PUHIPUHI SILVER FIELD.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 450, 1 March 1890, Page 5

PUHIPUHI SILVER FIELD.

PROSPECTS STILL IMPROVING

Whangarei, Feb. 25. The topic of interest to the Whangareites is the coming regulations for silver mining in the Puhipuhi. They are said to be almost ready, only requiring the Governor’s signature ; then there will be a stampide out that way. The district surveyor, Mr Simpson, has surveyed out the Prospectors’ Claim of 60 acres, which it is said is very well situated, taking all the best out crops of reefs near at hand. This Company’s manager reports that they have sunk 15 feet on No. 3 level, and the stone shows an improvement not a great distance in comparison with other localities, and suggests the possibility of rich stone deeper down, bub there will be lots of capital required. Puhipuhi is not a poor man’s diggings. During the past week, Mr C. Easberbrook Smith, accompanied by several gentlemen from Whangarei and the Thames, have visited the prospectors’ mine. They report the reef on which the winze has been sunk to be still making in width and improving in quality. One of the visitors, a gentleman of undoubted silver mining experience, was very much pleased with the general appearance of the claim, and valued the ore now out on the paddock at mouth of winze, at from seventy to ninety pounds per ton, I have seen some very fine stone, said to be found by Mr S. Travers, analyst, from Messrs Conyngbam and Co., chemists, of Dublin, who is, I am given to understand, prospecting in this district. There are also some four or five lots of stone which has been taken into Whangarei, and which are reported to have been found in the Forest, bub none of them can in any way come up to the stone from the prospector’s claim. They have had an undoubtedly splendid chance at picking the best ground, as they have been testing the reefs all round their present lease, for the past two years, wnen no one knew anything about the existence of the reefs excepting themselves. The likelihood of the Forest being opened as a goldfield, seems to have spread all over New Zealand and the Australian colonies, as nob a week goes past that we do not bave some experts from some of them to inspect the district, all of whom have expressed themselves as having received the greatest satisfac'.ion from their visit .and proving this by making arrangements, in Kawakawa or Whangarei, for pegging off mining leases when the forest is to be opened.