THE SOUTH BEACH.

Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 527, 3 June 1869, Page 2

THE SOUTH BEACH.

(from our own correspondent.) The success which has attended the All Nations in striking payable gold so far north of the present workings on the Stoney Lead, cannot very well be overestimated, for it proves without a doubt that the lead extends along the beach for miles. If a cursory view is taken of what is now known of it, it can be traced from Sunday Flat to the old Lagoon Lead, a distance of about 2\ miles, from thence to the ground that is now occupied by the compauies of Evanp, Robertson, and . Scanlon, who amalgamated and took* in' the long tunnel opposite the Junction Hotel and got very good gold. There then occurs a blank of two acres, when Myley'a claim is reached, and then the lead runs remarkably rich through the present workings, so good in fact that three or four inches of the wash will actually go a pennyweight and over to the shovel. In these golden holes the shareholders are so particular that a stranger visiting them is compelled to wash his boots before leaving the claim. Passing on from the present woricing some 500 yards the All Nations claim is reached, which will no doubt prove as valuable as any yet opened. This ground was attempted to be prospected some two or three years since. No further back than eighteen months since a large party amalgamated and took up a deep tail race from a week opposite the Nelson Hotel as far as the spur, and they found nothing— the fact now proving that they were not deep enough. Another party sank shafts in the neighborhood and failed. Again, Evans', Robertson's, andScanlon's parties actually found, after taking in their tail race, that the gold was really in shallow ground. After these results there can be no dependence placed in the prospecting that has taken place through the. great blanks that are now to be found along the lead. Granted that prospecting has been done and failed to find the gold, was it not the case with the very ground that these two long tunnels have lately been the means of opening* and why may it not be the case with the ground lying between the Lagoon Lead and Sunday Flat, or' between the Lagoon Lead and the Saltwater. That the lead will ultimately be traced there, qan be. very little doubt, and it will remain for some enterprising men, to undertake a work of such magnitude) and of so much consequence to the mining, community. Some parties have been questionirg the justice of , the Warden giving acre claims to five men. There ia very little doubt that if smb. had not leen done that the riches of this present StoiieyLead would never have been developed. For who would spend months to take uv long tail races and only have an ordinary claim. Public opinion is decidedly in favor of the Warden granting these large claims when the ground is of such a nature that it is impossible to work it without, spending months to bring up long tail races. What party of men is there that, could be found to prospect in either of these long blank places that have been mentioned and only have an ordinary claim allotcd to them ? None. Instead of obstructions being thrown in the way of enterprising men every facility and inducement must be held out to them to. prospect ground which has hitherto proved too difficult for ordinary men on account of it being deep and wet. By all means let every encouragement be given to men to prospect, for the prosperity of the dis-. trict depends on tl si being done. On the old workings all the claims apj doing well. Most of them are now en-» gaged in stripping new paddocks, which is a very laborious operation, from the quantity of clay which has to be removed. Howison and party have been cleaning up, and expect to take something like 130oz off their last paddock. The Leviathan Water Race Company have commenced washing. They have a. magnificent body of water on the ground, and are washing away about twelve feet of the surface soil, putting everything through, in order to get at the richec ground below.