THE NEVIS AND CROMWELL REEFS.

Evening Star, Issue 3614, 22 September 1874, Page 2

THE NEVIS AND CROMWELL REEFS.

[From the 1 Btuce Herald’s ' Correspondent.) Thlrliu* 4 i he I l eviß , for the time ou JJrt 5 th ® re bas bee » » snowstorm over Tbo P aafc Wl ? ter had beeuthe severest known to miners for eleven years Thev have been idle for four months through the rost and are only now recommencing work. It 13 a fane gddfield, and of great extent. . . /“. a , r . ricb reebj and the prospects of the istnet this summer are much more cheering than they ever were before. The Star of tue Dost are now crushing the richest stone they have yet got from a depth of 250 ft. The Grown and Cross (Watson’s) are also busy; first crushing 200 tons of good stone, expected to yield from 102 to per ton. Reef prospecting has received fresh inapulses, several new reefs being opened, and the prospects are good. The shareholders of the Heart of Oak, at their last meeting in Cromwell on Saturday, decided to form a new tunnel of 800 ft, which is likely to take two years, at a probable coat uf nearlv L 2.000. IWkd a oake of the CromweU Company’s after about six weeks’ crushing weighing 1,166325 12dwts of gold, the largest cake ever seen m Otago. This Compauy expect to send 2,0000zs by the next *‘ e result of work since Christmas. The business prospects of CromweU this anv nfi e i!? nt ’ aad are une( luaUed in •my other goldfields town in Otago.