WAIORONGOMAI.
The recent heavy rainfall lias supplied ample motive power, and the battery and tailings plant; are once more fully employed ; also the furnace. Work has been resumed in the New Find mine, and all the stampers are engaged in the I reduction of ore therefrom. | Silver King : — This mine promises to prove a very valuable properly to the owners. The reef, which varies from (> feet to 10 feet in width has now been cut at various pointsM'or a distance of over 1100 feet-, and wherever cut the stono looks exceedingly promising both for silver and gold, and highly payable returns have been obtained from the assay tests made. On Monday last a ■«tart was made to put in a level to cut thereef at üboutlJOfeet below tho surface. To accomplish this end only about GO feet of driving v»ill be necessary. Generally the outlook for the mining industry on this portion of the gold field also has greatly improved of late, and there h every reason to believe that the depression which has so long hung over the mining industry nil I soon be a thing of ihii past.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 247, 17 March 1888, Page 2
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190WAIORONGOMAI. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 247, 17 March 1888, Page 2
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