GYMPIE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1385, 8 January 1873, Page 2

GYMPIE.

[gympie times, dec. 20.] ! A quarter share (l-32nd) in No. 2 north, Glanmire, has been sold. Mr Adam Black: was the purchaser at L3OO. At this rate • the value of the whole claim would be • L 9600. About two years ago this ground : was lying abandoned. On Thursday another lot of splendid specimens was found in No, 5 south. Monkland from the Glanmire reef. The holders are still driving southerly. In the Glanmire and Monkland Company a quantity of very fair gold-bearing specimens was also found. Stone is being raised quickly. The prospectors of the Glanmire reef are also raising stone quickly. The manager informs us that the stuff being taken out will yield as well as the last crushing. On Satijrday last the holders of NO3. 10 and 11 south Monkland, iv putting in a shot in the roof .of their drive to the east came upon a formation of quartz leaders and mullock, which is believed to be the Monkland reef. It will, however, take them a fortnight to determine whether they are correct or not in this supposition. The drive is at the 230 ft hve], and the spot where the shot was put in is distant 7ft or Sft from the shaft. The footwall of the formation is of black slate ; the hanging wall has not yet been got. On Saturday a bucketful of good specimens were lodged in the Bank of New South Wales. They came, from claim No. 3 north, Lady Mary. The New Zealand prospectors are still sinking their winze on the reef, and they continue to get good payable stone everytime they break, down. The stone is not quite so rich as that obtained a short time ago. The winze has now been sunk 22ft. About 30ft of gold-bearing reef has been passed through gold having been got all the way from the roof of the main drive to the bottom of the winze. The sinking is still in a slate formation. The reef has been small, but is now getting bigger, and there are indications of it making another jump west. Sinking the main shaft is still being carried on. The shaft is down about 330 ft. The sinking is still very hard, being through greenstone. Crushing will probably be commenced during next week. There has been some excitement in Gympie during the last few days in reference to the discovery of a new reef at

Boobijan. Mr Bligh, Gold Commissioner, haß kindly furnished us with the following particulars : — He arrived at Boobijan on the 13th and went out to the scene of the discovery, where he was requsted to grant a prospecting claim. Previous to going out he saw some very good specimens which had been obtained from an old shaft, but he declined to grant, the prospecting claim until the discoverers obtained something payable from the reef in his presence. The men then went down the shaft, but did fnot succeed,, and Mr Bligh, after waiting for about two hours returned to the station, distant about a mile and a half. Subaequentlj some residents of Gayndah requested him to go out again. He acceded to this request, and on his arrival found that the discoverers had in the meantime goue_ to work in a new shaft, distant about 50ft from the old one, and that at a depth of 20ft they had just come on the cap of the reef. In his presence they knocked off several lumps of stone showing first-rate gold. The prospecting claim was then granted, and six ordinary claims were marked off. The reef runs almost east and west ; its walls are 3ft apart, and it is composed of a mixture of qnartz and other substances. . Mr Bligh thinks very highly of the discovery,' and has brought with him a specimen showing very nice gold through the stone.. It' also bears indications of the existence of copper. A good many better specimens than J,hls one were obtained, we are given to understand. The discoverers are J. Phair and George Allen ; they were working for copper on a mineral selection at the time they found the reef. In passing, it may be mentioned that a telegram has been sent to Brisbane to stop the granting of the selection, as gold has been found. Boobijan is situated about 70 miles from Gympie, and 40 from Gandah, and is not within the district of the Gympie Gold Commissioner, it is, we believe, within the district of Mr Commissioner Ranken, who is officiating as Police Magistrate at Gandah. To that gentbman Mr Bligh has written on the subject, and has also forwarded him apt plications for protection registration, for five claims for a period of three weeks, to i enable the applicants to procure labor and tools.. Besides the claims marked off, others have been pegged off. The new reef has been named the Lord Nelson. Mr Bligh has granted a protection area for another reef situated about a mile from the Lord Nelson. The ground for which the protection area has been given is included in a bismuth selection taken up by M'Dermott and others.