OUR NORTHERN SILVER FIELD.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 472, 17 May 1890, Page 4

OUR NORTHERN SILVER FIELD.

(from our own correspondent.) Puhipuhi, May 10. The dreadful weather that (but for a break of six days) has prevailed up in this far corner of the colony for the last seven weeks has played “old Harry” with all mining operations.. Many pioneers of the field have got disgusted at web; wet, continuous wet, and got their claims protected, and left the field. . These places have been taken by scores of gumdiggers, who no doubt will amalgamate the two callings of kauri-resin hunting and locating new lodes. Of course all is fair in love, and why not in silver hunting, yet these non-descripts except gum digging, will have the whip hand of the hard working prospector, who for months past has undergone privations of all sorts to legitimately test the field now is forced, through circumstences over which he has no control, to leave for a season the scenes of his trials, with the result, mayhap, that others will reap the triumph. The prospectors are getting out good ore —better than ever, I think. It is a pity that they cannot see their way to accept one of the many offers made them and get machinery erected, for nothing can be done to practically test the field until that great deseradata, a reducing plant, is in the l’uhipuhi prospectors No. 2, and their neighbour Comstock No. 3 are pegging away at an intermediate level each, to cub No. 2 big Crown reef the former claim has let their work on tender, while the latter claims, under the management of J. Mclnnary, are doing their work on wages. Try Fluke. —A new holding between No. 2 and the Tupono are about commencing, under the management of Mr Edge, to cub at an intermediate level their celebrated 2300 z silver lode, which runs out of the Just in Time, through The Tupono, and into the Try Fluke. Great things are looked for when Mr Edge cuts his splendid lode. The Tupono, by a bound, only known on goldfields, has leaped into fame, from a despised reef known as “ Era’s lode,” Mr Ward, a shareholder, has succeeded in obtaining first-class prospects of gold. As I write, about 2Agr nice brown gold is before me, obtained from three different samples from this now famous lode. Shares in the mine—there are only 20 and they have a 30-acre lease—have run up, for the lode runs the entire course of the lease. The gold is held in a peculiar black-loosing rubble about three feet broad, that appears all the world like coal when dug from both hangingwall and footwall. Silverchloride at the rate of 1730zs per ton has also been obtained. This lucky find of Ward’s has, so to speak, revolutionised the field, and formed beyond a doubt that gold in highly payable quantities exist in Puhipuhi. The management are sending one ton of the stuff for treatment Co Mr Fraser, of your city. The Just in Time, the Tupouos neighbours, are getting out two tons from their big No. 2 Lode for treatment. As it is aremarkably free ore, it should give a suprise. I have much more to report on, but the inevitable five minutes before the mail closes is now up eo au revoir—until next week.