Mining in the Upper Country.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3943, 18 August 1881, Page 3

Mining in the Upper Country.

(by oub trayei<ling corbbspokdent.)

OWHAROA. The Smile of Fortune tributers are keeping ten head going, and are breaking about five feet of the No. 2 leader. By the end of the month they expect a large parcel of gold. The Lucky Hit hoppers are full of stone, and a atari will be made to crush as soon as possible. ' In the Radical, Campbell and party are sinking a winze, and are getting out some payable stone. Shaw and party are also getting out a payable crushing. : Harvey and -Clark, who have been prospecting for some time past up the Annie creek, have cut a nice-looking leader about two feet thick, which gave a fair prospect on being crushed. Several other..claims have been pegged off in the locality within the last few days. WAITEKAURI. Pegging off at Waitekuri is still all the rage; something like 400 men's ground ha 3 been already taken up. lam afraid the pegging will be the only work done in some of the claims. TJhe tributers in the Welcome are *?r?»iering when the tram will be in a state in sond stuff to the mill. Batifii' and party are getting oui belter stone flian last crushing ;' the other tributers in the mine are also getting out payable stone. WATHI. At Waihi Mr Bayldon is busy at work getting the survey and plans for the battery. . The Young Colonial reef still looks well (14 feet wide), and no appearance of the footwall. _ The^ Little Tommy, Dulcibel, Rose, Comstock, Evelyn, and Morton's are all pushing on work, and seem satisfled with itheir prospeots.