing batteries in this district are kept in full going order, making all the time and work they can, as the time is fast coming round, when in the ordinary course of things King Frost puts his annual stop to the water supply in our mountains. The same may be said of our sluicing miners. At the head of Lake Wakatipu mining is reviving. At the Buckler burn, Messrs Arthur Ford and party have abandoned sluicing on account of the stony nature of the ground, and have begun tunnelling, meeting with very fair prospects. Other parties in the same creek are doing very well. There are also several parties of European miners, as also some Chinese, working in the streams falling into the lake upon its eastern shore. For many years all these localities, though originally very rich in gold, were lying completely deserted. • There is also encouraging news from the Dart Wley, but the miners are beginning to leave the locality for the season. At the Invincible quartz mine in the Ree's Valley work is pushed ahead with all possible speed, but it is greatly hindered by the large volume of water in the ground. In dredging, work is confined to two companies —viz Sew Hoy's Big Beach Company, and that at the sandhills, Upper Shotover, both of which are doing fairly well.
Notes from Wakatipu. (From Our Own Correspondent.)
Otago Witness, Issue 1994, 12 May 1892, Page 15
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