MINING.
The boom draws nearer our own doors, a large dredging claim having been taken up on the estuary within half a mile of the town. The Mining Association, too, have applied to the Government for a grant to assist an prospecting the South Riverton reefs. Were it not for the fact of the main reef running through private property, it would have been worked ere this, for there is a large body of stone, and it is known to average ftoz to the ton. There is a great want of enterprise somewhere, the chief fault being with the townspeople themselves for not taking the matter up with sufficient energy.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2358, 4 May 1899, Page 29
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110MINING. Otago Witness, Issue 2358, 4 May 1899, Page 29
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