A FORIUNE IN A BUCKET.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1764, 11 February 1888, Page 3

A FORIUNE IN A BUCKET.

Aboat Mxteeo >e<»a ago, oays the Sydney " Evening News," on A email Mil aboat three milet from the place where Ironbark railway statbn duw flt»nda, tome tremendous fiids of gold were made* On one ' cowlon. a buoketful of staff return* d £5000 This took everyone by etc m, and ao mpany wae formed to work the marvellously nob ground; They worked for a time, and at last conld not make It pay bo gave np. Had they worked on for soother 6ft it is sa d that they would have hit on one of the richest sud moat wonderful patches of gold ever found m these colonies. They did not d > tbls, however, aod "mining experts" have la <i(bed at the idea of payable gold m tbe Iroobark dis tic v < til about- «ix months ago, wheu one of the old minura J >hu Oharlton, was pat m charge of about 20 acres of ihe lsnd, now known «a the Golden Golly, by some gentleman who r-ad reaeon to think it worth while to watch the plaoe, and who bad accordingly taken it up. He looked at the place and fot filed an idea to get into tbe monkey s aft At the 80ft level of the old •' Prince Billy," intending to get on to the day vein. The shaft drive was cleaned ou>, and within two or three weeks ol this being doDe several rioh reefs cf qna*iz limeitone, mbpikel, aud, \&tX of *U, a lode of dncotnp sed ironstone were dl» ' covered ; and the la ter issudtobaY* gona at fh* enormous rate of 4444 zto the on A number . f specimens have been taken, and a company formed. The specimen* •re peculiarly rioh, and as a tangible proof of tbe yeld from the ironstone, a pretty c»ke of gold is shown weighing 4 z 14 'wt 6gr, which was obtained by Mr H. a V*le, a Sydney asaayer, from a " washing " (not by Assay) of 2tb 6 a of stone. The qoans speonnsns are smothered In gold, aod tbe mtspickel is m some cases almost hanging together with the *'* hlniaft metal* ' Tbe incredible part of it aii is that so na»» y reefs of inch marvellous riohntss should have be^n discovered within of each other. The specimens are unipy unique, and the Sod, if it eontinu b, will d> for mining is New I Bo*tb W«ltt what Charters Towers a d I Mount Morgan have done for Queensland ; and mining expen a state that the main I rt tf fail not yet ben it? at k,