GABRIEL'S GULLY, OTAGO.

Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 527, 3 June 1869, Page 4

GABRIEL'S GULLY, OTAGO.

(From Otago Daily Time** Correspondent) Mining operations are being carried on here in their usual quiet and steady way, and notwithstanding the wholesale manner in which the Spur is being daily reduced, both from the Gabriel's and the Monroe's Bide, it is pretty certaiu that at the least six or seven years will elapßO before the Blue Spur is worked down even to the level on which most claims are working at present. Messrs Fiffe and party finished washing up a few days ago, and the results, : as usual, have been highly satisfactory ; j they were sluicing for 18 weeks, and the j proceeds, 1 have been informed, are about 0750z. This party consists of six working and one sleeping shareholder, and they have their own water-race and reservoir. Since washing up they have fired one blast, with about 60 kegs of pewder, and | preparing for a heavier one in another part of their claim. Livingstone and i party arc still tunnelling, preparatory to I ii liejivy blast which they intend to fire at the beginning of next week. The ground being exceedingly hard, however, they make but slow progress in driving, which has been carried on now for more than a i fortnight, working all the 24 hours. Peterson and party, who are working the ground of the Blue Spur Mining Company on tribute, have not, I am sorry to say, had great reason to rejoice at their bargain ; but they are now seemingly into better ground, and I trust to be able to chronicle a handsome dividend at their their next washing up. Morrison and Co. have finished washing up the upper portion of their race, with highly satisfactory results. Messrs Hales and Hinde fired a small shot the other day with 50 kegs of powder, in order to put a straight face on their workings." The Perseverance Company wereabout to commence washing up last Monday, when a large slip took 2)lace in their claim, that will prevent them from doing so for some time to come. The Otago Gold Mining Company also had a large slip about the same time, at their head-race near their dam. The slip is about 60 yards long, for which distance they will be obliged to flume their water in boxes. The other claims are working away as usual. Water still continues plentiful, and rather in excess of the demand.