MINING NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 287, 4 August 1888, Page 5

MINING NEWS.

Tj iambs, July 31. Piunuk liui'ioria],, —Crushing is proceeding, bul the quartz is only shaping fairly In the mine, colours of gold arc still sec 11 when bi caking down the No. 1 roof in the eastern atopca auove No. 3 level, while the lode ib now compoaod oi quaitz sti ingers, occupying a lace 2ft. in width. The trial ci ushmg oi. 8 loads from the western end should be finished this afternoon Saxon. —The crushing continues to shape payably. Theie is no eluugc to report from the vaiious workings in the mine, colours of fiold are occasionally observed in the quuru being broken out from the Ktopes above Nor. 4 and 3 lends, while the contractors arc making good headway with the extension ot the di vo at No. 5 level. The ccmiuy i^ a nice sandotoiio. TuKNTON.~-.Fair progress is being made with the binkinn of the .shaft, but the country is still rather hard. 1/ruuu District.— Quail/ of fair ei'adeis coming to hand fiom tlic SnrjH-i-e claim, and w iL hae been resumed in the Hidden Tieasuie and Maori Chief holdings. August 1. Ui.iu.— The mine manager reports that he ha* been working back on the leader at the southern end, where the stone is of greater body, for the last week ; consequently the crushing lms j been going somewhat poorei, but he has hopes ot getting something good when he comes abreast of the workmen's winze. I Some gold has already been seen, but too near the sido ot it. lie purposes putting the low level in hand at once. In the meantime he is pushing on Mio stopes and the face, lie obtained a few pieces oi fair stono last Friday from the face, and on Monday about 12 pounds picked stone from the stopes The picked stono in hand will be crushed and retorting done on Friday. Nkw Aljjuknia. — The mine manager reports nel ting 360z 14d\\ t melted, <,oldequal to £99 lls for tUe last crushing This was not quite up to expectation, as gold had been teen at ovcry breaking down, but the gold in the stone is exceedingly fine, the quartz carrying buo little mineial. The stopes aie now in 351 1 above the oattcry le\ ci, and no diflcrencc i& seen in tho leader which stil 1 runs fiom throe to six inches in thickness and shows colouis of gold freely. The leader in the stopes on the eastern end looka considerably better than going west, therefore an intermediate drive on the course of the leader has been started with the objoctof working on under the battery level about 30 fret east of tho Company s .stopes, \\ heie the run or junction should be met with should it continue upward.-. SKpaitios of tributers are constantly at work — tiuee on payable quaitz, a fourth mat paying wages and the other two piospeeting. Saxon. — The mine manager lcpoits satisfactory progress and states the amalgam on hand to be 2690/. sdwt.

WAIOTAIII CM. COMPANY. Auckland, Augubl 1. The tinuuu] meeting of the Waiotahi (!.M. Company ( Limited) was to be.held at Mr F A. White'?- olHcc, Queen - sheet, at half-pasl Wo yestoiday afternoon, foi the piupoee of receiving the ie[>oit and balance-sheet and electing tt\'o directors in the room of Jlc-iis James Dickey and W. S. Wilson, who retired in order of rotation. The meeting, however, lapsed for want of a quorum. The annual report states that duiing the year the diiecloM had been able to pay £1,500 in dividends and theic still '"emains a credit of £726 I.s9d to j.rolib and loss account. Tlie return and output thi.- year rom pares most favourably with that of yeai ending Juno, 1887, tor, whereas in 1887 they crushed 2,370 tons, foi 2,664 ozs melted irold this ycui they ciut-hcd 2,3(50 tons ior the lctuni ot melted The diicctois )ia\ c alto puicbased the iVlaiy Ann tection of the late Thames (Jolden Crown ( > ompany"& propel ty, togethei with the shaft and winding machinery erected thereon. The following aie the particulars of the balance-sheet : — Receijits for 12 months ending 30lb June, t'8,447 19s Id, made up as fo lows :— Giold, C8,06316s 4d from 2,260 tons quartz returning 2.9110z5. melted c^old ; tailin»b sold, C 205 7^ 6d ; tributary per centajio, C 17 815- 3d. Total, £8,447 19s Id. Expendituic: Mine: Wages, timber, dninajrc, license, etc, £5, 852 8s- 5d ; battery :—: — Wa«res, ironmontrei y, fuel, etc., £1,131 13.s lOd ; |)io(it for tho year, €1,463 16s lOd ; total, £8,447 19& Id.

TilE UAKRJER A"ND BROKEN HILL MINES. A Thames miner who ha-> just returned finm the Binrier and Broken Hill di-tiiot write* to the Thames •' .Star " as follows : — " A•a a. held foi lahoui, I do nob look .it. Biokcn Hill in a rosy light. In the tir-t place, it ib o^ter-rushed ; there are hundreds of men oitfc of work, and the field is> locked nj) much in the same way as the Thames two men to forty acics ol a lease. The only mines that have paid dividends are the Broken Hill Pio prietory and the Gipsy Girl. A? to the tinfields, there ife nob a solitary in«- Lance of a mine paying a dividend up to the present. The wages for a miner arc ■£3 per week, while surface men get £2 J0.%, which, considering the price of provisions, i& less than C 2 on the Thames-. The work is very unhealthy, and I beho\e the lead kills more than the fever. The climate ju&t now i& not bad, but in the summer it is too hot for a white man— l2o degrees in the shade — and as mo&t of the work on the tinh'elds is costeaning, yon can fancy a man is ready to knock off at 4 o'clock. The water you drink is brackish, and just warm enough for an emetic. li you attempt to sit down, the ants, which aro as numberless as the sands on the sea-shore, are all over you like redhob needles. Bub the wor&fc pesb is the flies, and ib is no very uncommon thins: tor a man to cooey for someone to take him bo his tent, the iiies having bitten his eyes and blinded him for the time being. Most people wear either goggles or a veil to protect their eyes from tho pe^t and the dust. As bo living on wallabies and rabbits, I was fix or seven months and did not see beef, but there was plenty of mutton, so that either wallaby or rabbit was nob to be despised as a change. A short time since Silverton was the centre ot the Barrier mines, bub it is like a de.-erted village now. Then Sunny Corner came (o bhe front, but no one hears of bhab now ; ib is simply dead. The field has been open now for aboublB months, and in my opinion the mines are — I am speaking of the tinfield generally — as far off a dividend now as when the field was proclaimed."

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