GREY VALLEY GOLD FIELDS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1493, 17 May 1873, Page 2

GREY VALLEY GOLD FIELDS.

(BSiffSt OUB OWN COEEESPONDENT.) •i BBANDY JACK'S. )._^ALJBojrierßon'sJßMahn]^ i .^ 1l p ii ffl t npapy are in with the main tunnel some 450 ft. The deeggy^und itf not properly ,r,e{fched yet, but a small prospect can be obtained | head. The company have been delayed a good deal through foul air in the workings. The kerosene plan was fried, but it cearly smothered .. the workmen ; in tact, the orig^rial fbUfc atmosphere smelt like otto of roses^in^terparison to that created by the kerosene remedy. So much for theoretical remedies for • pr&ctical impediments .or disadvantages. By 4 simple contrivance jsugges6ed' by an intelligent acquaintance I _wrth tKe" natural laws- a free' current of Sir is ; now driven through all th.c workings by a stream ,of water, running dawn the shaft and confined' in a pipe. The rush of the water carries the air current with it, and by ah arrangement of tubes below, the pure air is taken, to the furthest end of the drives^ while the men can continue wOrk without the danger of suffocation. . THE TEVIOT.. ' There . are three claims now paying welL at Bradford's rush, the prospectors and and two others. O'Halloran-s- race is being extended so that;tb.e water will command r the workings at Bradford's-. , The extension -will be : abouti >2fr> chains in length. The claims at Eraser's Terrace are yielding much as usual? *"• fn m ■ ••■: '- !■"•'■' ' NO ToWi,'l : . n A meeting was held here last week to foriri a ! Prospecting Association to ;ss^ a portion of the vast extehtf [ 6f ' untried 1 fitround still existing in this district. There was; it se^ms^a^veTy 'disdtfssfdhls to whether those subsidised !t "by the Asso* ciation>should confine their explorations to creek or terrace, workings.- r The high levellers, 'like the " bigenders" jn Gujfliye.c's,^rayels, carried th e> '6xr,^s. r»te , : W& jss&' ", '& was decided -the, should have a triaj: firss, 7 anf th l g|i£e vt 'deep sea fishers" should have a 'turn at some future time. With respect to the jlob'aßilHy o£ finding pettniirieht; 1 teatfs 1 at in this district, there is much to ber said. The* discussed in the Weekly Abgits. between two" ahd three 5 ! y6ars' ago, 'when there was a large population in the.^tf trict. r It was thenf shown 1 %hat a'ruh df ground existed; uriderlying r at' a .consido£" able depth the present valley of No Town Creek and its main tributaries. This deep run was tapped here and there, notably at the foot of Big Bill's Creek, at Irislitown, near the foot of Joyce's Creek, and at two or three places below Rough and Tumble. It contains as far as .could be ascertained, a mullocky wash'coiriposed of large schistose bouldenl, spherical and much waterworn, mixed with a blueish? marly clay,' very teh^ciotis aha difficult ! to work. The work done at Big' BilTs by Toner and' party, wh'ere 'they erected the first waterwheel worked in the Grey Valley, in thetwinter of-1869, showed -that this ancient gutter contained a fair pro* portion of gold, but the expense of working it was too great at the .time, and, as the superior attractions of; other places' drew the party away one by one, the locality ' did hot get a' thorough teiitragV If similar inducements' were open to prospectors in: ithe Half-Ouiice district, the deep grouDd would be tried jlobg-^go ; '■ -o b'ut T'thtf •* ■ class " of' f minirig ihitherto mostly atfcinaed^td arNd'Tdwh idoes not include "deep sea" explorations! ') i»i>- :' '! - 1 ,,;' ; - ' } ''■ ! >'■ i Another meeting was ' neld here on pWtc%da^,^6^prdtest agUinift »tHe ■ action of the Registration Offiieir, or whoever else is responsible, in objecting to nearly every claim to be placed np'on the xoll s^nt .in from' 'thi^' r ' district The hieetihg i^as largely' attended^ arid the. utmost' indignation was expressed, by the; different speakers. Resolutions were passed condemning the aption of those who have been instrumental in inducing the Registration Officer to make the objection in the wholesale mannar he has done.