MINING BOOM IN TASMANIA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1809, 7 April 1888, Page 3

MINING BOOM IN TASMANIA

A great mining revival haß occurred m Tasmania, of which the Hobarfc correspondent of the " Argua" gives the following particulars ; " We are now In the midst of a mining revival which, is \n fall blast. The West Oqast h,a« woke up again, and this t{cafi llktf f\ giant refreshed. Want of fajth haa been superseded by bonnciless confidence. The prospectors deolare that tha whole country is fall of Bilver lodes at all events, whilst what e?ee is there nobody knows. The accounts sent m go to show that there are many really excellent silver lodes, which «re repotted to give extraordinary proapeots, whilst speculators from "Y'ctoria, New South Wales, and. other places are said to be convinced that our resources boat anything that they have evw sson before. The ground actually marked ou.t J« said to measure seven miles by tbreo milts, bat marking oat is going on every day, bo that the area Is 'swelling visibly.' So f^r ao work haa been dono the prospects are Bald to be be very good, th?ao efalma ectaally having as many as eight lodoa m them, all of whlo,h have a good show, A prospegtoy who oom9a from the West Ooaßf, and says that he haa marked out a claim, can float a company, the shares In whichjjo up and down, but mainly up at present. B neath all thero seems to be a ! very gatit factory substratum of fact, bat, of course, time will be required to enable ns to say precisely what its value is. At present tin difficulties In the way of getting over the country are very great, as the (racks are bogs mainly, aud the scrub is very de^ap. Vtcxa other directions, top, reports are good. A tin mine is said to ba about to be opened up about fifteen miles from Blschcff. Th.&ra aro reports of the discovery of capper, whilst Bundry goldmining cqonpanlea are waking up, and dese;tod lodeß are atill found to show excellent prospects when worked anew. On th 3 whole, mining Is destined to be the great boßlne^s of this year x "