CLAIMS PEGGED OUT.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20360, 18 July 1934, Page 1

CLAIMS PEGGED OUT.

Golden Mile Extends Under Kalgoorlie. KALGOORLIE, July 10. Believing that the famous Golden Mile extends under the twin cities of Kalgocrlie and Boulder, mining men are making startling applications to the Warden’s Court. Mining permits are sougl/t for areas on which stand tramway sheds, two hotels, and many private houses. A man wanting a lease on Mount Charlotte was granted it, on condition that he does not mine within 50 feet of Victoria Reservoir. At Lamington-Heights, the golf Jinks are pegged out, and at half-way, the Goldfields High School, trotting grounds and whippet grounds are all included in the mining leases. The claims were pegged out following the recent discover}’ of an extension of the Rand in South Africa. An extension of the famous Mile would mean an assured future for the fields for very many years, but would wreck the town cf Kalgoorlie. A reason why efforts to prospect the northerly extension of the Golden Mile

is that there is a heavy overburden cf alluvial, through which it is necessary to sink before any reM exploration work can be done. One shaft on the town site, which has been sunk through 140 feet cf overburden, and spoil from which is encroaching on the footpath of one of the main thorcughfares, is said to have given encouraging restilts. Schemes for diamond drilling on other town site, areas are in hand. When the. Golden Mile was discovered, the cities of Kalgocrlie and Boulder were built as close as possible to the mines. Now the mines may advance and conquer the cities.