Waipori Notes.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 6689, 16 August 1919, Page 3

Waipori Notes.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Our district as a mining centre is still holding its own and though the number of men engaged in tho industry is considerably less than in the stirring days of the dredging bo )m, there is yet a good deal of activity, and the various claims in operation are no doubt on the whole producing a creditable amount of gold. From a cursory aurvey of the district I am able to supply the following notes : .Mr Richard J. Cotton, having completed the working of the payablo ground on tho Nardoo Flat, has shifted his plant to the old Deep Lead cut previously worked by Hilgendorf. He has now his elevator set up with the intention of taking 'out a solid block left by the old company, which is believed to be very good. I hope anticipation in this respect will bc'roalised, and that Sir Cotton will receive an adequate reward for his enterprise. Messrs Gare Bros, are still working the upper reaches of Mitchell's Flat, and from what I hear, with satisfactory results.

Mr Fred Rogers, after doing a con siderablc amount of quartz prospecting in this district, is now working Messrs Knight Bros.' rights 011 tribute, and has opened up a claim on Nor' West Creek. Since taking up this claim Mr Hogurs has done a lot of useful work, and the general opinion is that he lias not drawn a blank. Messrs Bussell Bros., having finished workiag Morris's Flat, arc now operating in Wheeler's Gully with good prospects ahead. Munro and Party (Post Office Creek) are still working steadily 011 tho Post Office Lead under Mr James Gare's management, and are said to be doing very well. Mr George Bertenshaw is at .present engaged in driving on the odgo of tho Deep Lead cut, having struck .a good seam of wash 011 the ledge which had apparently been missed by the old minThe Government boring plant is still engaged prospecting the lower end of the Waipori Flat, with a view to testing the auriferous value of the main Deep Lead. This area was some time ago applied for by the Dunedin City Council as a dam site, and the object uf the boring is to determine whether the ground will be retained for mining purposes or handed over to the city for water storage'purposes. Good progress lias been made with the plant under Mr Buckland's management, some four or five miles 0 f1 he flat having so far been tested. The results of the tests are in the meantime strictly confidential. The water supply prospects for the summer are not too promising, there having been this winter an absence of heavy snow drifts 011 the higher levels. However, there is 110 telling what may yet lie in store for us before the summer months are reached, and pessimism dues not find a place in the miner's creed.