MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 3888, 10 August 1875, Page 2

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

(From our Exchanges.) The prospectors of the Cornish reef, Crown Terrace, came upon golden stone on Friday last. They intend sending four tons as a trial oru«hing to Cromwell. The extraordinary successes at Skippers hare set almost everybody quartz mining. The Messrs Southberg are reported to have struck the Scandinauiun lode iu their new low level runnel iu the old British and American Compauy’s ground. Two specimens which were taken from a leader are rich in heavy gold, and promise exceedingly well for the main body of the stone. The Phoenix Tribute Company hnd tire stone improve as they drive to the eastward. The iSew Year’s Gift are getting on better than ever. Their last • crushing went loz lldwta to the ton, but the quartz now being grassed shows a decided improvement on that. The Otugo Company No. 1, north from the Phoenix, are driving for the icef, which they can scarcely fail to out. I'ho Prince of Wales, on thu sanv> line, has been taken up, and the stone taken out shows gold m payable quantities. A very promising

reef has been opened, or rather re-opened, bv Messrs Edgar amljHarris, at Butcher’s Gully, Skipper’s Creek. A slip has bared a large portion of the reef, and gold can be readily distinguished. Several other quartz claims have been taken up in the neighborhood of the Upper Shotover.

Sons of Fortune, alluvial, have struck bed rock 160 feet in from the mouth of their tunnel. The wash contains payable gold, but being intermixed with large boulders it would scarcely be worth saving while tho tunnel is bcin-.; driven. It will require to be taken in fifty feet further to reach the main run of the river bed.

The fine weather of last week changed to rain on Friday night, and the Molyneux rose about throo feet, but has again fallen sufficiently low to enable all the claims to resume work this morning. Owing to tho very open season there are only two parties sinking at present, that of M‘Donald on the west, and Woodhouse on the east bank of the rfver. The former are engaged enlarging their paddock, and the latter hope to bottom in the course of a fortnight should no greater rise take place in ho river.

The sluicing claims at work on the west bank of the Molyneux, opposite Clyde, are turning out exceedingly well, giving to the workman about L 5 per week per man.