LUCK'S ALL.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3662, 21 September 1880, Page 2

LUCK'S ALL.

The manager of this mine is making all speed with the erection of the hoppers and tramway, and by the time the dry season has fairly set in, and the road in good order, lie should be in a position to start crushing. There is some talk of the- W aiotalii Creek mines clubbing together and asking a subsidy from the County Council to procure a large American quartz waggon similar to those used in California. These waggons hold Seven tons and are easily managed orer any kind of road. It is estimated were one of these conveyances imported, quartz could be carted from Punga Flat at from 2s to 3s per ton. I think the idea a good one, and hope it will take a practical shape. The mine was visited yesterday. I found men employed driving on the reef at No. 3 level, but since the time it was first cut it has decreased in size though it may be expected to return to its normal proportions at any moment. The reef, which lets put a great deal of water, is a splendid looking body of stone, and shows gold freely in the solid. The country is a fine mineralised sandstone, and I would not be at all surprised to see a rich auriferous deposit at the first junction. On Friday last the lode was out in the upper level, and is now being driven on. It is about three feet thick at this point, the stone being of a dark brown color. The first «tone I picked from the heap lying at the mouth of the drive showed coarse gold, as if peppered over the outside of the stone, closely resembling the quartz exhibited in . the Bank of New Zealand by the Waitekauri Company some years ago. I have no doubt but that this lode will prove a most valuable one, as whenever it has been broken into it has shown first class gold. Stoping on the blue leader continues to give occasional patches of rich specimens.