TE AROHA.
(feom a cobeespondent.)
The Battery afc Morgantown is being erected in a very energetic manner, and will be ready for work in about 12 or 14 days. The building is all but finished, the boiler has been built 'in, and the engine bed erected by Mr Ginn of the Thames, and Mr Paterson and some hands are now putting down the formation logs for the stamper boxes. As all the stamper frames and tables have been previously erected, only a short time will be required in refitting them up.
A good many of the claims are protected at present, but several are still working full-handed. The Prince of Wales people are still adding to their heap of quartz in readiness for the mill. The reef in this claim is in kindly country and as good prospects have been got in some of the quartz it is very probable that a run of gold may be got if prospecting is vigorously carried on.
In the Lucky Hit the shareholders are about to commence operations—as soon as they have built a whare. This claim adjoins the Prince of Wales, and is in the same ruu of country.
The Inverness and Waiheke claims are fully manned, and are doing a good deal of prospecting ; aud the All Nations are still continuing their crosscut, and driving on a leader which was cut some time ago.
In the Don the low level is still being driven through tight ground. The manager expects to cut the reef in a few feet, as the country is now getting easier.
The Smile of Fortune party are engaged putting up a rise on the reef near the Morning iStar boundary, and they say that good prospects are obtained in rising. The reef lies in a likely looking rock, soft and easily worked, and has every indication of carrying payable gold. The Morning Star and all the other claims on this line are not. worked at present, so nothing can be said about them further than is already known.
it is to be regretted that the claimholders on the Morning Star line of reef do not show more energy, the rock through which the reef runs does not present the same hard appearance, which the greater part of the Te Aroha country does and the difficulties and expense in prospecting are not so heavy as elsewhere, nevertheless there is no great quantity of quartz ready for the mill, and no appeaance of any united endeavours to make a sledge road to enable them to get it there when the battery is ready to crush.
In the Shotover claim they are driving on two small leaders which have now junctioned, and get prospects which entice them to persevere. This claim is a considerable distance from the flat and conveying quartz to the mill will be an expensive matter at present.
Several claims are at work up the creek behind Lipsey's but as there was not time to get up to them any remarks must be left to another time.
Some men are at work in the Prospectors' claim, Te Aroha No. 1 South and the Waitoa but it seems the greater portion of the claims are protected in this neighbourhood.
JN"qw that the erection of the quartz mill is being nearly finished no time should be lost in making tracks to the claims to get the quartz brought down, and it is to be regretted that more attention is not given to this matter.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3822, 29 March 1881, Page 2
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585TE AROHA. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3822, 29 March 1881, Page 2
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