MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 3905, 30 August 1875, Page 2

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

(From our Exchangee.)

1 he mint rs at St. liathausarc nil at work, and it is saul (hat some of them willrea pai ich harvest between this and Christmas. Tins is V artiou larly true of the Companies United M. and E ami the Scandinavian, who have for some time T a «» eei i UR i- n , K I ,r . n " lun \ thß of metal pipes. J ese splendid claims, and also Ewing’s at. Surface Hill, would well repay a visit. Tim Ota-m Company are also get Jug their ground into good working order. Encouraging nows is brought to the Arrow Clown 'S ° f the ,|' lo5 l ie(!t f 9 °f the reef on the Clown don-ace. The-reef is 2*ft thick, and with good machinery will no doubt pay splenriidly. Four tons ol the stone will very shortly be crushed, and will prove what the reef is realty worth. The shareholders have cause to pe glad, for there is every possibility of its turning out well. * The Universal Company’s prospects look brighter as they|proceed. MriO’Keetfe, the mining manager, was very successful in finding the mouth of the tail-race. It is in good condition. He has raised the top slightly so as to give plenty of room for the water to flow in. very good prospects are to be got on the false bottom, viz., one and a half to two grains to a dish of dirt. The wheel is to be erected shortly •ii u °u n Lc^ cber - after which the head-race will be brought in, and the pump rigged, ihere is not the slightest fear but that this company will bottom before the end of this year.

n l| ie^P G > r:i i lan the Cooper’s Reef , Lo. s have amalgamated, and propose to make a choice of the likeliest ground in the neighborhood of the Arrow for quartz prospecting. ibis company includes all the leading residents, who show by coming forward in this manner that the peiiod of inaction Jins passed, and that earnest efforts will now bo made to test our quartz lodes. At Garrick flange the Try Again Company have now an excellent show of stone. They have a monkey sh ft down thirty-eight feet in the level and propose sinking seventy feet before stopping up. The reef averages about two

feet in width, with proapeota of about one ounce per ton. The Company propose to commence driving on a lower level shortly.

The Crown and Cross are carting and crushing stone at the Standard battery, and will put through 300 tons. The estimated yield is from one ounce to twenty-five dwts per ton. They have five hands at work in the mine. A fourth share in this Company changed hands a fortnight ago for L 250. The Star of the East are not crushing, as the stone Is coming out very slowly; th- y expect however to be m full swing again shortly. The Heart of Oak tunnel is progressing rapidly being now in good diiving country. The contractor pierced fifty-two feet during the past month.

The Young Australian arc putting on fresh hands and are breaking out large quantities of stone. The mill wiil start crushing very

shortly. A Chinaman met with an accident last week at Racecourse Terrace, Shotover, which terminated fatally. He was removing a prop from a set of timber in a mining claim, when a fall of earth took place, by which he was so much hurt that he died on kis way to the Hospital. At Alexandra spring weather has already set in, and those working river-beach claims consider their days numbered so far as working their claims are concerned for this season. But it will have a contrary effect on the water-race owners, although it has been an exceptional season for them, scarcely losing a week's time the whole winter. The Mnnuherilda Company’s Water is working two claims, one near Insley’s, the other close to the Manuherikia Brewery, with favorable results. There are also two claims being worked with the Corpo ration water-race, one by Allan and Co,, on the banks of the Manuherikia River, the other by tho old Ovens Company, at the Newcastle coalpit 6n the banks of the Molyneux ; and if rumors are true, both are doing very well. There are a great number of Chinese working on the Manuherikia and Manorburu Flats. The claims are worked on the paddock system, and are kept dry by a Californian pump, the motive power being water, which is lifted from the Manuherikia River.

Noble, Paget, and Co. have set in to work the old Fienchman’s claim, and have succeeded in taking off a paddock, in which they found a block of sound ground which paid them handsomely, and are in hopes of coming across several others, it being their intention to rework the whole of this claim while the river is low enough, and while not to work the baeje ground, which will pay small wages now that they have nothing to pay for water. They lately purchased one of Oliver’s water-rights from Conroy’s and Blackman’s. The othei claims on this side of the river are all in work, as also are the claims in Conroy’s and Batcher’s gullies. Great preparations are being made for the sluicing companies this season on the alluvial hills and flats of the Bannockburn, and good returns may be hoped for ; although there is a probability of a scarcity of water, there being 90 little snow on the ranges. The Garrick water race is nearly completed at the lower end, and will presently discharge a portion of its water.