The Waitoa Find.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 220, 17 September 1887, Page 4

The Waitoa Find.

The utmost interest has beeu evinced iiu the discovery of gold-bearing strata atu Waitoa, and the sample 01 stuff exhibited by Mr Wibheford has been inspected during the day by numbersof experienced miners used to treating stuff of a somewhat similar character.. The enquiry now being made is,' as to. whether the gold has been deposited on the plain by volcanic action, or carried down from the mountains by a flowing river. If of volcanic origin the deposit, will probably be lighter and lebb easily traced than if carried along a watercourse. There has long been a belief that a gt eat river once flowed through the country where now aro the homesteads of the settlers. Should *thfl gold be found in "gutters," as in the old dried up beds of rivers in Australia, the deposit will be found lighter near the surface,, but much richer aba greater depth, and will be traced to making shafts, or by the quicker methods of boring. The criticisms made to-day by old alluvial miners, are not altogether unfavourable to the belief that the Waitoa find may lead to other and more impnitaut discoveries in the diotiict. A minor states that he washed seven, and a-half ounces of. gold out of a similar class of stuff near Puriri, in the caily day; of the field. He also got rich gold on the West Coast from a similiar looking strata which he found resting on a bottom oi hard sandstone, the roof of the drive wab of a cement formation the layer ot auriteious dirt routing between the two. Thefuither de\ elopement of this find lies in sinking deeper, to prove the depth of the btiiita carrying the cold, the distance of 30 feet which has been b.mk has noli pcnettaled thiough the deponit, it will be of general interest to learn afc what depth bottom will be reached, and if the gold gets coarser.