GOLD DISCOVERY AT NASEBY.

Evening Star, Issue 4129, 22 May 1876, Page 4

GOLD DISCOVERY AT NASEBY.

The exten ion of the Naseby Sludge Channel now in hand has proved what, to sceptical minds, bias been considered a debatable question. The contractors have already ripped up half a mile and five chains of the channel, the. bottom of which is literally paved with gold. The contract is coming ’through the tailings deposited during the last few years from the Naseby workings. In some places the tailings appear to be seven or eight feet thick before the surface of the solid-ground is touched.. It is a matter for the inspecting engineer to make sure, from the practical view; how afforded to him, tSiat this half mile or’more of valuable ground which is exposed is sufficiently deep to enable the gold ,tO; be got out. At present, before the pavement is laid, it strikes us that the level will not quite do. As the tail race comes on, it appears, at the present gradient, to rise more still above the auriferous wash. In no part of the extension, unless at the start, is the race as yet on the bottom, and at many parts it is only just touching the solid ground, ■ the chocolate-colored soil being clearly exposed. . . . - Every inch of the ground along the Main Gully is marked off m claims, but these claims can only be worked provided that the channel is kept deep enough. The work is progressing with great' rapidity—while we write 130 men Being employed. It is expected that the paving will begin next week.—‘Mt. Ida Chronicle.’ , .