MINING NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1175, 5 September 1884, Page 3

MINING NEWS.

Mining Manager’s Report White’s . fiaSP, I beg to report work dono for week ending August 29th, 1884. The fall of snow I mentioned in my last gave me considerable amount of work. It completely blocked our tunael and tram road. The race alho'"gave me two day’s work. I got the water in on Wednesday evening, but was blocked ag dn last night with another faM of sno.v, but hope to get it all right again by Monday next. The size of stone in main drive is Ift 4in wide, carrying good gold. Since striking this stone, 1 have put about 25 tons of quartz in the 'pad lock. The timber Ihj ive on the claim will be require - ! for rei airing the tunnel, which will take me about three weeks to complete. I will put on another man on Monday next to push this work on. I am, etc., Thomas Andsew, Mining Manager.

(communicated) The weather in this excused place has been against out door work. The successive snowstorms covering the ground to a great depth. Repeated efforts have been made to get the water flowing in the races, but each time has a fresh fall of snow taken place, rendering valueless the work done. Lythgoe and Gray, an 1 Gavan and Mervyn, are anxious to made a start; but they will to all appearancfes, as the weather is nothing like settled, have to put up. with a further spell of enforced idleness. .White’s Reef Comp.ny, being urn oruronnd, have been able to pu-h ahead with tunnelling, and by the Mine Manager’s reports, most valuable work has been done. Up t > latest accounts the re- f which was .struck about a fortnight ago is increasing, not only in thickness .as the tunnel is , ashed into the hill, but also ini hchne-s, and the rubble casing also carries good gold. I.have seen some of the stone “ which is of the class known amongst quartzreefora as blue slaty qnarz.” and eactt piece is thickly studded with coarse bright gold,;and the casing 1 am credibly informed, gives from half to a full pennyweight of loose gold to the dish. T ethickness of thestone in the tunnel is about 18 inches, and perpendicular from the surface as n' ar as, possible 150 ft, and when it is borne in mind that in several places on surface, what is supp ised to he the same vein has been struck, 1 have little, indeed, no 1 edtation in saying that tire company’s proapec's are better than they have ever been. From the low level tunnel there are about 30 tons of stone at grass, and from the surface paddocks about 20 more tons. The local director’s propose, I believe, getting out about 20 or 30 more tons of stone from the low level, and from the hj ap to fake indiscriminately a few tons and have it c nshed :at Bennett’s battery, in Conrov’s Gully, and should the yield be anything like pabable, to proceed with the erection of a battery of their own. A good deal of feeling was created in the district last week when it was known that some shares in this company were forfeited for non-payment of calls and were to be sold in Dunedin on Saturday and when your paper came out on hj riday with the announcement that “all shares from 1 to 7000 forfeited for non-payment of calls were to be sold on the day following in Dunedin,” the feeling was intensified. The very general impression on first reading the notice was that 7000 shares were to be sold, and that a little hanky panky game was being played. It proved however,' that the notice was ambiguously worded, and that only those shan s were to be sold on which' the Inst call had not been paid,. It is a great pity such mislea dng notices should appear, as there is no telling what the effect might he on the prospects of the Company in question. In t’r'fl instance, if the ri lieulonsly low figure at which the shares were gold on Saturday last is any criterion, the effect on White’s Company was moat damaging, a- they only realised some 7d petshare, on which one shilling and riuepenco were pai l up. and the purchasers at that figure were local, whereas • they .were w >rth (par) or the amount,paid-up, at which figure a good parcel changed hands on Monday. There is no doubt but had the number of shares forfeited been stated in the advertisement of sale, and moreover, had greater publicity been given of . the sale, a better price would have been realised, and the company’s stock wbuld not have receivodthe backhanded'slap it has. Tam induced to deal so fully with the subject in the hope that if when any more shares are forfeited, the notice of sale will be longer and the particulars more clear.

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