MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 852, 29 January 1866, Page 2

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

The WaJcatip Mail of the 20th inst. says: —

From all quarters intelligence comes to hand of the disastrous effects of the floods; but it is certainly a cheering feature to notice that very little repining is evinced by the miners, as the prospect they are working upon are well ascertained.

At the Resfs, Skipper’s, the Scandinavian Co npany have been crushing excellent stone. They have another cake of about 200 ounces ready, and have not crushed a tithe of the stone raised. The quartz crushed has been taken from the shaft next Miller, Pinkerton, and Co.’s claim: but an examination of the 100 tons or so of stone in the paddock has shewn gold through the mass. The prospects show from ten to fifteen omces per ton. It is stated that the purchase money of the claim will be paid over on Monday or Tuesday. Miller, Pinkerton, and Co.’s claim goes on to the market ; but the proprietors, we understand, only seek to introduce valuable machinery, and have parted with their interests as individual shareholders on small terms, for this purpose alone. The' next claim, Nicol, Brown, and Co.’s, is held under miner’s rights, and as the registration has expired work will have to be commenced and carried on. They will probably apply for a lease. The next claim—the Native Youth —is under appli cation for leas.?. This is the claim next to Perry, Watt, and Co. The works of Messrs Perry are progressing satisfactorily. This party have made a splendid road of a mile long, superior to anything the Government has made in the district, either for cuttings or otherwise. Along this a splendid tramro.id has been laid. Returning back to the prospector’s claim, and proceeding on to the Prince of Wales Company, three miles, this line presents no active indications. The parties are waiting for leases, or other arrangements. An absence of capital—which is absolutely necessary for the successful, carrying on of present properties—is perhaps the chief cause of this listlessness. The sluicing interest is tolerably prosperous, and the whole district may be considered in a healthy condition. Accounts continue to reach us from all quarters of the devastation created by the floods. At the Xokomai it has been very severe; in fact it has received a severe blow, and just at a time when things were looking cheering, and the population increasing by miners returning from the WVst Coast. Communication with Skipper’s is very precariously maintained The road is via Moke Creek, which thus far is a fair one, but from this point commences a dreadfully bad and dangerous track on the west side of the Shotover. Something must be done at once to replace the Maori Point bridge, which was washed away by the late flood, or provisions will be almost famine prices. Machinery is now waiting in town to be conveyed to the reefs, and with no probability of everT'eaching them by the present and only route. Most of the residents of town have moved into their old habitations. Very little repairs have yet been clone. We sincerely hope it will not he our painful duty ,to record a third flood, but such a thing is probable, judging from the heavy and continuous rain we have experienced since yesterday morning.