SOUTHERN SILVER FIND.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 473, 21 May 1890, Page 5

SOUTHERN SILVER FIND.

PuHirciil, May 15. i We are at last enjoying a glimpse of sun- 1 shine, after close on two months of the 1 most depressing weather it has been ray lot to have experienced for the past 30 years, J and in consequence thereof our miners’ ] hopes have gained a fresh impetus, and all hands are eager to clear the mud away and make a fresh start. Dixon’s Just-in-Time are getting out two tons of stone for treatment, so is Whiting and party on the adjoining claim, the Young Colonial. At least, Mr Whiting is stripping his big ten-foot reef preparatory to sending away a large parcel, and as the silver in this lode is held in the form of chloride, and can be burnt out in large bubbles quito easily, it should give a fair account of itself. The Waimaoia. —Mr F. Marriner and Earty have the Young Colonial reef and are ard at it opening up their portion of this lode, and the stone really looks well. I should nob be a bib surprised to hear of this lode carrying good gold also. McMinan and party are also stripping a fine reef some five feet wide, and are going to send a parcel away for treatment. This holding, known as the Waipu, is most admirably situated to catch the Just-in-Time and Young Colonial lodes. VVouldes and Spragge’ claim, held under ten miners’ rights, has no reef as yet to show; bub from half-a-dozen large stringers i very rich silver can be got, and. as thoy all, ; with one exception, tossed into a big i mound or hill that Mr Wouldes and his | party are endeavouring to pierce, something | good should be expected ; but the country 7 ia very bard, every foot of it has to be shot, but the people who have it in hand .are made of the wrong stuff to lightly give in. It has often struck “your own” while meandering through the Puhipuhi, and knowing, as he does, the extreme richness of some of the lodes therein, why, in these days of speculation, some association of business men have not sent a representative to report on the advisability of erecting a reducing plant. I can assure them there is a magnificent opening for one up here. The premier claim of the field the Prospector's—are apparently not inclined to close w.ith any offer made them re a reducing plant. They are, I think, in that happy state of mind that the little boy was ab school, who wanted his cake and wanted to eat it too. However, there is an abundance of first-class ore outside of No. 1, and I think it would be worth the trouble of a visit, to “spy the nakedness of the land ” (sic), from a practical man, who could tell his principals whether a reducing plant would be remunerative or not. lam just off over to the Waiariki to worry up what has been done there during the past week. The air is full of rumours of gold being found here, there, and everywhere, and I shall be chary of reporting any such, until I see for myself the gold and the lode it came from. Up to the present, I only know of, one claim, the Tupono, whioh has obtained i“ the precious ’ ,in any “ visible form.” '