MINING REPORT.

Kumara Times, Issue 2996, 10 June 1886, Page 2

MINING REPORT.

[By our Special Mining Repoktek.] The Lead, June 8. While the excitement of the rush to Kimbeiley lasts there is not ranch likelihood of much interest being taken in looking for gold nearer home. The results of prospecting in this district so far have not been rery encouraging • but still I believe if some of the capital and energy that has left for Kimberley had been turned to looking for gold within ten miles of Kumara, more satisfactory results might have followed than even going to Kimberley. It is an old saying that the farthest away fields are the greenest, but I am afraid the West Coasters will suffer much at the new rush. The strongest and

healthiest foel the hardships of such a climate, the keenest especially when they have just left such a climate as ours. The Port Curtis rush to the north of Queensland had as grand reports of it in circulation as the Kimherley, and there was terrible suffering followed in its wake. And so there will he at Kimherley • however good the rush may be in itself, hundreds will venture who are not at all suited to such an undertaking, and even a moderate rise will be dearly wou. I wonder if Mr Larnach's recommendation will be of any avail to theEumHi-a contingent against crocodiles and blackfellows. There is no doubt it will he the raeana of getting them the latest and most reliable information from the diggings, which they will be eager to obtain. As my functions have been somewhat encroached upon by "A Commercial Traveller," I do not.require, to give an account of the No. 2 channel meeting. Suffice ..it.,to say that the facts given by your correspondent are pretty near the mark, and that large meetings are not a success where business has to be done; but as the whole thing is now in the hands of a committee, it will come out all right, and, as Paddy Bays, the sooner the quicker. A tank is nearly completed over the sludge-chaunel shaft, out of which the water will be ganged iuto the pipes that will supply the No. 1 channel with flushing water, and also the flushing water for No. 2 channel. The Govern" ment are also about to erect a new flume for conveying the water to the I channel shnft, for which Mr Griffiths has got the contract. It is almost | incredulous the amount of boxing that is required on the different branches outside of No. 1 channel, showing that the tailing-site is being rapidly used up. Some of the piping for flushing No. 1 channel is already on the grouod, and | hs it will take but a short time to put ! it in when it is all delivered, the No. J 2 channel men should bestir themselves J to have everything ready to make a start as soon as that is done. The mode of connecting No. 2 channel with No. 1 should be considered■ at once. Mr M'Connon, who is in charge of the water, suggests a moveable gate, so that if blocks came out of No. 2 channel the gate could be hauled over with a windlass and the water allowed to flow down No. 1. S« c f, a contrivance would be a great advantage, for where wood blocks are used- a number of them are liable to go when a breach is once made, and if only a few blocks were out, woik could be resumed a<»ain in half-an-hour or so, whereas if a man had to go to the dam to turn off the water, a large amount of damage might be done before it was accomplished. °