South-West Goldfield.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2052, 2 August 1875, Page 2

South-West Goldfield.

(fbom acobbeseondentO Taibua, Saturday. Owing to the heavy-rain severalof the claims have not been able to push ahead the work. I paid a. visit ;to~, several claims and proceed to give you the result of my observations. ':.-: '*■

ScAifLAN's.—Tliis ground consists of 10 men's ground situated south-east of the Prospectors', adjoining the Golden .Arrow and Britannia. I found a drive put in about 40 feet, in which they expect to cut the Prospectors' reef in a few feet more. This will give them 2C J feet of a back and about 400 feet long. I was ' shown splendid prospects obtained from the reef in the surface- There are thousands of tons of good payable stone ready I at any moment for crushing. Independent.—ln this claim Mr.Bergin, the manager, is pushing the works ahead with .vigor. Ajax is still getting good prospects and can trace the reef eight or nine hundred feet. Eldobado.—Still getting the stone down, but owing to the wet weather the pach horses have not been up daily, Mr Amey (?) paid a visit up for the first 1 time and has had 10 acres surveyed by Mr McCarthy. I might state he is satisfied with the genuineness of the goldfield. Pujriei, Saturday. Livingston o.m.c. — Mr Alexander Thorn has been appointed manager of this company. They are busy clearing out the winze and making a chamber preparatory to working where • the last gold was obtained. As Mr Thorn is'an experienced miner I expect that there will soon be good news from this company's ground. ■ , ■, .r : Puriri is gradually improving; on the Mission Ground there are a few substantial buildings put up. "We have a blacksmith's shop, and Mr Browning's establishment is nearly finished, so that we shall get bread on the spot. Mr Gallagher has made up his mind to

build a home here, arid is busy ploughing/ and ditching. . As I stated in my last, would be the case, the news from, tho Brothers has caused, a, stir. . There are several new claims registered in this neighborhood, but no work done. The law is very unsatisfactory on this point, as they can be - registered with facility and no work 1 done. It keeps the country locked up. I. think if Captain Goldsmith paid a visifc,he would make some of these companies that have large areas emploj' more men. In some instances there are only two and three men at work. If they do not take a hint from these remarks I will publish the names of the companies that arc neglecting to have their ground properly maned. .-■■,. . - . . . „ ,

Mclsaacs have pegged out a portion of what was ground belonging to the Pride of the South. Quite a commotion was caused by. parties arriving to repeg tliis - ground, on a similar scale to the Pros-' pectors'. There "is some mismanage- ' ment of this claim. The manager arrived at night and pegged out the company'! ground, and to his surprise found another party had arrived before him; it was between 10 and 11 o'clock at night, of course sperms were at a premium. I believe the party intends to call it Candlelight No. 1. Mr Barry pegged out ground adjoining, and 13 getting it surveyed.