WAITOA.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 239, 28 January 1888, Page 2

WAITOA.

Mr A. Price, of Price Bros., paid a visit to the Wuitpa G.M. Co.'a property, in tho early part of this week, and nil arrangements as to site .and plant havo been decided upon, in connection with the canying out of a thorough test of the deposit by tho Company. Tho motiv* power will ho provided by meins of o four horse portable steam engine, tho property of Mr Smith, and the plant will includo one anialg.'i mating pan, and ono settler, a small test furnace for assay purposes, etc. We believe the plant is expected to be capable of treating some three or four tons per day ; and it is intemlod that so far as possible tho tost shall bo a thorough and exhaustive one. Messrs Prico expoot to bo abio to havo tho plant running within three weeks. The result of this further chapter in the history at tho Wnitoa gold discovery will he looked forward to with great interest ; and it is to be hoped the deposit may aCtev all bo found to contain gold in payable quantity. WAIOIiONGOMAI.

At the battery, owing to tho »'ong continued spell of dry weather, and consequent short supply o€ water ,t!ie number of stampers at work has had to bo considerably shortened ; tho roasting furnace and sill the banians at the tailing plant aro however running as usual. Mr Adam, tho manager, is now engaged experimenting pn tho silver ora recently b/pfcen otitof tho New Find mine, nnd--th« best means of saving the silver therefrom. A start has been made to put in the new low level to the New Find mine, through the Canadian ground ; and a number of men are engaged | breaking out quartz in the mine. • - In connection with the tfew Era Company, Mr Margotts is engaged superintending "the getting out oil ihe pnrcel of ore for shipment Homo. About twenty tons of ; stone of oxcellent quality has boen brokin

out, which tin hnn<l* nro now en^^J )n bagging, nnd it will probably bo #<?nt owy iho tramway nnd shipped to AtiCfUl/ifl*! £<?f trin«hinmf»nt forthwith. Mr Clarke, oC I'atetero, in now cn#aofG(l in siiporintonfJin^ iho tfettin^ ont ot a lni'PTO parcel ot! deposit* believefl to he auriferous, as found on tlw Patetero Compnnys ORt»te. Tlio intontion is. to reduce from sixty to one hundred tons to about <vie fourth the ori^nal bulk by concentration, tbo concentnition« to bo then conveyed to Messrs Firtband Clnvkes battery plant at Waiurongo«M»i i'or treatment. TUI.

Work fa steadily proarrfi^in^ in connection with the mines at Tui Croelc, excellent qimrfz h being 1 broken out, nnd their c:m bo little doubt bnfc thnt this rich <iistrict will ere louffcome to Ihe front