Notes from mataura.

Otago Witness, Issue 2436, 21 November 1900, Page 21

Notes from mataura.

.CFbom Oub Own Correspondent.) GORE, November 15. Boring operations on. the Charlton Extended claim have been carried out to ascertain the depth of wash, which could not be done by ordinary prospecting owing to the great influx of water. Pour bores were put down to an average depth of 22ft, 17ft of which is wash. The wash was cradled with good results, one '"bore yielding as high as lOgr per yard. Altogether the eight holes sunk and bored in different parts of the claim average over 7Jgr, •with 17ft of -wash. The claim adjoins the Charlton Creek, the wash being deeper than the majority of other Charlton claims. JTho company is being largely suscribed. Heavy rains have fallen up country, and the Mataura is rising. . It is recognised locally that the most satisfactory solution of the Charlton water difficulty is for the Government to declare the creek a sludge channel. Little more than £1000 will settle all claims, and, this course having bean pursued with the Waikaka, it is only reasonable that the Government should pay the Charlton compensation instead of the miners. Nothing har leaked ou4 yet about returns from dredges just starting operations. " Opening out " sometimes takes an enormously long time.