LAND BETWEEN THE BLUFFS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 37, 27 July 1870, Page 6

LAND BETWEEN THE BLUFFS.

The Arrowtown correspondent of tho Lake Wakalip Mail states that “ tho miners living upon the banks of the Kawarau Eiver, between the Nevis and Arrow Bluffs, feel most aggrieved at the proposed throwing open for agricultural settlement of the land in their locality.” A petition to his Honor tho Superintendent, praying that he will “cause proper enquiries to ho made into their case before withdrawing such a large area of ground from the operations of tho gold-miner,” is said by the same authority to be “ obtaining universal signature." The reasons alleged by the petitioners against the alienation of the land from mining purposes are as follow: “ That the whole of the land proposed to be thrown open is highly auriferous, and that from the river-bank to the terraces there is at least three thousand acres adapted for mining purposes. That with the knowledge of this, a largo amount of capital has been invested in the construction of water-races, some of which are completed, and in full work, while others are in course of construction. That four waterraces—already completed from tho Deep Creek, and which bring in thirty heads of water—were constructed at a costof £6OOO, and they afford employment to at least forty miners. That a company, known as the Cambrian Company, are now engaged constructing a race from Doolan’s Creek to this place, to carry twenty heads of water, which race, when completed, will be eight miles in length, and—from the difficult nature of the “ rock' cuttings”—will cost at least £SOOO That it is the belief of your petitioners that a very extensive gold-field exists hero, and when tho water-races now in course of construction are completed, they will afford employment to at least one hundred men in addition to the number already employed. That your petitioners believe that tho land proposed to be thrown open is not good agricultural land, and that, wore it oven occupied by agriculturists, great barm would result to your petitioners, who, in consequence, would be compelled to so limit their operations that their labor would cease to bo remunerative.”