The New Find at Owharoa.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4383, 20 January 1883, Page 2

The New Find at Owharoa.

The Hauraki Tribune's " own reporter recently visited the discovery lately made in the .Evelyn claim, and says ;— .

" The reef is 30 feet wide, and, I think, a little over. When I first want to the claim, I found the four lucky owners steadily at work. The first thing was a heap of dirt won in cutting through the reef. A dishful was taken at a point indicated by myself, and was washed in the river there and then. I think this stuff, when put through the battery, will ;go near two ounces to the ton. A good deal of the gold was coarse, somewhat inclined to be shotty, bat not large enough to be called shotty gold. I then went into the drive, which I found to run somewhat north of due west. The report to me wai, before I went to Owharoa, that the reef was running due west; but as the drive has cut the reef right through, it must therefore be running the ordinary north-east and south-west course. In making a test of the reef, the stuff was taken from 12 different places, and, therefore, I think may be deemed a fair one. It will certainly run from Bto 15dwts when put through the mill. Some say it will run 3ozs: I state my own opinion, and with a 30 feet reef, those who wish to calculate can see what a magnificent find this is. After washing the dirt, there was some stone left, and this was reduced in the mortar, when the show was again good/although the gold appeared to me to be finer than that either in the heap or in the dirt.