MINING INTELLIGENCE,

Evening Star, Issue 3757, 9 March 1875, Page 3

MINING INTELLIGENCE,

The prospect of opening up a highly remunerative goldfield at the head of the Wai Keri Keri Valley appears to be almost upon the point of relisation, and if we (‘Dunstan Times’) may judge from the very high value set upon shares in mining property in this direction, those best able to judge of its capabilities hold very high opinions of its ultimate success. The claim known as Lindsay’s, or the Leaning Rock Company, is a very promising one; prospects from the face will frequently give from a grain to a grain and a half to a dish, and the wash-ing-up from this paddock should produce a very large amount of gold. Their last Christmas washing from a paddock a little lower down the gully realised 2CO ounces, the result of only four months’ work. The same party are also working a gully claim, which shows most excellent prospects, whUo the other parties working in this neighborhood even with their present limited supply of water, are all doing extremely well. M Nally, Hastie, and Co. are bringing on to the field twenty-live heads of water, at a cost of LBOOO. Alexandra has also accomplished somethin" very considerable iu the shape of hydraulic mining on an extensive scale. At Mr Kitt’s sluicing claim, which is in a gully leading from the Half-mile Beach, towards Fraser’s Flat, are employed six heads of waterat once, 2i heads being delivered by a2\ inch nozzle from’the hy draulic liose at 100 ft pressure; the remainder is used as flashing water. The opening up of this claim was a very expensive and tedious affair, and cost upwards of L 1,030. The tail ditch is cut in the solid rock, and is 555 feet in leim th 280 feet of which is a tunnel, six feet by four feet, the rest being deep cuttings from twenty to forty feet. To ensure a steady supply of water Mr Kitt has constructed at a distance of about a quarter of a mile from the claim a laige reset \oh, measuring Quite a mile iu cir* cumfeience, and having an average depth of (!) feet, forming quite a little lake. There is at least ten years’work in the claim, and without doubt the fortune of the enterprising owner lies embedded in it., No mining operations in the distnct are more skilfully and economically conducted. J The Waikaia correspondent of the ‘ Tuaueka Times writes:- Work on the'river is now in ul swing. Boyle and party have taken two paddocks off and another is far advanced in stripping. I heir ground is much richer this season than the last, being upwards of twenty ounces to the paddock, which takes them (four si-m o r? lt foD-° rtUl | b • t0 , tako off - There is no ami ill Hr mrl, ° ff i golt * of tllis claim, and although the paddocks vary very much in quantity there is a probability that there are as any that w been in" on t- ° fc 16r claims 011 tlie river arc push-