Notes from Tuapeka.

Otago Witness, Issue 2400, 1 March 1900, Page 19

Notes from Tuapeka.

(From Ous Wetherstones Correspondent.') February 26.—The Golden Crescent party finished last week putting up the pipes for their race across the Waipori River. The quantity of piping ordered was cut rather fine, and they are between 30ft and 40ft short. On the water being turned into the pipes, it was found that, the joints did not leak at all, but the riveting along the seams proved like a sieve, the water spouting out all along. This is put down to faulty riveting. I heard one party say that they could not get withiu 50ffc of the pipes. At -the present, the men are busy in the claim fixing up things. They have lowered the head of the ppes into the dam. The Golden Bise commenced elevating again last week. It won't take them long now to work out the upper part of their claim. I should think that less than a couple of years will finish it. The flat, or gully, is 'getting narrower, so that they can take out in one paddock from side to side. It is reported that the Klondyke dredge has been paying well lately, and that they got 60oz in one week. That must have been the week when they got the block of solid ground with a fine blue wash. They are leaving the ground very level behind them, and it should be of some value as a grazing padlock when they are done dredging, if not hydraulicked again; which I fancy it will be by the same parties. The syndicate that applied for Mr T. Pope's freehold and the land above it have, I tinder- , stand, had 50 acres granted them. They have also applied for the water race that comes through the ground. It is the\,same race that , Mr John Mouat and our party made use of in the 'sixties.