MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 3947, 19 October 1875, Page 3

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

(From our Exchanges.) The Mount Ida ‘ Chronicle ’ understands that the past season has been rather a favorable one for miners in high localities —the weather having been so much broken. At tbe Serpentine there has been, and promises to bo, a better supply of water than usual. '! he number of European miners continues about the same, and the Chinese are' beginning to come in fro work for the summer according to their custom. There has been a stoppage of work among the miners discharging down 11 cache’s Gully at Naseby, The protection wall above the Dead Level race having given way the company refused to repair it, alleging that the parties who benefit by the work going on should bear the brunt of maitenanco and expenses. The other party aU?gc that the charge of maintenance was imposed under the old regulations by condition upon the company before the right in the gully was granted to them. Be this as it may, work has been stopped among ten men for nearly a week, and the tan could certainly have repaired the breach in the wall in an hour. The loss of stoppage means L 5 a day at least. Although the weather continues very unfavorable at the Twelve-Mile -most of the reefs having y< t several feet of snow upon them discovery continues to advance in the lower portion of the field, and a new reef has been found in the vicinity of that discovered by Haven and others, which is so promising as to have caused no little excitement. A dishful of rubblefiom it v ielded eighteen grains. It is the opinion of those be>t acquainted with the reefs that we have a field here equal to the Thames in importance, and now’ that enterprise is thoioughly aroused, it will not be long before it is tried, 'the Cromwell municipal scheme for raising money for prospecting reefs, which iho Government had agreed to subsidise, seems Tkcly to fall through, and, if so, the money already in hand will be returned to the subscribers, as it is felt that private enterprise will carry out the w r ork. At Bendigo, in the Great Extended claim, there is a considerable amount of surface prospecting going on, with the view of picking no the large lode believed, from the quantity of gold-boaring qnmtz scattered about the surface to exist in the ground. ’ There is_ very pood new’s to hand from the Eureka mine. The true lode seems to have been picked up, running east and Wes’-, from eighteen inches to two feet thick, and if present prospects continue it will prove highly payable. There is already a large quantity of stone in the paddock, and the next thing to be looked to is Imw to get it ciushed. It is a great pity this district is so neglected by the Government in the matter of making roads or subsidising local parties in their construction. From the Eureka mine to the Alta battery is no great distance, and the engineering difficulties are very slight, only one gully having to be crossed. If°tlie Government would assist, the Eureka Co, might see their way clear to cat a road to the Alta machine. Until the batteries are connected by good roads with the quartz mines, which at present the majority are not, Bendigo will never come up to the position which its resources warrant.