OHINEMURI GOLDFIELD. Waihi. Paeroa, Friday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2150, 20 April 1886, Page 2

OHINEMURI GOLDFIELD. Waihi. Paeroa, Friday.

SILVERTON MINE. — This mine iis nown Ur and away the Iwst, both for present condition and future prospect, on the entire field. Mining of course, in its very essence, is and must of necessity b°. a game wh jrein accidents and incidents play a prominent pait, and none can Ei iy with any decree of certainty where, anil where nut the soughtfor mineral lies. This, applying as it does to nearly all minhg pt r uits, ai>plies £ fortiori to gold mining. There are even in that fickle industry however indications and " prospects" by which the expert may with some relative regard for truth be led to believo that in such and such a place the desideratum lies. There is no absolute certainty, but merely a relative likelihood, and it is in such a spirit that I assert that if ever there was a probability of gold occurring in a certain place, that place is the Silverton Mine, Waihi. Mining reports are usually uninteresting, " flat, stale and unprofitable " reading, but still it may say interest Waikato readers to know of the wealth that is but next door to them, and which may probably be within their own gates. There is a winze snnk on the hanging wall of the reef (in the top side of the reef which, like nearly sill reefs in this district, is oblique) .uvl iherj is also a tunnpl which runs along the reef and which is eventually to intersect the winze. The Litter is down o"3 feot, and the face of the tunnel is about 45 feet distant from it. Now, in the winze, from a depth of about 15 feet, good gold bearing alone, in wlrch the meUl is fieiily \ifiblc, In-, been mat with, growing licheV towwids the bottom. In the tunnel the sane phenomenon occurs, and also grows richer towards the winze. This, of course, implies that unless theie is a break in the reef, which us highly improbable, (I will not t-ay uupottible) the run of gold ib from the face of the tunnel to the b>ttom ef the winze, and as the lecf is a tremendous thickness, thii would mean snme thousands of tons of qu.irU. worth from £30 to £100 per ton. If this is so, and there is some reason in thn theory, the s'l.-uvholdeis miy con Mer thenueheb Ktfhly fawmred <>f IXime Fortune. Mine work in ordinary is proceeding in the various otheiynines art Waihi, buttr.eie is nothing of much outside, or even inside interact to report. Owharoa. The Government havo decided not to withdraw che whole of tho £100 subsidy granted some venr or ei^hteoi nr>nths ago, £200 ot which was diverted to the Toi Creek track, To Amha, but to allow the balance to tro for the prospecting tunnel through the Smile of Fortune at Owharoa. This will open up a lot of back country toward Waituk.iuri where there are surface indications of payable reefs. The Owharoa miners have offered to give £50 in labour, and the ounty council will thus merely have to pay £50 for £300 worth of good work. General News. The County Council un?ting on S itnrd»y last was not calculated to lift up that august body in the eyes of the people. Ten hours sitting, the time being chiefly taken up by internal and external squabbling, is not a state of matters so to do. That long- talked of adjustment of assets and liabilities between the Thames and Ohinemuri counties seems as though it would never be un fait accompli. Two accountants have undo examinations of the books, and a third is to be made. Meanwhile, tho Thauiei County Council have applied t'> tho Government to stop all Ohinemuai revenue until that county agrees or decides to get tho matter fixed up. Rither a highhanded proceeding, one cannot holp thinking, h.nvover. Some korero also tnok plac.s at the meeting just noted on the occasion of the opening of tho tenders for ad\ertisiug. The Te Ainha News, Hauraki Tribune, Thames Star, aud Advertiser wore represented both by reporters and tenders. Tho representative of the Te Aroha paper ha\ ing occasion to read his own tender (it being, I presume, hurriedly written) was interrupted by the Tribune reporter, whereupon a " scene in the house" occurred. Chaos ensued, and a battle royal took place among the Fourth Estate of the realm as to the extent of their circulation. After a while, however, something like a cosmos evolved from this nebulous state of things, and attention having been drawn to the existence of a present county council, the goodly fellowship postponed any practical decimation of the populace until the next issue of their respective journals. Mr L. M. Grace, M.H.R., is expected to address this portion of his constituency in about a fortnight's time. He will have several looal grievances laid before him. The LaMonto furnace at Ktrangahake has not yet started, but is expected to do so in the course of a few days.