Mining in the Upper Country.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3900, 29 June 1881, Page 2

Mining in the Upper Country.

(FEOM A COBBEBPOHDEKT.)

WAIHI.

The Prospectors are sending in their (rial crushing, but having employed the natives' they find it rather slow work,; and only about one ton has reached the battery at Owharoa up to theppresent, This is partly owing to the great, damage dope the road by the bad weather, but now repairs hare been made and the road tnay be said to be in good ord||.. The show.of gold in the Prospectort^is really good. The stone now being sent td the mill is good for orer 3ozs at least. The raajbrity-dfr this stuff is from the upper workings, of the mine, but arrangements bare been made to forward a fire ton lot from the low level. In the Young Colonial, the drive is in ISO feet, and they expect to <jat the reef in about 70 feet. The Little Tommy bare commenced operations, and have met a lot of loose rubbly quartz in their drive.' The Dulcibel drive is now in 105 feet on the footwall, and the . reef still prospects well. In the Waitete the drire is iv 111* feel, but the reef has not been cut. Jones' party cut thejpML on Thursday night, and got floode^llM The stone has the same appearanc^ T aii. iv the upper drire. Crightou and partjt'/ire., pushing on their drire. Mackay and party are pushing on work in two of their holdings. Morton Bros, are putting in two drives on the foot wall side of the

Martha, where there is a large amount of r loose stone giving good prospects. Therev can be little doubt but that there is it > large amount of payable ground in Waihe, but, like all other places,' too

much ground is being taken up, and some seven or more leases have;been pegged out this week. The township lately laid out is in a very bad position—broken ground and swampy.

OWHA.ROA. . . y The winze in the Smile of Fortune ia § now down some 65, and the rise tup 40 . feet, and it is expected to hole th^ttwh some time next week. They hare'camed-A down a fine body of stono in sinking, and;i •;<■ the prospects are good. The tributers will -f hare a fine block open, and crashing wit! be started next week. The Lucky Hit are again getting out stone, and the lead' is larger in the face than it was when tha

last crashing came out. Campbell aid party, in the Radical, will start anbther crushing next week, as they hare arranged to put some poor stuff through the mill. hating taken 10 head for that purpose. The other tributers in this mine hare just cleaned up for the payable return of 120ozs from 40 tons. The Victoria drivo is in 180 feet. They hare still 80 feet to drire to cut the Golden Hill leader.* 443, * tons hare been crushed in the battery for, ? the last fire months, for the yield of* 792ozs—not bad for the 25 hands en>- - ployed—yielding £2000 worth of gold. Bather a better average than you can show on the Thames for your population. At Waitekauri ereu better returns are beiug got. Morgan and parly are crush*

mg, and expect 2oas to the ton, aod Butler will start crushing next week, aids they will help to increate the nuw^'4 return to a considerable amouut, and §£ soon as the upper tram is put in ?epair a contiiderable amount of gold will bo tent I 1 from this part of the diitriet, *