BLACKS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 954, 30 July 1880, Page 3

BLACKS.

(FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The mild open winter we are experiencing is good for every industry ; the miners are able to work continuously, while the farmers are able to profitably employ their time on the land ; the effect is a genera! cheerfulness most pleasing to behold. I notice a greenness over a large area over the ploughed lands here indicating the springing of the autumn sown wheat. Should the Spring and Summer be but as f ivoiablo as the winter has been a splendid harvest will be the result, Sod that means wealth and riches to all alike. Now that the farmers see it to be to their advantage to grow wheat in place of the everlasting oats and potatoes, it is to he hoped they will see it equally to their advantage to ho careful in the selection of their seed- the past season’s wheat was vastly superior to previously grown, but there is still great room for improvement. I notice that Mr Jones, owner of the Spottia Creek flour mill is setting a most commendable and praiseworthy example that many of his neighbors, both on Spottis Hundred, Blacks, and Ida Valley would do well to follow -ho is planting a number of trees on his property including pines and firs ; tree planting it cannot but ho admitted has been too much neglected hitherto, but as it is never too late to commence a good thing I cannot too strongly urge upon all to take advantage of the present season and plant; had the planting of trees been started when the , land in the district was first taken up for I farming the face of the country would hear ' a very different appearance to what it does, and the various properties would have a

greater value. In opening this letter I said that the minors were all in full work, such is the case, and I am pleased to report that by all accounts the prospects of good wash-ings-up at the new year Wry bo expected. Efforts by some hUV of the miners, long residents in the district are being male to trace the lost lead at the lower end of the Blacks fiat, but what their prospects are t cannot say—l have hoard some inkling of a party being formed to take up a claim on the deep lead at Blacks N j 3 ; at a later date I shall let you know further.