TE AROHA.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3770, 27 January 1881, Page 2

TE AROHA.

(FBOM OVS. OWN COBBESPONDENT.)

This day, 12.30 p.m.

I have just returned from a visit to the Prospectors', Bonanza No. 1 South, and Waikato, but saw no change of importance. These mines have, however, done a vast amount of work when it is taken into consideration the many difficulties they have had to contend with, which are concomitant with mining in a new country. The drive in the No. 1 South is in 80 feet, and the lode cut a fortnight ago has been driven oh both ways. S' In the Bonanza both the upper and lower drives are in full swing on the big reef—the top working prospecting the foot-wall side of the lode, and the lower drive, the hanging-wall side. I like the indications ia the upper drive best, there being a seam of almost solid mineral, apparently a mixture of antimony and silver. The vein is almost a couple of inches thick. The indication would be looked upon in many places as the precursiou of a patch of gold. I should think the lode is about si* feet thick, and from the precipitous nature of the country there will be hundreds of feet of backs. The lode likewise extends into the

Waikato—in which Mr C. McLean is directing operations. His main drive is in 30 or 40 feet, and in the face there is a lode about two feet thick, which yields dish prospects and colors of gold. Mr H. E, Whitaker has been very successful in inducing the Waitoans to take up shares in the Sattery Company.

(Fbom To day's Te Aboha Mines.)