MINING NOTES AND INCIDENTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1611, 3 October 1873, Page 2

MINING NOTES AND INCIDENTS.

A half share or l-24th of claimNos3 ) arid 4 north, Lady Mary, Gympie, was sold to Mr R. C. Smith, of Brisbane, for LllO. ■;• ■■'■'■ : ' ~ ■■■;■■■■ ■ ; -/- The Glenmire and Monl^laridCjompany, Gympie., h^s, declared another dividend at the rate of Is par share. ; : During the past few days ; fair goldbearing quartz has been met with by the owners of No 1 North Perseverance, Gympie.. . -.., A miner named Franz , Otto ..Rwanson „ was found lately lying dead in Old, Tom Gully, r Part .of a tree had been blown.;, down during the gale dv that day, and i limb had fallen on the' decased causing his death. A rather ingeniously executed; j" specimen" has been shown about in Gympie lately, ilt is composed of a. bit of surface. • quartz with small pieces of very nicev '■■■ i looking gold leaf inserted. in it.;'/ #c heas " that it is, from tne skilful handofagentlemau once resident in Gympie,, but who :. has lately taken ;uphis ; abode uponjoneof the. lovely islands which stud Mpretori Bay.' The article is said to have proved a highly valuable possession to the maker ; 1! and original proprietor, who secured: board and lodging from at least one, en- ., .: ., terprising publican in this town on the strength of such direct evidence of his ;: ' having such a good " show. 5 ' Who afterf ' this, disclosure will say that " ways thatCi. are dark and tricks that are vain"' are peculiarities of the "Heathen Chinee '|"° 1 From Otago we learn that the AuEora, Company reported" "on ®riesday with % result' larger 'ihan was.'' anticipated. The quantity cpushed was 133 .tons, arid the result was a cake a little over 323 ounces. .Only 100 ounoes were expected" from 150 tons. The shareholders^ on ; this occasion ; — the first for a long time— rejoiced in a \>\ dividend. The Cromwell Company" did

not retort till Wednesday, in consequence of the bad weather which prevailed on Monday and Tuesday. 350 ounces were expected, but the result in this case -was beyond that, for it turned out 387 ounces. The company are again crushing on the same kind of stuff. Mr MacDevitt informs the Northern Advocate that in Gympie they have crushed the ' ' greenstone" from some of the claims on the Smithtield line, and found it payable. We confess that this is news to us, and we believe many of our local readers will make the same admission. About a week ago a reef was discovered by Harding and party whilst prospecting in • the KUkivan district. Five or six claims north of their protection area (granted three weeks ago) have been taken up ; and the miners on the ground, it appears, .have satisfied themselves as to the payable character of the atone. It was reported in Gympie lately that rich stone had been found iv the Glenmire and Columbia Company's ground on the previous day. The fact of the matter is that on Monday a shot was put into a small portion of the reef and in a few pieces of stone which were taken out a little gold was seen. This is the first sign of the existence of the metal in the main reef which has been obtained, and it is therefore very encouraging. The gold that has been seen hitherto has been, got from the hanging' v?all leaders. Judging j by the present indications it would appear that the manager's opinion that "in a few more feet good gold will in all probability be struck," is in a fair way of I being realised. The reef is about eighteen inches thick in the southern end of the shaft, and one fourth that size in the northern part. The shaft is down 210 f t; in the bottom the water is increasing. The Victoria machine, at Gympie, has finished the narcel from No. 1 north, Glanmire. It contained 192 tons, and yielded 5600z. The . Awtralasian says :— " There is nothing like the aura sacra fames to stimulate enterprise in exploration, as in everything else. The love of scientific discovery and the love of adventure are strong, but the love of gold is stronger. 'iQur telegrams report that a party of three diggers' called the other day at the Catherine telegraph station in the Nor--s^fcern Territory. They were on the road •-^ the Yam Creek diggings, and they had come all the way to Queensland, a distance of, perhaps, 800 or 1000 miles, through country almost untrodden. If it had been necessary to send an expedition there on .the, most important business, it •would have been found needful to appoint a leader and a second in command, with perhaps a.dootor, and to have engaged the services of a great many natives, and possibly to have procured a lot of camels from Mr Elder. But call it only a new rush, and a party of three diggers quietly pack up their tent, and provisions, and tools, place, them on the back of a few packhorses, and set out through unknown territory, for the new diggings, perhaps a thousand .miles away, without the least idea that they are doing anything heroic or out of the common. If they do not secure a success, the three new arrivals from this long tramp will certainly have deserved it." A correspondent of the Tuapeka Times, •writing from Switzer's, says : — ln proportion to the population, this district is fully maintaining its reputation as a gold producing locality, as will be evinced by the escort which leaves this on Monday next (Bth September.). That Ac population is "* not much larger is a pity ; not only on account of the interest of the residents (who would be far more prosperous if their number were increased), but also on account of the tens of thousands who in other countries are starving, and whc might and would, if' here, be making a good and comfortable living. There ia room here, with judicious managemen and proper administration of even exist ing laws, for a heavy population, and, old as your correspondent is, he does not despair of seeing his opinion herein expressed a practical reality. This can be attained by vigorous enterprise and the co-operation of the people. Two things are immediately vanting as stepping stones to tb!e desired end, viz., the means of rapid intercommunication with the rest of the world, in the shape of a bi-weekly mail and a telegraphic wire from the S&viat or JBeaumont, which, when constructed, , should also be carried tc Tapanui.