ALFORD FOREST TIN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1770, 18 February 1888, Page 2

ALFORD FOREST TIN.

From reliable information whioh has bean placed at oar disposal to-day, it appears to bo certain, Professor Hattoo notwithstanding, that there has been a bona fide find of tin* bearing stone at AUord Forest. Some Cornish miners of experience have been at work there during the paak week and they etftto that not only iia there granite m th« locality bat »lso targe qaantitiei of kaolin, which is usually found as th« ■tra'.um next underlying tin-bearing itone They har* also found and tested same of the latter ■objecting it to the same process ac is em* ployed m Cornwall with the result of nnmis* takeable globalea of tin the size of pea*. They do not aay that the stone treated it payable, but that it contains tin is beyond all doubt. The presence of the genuine metal i being thus established, there is every reason | to hope that payable, perhaps rioh, stone will yet be found, and it is ikely that the four Companies whioh have bean ormed will join foroes and sink a shaft at their joint expense with a view of proving the va'ua of the reef.— Everybody will hear iiy wish them aucoesa.