OHINEMURI.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 141, 13 February 1886, Page 2

OHINEMURI.

(l-KOM OCR OWN CORHKOFONDHNT.) Paehoa, Friday. I paid an all-round visit to principal mines at Karangahake a few days since, and I must admit that I saw enough to convince me that theie is still n bright future in store f>r that district. The first mine Visited was the Woodstock, where Ifou'id several men at work putting the finishing touches to the wiie section of tramway connecting the low level tunnel with the horse grade tramway which leads on to the furnace site. Work in the mine is at present confined to driving south on the Maria reef, timbering the rise connecting the low level with the surface, and making 1 things generally ready for stoping operations. The " Maria" reef, where it is heing operated on at present, is about 2ft Gin in thickness, and the whole of the str ne presents all the appearances of being rich in both gold and silver. Prom tins reef there are now about 50 ton 9 of stone ready for transit, and the manager informed me that he is now in a position to keep the furnace in full blast from tune of starting. K«nilworth. — A trial parcel of 10 tons of storte from this mine will be sent to the Ivanhoe battery for treatment next week. This parcel is being broken out from a section of the mine j where the reef carries a fair per centage of gold, but is poor in silver ; and should it yitld remuneratively, there is a large quantity of similar stuff available. Iranhoe.— The contractors are fairly advanced with the work of driving the loir level where the reef in the present face is somewhat small, not being more than 18ins in thickness, and the bulk of the stone is of poor quality. In the stopes the lode averages 2ft in width, i ami every particle of the stone ia being saved for treatment. Crushing for this mine cue shift with 16 head of stampers is still proceeding, and the show on the plates is good enough to warrant a return of at least one ounce per ton. Scott. — Me Williams an! party, tributers, are prospecting the different reefs in tne ground, with a view to determining the best place from which to start permanent operations. Sutro. — Work in the low level has beeen suspenJed, and all hands are now engaged in sinking the winze going down benea f h the intermediate level. The reef here is about 3ft thick, nnd during the pa«t week stone allowing gold freely was broken out therefrom Imperial. — Sinking a winze on the reef beneath the level is now in progress and stone showing more or less gold is j met with every shift Diamond. — A start has been made to drive on the course of a lode about ten inches in thickness. It is supposed to be Mentical with the Sutro reef, and, aHhough there is not much gold showing in the stone, it yieli's fair prospects of that metal when sul jected to the mortar process. In the mine the stopes have been worked up to the intermediate level, which is now being extended southwards, in ffhicb. direction aome good stone was met with in trenching on the surface. R)se. — Great hopes are entertained of the new leader making into a larg? and valuable body of stone, and judging from present appearances there is every prospect of such hopes being more than fully realised. Scotia. — The proprietors of this mine having determined upon learning what efifect the roasting process would havd upon their quartz, built a kiln last week, •nd have already subjected about 10 tons to the action of the fire, which the shareholders believe will desulphurise the stone, and thereby render it more amen-ai-le to battery treatment than would be the case if it was dealt with in its raw *tate.