CHARLESTON MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 351, 15 September 1868, Page 2

CHARLESTON MINING INTELLIGENCE.

On the terraces contiguous " r to Candlelight, on the Mount Pleasant one especially, which I recently visited, mining matters bear evidence of the most satisfactory results. The Eureka claim of Halligan, Clarke, and party, which I may designate by the familiar epithet of " pile claim" is the most auriferous block of cement in the locality. The party, however, have not been crushing for the last month, owing to the fact of their erecting a waterwheel, making a tail-race &c, and what, with the delay incidental to getting up the improved and more expeditious method of slaughtering the cement, (the previous mode having been a horse battery) it need scarcely be added that the new institution will be a very desirable one. By this arrangement (the whole of which will be completed in a few days) it is expected that the yield will be something handsome, and will realise for each shareholder, if water in sufficient quantity can be obtained, at least £SO a week. I little doubt of such a result since, for the last ten months, and with only eight hours work, this claim has averaged between £2O and £3O a week for each man. I am strongly inclined •to think that it is one of the bast claims in the district of Charleston. The Mount Pleasant claim of Tiller, M'Grath and party adjoins the Eureka, and though not so auriferous as the latter, it still holds no ignoble second

place. On this claim a water-wheel driving four heads of stampers, has been for some time erected. The present weekly average yield for each shareholder is about £2O. At the foot of the back range and some short distance from the claims just alluded to, there is a small waterwheel claim, (on Owen's Terrace), but owing to the scarcity of wator the yield can hardly be said to be remunerative ; the party however may make respectable wages when water is abundant.

The Royal Standard and the Frenchman's claim, on the south side of a gully that intervenes, also deserve mention 'in a survey of this locality. The former is a horse machine, and yields about £lO a-week for each shareholder; the latter, however, a water-wheel distant 600 yards from Royal Standard, drives four beads of stampers, and pays £2O a-week. The Star Hotol, Princes street, was sold by auction on Thursday last, Maginn Brothers being declared purchasers, at £195. Considerable merriment was 'occasioned on Sunday afternoon by a police chase. The pursued party turned out to be a fellow townsman, who had been in the house of durance while laboring under a fit of delirium tremens, and who escaped thence. A short time however, restored him to his prior situation. It would be well if some charitably disposed individual were to impress upon his mind, when he recovers, the necessity of reserving the order of Falstaff 's mixim, " eschew the sack and addict himself to thin potations." Plus cold water and lemonade and minus grog, equals health, wealth, and happiness. It is thought that the Odd-Fellows' Anniversary Ball, which is to be held in the Casino this (Tuesday) evening, will be a great affair. Every endeavour indeed, is made to secure the success which is anticipated. A mining share in Moore's claim Back Lead, was aold on Thursday last, for the sum of £4OO cash. The last washing of this claim realised £I7OO, and it is expected that the next result will even exceed that handsome sum.