WAITITI.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3815, 21 March 1881, Page 2

WAITITI.

(FEOM OUR OWN COREESPONDENT.)

At the present juncture it may be interesting to your readers to give a description of the position of the various claims here already suv/eyed, from the prospectors' or Martha claim. To liie south, in the order nam d, he the Dcnei.bel,* Waiti'tr; Tittle lizzie, and Jones' n. 1, the latter two of which have b:;.3n amalgamated, and will be styled the Waihi Golam:ni 4 ng Comprny. To Ihe north are the Kmily, Young Colonial, Old Colop'al, nd Little Tommy. The latter has just been su.veyed for Mr J. Leydon and some other gentlemen. To the_ south-east is the Evelyn, and about one mile due east from the Martha, at a ]._>int where great buiches of qut.tz crop out, Mr liowe has surveyed three holdings, in which Mr Cummings, of Ha.milton, is largely interested. 'These claims have been christened the Pekeiui, Bannockburn, and Hose. Good gold ia to be seen when the quartz is pounded up, and I consider the prospects quite as good as any met with in the WeHiti cleims. I must not forget tj mention that a su.vey has likewise been made of a piece of ground in 'he Maunga'pitoi creek, and it has been ca^ed the Roderick. Mr Jones has pegg: 1 out two new claims to the southward, naming them respectively the Jones No. 2, and Jones No. 3. Martha.-—On'Tuesday last, the men driving the tunnel towards the hangingwall side of the reef, cut a nice lode of solid quartz, two feet thick which has been proved to be auriferous, and containing perhaps the most promising quartz I have yet seen here. On Thursday a second body of stone, eight inches thick was passed through, likewi&e bearing golden indications, ?nd on Sa'urday the naoging-wall of an apparently large reef was struck, which I should not be suri wrised will tuva out to be the big reef. If this surmise is correct, the lode is much larger than anticipated—indeed the distance from wall to well ftj p. be upwards of 100 feet. A lode of this dimension would not very easily wich out or be cut off by a slide, whica is something to be said in its favor, at any rate. In the Dulcibel, Nicks and par^y have driven 40 feet on the footwall side, end carry good prospects. The lode is composed of black, sooty looking quartz, very like that met with ia the old City of Dunedin reef at Tara.u. The shareholders have 80 tons of quartz to grass, which they estimate w?ll yield from 10d» ts to 15dwts per ton. About 30 feet of dviving has been done in the Little Lizzie, and the lode should be to hand after 20 or 30 feet further driving. I will let you know as scon as anything else of importr ace transpires.