NEW RIVER DISTRICT.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 730, 22 September 1870, Page 2

NEW RIVER DISTRICT.

[from our own correspondent.]

September 21. The population at No Name has been gradually decreasing for some tune-past, and now only numbers 100, including men, women, "and children. Nemona, the once beautiful and substantially-built township, presents a woe-begotten appearance, the houses being now fast taken down and sledged over to Marsden. Petersborongh, formerly a rival of Nemona, has long since ceased to exist as a township. Taking a retrospective view of the rise and fall of No Name, it must be admitted that it has disappointed the hopes and expectations of both miners and business people. Good prospects were got at the first, and men hesitated not to spend months to take in long tunnels. In some instances payable claims were found, and in others tine prospects; and after inducing men to go to an extra amount of labor to lay down tramways and erect paddocks for washing the ground, proved unremunerative, and . had to be abandoned. It seems there were several narrow runs of gold, with an intervening space of duffer ground ; and, of course, the best of these runs have been worked already. There ia no doubt, about the present population growing less, but for years to come some few men will be found in the neighborhood; and when the road is made through to the Greenstone, more country will be opened, and will be tho more thoroughly prospected ; and it is confidently predicted by experienced miners that good payable gold will be found there. The opening up of the various terraces at No Name is not without its results^ as it has proved the existence of gold in them, and has lead men to prospect elsewhere. There is now a report current at No

Name that a party is about being formed for the purpose of prospecting the high terrace at the Limestone. It has been long thought that payable gold exists in that range, but up to the present time no active steps have been taken to prospect it. It is to be hoped that the party now being formed will be successful. The gold found at Limestone is supposed to have come out of the terrace, and following along it leads to Welshman's, "where another good little diggings was formerly found, so that there are some hopes of gold being traced in the terrace itself. Mosquito is now one of the principal places in the New River district ; it seems to be gradually improving. The length of the tunnels that have to be taken in before gold is struck has prevented the place from being over-rushed, and it is far better to have a population well employed than a surplus number of men not able to do anything for themselves. Mosquito has now taken the place of No Name, and it is sincerely to be trusted that it will prove more durable, and pay the men better. Both Irishman's and Cock-Eye maintain a steady population, and the same may be said of Cameron's. There are a few parties to be found at Limestone — one party puddling, another sluicing, and others working in an ordinary way. German Terrace and the Left-hand Branch still support the usual number of men. It is almost unnecessary to say that the present dry weather is militating most seriously against the interest of the miners, and the sooner there is a change the better for all Li this district.