PUHIPUHI SILVER FIELD.

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

PUHIPUHI SILVER FIELD.

A GENUINE GOLD FIND. OTHER CLAIMS GET GOOD ORE. (From the “ Northern Advocate.”) The No. 2 Company sent a small parcel of average ore away last Monday, for analysis and an expert report as to value and treatment. Mr Marriner has brought in some good ore from the Waimaria holding. The Young Colonial (at first called the Waimaria, but since re-christened), which adjoins the Waimaria, lias also got good ore. Mr Dan Wilson is preparing for the Tamatauhinau syndicate a plan of Puhipuhi, showing the position of the different holdings and the trend of the lodes already opened up. Mr Wm. Dixon is manager of the Just-in-Time, and not Mr Edge as erroneously stated in last issue. Mr Dixon has handed us some very nice ore from his holding, showing arsenical ruby silver, similar to that found in the Wilson reef of the Pro spectors’. Ore from another reef does not show so much silver. Large numbers of gumdiggers continue to arrive by every trip of the s.s. Wellington, and proceed straight to Puhif uhi. On Wednesday last a number of waggons went out taking the men and their swags. Quite a small colony of Portuguese isbemgformed in Puhipuhi. Mr Dan Wilson, in coming in from the Puhipuhi by way of the Kaimamuka last Saturday, had a very rough time of it, having to wade through the flood with the. water chin-high. Owing to their being no place out at the camp where horses can be turned out or stabled, persons going to Puhipuhi leave their horses at flannam’s, which is on the southern bank of the Kaimamuka, and during flood time great difficulty is experienced in crossing this river. It will be a great public convenience when O’Brien’s Comstock Hotel becomes a, reality. The first gold we have seen from Puhipuhi came to hand this week from the Tupone holding. Others claim to have Found gold anterior to this, but it was not publicly exhibited. To Mr H. R. Holman, ve believe, belongs the credit of being the irsb to find gold in Puhipuhi stone. He diowed gold in stone found on the Prospects’ four months ago, but the find was not it the time generally credited. The gold : rearing stone, however, brought in by Mr iVard was found close to where Mr Holman dade his first discovery, and this goes to wove the bona tides of the latter’s find. Fha stone shown by Mr Ward contained inly a couple of rather large leafy specks if gold,and its only present value lies in the act of its demonstrating that there is gold n the Puhipuhi silver ore. it is the same re in which chloride of silver was found, nd similar to the No. 2 Company’s scuff.