Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1880.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 235, 4 October 1880, Page 2

Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1880.

The work of pushing on the road that is to connect Nelson with the West Coast is one that is likely to lead to more important results than appear on the surface, for the revival of : the gold-mining industry that has recently taken place on the western goldfieldß of the Island seems to point to the fact that the auriferous deposits in that part of the country are practically unlimited, and that with increased facilities for moving about, there is every probability of new fields being discovered that may give employment to hundreds and thousands of men, and should this prove to be the case, a more cogent argument will be supplied for proceeding with the railway than has ever yet been adduced. The recent crushings at Reefton have given quite an impetus to the quartzmining industry, and our contemporaries in all the mining centres between here and Hokitika appear to consider themselves justified in speaking in the most hopeful terms of the future. The Inangahua Herald of a recent date in an article on the necessity of proceeding with the work of opening up the district roads, says : — "Throughout the entire West Coast there is abundant evidence of mining revival. In the extreme south a valuable goldfield has been opened up; at

Ross it is proposed to work the deep ground, which cannot fail, if carried out, to renew the vitality of that large gold-producing mining centre ; at Goldsborough boring operations are about to be taken in hand in order to prospect for a deep lead of gold; and at the Seventeen-mile Beach a really first-class gold field has been opened, with every promise of auriferous leads being traced of a very extensive character. In the Grey Valley again increased yields of gold are being obtained ; and certainly _in the Inangahua district there is a marked increase both in the number of the alluvial miners engaged, and of the gold production. From all quarters of the colony attention is being directed to the West Coast ; and it is not at all unlikely that the coming summer will bring old and new faces, attracted by the substantial results which arc being obtaiued." This is indeed a cheerful view to be taken by those who arc in a position to bo well acquainted with all that is taking place on the different goldfields of the West Coast, and we sincerely hope that all the bright anticipations indulged in may be fully realised, and further, that it will not be long ere a good road with coaches regularly running on it will afford the opportunity of frequent visits being exchanged between residents in Nelson and thc_Wcst Coast towns.