Notes from Wakatipu.

Otago Witness, Issue 2302, 14 April 1898, Page 18

Notes from Wakatipu.

i- (From Our Own. Corbespondisnt.) i Arrowtown, April 9: — The" copious rain showers which fell during the week here have replenished miners' rac;s arid added* to the motive. , power of machineiy and mills, so that renewed • activity ia noticeable in all parts where the fluid element is the roaiu condition in the progress of | work. As ihe fieice heat is now over, and the j days are getting shorter, evaporation is greatly i checked, and the supply is ilksly to last till winter. The Macetown .Reefs-. i The Glenrock Company's cake of 36uz of i saielted gold from 525 tons, or an average of only a -little, short of Hdivtsvpe? ton, shows that if the value of the - stone fluctuates a -very, safe and ► satisfactory -, aver* 'age is, maintained all through the crushings. This amount i 3 the clean up for last month, and is a decided improvement upon the yield for February last. Tbe crushing .plant at this mine ha? now been raised to 20 htads of stampers, and it is in fir»t-cl-.ps working order,, and with it-th"e m-.nascex-, Mr W. J. Stanford, expects to treat fi\ in ISO to 200 tons per. week— an increase on the I amount previously put through that will appear in a most striking light in the returns of the , future. lu'addition to the cake mentioned £455 j worth of gold was obtained from 24 tons of con» . centrate=", giving a rough average of £20 per ton, or, say, soz per ton. Ac each ton of concentrates represents >'O tons or 35 tons of quartz treated ifc | will be seen that this makes an addition of about 3dwt or 4dwt per ton put through.the mill --a very appreciable increase in the total yield. The \Wstralia and New Zealand' Gold Ex- | plerer. (Lhnited) obtained 81|oz from 9t tons crushed. This was merely as a trial crushing to tept tbe value of the stone now met-with, in this mine. Thjs *eef recently discovered in the west I drive of the low level adit, and described as 6ft" J- wide, is not developing so well as first indications '' seemed to wair&nt. So far as developmenta-have ■<' gone it is fouud' tljat tbe- stone does not live- over -_ | headland t&afc the body cf the. reef is dividing j. under f col. Howeverthe stdnd i? veryjricfi and ' may in a shorf; distance ifiake into ;a 'compact .' body.' 'The shaft' now'sink ing- fconr the. -low leirel [' adit will intercept the dip of the underlie of_tb;e rreef met with in the west -drive, and will ' therefore also prove the'Der'maneuce"and valtfe * •of the new make. The shaft is flown 90ft, , following s^one of excellent quality all" the way, ,' and as about 80ft is the limit at which the j windlass ceayes to be effective the macager, Mr j W. J. .Stanford, has decided to bring other power i.to bpp.v upon the bauloge. This will, of course, take sorae time to complete, and it will probably not be till spriug be-fore the stone in the shaft will be pioperly opened up for stoping. Mr Stanford also obtained U7oz ldwt from a quantity of ! old copper plates used and rejected by the old j Tipp^raiy Company. Tbis.trifle will make a weli come item on Iha" credit side of the"company!s I balance sheet, and being obtained ftom what was i looked upon as refuse, is nothing ihort oj surpris- } ing in its amount. [-• Report has it" i hat the Arrow Falls Company ! are again on very, good gold. This i 3 just what | might have beetf .expected, and ths chance is almost a cartaiuty in the case of thi 1 } comnany being a very prjfitiible investment.