KARANGAHAKE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 399, 4 September 1889, Page 2

KARANGAHAKE.

[From our own Correspondent.] Karangahake, Monday. Crown G. M. Co.: The Lnmboi ton Mills have been kept steadily at work for the last week on test parcels from different parts of the mine, and are doing their work in a very satisfactory manner. I learn fiom Captain Coward that each mill is capable of reducing 15 tons of ore in 24 , hours The wet process has been adopted, and the tanks tused for the Railey process ava utilised iov settling pit*. No amalgamation has yet been done, the Ca«-sel Company's plant not being quite finished. A numerous, staff! is engaged in breaking down quaitz, large quantities of which is in readiness for the battery. The connec- , tions from the surface to the low level (a depth of over 300 feet), m c all complete. A bianch line is being constiucted to < on* nect the low level with the County tram\v<iy. When this is done the cost of forwarding ore to the battery will be trifling. Cassel Gold Extracting Co.: This Company have had many difficulties to c ntend with, bad weather, woigd roadt^ and heavy timber ; but now, I am glad to say, the woiks are rapidly approaching completion,. Kenil worth. -^-Shepherd's Tribute : Tln'd paity employ a large number of hands, the giound is good, and the leader prospects well. None oi the ore has been tiea ted for f'Oino time, but X learn that it looks woi th about £100 ton rue assay. Moore's Tribute : in this section the tiibutofs aie on payable lock, but the block is nearly woiked out. Piospecting ; I see that Mr Jim Liddell has a lot of stuff bagged ready for carting from the old Mammoth claim. It is to be put tlniough the old Ivanhoe battery, and if it) prove payable, a larger parcel will bo forwarded, j Ivjinboe and* Truro : In this mine Mr i McCombie is doing a lot of good work, and , keeping the battery going steadily on payable stuff. Gorge Road : The contractors for this woik (Alessis Kelly and Polton),aie making capif.nl he«dwiiy, being" now within H chains of the bluff.