THE SUPPOSED ALLUVIAL GOLDFIELD AT WAITOA.
Thekk is a great field opened for exploration. It is not limited to Waitoa, nor to Hikutaia, but it extends from Mount Egmont to the North Cape, and the impetus given by recent discoveries to mining research will assuredly be accompanied by most valuable finds. Numerous tests have been made from small portions of the sample stuff exhibited in the Shorbland-street window, which representatives of the alluvial mining world have been allowed to take for the pur Dose of testing 1 the value of the Waitoa wash dirt. It is amusing to hear of the varied comments made on the commonplace looking Waitoa mud now on view. Frefh vibitors are coming in daily from country and suburban districts, who are satisfied that they can produce opposition mud and clay as goodlooking, and Mr Witheford is promised unlimited specimens of the same, to provide space for exhibiting which it will be necessary for him to arrange with the piopietors of the Arcade for the whole of the unoccupied windows of the structure. A miner recently from Teetulpa diggings took a handful of the Waitoa dirt and washed it on his shovel, and reports getting several colours from the trial. He is going to explore the country for alluvial gold, being satisfied that the wash dirt will be traceable through the country. Ashe hopes it may be tracked throughfreeholdproperties and along the course of a defined river bed, into Crown or native lands, Government may be disposed to assist at once in the important work of tracing the old route of the stream, and it is possible that its source, or that of a similar old drift, may carry explorers back into the King Country. By proclaiming a goldfield on native lands subject to regulations in force on other fields, there would very soon be a crowd of men on theground, who are now deterred by private ownership from giving the much desired trial of the supposed auriferous deposits in the Waikato district.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 221, 24 September 1887, Page 5
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337THE SUPPOSED ALLUVIAL GOLDFIELD AT WAITOA. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 221, 24 September 1887, Page 5
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