MURRAY CREEK.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 78, 8 October 1877, Page 2

MURRAY CREEK.

[FROM OUR MIXING REPORTER.] GARDEN GULLY. Fkedat, October 5. As this is the first time the name* of the above - mentioned claim has(appeared in the weekly- column of mining jnews it may- be necessary to state that • the area of ground l encompassed within the* ' lease recently applied for under this name constituted the old" "Westland 1 and the Golden Hill mines, both of which com.manded'considerable attention atLHie-early- | opening" of this- field. ! The-ground has recently- been fatten up.again and a course of prospect insrcarrie.l •on. The whole of the oM"working*liavo,Been' cleaned oat, from' which it is nt tile present time sliowiv that a Urgp body of stone* exists; and' from the very irregular and truly unsystematic manner that tiie respective claims were originally opened, >t must be admitted that- a fair ; trial of the gronnd' has never b->en>made, and that there is- every probability of a 'thorough test of its- true- valuo being asoertained. In the oW stopos there-is now exposed six feet of a face of clean «stonp. It will doubtless be remembered'that thetrial crushing from this same reef yiel.led an average of 9 dwts to the-toni This* return fiVe years ago wouM be considered ! too poor to work, but when- it is taken into consideration that the gratings used' at the buttery were about 99 to-the inch., with copper plates, very imperfectly treatei, and a very primitive system of treating the blanketings it rau3t he readily admitted that there is every reason tobelieve with an abundance of stone at command as at present shown in variousparts of the groun»l> for. over ft lOOfeefc in depth that there is every inducement to fcive these mines anothertrial, and I have no hesitation in stilting even at the same yield as produce.l fromthe trial crushing referred to. with the mine properly opened, and- crushing power available at a reawn-ible cost, the groundthat has been lying d>rmaut for years may be turned to profitable account. Three men are at the present time employed, and the C6mp;iny is about to beformed aud-duly registered.