OUR ARROW LETTER.

Evening Star, Issue 3898, 21 August 1875, Page 3

OUR ARROW LETTER.

Abbow, August 19,

The Dramatic Club have returned highly elated with their reception at Cromwell, and that township seems likely to organise a good club, as it is said that they have some good talent to work upon. A proposal has been mooted to remove the Central Miners’ Association Committee to Cromwell, in accordance with the intention of the founders of the movement, who intended that the committee should be moveable ; and Cromwell has much to recommend it as an important centre, and one displaying great activity in regard to the interest of the miners. If the movement meets with as good care as it has received at the hands of the Naseby Committee, it will continue to advance and command respect. A local company has been started to work the German Hill Reef, and active operations will be at once commenced. Enterprise ought to have taken this form long ago before things became so very dull, as there was then a much larger amount of available capital for such efforts ; but better late than never. An experienced quicksilver miner pronounces very favorably of the locality near the Arrow called Bush Creek, and is sanguine of getting valuable deposits, as he has _ found several patches in the rock yielding cinnibar. There are many difficulties in the way of development, as scietific appliances and skill are required to work this mineral. As it is much dearer of late, it is worth looking after, especially in a probably quartz-mining district, which this, it is hoped, will prove ere long. The Arrow United Company is likely to make a grave mistake if winding-up is decided upon, as they have good machinery now, and no great further outlay is necessary; while the prize they seek will likely be a valuable one. The lead of the Arrow River, which was traced to the boundary of their claim, j ielded half an ounce to the dish where work had to be discontinued. Fortunately the Universal Company (local) seems determined to try their claim, and next summer may usher in something important about the value of the flat on which longing eyes have been cast for so many years, and on which such large amounts have been up to the present expended. Mr Manders, M.F.C., will address the electors on the Abolition question next Saturday. At the last meeting of the Miners’ Association he received a very hearty vote of thanks for his exertions in endeavoring to prevent the s orifice of valuable mining lands at Whitechapel Flat by the Waste Land Board, who evidently were not aware of the importance of the land which had been applied for by Mr P. Kevin.

The Good Templars intend to make great efforts to build a good hall next summer, and are emulous of the results achieved by the members of the order at Cromwell. Agricultural produce rules at low rates at present, except potatoes, which are rather dear; the weather has been very fine, but the frost savare. Quartz-reefs and dramatic performances have formed the staple material for excitement here during the past few weeks.