SURFACE HILL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 10, 9 April 1869, Page 3

SURFACE HILL.

(Communicated)

Accounts ifrbm these workings which have been newly opened and are situate, half-a-mile above the township of Naseby, in a north-westerly-direction, are of a very favourable character. Claim 1 - .The first claim opened was that of Munro and party, who, apto be doing very well. Claim 2 - Brown and Party. The yield frem this claim for two men, 11 days was 15 ova. of gold. The use of powder has been determined upon as soon as procurable - the first shot intended to be 100 lbs of powder. No. 3 - M'Gregor and party. This claim is by far the best looking of any on the hill. They state their return to be at the rate of £6 per week per man from the boxes, and expect to: obtain an additional amount from the space when they wash up. In this claim the use of powder was resorted to, and a small quantity obtainable, namely, 25 lbs, was productive of the most satisfactory results. No. 4. Anderson and party are pushing hard for the top of the hill, expetting, no doubt, no doubt, to strike the lucky vein. They are cutting a deep tail race for the purppse of testing some ground on the terrace adjacent to the claim of M'Gregor and party. No. 5. --Bayley and party are still further up the hill, and some 25 feet above the water races' level. They seein to be doing well, or hoping to do so shortly. They are putting in three drives and wheeling out the stuff to the head of the shoot which they have rerected to conduct it to the water race. The prospects are goocl but no washing up has yet taken place. No 6.—-Following round the saddle, by the Hi and Miss flamingo, we come immediately upon Murdoch and party's sluicing claim, which has been newly opened and which, after a trial of seven days, has been found payable. Since that time operations have been carried on with redoubled energy, and the men are in the best spirits., The nextIclaim upon which we come is that celebrated as Rankin and party. One of the party in this claim has lately sold.out to out to his mates for a good round sum; and has left for home. He stated, before his departure, that he regretted haying sold out as it was the best claiin in the Hogburn. Surface Hill is described as being as well beseiged by sluicing parties as was Fort Sumpter by artillery during the late American are, and has every appearance of being equally doomed to to fall. The opening of so many new and promising claims speak well for the inexhaustibility of the resources of the Hogburn.