AN UNEXPECTED BONANZA.

Temuka Leader, 12 November 1881, Page 3

AN UNEXPECTED BONANZA.

There was a pretty well authenticated report on the street last evening that a mau living in the northwestern part of tho city—up near the big water tank of the Ophir company—was engaged in repairing and setting back a dilapidated bulkhead in front of his lot, when he struck into a three foot vein of decomposed material completely filled with pure gold This is said to be the same kind of rich vein stuff that was encountered near the surface when the first discovery was made at the Ophir in early days. The man had been at work at the Union shaft, but being laid off had concluded to fix up things a little about his house and lot. If all we hear be true, he has made very good wages, as it is said he got out about 15,0C0dols before the Ophir management heard of the matter and requested him to desist from h's labors. His wife also par- J licipated in the toil of extricating the shining metal from the little home mine, and it is said she has a half-gallon glass jar nearly of gold that she herself pounded out of gathered lumps. It is hard to keep "ducks out of a dough dish," and we are informed that some workmen found their way back to the vein and got out about 1,500d015. Tho vein is supposed to be a feeder that made out toward that point, from the old Ophir vein, and this is doubtless the case. It might never have been ditcovered but for the tumbling down of the bulkhead. One old suiface tunnel passes through the ground some distance to the nothward of the deposit, and another to the southward. Thus the rich pocket was left concealed between. Had the discoverer cover up his find with a new bulkhead, so constructed as to leave a small " codote hole," by which to pass in find out, he might have worked bis vein for moths, had lie used proper caution in his mining operations.— Virgin : a Enterprise.