THE WAKAMARINA.

Colonist, Volume XXV, Issue 3095, 25 February 1882, Page 3

THE WAKAMARINA.

(From Correspondent of Marlborough Press.) Since my laßt a party of mining speculators from Nelson have been visiting the Quartz Eeef taken up by West an<l Thompson at Dead Horse Creek, and as far as I can learn from them, the stone will stand the test, .I: wag told by a most respectable person in Havelock, who has an interest in'the raef, that a trial crashing of his'went sozs Sdwt3 to the ton. If such isttriiel it will be a fine day for the Wakamarina. As far as my experienc^gOeß'r I beb'eve this locality will in course of time be a reefing district. We bave now sixteen miles.of aroa4 in a direct line, besides branch .tracka on' \hs Wakamarina, from Canvas Town' td Devil's Creek, Upper ; Forks, which creek, by the way, is paying yery ; weU,: and is likely to take a considerable r time to work out. ■■' ■:i s;■ ..• „. A fine cample of gold is being1 got yet on the. river, tut most of. th 6 ground is yery. heavy, ; and. jeq^irißf men to be accustomed to use both powder and dynamite, the latter* artic cle being a boon to,:niii|erii 3;ino>vefcground. "'-":':'■';.'_ VV'::;'-' Vi;",!";;';' ; ;;;. There.ia another creek, abpafcJßvia; m,iles from Devil's Creek,1 equally .as good, and reports -say better}.- bafyi unfortianatelyj*there is'rio rdad! ."to1 it;' and it is almost ah impoJßsiliility 'for men to pack tucker to ij; r necessary, and it would soon pay for its construction.. ■: : ,:: As: far as mining is concernQdin general, the "vyakamdrina is reviving; but in my opinion it wiirriev'e'r'' be much until men of capital,tale itilin hand, which they appear, to be, now abbut doing. It ajjrjeara th"ai another c Gdmr^anylhas taken up ifne ;i Qorge claim, for the third time, and from what I can learn they me»n .business this time. The gronnd above this claim was very ricb£ ai J also the ground below, and^it is quiti on %\xs cardi they will make * buccmi of it ;;;;;-ioi t;rt:)V t .L .mo.Li<o...L ■uedl o.) h-*h •'"-1 ■ ■

IQCtnailf-Eiiaim is spoiled by bad management,:for eiample, :the Slucmtj Company's claim. In tbe first place the Company started'6(ifbre was feady, hence thp||a|e,of4fae mine-,i&c., before tbe tri«l washing. '■From an 1 nspectioh made recently by practical niners, the ground may safely chaliengl] all others if workediin a "sys--ematic najsner, and the wealth to'be i-eveaied ODrljr' needs capitaland welldirected £nergy io dev'elob.'' '