MINING NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 87, 31 January 1885, Page 2

M INING NEWS.

Battery. — Th* dry weather that prevailed up till Thursday last had so reduced the water supply that Minn? wits not power to work more than twenty head <>f stamper?, and these ™uld not be kept ufoin? at full speed, T.iis circumstance, together with the poor qna'ify of some of the quartz treated, made last week's returns, p'rhap* the smallest that have y«>t been obtained ftt the battery for any similar period. The New Kind Company crushed 60 trucks of stuff, which yielded 43 ounces retort* d #oUI and from tailings 43 ounces more wits #ot. mnkfcv the weeks return far this company HGoz. Th« Colonist Company had forty-five truck loads treated, the yield fro'n which was 9ozs lOdwts Tlie atnalenin obtained from the New Find Co.'s tailings during and einca the holidays has been retorted and #aye 310 ozs. 15 dwts of erold. This was from twenty days run with , r >6 berilana. From Premier tailings treated <]urin<r the same period, and on which two or three berdans were, employed, 10 ox*. 15 dwts. of gold was obtainel. These are, ho far, the only returns this month. The rainfall that commenced on Thursday has filled the water- races ami stampers and berdans are now in full work.