GOLD MINING

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1932, Page 3

GOLD MINING

; : : A RELIEF SCHEME. Li • - „j f . WEgTPO#f, n 'diily 18. There are ninety men 1 "Employed on die relief schertie at' the Hojw'ard, not ar from Lake Rotoiti and tfojl 'House. iW-ciimp,' christened “The ' Golden by \thb men,, fe on. Maggie’s Creek, and is about 300 feet above the' Top House road. Mr J. H. Morgan is' in . charge of the camp and ti»e irien j are expected to build their own living liu'fcs. Some are using beech logs and other slate. There is one ?mall store and the stores are sledged •p the hill. A road has been surveyed, . but so far there is only a rough rack up to the camp. There will be three community tailraces with forty claims. Twentythree claims have already been balloted for. The present urea, is about 3000 acres, and it is anticipated that about 150 men will be employed in time.; The' claims are each one acre ! u‘extent, ten chains by one chain, lynch each will provide work for two

■ ; H ’ men for eight to ten years. Another” 2000 acres between the Maggie and the Maud are available. The miners work on a subsidy of las a week for single men and 30s for. married men, and this continues until .the single men earn £2 a week i gnd 5 the married men earn £3. The ; Government, takes 10 per cent of the goldi earned till the money advanced i for! subsidy and equipment is repaid. ; At this camp two wash-ups were . made of, spoil at. No 1 tail race and . pezs iof !go.ld ; were secured-. The men > have not yet commenced work on the t claims, but it is' expected that they i will' do so in. about six. weeks’ time. , The men all .i-eeiii qiiite hopeful and' contented in the camp.