CARDRONA

Dunstan Times, Issue 422, 20 May 1870, Page 3

CARDRONA

(from our own correspondent.)

May 12. The weather has been very fine here lately, ami the sun’s rays have melted bearly all the snow from the surrounding hills, causing an ample supply of water in all the creeks. Things are looking very hcallhy in this district, owing to the large I'uinh trs of Chinamen who have lately been added to the population, and who, to judge from Iheir manner, seem quite satislied with their prospects, they have turned their attention to the points of the spurs and Ihe blind gullies that run into the valley of the Cardrona. A large number have set into the branch, : .creek, and b.me are making from sis to ‘ten. pounds pr week per man. A large party have taken up live acres on the old Homeward Hound and i’irate claims; this will be a very heavy undertaking, as there is a large amount of water to contend with, and will require a large amount of machinery to reach bottom, it is to be hoped that success will attend them. Messrs Austin Stottz and party have bottomod in the old Gin and Raspberry Claim, they bottomed shallow on the reef and are following the dip with good prospects, and with every indication of striking something highly payable when they reach the gutter, they ■cannot tell whether they are on the main ■or false bottom, but believe it to bo the overlap of the reef, if so, they will have much deeper ground towards the terrace, as their old workings in the creek were forty odd feet deep. Jones and party are Working the old Boundary claim, and making wages. Bond and party are cutting a tail race into their claim, and carrying a little gold with them, about enough to pay their working expenses.

Mace and party, known as the Young Pirate Company, are prospecting on Butcher’s Flat. They intend trying for the old Homeward Bound Lead, and should they succeed, there is little doubt but that a large field for capital and labor will be opened. They have spent three months bringing in a tail race, and have also sunk a paddock thirty-five feet square, at one corner of which they have the bottom, but it is dipping off in towards the terrace and they will have to put machinery on the ground to further test it. Louis Valli, Ingersel, and Wyley are on splendid gold, and have been for the last four months, which they fully deserve, as they have expended a deal of labor and money in the construction of their tali-races.

At the head of the creek there are about twenty European miners, all of whom are on payable gold, making from £4 to £lO per week per man.

The township comprises three hotels, three European and four Chinese stores, four butchers, one blacksmith, and one baker Provisions are obtainable at Cromwell prices, with the exception of oats, Which are at the high price of 10s. per bushel.

As in one letter I cannot touch on all Subjects that demand attention, I will close this one, and leave for your next a» J following issues other matters not ventured Upon here.