Notes from Wakatipu.

Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 20

Notes from Wakatipu.

(Pkou Ova Own Correspondent.) ARROWTOWN, April B.— Mr William Thompson, who some time ago came down from Waihi, North Island, with some other young men to try his fortunes in Otago, and who now holds a share in the Bracken's Gully Co-operative party, otherwise known as the " Miner's Dream," showed me the other day an ounce slug and tome smaller pieces of nice water-worn gold got in the claim. Since then it has leaked out that the party have got some very handsome patches of the precious metal, and recent indications go to show that there is a highly payable deposit of considerable extent in their claim. Coarse gold — up to 15dwt pieces — is met with in the gravel three and four feet above the bedrock. Pleasing as all this is in itself, and welcome as it cannot help being to tho fortunate party, it in addition gives the reassuring proof that all the alluvial gold in our hills and streams has not been got yet. It is true that the ground iv question always was looked upon as pile ground, but the difficulties in the way of opening it have hitherto frightened miners off until the present party took tho job in hand, and therefore they richly deserve the success they are meeting with. The clean-up of the Glenrock Company for March last was 3060z 12gT from 455 tons crushed. This yield gives an average of 13dwt llgr per ton, and leaves a surplus over and above working expenses for remittance to London. Mr William Patton, who is in charge of the mine during Mr Stanford's absence, reports that satisfactory as this return is, the outSook for the current month is not so "good as the quantity of stone 'in sight is very limited. .