SMILE OF FUTURE (OWHAROA.)

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3996, 19 October 1881, Page 2

SMILE OF FUTURE (OWHAROA.)

The tributers (Oates and party) brought down their gold last night. The retorted return was 20620a5, which on being melted was reduced to 20370zs sdwts. This was we'lcarn, the result of only 4 weeks' work, and good crushing quartz is left in the face. The reef is about four feet thick, and by opening up a low level and cutting the reef there, the company will hare 120 feet of backs to take out before breaking into Oates' workings. There is also every prospect of the shot of gold now being worked keeping on fur some distance ahead,' as the Lucky Hit claim, which is situated at the back of the Smile of Fortune, is now producing good payable quarlz. The battery will be employed for about a fortnight onquartz from other mines in the district, and when these parcels are disposed of some alterations and improvements will be made in it and the water race, which will facilitate future crushing operations. Mr John Moore, late manager of the Prospectors', Te Aroha, has been appointed to the management of the mine by the directors, a choice which appears to have given universal satisfaction to the shareholders. GOLD EETUENB. Wi.iTEKA.UEi. — Heitrnan and party have crushed a parcel of 42 tons at the Waitekauri battery for the return of 78ozs retorted gold, which the melting process reduced to 76ozs ldwt.