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Kumara Times, Issue 619, 21 September 1878, Page 1

PROSPECTUS i OP THE ! TAiPO QUARTZ mining! COMPANY (Limited). : ARAHURA DISTRICT, COUNTY OF • WESTLAND. j Capital : £IO,OOO, in 10,000 Shares j of £1 each. ■ Sixpence per shave on application ; 6d. j per share on allotment; and Calls | not to exceed 6d. per share per i month. provincial directors: James Holmes, Esq., Hokitika A. L. King, Esq., M.C.C., Hokitika Thomas Cooke, Esq., Hokitika James Pearson, Esq., Hokitika George Bath, Esq., Hokitika James Chesney, Esq., Hokitika Joseph Churches, Esq., Hokitika H. Richardson Rae, Esq,, Hokitika Charles Linnemann, Esq., Hokitika Hans J. Hansen, Esq., Hokitika Thomas Haworth, Esq., Hokitika. bankers: The Union Bank of Australia* solicitor : 0. E. Button, Esq. SECRETARY : J. E- Ouddeford, pro tem. The object of the proposed Company is to work the lease of the Enterprise Quartz Mining Company, Taipa The claim is situated on Parry’s Range, Arahura District, about seven miles from the Christchurch road, and thirty-seven miles from Hokitika. The claim contains an area of 20 acres, granted as a lease to the present company by the Governor’s Delegate. The prospectors have already expended a sum of £ISOO in driving a tunnel, sinking a shaft, and generally testing the ground. Two distinct and welbdefined reefs have already been tested in the claimone in the shaft and the other in the, tunnel, they are, about 200 feet apart; the average width A is 3ft 6ih an 2ft 6in. The stone is equal in richness.. r The 'tunnel has been driven 150 feet, and the shaft is now down 30 feet. It is proposed to extend the tunnel so as* to strike the reef which is being worked in the shaft. A trial crushing of about eight hundred weight of stone and rubble, taken from both reefs, took place at the Bank of New Zealand, Hokitika; some time since and yielded at the rate of sozs 6dwt to the ton. The payable quantity of the stone having been thus satisfactorily proved; it is proposed that the new Company shall work the ground in a more systematic manner and on a more extensive scale than hitherto, and it is confidently anticipated that with the aid of machinery, the mine will prove remunerative to an extent greater than is the case with regard to many of the best reefing companies on the West Coast The claim is commanded by an extensive and never failing supply of water at a high level, which can be brought on to the ground at a comparatively small cost, for working the bat--tery. When increased labor has opened up j the reefs there will be a supply of quartz sufficient to keep a heavy battery continually employed. The road connecting the reefs with the main Christchurch road has been finished by the Government, and every facility is now oftered for the conveyance of machinery to this undoubtedly payable field. The promoters and shareholders in' the present company have such confi-1 deuce in the remunerative nature of' the ground, that they are willing to ac-, cept two thousand four hundred paid i up shares in the new Company, in full 1 payment for the purchase of their en- ■ tire right and title in the lease, for all labor already done, and expenses incurred. The promoters are assured that the undertaking will prove a complete success, and confidently express an opinion that the future operations of the new Company will materially tend to the development of a very extensive track of reefing country, which, when opened up, must of necessity largely increase the commercial prosperity of Hokitika, as being the nearest town 1 and port to the goldfield. They, therefore, invite’ the attention of the public j to the present undertaking as a safe and paying investment. The promises