SPECIAL VISIT TO THE FIELD. OHINEMURI GOLDFIELDS

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 295, 1 September 1888, Page 3

SPECIAL VI SIT TO THE FIELD.

OHINEMURI GOLDFIELDS

Ai'Tjfß leaving the Konilworlh, the next mine en rovle, is tho CROWN, ■ ' which was floated in Glasgow recently, and which, it is .said, will have a woilung capital of £'25.000, which is to be .spent in actual development. The new Company's property embraces a considerable area — not much lev-, than 100 acres — and it includes tho iVonasLcvy, Abbey, Priory, and Sutro minefc. There is a perfect" network ot loefs 1 mining tlnoughoub tho whole conuom, anil from several of these large parcels, of ore have already been' treated by vaiious processor with results fahly satisfactory. In the Crown section of the piopcity a con&ideiable amount ot doaU work m the way of opening up on, tho main leof has already been accom- ' phoned, and as tho outcome ot theoe operations theie .is, a largo tonnage ot i ore in .sight in tho mine, as. Avell as a consideiablc quantify to grass awaiting treatment. Here the mine workings aio connected by a self acting ground tramway with Kailly's Mill, which is located j about a-quai Lev of a mile lower down the spur, and on the bank of the Waitawheta River. From here I wandered round to the impel nil claim, which is now being worked by the owners (Clements and party), who aio bieaking out somo good-looking ore, which they intend sending to Mr Parkcs tor treat,'nent and iiom which they expect a very high jst-a^ leturn Thence I passed over the Diamond mine, where all was silent, and in due courso l eached tho RoLe claim, which I-, being woiked by a party ot tiibuteiN, who, up to the piescnt, have done faiily well out of their venture.

THE ADELINE. The L»sb claim which I vi failed on this line of reef was the Adeline, wheie two men me now employed on belialt of the Company, w h eh has been compelletl by the Waulon t-) icsiune operations. About 18 months- aoo, when this mine was> in full opeiatioo, some splendid returns ueie obtained fiom the tieabmenb of ore by the battery process, but. the ■whole of tho proceeds — less current expendituie — weie paid away in dhidends, and as a matter oi com to the diiectoia veiy ] .soon found bhemseh os at. tho end of bheir iinaneial tether rope, and the mine was fch L& down in conbequence. Still it is ueneially believed to be £ood pionerby, and with more judicious management, it may again come to the front as a bullion producer of no mean capacibj' 1 . yes ci al pax ties of men aio at woik pio.--peeliug hereabouts, notably Uyrne and who ha\e each spent about IS months koking fora reef which had some exceedingly lich gol'.i-bcaring found liLteied on the Muiaco, but as yet theii putiont fccaich has nob been attended with fiiiree^. The only other mines at work m this di&tiici ai e the

IVAXHOE AND TRURO which belong to a .syndicate of Cinistchuich capitalists, -who bought them in the Warden's (Joint, Thames, Avherc thty uere forfeited and sold for non-work-ing itbout torn- months ago. .Since taking po^et&ion the new ovvueies have had a, f-Lcttl ot nine men continuously employed in developing then propci ly. The old le\el>haM) all been renovated and votimberecl, and the woik ol testing some of the blocks of ice! country left standing by the pi Urinal o\\ nei ,s i.s now in piogrofcs. In the Tiuso section a luw level i-> now boino; di iven to i\b to mlciseet the " fescott " icet at a depth ot about 200 feet under the old | woiking^. This level is now in a distance of about 150 lect, and the manager expects to meet with the leef eveiy shift. At the northern end of the Ivanhoe mine a cioi-s- i cut is m pioore-s to intellect the reel known ! as " Liddell's," and as there is only about 30 iect to diivc it, in expected that thi? work will bo douo in a very short peuod oi lime Embraced within thib syndicate's aiea i- the old .Sir Walter Bcofcb mine, Avlurli yielded &o hand&omoly about 4 vcar» ajr°- It a notorious fact that this mine came to tfiiel in consequence ot the giasping greed oi the shaieholdeis, who clamoured ior dividends when they ought to have been paying eall^ in oulei to thoroughly develop t-hcir pioperty. In looking over the Ivanhoe Company*, batteiy books I find that, dining the ii\ o months ending Is*o\embei, JOB 4, 641 tons of quart/ was treated foi the Scott Company for a return of 1,200 ounces of gold -valued. about f'fty-tlr.ce shillings per ounce, and this was the lcsuld of sundiy si.iatchiugs on the surface. Although this property passed tin ough the hands- of .several pai ties, it i.s only nou that an eQort i.s being made to lest the icefs at a deep level, and much inteiefct is being centred in the results which should be known \cry shortly.