SALTWATER DISTRICT.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1347, 22 November 1872, Page 2

SALTWATER DISTRICT.

(FROM OUR, OWff CORRESPONDENT.) November 2o. The ground alongside the Welshman's. Track still continues to find employment for the usual number of miners. Some are more prosperous than others, and, judging from the success that attends, them, the former inhabitants who left, and declared the place worked out, made a most egregious mistake. The fact is, that water is now brought more into use. The old slow process of the cradle is discarded, and sluicing in a greater or less degree is adopted in its plaoe. All the water is carefully preserved by the usual protection, and there is no doubt if there was more it would" tend materially to increase the number of the present miners. The terraces about here are so thoroughly prospected that the importance of having a plentiful supply of water is recognised as the chief requisite for men to obtain gold to make their work remunerative. Even now this tfant is so much felt that a "hatter," named William Waught, an old New River resident, who bought, about nine months since, all the rights of wate,r formerly owned by the Shetland Company, is. 'about bringing in a supply himself. He owns several dams placed across the little gullies running down from the range between the Marsden and Paroa tramway; and Welshman's, arid even a large reservoir on the very top of the terrace itself, which took him three months to form. . These he purposes to connect and take their combined water on to the Welshman's track where it is so much required. The indomitable pluck this [single hatter shows in undertaking a work of so much, labor is indeed creditable to him,' and well deserves success for his enterprise. The whole length of his race will be nearly a mile, and it is calculated that it will take him about a month from the present time, and when it is completed will prove a prize to him, which: he 'will thoroughly merit. Welshman's proper still holds about the usual number of miners. Everything seems to be very quiet, but the trim little cottages and gardens show the inhabitants ha.ye a good opinion of its capabilities. "There are two or three parties working on the Deep Creek, near to the old Yankee's claim on the Saltwater Creek, and are reported as making wages; in fact, where water can be obtained men are found working. It is very much the fashion now-a-day to strip a large paddock in dry weather preparatory to washing it when the rain comes. An instance of this occurred in the flat near Shetland Terrace,' where a piece 'oi ground fully one man's allowance was prepared for the eventful wet day. There is no doubt this will be more universally adopted during ihe forth-coming summer* if it turns out, as predicted by the MaoriiL very dry, .•