PUHIPUPI.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2096, 21 April 1898, Page 2

PUHIPUPI.

What the. Montezuma Co. is doing.

[From the ‘Northern Advocate.’]

The Rev Jos. Campbell, mining‘engineer and New Zealand supervisor of the Montezuma G. M. Co., passed through Whangarei on Thursday, on his return from Puhipuhi. Mr Camfebell informs us that his new p l ant at Te Aroha will be started within a fortnight. He has every confidence of success. Should the process be successful, it will quite revolutionize mining* both as regard® economy and the treatment of ore otherwise too rebellious for any known process. Te Aroha is on the tip-toe of expectancy, while many mining engineers do not disguise their want of faith in the process. In any case some preliminary difficulties are bound to be met with.

Speakiag of Puhipuhi, Mr Campbell says he has great faith in the future fl of the field. He says some of the best ore he has seen in New Zealand came from Puhipuhi, and 'he is anxious to get out a trial parcel of ore as quickly as possible for treatment at Te Aroha, The Montezuma G.M. Co. own a number of properties *at Te Aroha and three claims at Puhipuhi Mr Camp*, bell is getting parcels of stone from each for treatment, and those properties which prove payable will be worked vigorously, the Montezuma Co. being a very wealthy corporation. Fifty tons of ore are now being got out of the the Montezuma, Puhipuhi, by Mr John Collins, the manager, and this quantity is to be shipped away |by scow to Te Aroha at once. Thy poorest of this ore, Mr Campbell informs us, assays 30s a ton, while some of it goes as high as £3O, and as much as two ounces of gold per ton has been found in some of the ore. Mr Campbell has taken up another claim this week, the old Outlander, now named the Argyle,