THE LAKES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 395, 12 November 1869, Page 3

THE LAKES.

(from our own correspondent.) Queenstown, November l.

The news from the reefs at Cromwell has caused considerable excitement here, and I should not wonder but that a great many from this dis t-iict will come and make a trial for themselves in the Cromwell district, either in mining or business The discovery of a rich quartz-reef is wonderfully attractive; it acts something like a magnet on a needle, and people will come to try their luck, even it they leave a po itive certainty to do so. ( >f course, a great manv will get their fingers burned, to a certainty; such was always the case during any quartz-mining excitement, and the same will occur again and again. I suppose attention will soon he turned to the reefs at. Skipper’s and the Shot-over. At the latter place, il it pays to pack quartz six miles on horseback to a crushing-machine, there must lie something worth while in the stone. I am told that some of the reefs at the sand hills wou’d give ten minces to the ton, and, from specimens i have ..cen shown, I have no doubt but that it is true. That they will get a iho-ongh trial soon is a certainty, more especially as attention is now so very much directed towards quartz-reeling. ArrowroiVN, Nov. 9. Here, again, the chief topic of c nversation i-t the Cromwell reefs. BendigoGnlL is in even bodys’ mouth, and, I suppose, almost as much about the reefs is known here as at Clyde. People tire constantly going to and fro, and many of the well-to-do miners have sent some of their mates to try their hick at the new scene of excitement .m the Clutha. The Grown Terrace has again sprung into favor as a profitable field for quartz-reefs. The existence of several is known here, and some prospecting has been done iu two or-three instances, but ilia smash which fol’owed the Skipper’s 1 mania caused Operations to he sih- I p aided. I saw some splendid sped-1 mens on Saturday last, law ghtiu by a miner working a few miles up the Arrow river They were from the outcrop of a icef on (he Crown Terrace This terrace has evidently been the source of supply both to the Arrow and Cardrona, and when we eonv to take info consideration what ri hj rms of gold have come : out of r—let alone tbe present rich tunnelling claims, driven hundreds of feet into the heart of the mountain— I it would not he surprising to hear of some good paying reefs turning np. The weather is very warm, and more rain is beginning to be wanted, which want, from appearances, I think will not he long before it is satisfied. The Crops look magnificent, and the same mav bo said of the gardens some of which, about Arrowtown and Like Hayes, are redly worth seeing. These latter have sprung into existence like magic. Wherever such collections of shrubs and flowers could have come from iu such a short space of time it is difficult to imagine.