CARRICK.

Dunstan Times, Issue 501, 24 November 1871, Page 2

CARRICK.

(from an occasional correspondent. ) you a«ked me to give you a few “notes on the CaVmk Range and the Can ick Reefs, and I tardiiv perform my promise. Living so nearto this auriferous neighborhood your readers will be an fait with its geographical peculiarities, and can imagine its rugged, broken character without the prelude of d • rcription. When fresh and startling discoveries are weekly made in any locality, however remote and difficult “ a correspondent” to a newspaper requires to have cautiousness pretty largely developed to avoid “ losing bis head" ; more especially, should he bo interested in the prosperity of the district, and state as facts what ho •wish's may transpire. Keeping this contidcra ion in view, I’ll try and limner in language some of our Garrick characteristics.

We are all indulging in “great expectations. ’ We consider that our shares ami “shows” will make up for many losses and many mis. haps ; and that without the aid of much imported capital we shall succeed in opening up not a new gold-field, but a very valuable addition to the wealth of the district, by persistent hard work, and patient perseverance alone. We have two batteries in work at the present time. One in course of erection, and another arranged for ; building a township as fast as we possibly can ; prospecting for fresh reefs ; and at the close of every day asking as Mieawber would d , whether anything fresh has turned up. The new township we arc employed in forming, is do -e to the Elizabeth battery, on about the only suitable piece of land to 1 e found on the hill side close to the presei t centre of interest—the neighborhood of the ■•Elizabeth,” “Star of the East”, and “ Heart of Oak” claims. We dave one embryonic hotel nearly finished ; another in course of erection, one store, several respectableprivatehouscs. and a goodly number of residences of a less ambitious character. We have cliims taken up in every direction, and several new lines for our rce's to run to catch their c< ntinuity in that special piece of ground we claim as our own, by the payment of twenty shillings per annum. We believe that this snmm, r will witness the opening of many more distinct lines of reefs—will prove the continuity ef those aVea ly opened and in course of so being—And lend a fresh stimulus o quartz reefing in Otago. There is one fact that cannot be too widely known. The lowed yield of any stone yet crushed has been IDdwig to the ton. Heavy crushing machinery is our great wan I —our patience will perhaps yield us even this re»n't. I may wiite you alonger scroll next week, but meantime I shall coate t myself by waiting to see if this is wo. thy of insertion.