Mining in the Upper Country.
(BY OUB TRAVELLING COBBISPOKDBNT.)
TE AROHA. '-' V-viv The news from the late find is good; I*^ For some, forty feet the reef has been stripped, and shows gold freely. A ' tunnel has been started to crosscut the reef, and this will test its value at a greater depth. j '•' " Iv some other claims the owners ire doing a little prospecting, but as usual in new districts several law suits are pehd* ings. In the Morning Star a large crushing is out, and is being sledged to the bottom of the hill, but owing to the apathy of the Piako Council the road is.impassable to the mill. A large number of visitors hare been up lately, and all express themselves | pleased with the district. A road has been started from Morgantown to the new find, and this will be the > shortest and most direct road; Shares {at {the new find hare been changing hauds at a good figure. OWHABOA. During the last ten days the Smile of Fortune battery has been crushing for the .Radical tributers, and the last parcel was finished on Saturday. Mears and party, of the Golden Run, are tryiug to send down a trial crushing. Iv the Smile of Fortuue a large amount of crushing dirt is ready for the mill, and a start will be made on Ulouday on the company's atone.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4006, 31 October 1881, Page 2
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231Mining in the Upper Country. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4006, 31 October 1881, Page 2
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