QUARTZ REEF NEAR COLLINGWOOD.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 582, 18 November 1869, Page 2

QUARTZ REEF NEAR COLLINGWOOD.

(From the Nelson Examiner.) The discovery of the rich gold-bear-ing reef at Wangapeka has brought to our knowledge a reef, probably quite as rich, which has been worked for some time in Bedstead Gully, only five miles from Collingwood. When His Honor the Superintendent was at Collingwood last week he met with some men who associated under the name of the Perseverance Gold-mining Company, and who possess a lease of a few acres of ground under the Goldfields Regulations, have been employed for some time breaking up quartz with sledge-hammers, and washing out the gold. These men, hearing of the intention to form a company in Nelson to work the reef at "Wangapeka, thought it would be to their advantage to bring under the notice of the public the claim they were working, and at the Superintendent's suggestion they sent by the following steamer, which arrived from Collingwood on Thursday morning, specimens of the quartz, bed rock, and a species of conglomerate, all rich in gold, which they took out of their claim the previous day. These specimens may be seen at the office of Messrs Curtis Brothers, and are a proof of what has long been suspected, that the district of Collingwood is rich in gold-bearing quartz. Some of the stone has the appearance of being very rich, and it is certain that if it has paid when worked in the manner described, it would prove exceedingly remunerative if skilled labor and capital were brought to bear upon it. "We shall hear, we hope, of something better being done with this claim, and prospecting parties have been formed to search for gold-bearing reefs in the neighboring country.