THE BULLER GOLD-FIELDS.
The Correspondent of the Westport Times, writing from Addison's Elat, Waite's Pa. kihis, July 11, says :--" The claim I mentioned in my last, as having nineteen feet of wash, dirt, on Tuesday last washed nearly a pennyweight to a shovel, not so much as a shovel will hold, but as much washdirt as a band. ful, for more of the black sand you cannot wash at one time aud save the gold. I sajd the wash was 19 feet deep, but there k'ho knowing to what depth the stuff may^o, but if it goes no farther there is three or four years' work before the fortunate holders, who I learn are new chums. £200 was offered for a share in this claim and refused. In one part of the claim they struck the wash at two feet 6 inches from the surface; at the end of the tail race you can see the wash from that depth to the bottom. <: A party of Scotchmen at the north end of the lead struck very good wash to-day, it is deep purple sand, with few stones." i
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Colonist, Volume X, Issue 744, 16 July 1867, Page 2
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