MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 3565, 27 July 1874, Page 3

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

(From our ovm Correspondent.)

Arrow. - The United Company had recommenced pumping out the water from the fare fl-iod, which reached a high level in their shaft, but have been since stopped by frost. The task of draining the deep ground of the' Arrow flat will be found expensive for a single company to accomplish, and, as a large area of adjoining g ouud is being shepherded by another company it has ocean cd to me that it would be nothing but fair that the owners of it should he compelled to work their lease and th s lessen the expense to the Arrow i nited Company. The Utatio Goldfields Herniations permit of compensation being rec »vcred from adjoining claims for having their ground drained, the only qu stion bring whether a le>.se can be made liahL. as the wordin ' of the regu ation is “ c aioi.” I wou 1 d call the attention of the directors to the matter, and also am of opinion that if necessary hereafter some assistance could be fa ; rly chimed from the Government, as the work is of quite as much public interest as the Wetherstone's deep-sinking or the sludge channels at Nasehy and Waipovi. In my last I referred to the coa deposits on Kavrarau River, which may be ranked as one of the most important tf the resources of the district. At present only one mine is bei g worked, “Dooley’s” (eighty acres) Those who hear of it as a coal pit will be interested to learn that it is a coa] sluicing claim. The deposit is at a high level on the side of the Remarkables, and the surface, which is only a few feet in depth, is washed off by sluicing, laying bare a solid seam of coal of unknown depth. For convenience, the coal is faced off forty feet deep and carted down to the main road, where it is sold at 30* per ton, which price is to be reduced to 20s very shortly. Cartage and puntage from the mine to Arrowtown is about 255, to Queenstown 30s. That this seam crosses a great ext' nt of country is proved by several recent discoveries, some at the Cardrona and others in the Remarkables. A seam nearer the centres of population would be much more valuable, and would most likely be found if prospected for, as a likely formation exists on the Kawarau, near Lake Hayes, midway between Queenstown and Arrow. At the Twelve Mile, Arrow, several parties are doing well in tunnelling claims. Nearly all the sluicing claims are stopped by frost, and very few of the river claims have recommenced work since the late flood. Several men have been sot to work repairing the Arrow Valley and Twelve Mile tracks, damaged by the flood.