WARDEN'S REPORT.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 145, 20 August 1872, Page 7

WARDEN'S REPORT.

Ut Warden Carew, writing from Clyde, as follows np«n the Donafan district ending July 31 : ii Nothing of unusual importance haa ooj«d during the quarter. The weather for .first two months was favourable, and the graces and dams were kept well supplied A water; but during the greater part of ie frost of most unusual severity existed, ([suspended mining operations of almost err description. River dredging was the incipal exception, and the rivers being low lia the intense cold of the mountains, this us of mining was favourably affected.' "Gold has. again been struck in the deep ikings of Slacks No. 2, and within the same 0 for which the Try Again Company was jnoted to work. The company failed to ttom the ground; owing to the difficult nate of the wet drift it was found impossible sink through. Ultimately the claim passed other hands, and with a few weeks' labour haft was put down in shallow ground out|e the course of the drift, and passed tough the reef to a depth of 140 feet. A nael was then put in from that level in the tectum of the deep ground, on reaching jjch excellent prospects of coarse gold were (ained. Judging from the d iscoveries made un time to time in this deep ground, there 0 to be ample reason to believe that rich posits of gold exist in the Ida Valley. ithin a few months a considerable quantity water will be diverted to command ground the slopes and gullies in the Wai-keri-keri illey, and make employment for a considerle increase to the number of miners in the ighbourhood of Clyde. "The quantity of gold forwarded by escort m this district during the quarter is 10,369 aces. Of this, 2091 ounces was the proj/of quartz workings in the Cromwell iision. From the statistical tables appended to the lort, we perceive that the Warden estiies the mining population in the Dunstan itrict as follows :—IOO European and 590 inese alluvial miners, and 252 European arti miners.