GOLD FROM CROMWELL

Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1933, Page 12

GOLD FROM CROMWELL

ACTIVITIES ON THE FLAT. Dunedin, Feb. 8. News from Cromwell states that work continues quietly at the claims of the flat where Messrs. Ritchie, Bell and Hooper brothers have recently appointed a mine manager. Highly-payable returns are still being won,, though returns obtained are not being divulged. Messrs. Bell and Kilgour have completed the work of taking up bottom, and are now again into payable wash. With three expert miners they are pushing on with main drive to determine the width of the run. Messrs. Bell and party .at the sluicing claim seem to be meeting with improving prospects, and have now in the top comer of the claim struck sandstone bottom identical to that in lower claims. The future of this claim is regarded as most promising. Mr. Wm. Murray, who has severed his connection with Bell and party, is tunnelling in an area adjoining that of Messrs. Bell and Kilgour. It is considered only a matter of time before he strikes payable dirt. Another project well down the river has been getting quite good prospects on a clay bottom, which would indicate that the whole of the flat is goldbearing, and the opinion that the whole flat would be an ideal dredging proposition seems to be gaining favour.