VICTORIA.

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

VICTORIA.

Graytown, the locale of the Spring Creek rush, is not yet robbed of all its mineral wealth. The Leader announces a yield of 38oz of gold from seven tons only of quartz. The following report on the Acheron River rush has been received by the Mining department : — " I beg to report, for the information of the honorable the Minister of Mines, that I visited, on the 23rd March, the rush which has lately taken place to a spot near the Acheron River. It is in a narrow reed flat, run ■ ning nearly north and south from the pre-emptive section of Rogers' station — called, I believe, Niagaroon), and falls towards the Rubicon River. I found nearly 250 men at work, and was informed ' that several parties are pospecting in the other flats in the neighborhood. The j sinking is from 35 to 70ft j easy, but for water, which will, I think, be somewhat troublesome in the winter. The shafts require slabbing from the top ; and two which were being put down without timber fell in a couple of days before my visit. The prospectors appear satisfied, and are getting up substantial huts. There is a tent store on the rush, and a bakery is in course of erection. Supplies are easily obtainable from Alexandra, seven miles off,, or from Thornton, about five miles. Complaints were made to me of the small area of ground allowed by the Sandhurst bye-laws for such workings — viz., 300 square feet for four meu, if the sinking is over 50 feet; and 70 square feet, if less. In most other respects I have found the miners prefer the Sandhurst bye-laws to those of Beechworth. This rush can be easily reached from Melbourne by way of Yea and Sloan's, or from the Yarra track, turning off at Fisher's Creek. It is about fourteen miles from Sloan's punt, and seventeen miles from Fisher's Creek. In the course of another week several of the shafts will have bottomed, and more reliable infortion can be obtained as to the results. — I have, &c, Arthur P. AKEHritsi, Warden." ■" Considerable excitement has been created in the Gipps Land district," says a correspondent of the Mercury, "by the report that gold in payable quantities has been found at Corner Inlet. About 12 months ago a party of prospectors found gold in Poor-Fellow-Me Creek, but after . having expended a great deal of labor in making a race for sluicing, they could only obtain- a small quantity of light flakey gold. Some of the same party have, however, been more succesaf ul since, at a place a few miles from where they were, then at work. Last Friday, one of the party brought to Port Albert 2Joz of rough nuggety gold, one piece weighing 2Jdwt, the result of two days' work, with a primitive cradle, by four men. The place where this was found is about three miles from Mr Amery's rural store, and about 10 miles from Buchanan's saw mills. It is situated in the watershed of Mount, Fatigue. A large extent of country arbundttihere presents auriferous indications, and no doubt, if prospecting could be prosecuted with vigor by those

who have followed the pursuit of goldZZl ahewhe 5 B » ™ gold field might be opened out there «nio -T S^ etatw s^tes that its renow b^ a ISit1 Sit *° theshaft which » now being sunk near Beechworth in Tft v i*? lode - II is situated almost on the highest part of the gianite ranges, between Beechworth and Reed's Creek near the old road, and is a joint speculation on the part of Wffliat Turner and Mr James Green, a Cornish miner of considerable experience. The shaft is an W the° V I?- 2^ aUd at lode ines ruled wih a broad black pencil. It is aso distributed through the hard granite just referred to. There is one and it consists in the large metalliferous SfeiW aSSOciate^ .mSIqSS m S S?*' 1 ! Same . Space - Besidesthe oxide of tin just mentioned, occurring in luf '^^^cent masses, there are also white mimdic (arsenical iron pvl'- ? copper pyrites, both with ifi - appearance and wi+ v " -- ~ ' blue and »"-■ ' •- '« 3Ual brassy i»— *■ -...i me brilliant p^y o f t ,arple colors caramon to copper rites in many places, native, copper, and a soft, flaky, black mineral, with a metalic lustre, apparently molybdenite. On crushing up some of the softer granite forming the casing of the harder metalliferous rock, a very fair prospect of tin ore was washed out in our presence. This vein of hard rock .runs in a direction due north and south, dipping rather rapidly towards the south. The quality of the stone is improving as the shaft goes down, and it is not all unlikely that before long a broad payable seam of the metal may be found at a little greater depth. Hitherto no gold has beeu found in the shaft, but it has been found on the surface o£ the soil at a distance of a few feet from the mouth." _