Notes from Wakatipu.

Otago Witness, Issue 2319, 11 August 1898, Page 19

Notes from Wakatipu.

(From Our Own Corrf,spo.m>ent.) Arrowiown, August 6.

TUB MACKTOWN KEKFS.

The cleau-ui> for July at the Glenrock bttJeiies produced 2150z 3dwt melted geld from 335 tons enisled. Tbis is a maiked iinpioveinent on la<;t mouth's return?, and leavi-s a clear profit of X - -50 over. and nb.ve all working expen c cs. Ihe quantity of tons put through has, of course, lecn limited l»y interference from the rough wcatiier. 'Ili^ Glenrock Company have tnken up tno whole of Sawyer* Gully with tbe object of working the bed of the gully by sluicing for the alluvial gold it is known to obtain. This ground is likely to be extremely rich, and there is a con-si-ieiable extent of it. At the m<ui!h of the gully, ■where it joins the Twelve Mile C-eck, U a hard class of rock, which in aU probability has complete'v stopped the exodus of the eolrt. Into tbis gully the creeks from the Gladstone. Maryborough, Ladve F-yre, nnd other reef* and ou'erops discharge. The ground was tried many years ago at the time of the Maori war by a party of wotking miners, who brought up a tail race through the solid r..-ck at the mouth of the gully, but were unable to bottom. They btaitcd then to deepen their tail r cc, but being unable to obtain powder, they abandoned the work and 1-aft for the West Coast. While their padd .ck was open a miner, who is still working a+ Macetown (Charlie Clark), tried prospects in a shovel one F'unday, and obtained gold in every piospec 1 -. In more recent years a Frenchman tiied to lntfcomthe ground, but without success. The cmipany now intend to test the ground thoroughly by means of Joringrods, and if found payable efter having ascei timed the depth of the ground, to bring up a tunnel tailrace, and sluice the gully through the tunnel. There are, it is believed, great possibilities in this The Weslralia and New Z.-aLnd Gold Explorers {Limited) are now crushing quartz from the new level No. 9, but co far the results have not come up to expectations. The different parties who have bottomed aijd are at regular woik in the bed of tbe Shotover Kiver, where they apply the jet pump to thenground, are all doing well, and some even remarkably well.