MINING IN UPPER TAIERI. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

Otago Witness, Issue 2231, 3 December 1896, Page 26

MINING IN UPPER TAIERI. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

November 30.— Sine* my last mining >eport probpecling iv the upper branch slrebins of the Taieri has been carried on vig .'rously by a number of practical miners engaged by mining speculators in Dunedin. At Riddell's Creek Messrs P. C. Urant, Kitto, and Co. have taken up a new mining claim of 200 acres ; while at Bond's, a sister creek adjoining, a Duuedin syndicate have a party at woik taking out sione from a quartz reef which is known to be auriferous. The reef was partly opened up some years ago, but owing to the primitive mothods adopted it could not bo properly tested. HEAD OF THE TAIEIM. It is manifest that a mining boom will nhortly set in in the head branch of the Taieri River in the locality of the Laniinerlaw ami Beaumont height?, for already attention is being directed to that quarter by mining agents and capitalists. It is a fact worthy of remark that for a peiio-lof severtl yesir3 past a number of miners have established their homes along the banks of the river, and, as I have reason to know, have made a comfortable liviug for themselves and others dependent upou them from the results of their mining labour. A number of rich patches of gold were struck as far back as the sixties in the locality under notice, and ware rushed over or only partlully worked under the most primitive methods known to the miucra at that date. There are manifest sigus of a number of new mining claims being taken up. as well' as old abandoned claims being ufr,\in resumed by mining syndicates and worked later on under the hydraulic system of labour. I venture to predict that the broad expanse of the Lammerlaw will at no_ distant date prove a remunerative field for minim? enterprise.