OPTIMISTIC MANAGER

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 10

OPTIMISTIC MANAGER

concentrating'; on a few

CLAIMS.

(By Telegraph.) (Spatial to "The Evenlni Peit.") : , IHJI^IN, Thu Day: •! ''We,are feeling.mneh more happy,'. 1 stated) Mr. Powell, manager of Consolidated Kawarau, yesterday. His company holds sixty claims, and now he is. most optimistic. Already, he said, the company's miners were getting very nice specimens, and were down to the virgin ground, but probably would not get deep enough by the date.the gates were reopened. An excellent piece of gold weighing 1J pennyweights, was taken.' The company, he ■aid, was now concentrating on a few claims, to which,all its.men;were being rushed, 'and' day by.' day returns';were improving. Altogether, conditions-were much better and he, was very optimir tic. The fall of the river on the! first and second days was rather disappoint:, ing but it was ridiculous .to say the scheme was a failure .within four days. "'After working extensively- at various parts of the river we have no, shadow of doubt that gold is in the Kawarau," Mr. Powell.statod. Only; yesterday the conipauy started,on the more promising claims, taking all its men from other 'camps. .Aji r : the Con j sdlidated miners are working, on claims 34, 76, 87, 101, and 102, which are all yielding good returns. Optimism is the keynote of the miners, who,.are- deter-t mined to win through by the time the' gates open, six days hence. . . *

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