NELSON.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2549, 8 March 1877, Page 2

NELSON.

Wednesday,

Last Saturday news was brought to town that payable alluvial gold had been discovered near to Tadnior Valley. Mr Lowther Broad, E.M., started; for the place on Monday, and to-day telegraphed to Mr Curtis as follows :—" Visited Tadmor rush. About forty men on the ground. The recent floods washed away a considerable extent of the top soil, leav-i ing the gravel bed, and in this .the prospect \vas found. Biggs and party got £30 worth of gold last week in four days for three men. Parat's party are

making thirty shillings per man per day. The claim below them has similar prospects. Biggs' and party are Working a stratum of washdirtabdut two feet thick lying on a clay bottom. The depth-of sinking is three to four feet. There are indications of a regular lead,; but little prospecting has yet been donet. The lead; if it exists; is mostly through a valley of timbered and flat land. A: claim has been taken up, and payable prospects obtained, where the timber land ends, a mile away from where the.supposed lead enters, and the whole of the land is freehold. The holders of present claims washed prospects for me, each one showing payable gold. * The place will only carry a limited population, unless t-he lead proves of considerable width. ■ This will be aecertainei by prospecting alone; —L. Bboad." The owner of the land allots .occupation, at £L per^claim; per man, of which arrangeaaenfr; miners /approve. Tadmor is 40 miles from kelson W., and thereris fe'gbod dray road. ,A telegram to the Evening Mail says,there is every indication of a good alluvial lead, but miners deprecate" a rush at present, as so; very littlefpr^pecdng has been done. '•' " ' ""■'•■"" ":"-" :