MINING.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1288, 5 November 1886, Page 3

MINING.

The following report from the Mine Manager of White's Reef Company has been banded n* for publication s I beg to report to you for the fortnight ending the 30lh of O tober. I put the dri e in 20ft, and sunk down 7ft on quarts, and then 1 lost the quarts and the wall both, so I did not think it advisable to sink through mullock when I could be working on quartz so I drew the akroi out of the winze and filled it in* again, and put the drive in another 4ft, and have started to sink again ; but in a very flat angle this time, as I find there is a duffer piece of ground lietween this drive and the rise ; also a step in the wall. Tho distance is not so much, but the lode is very crooke I, so it will take me a week longer than I expected to get through owing lo these unforseen difficulties, i have raised about 20 tons of stone out of these workings.

I have got on a little gold with Abe sluicing. but the reef is very math bapkeu, and gold is very patchy. * IT M Mr J<bn Bennett, lo»Jfcn(wn in the Alexandra District as an qujltieqked miner —both alluvial and quartsAJld aa having an intimate knowledge of thejflistrict, hn« I’een appointed mine manager (ff the White's Rec f Company claims Under this gentleman’s management we shall be much eurpiised if the Company’s property does not soon again take a place in the good opinions of the public. Of one thing we feel sure, Mr Bennett’s efforts will be to make the venture pay if there is any pay in it. The Drainage Channel at Black* ia being pus-hed on to the bead of the hat. From enquiries made lately we I earn that no payable gold has been struck in the course of the channel, but that by no means save there is not payable gold within a few yards on either side of it.

Mr Green is still working away at his reef discovery on the hillside at the back of tire township of Ophir, and considering the means he has of washing the returm are satisfactory. There appears to be a dead set against MrGieeu, as in nearly every one of his applications for privileges in connections with his woi king* be ie met by all sores and kinds of opposition. It is really much to be deplored that such is the case, as these delays and annoyances not only effect Mr Green, but the .district generally. We understand that Mr Oreeu has seemed the right of water from the Lauder Cieek, Known as the Chinaman's. With this right once in and brought to bear, we shall expect to hear of good parcels of gold being got. Mr Green is "deserving rather of support than opposition, and we shall hope soon to hear that the sympathy and assistance of all is accorded him.