CHARLESTON.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 689, 18 June 1870, Page 1 (Supplement)

CHARLESTON.

[WBSTPORT TIMBS' COBTOSSPONDENT.] June 9. ' The tiiiners of (this and the 'Brighton district are exceptionally busy, all parties having an excellent supply of water from the fate Tains, and although, we hear occasionally of some clainij famed- in the pas^for 4ia 'gold producing qualities, beconiing'exnaustea^ Bet off to that, ' new. leases are being t applied vfor, . with every prospect of their being renumerative. On the Deep Lead, Candlelight, Fox : and Green (whose claim is . known as the "Corn" in Egypt"), are having erected the : largest water .wheel, without' exception, in the Nelson Province. The erection of i the 'entire plant, are Messrs Francis and Giles, .who have previously erected, many otner/miriing plants hi this district. The wheel, which is nearly complete^, is fortysix feot in diameter. This claim is at , present being worked by gro,und T sluicingJ but the best dirt being cemented, they . are leaving it underneath until ,the wheel and plant now in course of erection are finished. Messrs Woodcock and Taylor's forty-five feet wheel, and also their wooden battery, has been steadily at work for some time past, and the late scraping-up of the two- -batteries was the ' largest that has occurred in Charleston for months. ■Grtenslade arid Goodalfs ground-sluicing claim has turned out the Nonpariel of Candlelight, and the shareholders expect still better returns at their next scraping. The excellent position of this claim affords facilities for washing greater .quantities of dirt, at a less cost of labor, than any other . I have seen. ; Birch and Cams. have purchased the lease formerly known as King's, 1 and in connection with it have also bought the old plant and water-right of Burns "sitid party;- which they ihtond to refit, ; ahd also, to drive a. tunnel to connect their : ground -wfith their battteiyi '- '■ This lease and water-rights are considered good, property.' h ■■■ '■■'' ; ' ::i/ '■-■■ ■-"■■■ ■■' ■■■■' '■ : .TUler,,and party r on Jones's Terrace, nave been crushing very good dirt, and . $re altogether satisfied , with ; their prospects. Haines's large reservoir contains immense quantity o£ water; it is rumored that se/eral parties who are. • arixious to obtain water front this source' are about to unite and extend the present T l*ce' 'to 'the highest'eleVationj embracing; all parts of Candlelight^ Hargrove's, Bal- ' Jawiti' and 1 probabiy'Sardine' Terrace^ an expenuye work, as the fluming required wifi b^i very higli and 1 6i considerable^ ( lepgjjh. The sooner an extension is com-' menced the more beneficial will it be to* l»tji;,the miners and the public generally..;