THE COLONIST. PUBLISHED DAILY. NELSON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1882. MINING PROSPECTS.

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

THE COLONIST. PUBLISHED DAILY. NELSON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1882. MINING PROSPECTS.

, otes of iustice to >Nelfion in v «adSj expending within A* 18 • * due proportion of the '«da2owedonthecredifc o f^he DeySni bave often beeu:taunfed '^unprofitable character,, ofthe. ct c through- which ,a.railway; n and with the ab»BDce df> ''■ Sid facts to bear out their icl6 tinri tbat the want of any great te° f land immediately available' eDtiniiltural purposes is moat com-; fienUd. forjy.;^ .1 treasures unequalled m any 'aruf^ew Zealand. Thatthe r fobiection obtained currency was' iaiDivto.the unceasiug utterfl D o fdißparagi^Btatementßbymen. I Mr launders. He having at time held tl»e office of Superintenai supposed t0 P°s Beßß ""I and Ue inlbrmatioD., indeed, in the atJ( j,oufc,be never pjiesed the 083 »f iftvine so much 1, and," ac-' r to hia genial and generous 2? describing all who..told, a pren t"ta)o as grossly ignorant, or iberate—v?ell, perverters of the , Ministers, former as.well^aj. ent were quite ready to accept as' i founded these foulinga of .the t where the slanderers gained every ber they had to^7 with* Goui™ions were set down to selfishness, do attempt wa3 ma^e to ascertaJn bom falsehood ought to be cbar^ed. part of the case against ub ha^ a dispelled by the visit of Mr Eolon , who frankly expressed bis-eur-fl at what he saw, and pronounced district between Nelson arid the' it Coast equal to any in the n d, As to the second, arid after tbe more important feature—the! ial existence ot great and widely ,ad mineral wealth—the discoveries the Uat fevr weeks place that bedfurther doubt, and so when the fcloania raised, there will not be mening for our enemies to sneer, ormerly, at the visionary nature of speculations, nor to repeat the rot cry of "political railway." Una a comparatively short; distance llelaon, w near at any rate that no cacguwtion the certainty that all)//fsjui8t be drawn from it, the mt eflergy of prospectors, without aid from .public funds, has disitd a quartz reef that promises to & valuable and extensive. Tbe ;Eiver has been long known to m'ferous, and now near the foot of aountain, about which there was Duch angry dispute some twelve H since, the reef itself has been :d. Already a number of leases ) been applied for, and as there no extraordinary difficulties etting machinery to the ground, tinly none such as have often been lounted in other places, there is. reason to believe that this ided valley and its tributaries will be thronged with miners, whose 638 will give new life to the entire iefc. farther away,; and yet in the distance thai ehould make ion the source of all supplies, the II is displaying new life. It has fears been thought by those best tainted with that district that isits, more valuable thpn any ally known, would some day be id, and recently enough has been rtained to induce experienced men, had learnt cautionl by the errors atlier explorers, to take up a conrsibla extent of ground, in developwliiA they are prepared to spend rkd earnings. A large quantity old has in the past been raised at Lyell, so that the present numerapplicants for leases have assiiri that their enterprise is certain to t its just reward/With them it liter extendingthe, 'field of opera. 8| than entering on. ar speculation doubtful nature. The precious al is certainly there, 'and'i'nW long ci tb.new lessees will have a [c body of men at work, whose I and clothing will go from 'on. At the same tirne^ that the Inangahua there '■ is |Borae ippoiotment in consequence of collapse of the scheme for conting it by railway with Christten, there is full compensation in of gold mining; indeed, 'cetUinty that it will ere long a 'Q dimensions far Exceeding the at sanguiae hopes entertained a mombsflipce. Not only. are the wz reefs attracting capitalists, but !re seems no possible doubt that the Bros from the enormous beda of rich Q6Qt will exceed anything known 'lie past in the most productive f 9*a2°> where more has been sr^ in this than in any ;• other. 'Option of mining. Here ■ again it P.te practicable for Nelson 'to P«»ede both Greymouth and West- '' •; What advantages either possess ■!?S nearer are more than balancecl;, neither being direct' importers nor being producers,in the/district; istT a few m^eß more'-by'dTay^ 8 °c set an additional voyage from' JW' 8o that the .bulk ,6t -tne f "B ouoht to centre here;- 'Making, .J, Mlowance for. perhaps .uncon^ JJ exaggeration,'by thp'ej'engft^j3 J oe various, undertak'.inge'r.', .the/e r ttoeno, hesitation in.*aying o th'a,t ighrP rtß'?- iotf a™ unusually i° n ; M common, honesty , r preyails hu new' loaQ!cbme(B't(i. BeJWis^; e»A c'" comniunicAtionltwitt)' J Jeveral< Beatß of .miPing "?W" W reudered ea»yjand,;^en"th^ ' JjQcognliaed? Utii^m^U

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