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Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 157, 25 June 1879, Page 2

Thirty ounces of gold per day ! The fortunate recipient of this lucky turn of Dame Fortune's wheel is (says the 'Mount Ida Chronicle)' Mr John Holverson, a hard-working, persevering miner, who lias been engaged in the search for the precious metal, with but indifferent success, for the last fourteen or fifteen years on the slope of Ihe range dividing the Strathtaicri and Deep Dell, near the; Fillyburn and Wheelbarrow Creeks and | about four miles from Hyde. The deposit i containing the gold is about three feet: in depth, and consists of a loose, rotten, white quartz, and white slate, "The claim is situated in a depression on the hill; side, at the confluence of several blind gullies. To get rid of the natural drain-, age, a tunnel some 100 yards ia lengthj had to be constructed through a solid; bar of reef into Fillyburn Creek. A; line of wooden rails, en which trucks? filled with the washdirt travel, has also; been laid through a cutting for a distance of 100 yards to where the boxes or "toms" are situated, and where the gold isextracted. Mr Holverson's good luck is a well merited reward for the_ patience, and perseverance displayed by him in the many years' labour undergone, and the considerable outlay incurred, as well as the realisation, we belie%'e, of an oftrepeated prognostication that he would : find good srold in that particular locality. Whether the rich nature of the ground is of limited area will soon be tested, as several claims have already been pegged off both aoove and in a line with Holverson's claim, and one. party has sunk f shaft immediately on the boundarVjVhifcb. when bottomed should £j direction the gold has travelled. There cannot be a iloubt as to the existence of a large extent of auriferous country if this direction. Several places in thd neighbourhood became famous in year! past for their remarkably rich finds oj gold, and in our opinion this recent development is only one among manj that judicious prospecting might bring t] liffht.