SLUICING NOTES.
Lawyer’s Paradise at Goldsborough at present, presents quite u lively appearance, miners’ huts and smithies being in evidence nil along the flat, and O’Sullivan Bn s. of Kumara are extending the main tail-race for some considerable distance, whilst Messrs Quinn and Shannon have opened out their claim and are now sluicing regularly into the channel. At Macleod’s Terraco, Mikonui, further prospecting tends to show more of the great extent of gold bearing wash in this exceptionally valuable claim. A jump up has (according to the Guardian) been made at the end of the lowest tunnel, which was started some 56f! below the sandstone reef. The jump up owing to the stony naluro of the ground had to bo taken at an angle of 45 degrees to a distance of some eight or nine feet where progress was stayed owing to massive boulders, which ic was thought unadvisablo to shatter with dynamite for fear the shock might injure the permanence of the tunnel, It is intended to obtain a report on the claim from an accredited mining exper, as a further guarantee to the proprietory to justify the large outlay which will be needed to bring water to the ground and commence sluicing operations.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 26 September 1901, Page 4
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205SLUICING NOTES. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 26 September 1901, Page 4
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