MINING NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1202, 13 March 1885, Page 3

MINING NEWS.

Under the headin> of mining news a correspondent writes More than ordinary che-r ng news are to ham! from the Old Man Range. The contractors of the track •or road to the WaiEaia Both are setting on famously, with their work ; indeed, by the time this notice will appear, one of the top sec.ions in toe bands of Steel« and party will be finished, the other top section in the bands of Graham and pany will take only another week or two. CUimholders will ther- fore be able i o get f om the bush befoi e the winter s-ts in enough props and cap pieces to last them for the season. Tbonah there is no great stir and but lit le said, there is a good ileal of Stirling work being dime at the Reefs; White’s Company is turning out a lot of stone, the whole ot which looks fully equal to, if not bet er. than the sample already crushed, and that, it has to be remembered, yielded nea ly two ounces to the ton. I cannot venture to guess as to the quantity of atone already to grass, but the weekly output is somewhat about 30 bms, and, as there has been constant work since the New Year there should be a good heap by th s time. A good dea ; of di-satisfaction is expressed at the com pviy not erecting a battery, it was g nerally understood that one situate somewhere o> the Bendigo reefs had been purchase I, and local shar. holders and non-shareholders alike are gettiug tired waiting some deli nite information. It is beginning to be seen, and that very plainly, that it is a great mistake in having reefs, or, indeed, any o h“r business managed from a d'Stance, and I hope when the time comes tha' the local shareholders to a man will regulate their votes so as to change the existing abate of affairs, and get the management up country. It may be thought that it is nei.her the duty »f a correspondent, or, Indeed, that of a newspaper, to question th acts of doings of a company, bat it has to be remembered the success of the company is also that of the public, and hence it is that I have assumed to suggest, or rather to hint, at what the company should do. Q iayle and party are sluicing away to the south of tha company’s ground, and 1 should say they are doing w 11. In fact I am informed such is the case. Rumor has it (but she is so unreliable a j.ule) that this party bas struck something that in time is to open tha eyes of everybody. 1 will say, in the language of the optimists, “So mote it Ig.” Th« sub-contractcr of the Union C i.’s tunnel are making good headway, and so far have good giound, though it is generally thought the ground will want a lot of timber: to hold it up. Mervyn and Gavan are still at work. There are also some few others, hut of the results of their doings little is known..