MINING NOTES.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4351, 13 June 1896, Page 3

MINING NOTES.

ROXBURGH. Our correspondent writeß :— The Roxburgh Amalgamated Sluioing Co. commenced work on Thursday, after having shut down a little over a week ago in order to shift the main pipe-line and clean out the race.

Messrs Pitchers and Kitto have been doing a good deal of prospecting lately at Andersons Flat, their intention being to thoroughly test the ground. They have driven several tunnels at the back of tha old workings, but a great distance in. The tunnel they are now driving is in the direction indicated by Mr Cadman (Minister of Mines) and Mr Gow (Inspector of Mines) on the occasion of their last visit, and several sets of timber have been put in. They have had to cut back the reef in order to get a fall to run in a tram-line. There is a fair face of washdirt, which indicates permanency.

Messrs Pitchers and Weatherall are having their holding in Bullock Creek well prospeoted, but as yet nothing hag been made public The results from the samples of stone sent from Messrs Parker and Elliott's reef at Campbell's Gully are expected to be known at the end of this week or at the beginning of next.

The Roxburgh dredge's return last week was 6£oz of gold. It is reported that Messrs Parker, Todd and party have disposed of their quartz claim at Campbell's Gully, Old Man Range, to the representative of a. South African syndicate. Two prominent members of the London Stock Exchange are at present doing a tour of inspection through the Ofcago goldfields, their object being to quietly prosecute enquiries as to the bona fides of certain mining properties which they, or syndicates represented by them, may acquire, if found suitable. We understand they may shortly be expected in this district.

We take the following from the " Cromwell Argus " :— Crookston and party (the Clutha Gold Dredging Co.) have now everything completed, and are at work in the river nearly opposite where the dredge was built. The owners being all well acquainted with dredging and knowing all its requirements have made the dredge complete in every part before making a start, so that everything works smoothly. This has taken extra time, and the river having fallen low, they would have great difficulty in getting on their own claim where they intend to work, so in the meanwhile they are trying the dredge on somo spare ground and hare applied for protection for their claim until the river rises. — M'Lay and Falconer expected to have their pontoons pretty well built by this time. A contract for timber was entered into three months ago, and it should have been delivered some weeks ago but continuous wet weather at the head of the lake has prevented any drying of the stuff after being cut, so that it could not be floated down the river. A portion.however, is landed, but not sufficient to make a start.