Mining News. WAIORONGOMAI.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 389, 31 July 1889, Page 8

Mining News. WAIORONGOMAI.

Ferguson Syndicate : The^ very weC "weather experienced Of late has greatly twnrde.i progress in connection with this Uompany's ne\T works. The kauri lim-'. ber.ent, an«i recently delivered by Mr Howl and, for. the construction of the 1

percolating tanks, still lies unutilised, being so saturated wet that it was found to be quite out of the question to attempt to work it up in its'pVesen^ condition^ or until it gets sornl^sa|, seasoned. The pipes f or Jjoth the m)||£ anti assay' f urnaic^ have /teen carteJ^ul this wheels, and the/';bricklaye f r9V? ari ranged'to mate a start with building the chimneys yesterday. It is therefore expected that the laboratory, will be no>vyery shortly completed, and as soon as it is ready the work of systematically assaying test parcels from all the various reefs in the Company's property will be at once proceeded with. The contractors in the mines are rraking fair progress. The contractors (Grace and party), for putting in a drive 100 feet on the Premier No. 2 reef (towards the junction of the main reef, and known as the upper drive), have | now driven a distance of about fifty feet. Only a portion of the reef is being broken out at present. The contractors (George and party), in the Inverness portion of the ground are also steadily at work.