MAROTOTO.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 251, 31 March 1888, Page 4

MAROTOTO.

This piopeily i- hotter known as the 1 Prospector";-,' tiom the fact that it wa- % ,c MeKiinu made the iir-t gold disin wrni.!i oiou_:hi the di-Uiel pio in nentl s \ umitM public n.iti c. and it in no\. owned UN' a -.n .uiieaie o! Sidney capitalist-, who u>uip!eied it- pui-Jia-e not long since. But to ivtui nto tne mine. At No. 1 to*, tion i he level ha> been extended tor a ditanee of lO teet along the couim- of tne reei. which is now being hioken out to a full width ot b tect, and neither of the wait:? are in .-ieht. Abo\e this le\ei a leadinu stope has been tamed along t lie reet tor a distance ot 50 feet, and tin- was followed by a second stope, winch ba.s been advanced a distance of 20 feet from the starting point, and in the present face of all the w oi long- theie is plainly Nibble a belt of uch gold and sihei beating oie. van ing fiom 12 to \b inches in thickness. Heie there i< nou about 20 tons of highclass ore to mats, and of this lot 2 tons? i^ equalh a? rich, if not ucher, in gold ami sil\er than the 30 ewt. paicel winch was treated in t"% .lue\ "vn ith such e\tiaoidmaiy reMilts. At a point 20 .eet lower down the sp ii, the lode h been exposed to \iew by mean- of a tiencii cut across it^ coui>e, and hete the ore b dy is iulK 2 teet 6 niches in thickness. As at the upper \\o> Uintrs, and in tact e\ei> where else tnro\i£h the mine so tn as piesent dexelopment- ha%e the uch nietalifeious %em is accompanied by qnait/ pour in quaht) , but the maiuga* behe\e- that it woukt all pay handsonicly if there na» a cheap pioeess UNailablefoi it- tieatment. The uuikm^s known as No. 2 MXtion arc located abuut 300 teet south of the plan* ah eady dcsci ibed and upon the same line of reef eountiy. Sin^ c staiting opeiation- heie the lode ha< been dri\en upon tor about i^O teet, and it has been broken out to an a\erage width of 6 feet toi the «hole of that distance. The deposit of nth gold and silver beating oie in the lode heie i* about 18 tnche- wide, and it ailord* stiong indications ot improvement '^oing dow jinn aid.-. At the tune of my \isit I had nu tumble m tracing the lich strike of oie alonir the back of thele\el. and o\ ci head the block ot ground *till untouched will atioid an a\ciage of 100 ft. ot back-. Tho hi-t-class oie to y;rass resulting lrom the work ot tunntl ling here will amount to about 20 tons, but there is also a large tonnage of second-clas.-ore lying on the dump avulable for tieatment. After leaving heie \vt tra\ tiled along the line ot reef for a ch->tanct, ot about I.OCCft. in a soiitheily dnection, and this brought us to a place wheie it has been opened up by a surface cutting and r hallow tunnel, and it» width proved to be about loft tiom wal to wall. Here the lode is parti) com o=ed of solid stone and j'>ir|y of decomposed quait<r and the lattei -\\ in _ Ii occur 5 in band- ranging fiom 2to "12 iirl,''? in thickness— cainc- a \ery high r\ :• ;•• i^t, of tiie picuous metal-, Hi- i,_ a CiUira Nisitcd was tht,