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Dunstan Times, Issue 1090, 20 April 1883, Page 2

Profissor Ulrich was to have visited the Mt. Benger district on Wednesday last for the purpose of examining and reporting on the auriferous drifts of that district. We cannot but think it is to be regretted that while the professor was on the goldfields, arrangements were not made for him extending his journey further up county, and examining other golden bands and deposits that are equally worthy of attention-as those of Mount Banger. These special visits to isolated spots and localities we look upon it as so much precious lime and money thrown away, as nothing of really a valuable' nature can he gained by them. ’ To know that a certain deposit is auriferous, is vir tnally to know nothing. The source of the deposit is the real knowledge requited, and to obtain that something more than a flying visit and a cursory examination is wanted, Many of the parent rocks of the loose drifts that form the auriferous deposits in the banks and ■ beaches of the Molyneux, it requires but little foresight to. say, exists on the mountain ranges that bound the valley, and tot dicover these is what is wanted. At the present time, and for some years past, individual miners have been scratching at certain bands and seams, on the western face of the Old Mari Range, and some of them with excellent results, from ten to fifteen pounds a week they not 1 unfrequently being rewarded with. Row, it these bands were explored by Professor Ulrich, he doubtless would bw able to. give such Information as might lead to the- discovery of a rich field of reefs. The Old Man Range is entirely surrounded by, and has runnina a long way up its slopes, gullies that have turned out fabulous amounts of gold. Wo therefore assume the Range itself a splendid field for exploring by the geologist, and more likely to give better results for the labor than the examination of alt the beds of drift ■ put together in the Banger district. The season is now rather too far advanced for a systematic exploration of the range, but on the advent of Spring we would recommend that a request be made upon the Government for a visit of the Professor to tha district,