THE RUSH TO BRADSHAW TERRACE, WESTPORT.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 662, 16 April 1870, Page 4

THE RUSH TO BRADSHAW TERRACE, WESTPORT.

[WESTPORT TIMES, APRIL 9.] Of the differentclaims, that on theßuller side of the prospectors, held by a party -of ■ six, and extending over the cleared ground, has been bottomed in two places, and a good payable prospect has been got in both shafts. At this ; point of the lead the surface deposit is greater than elsewhere, and the shafts have had to be sunk Mfeet. The ground is dry, however, and.seems to stand very well> so that the project of the party to work. it by driving along the line of lead seems to be feasible, and certainly preferable to stripping. The prospectors are at present stripping, and they were oh Thursday washing up the wash obtained from their first paddock. The result was not known when the claim was visited oil that day, but there was a good deal of rough gold in the pan containing the washings of tho blankets, and, with sufficient appliances in use, there would have been more. Blankets and low set ripples scarcely seem to answer the purpose of saving the gold got here, and the supply, of water was rather light. A good rush of water, sharply set ripples, and plush, would probably suit the purpose better.

In the claim taken up originally by Champion and others, a party of four or five were opening a paddock, but they had not got further than securing a fair prospect, and ascertaining that they were on tie centre of the lead. Gracey and his mate had sunk a paddock rather off the lead, but sufficiently on the edge not to make their day's labor altogether valueless. Their prospects still seem to show that it is a fair wages claim. M'Masters nas been employing himself searching for a supply of water, but his ground will be regularly under work in a few days by himself or old mates. Morris and Miller have done as much work in actual stripping as any on the ground, and, with the assistance of a pump merely, for which there was little enough water, were about to put through their wash. Though they did not say so it was said that their last washed dishful had yielded about five grains. Another party beyond were, on Thursday, just completing their tail-race to the creek, and several beyond them were more or less advanced in similar work or in the work of preliminary stripping. Fresh claims to the southward had been pegged out, and the lead, so far as it is known, is being gradually taken up either by some or those who formed the first rush or by strangers, who are now more encouraged by the prospects and by the product of washings which have since been obtained, bince the ground has been more opened up, it scarcely presents so much of the features of an ancient beach as of an old river-bed— the former bed of the creek, which now runs, as a rule, in a direction parallel to that of the lead. S^~- ' be the case, the lead m— " tend a consiri^- * to*""" 1 this — .*/ be found to ex.—.laDle distance up the creek, Addison's Flat.