WAIPORI

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 15, 30 May 1868, Page 3

WAIPORI

The following list will give our readers an idea of the large extent of work now in operation in Waipori, and also the extensive waterraces in the course of construction in that district, which indicates that great faith must be entertained by the miners of the permanency of these diggings. NAMES OF PARTIES WITH HEADS OF WATER AT WORK -IN AND ABOUND WAIPORI, ENGAGED Iff "GROUND SLUICING. Caldwell and party 5 heads Paterson and party 5 „ Dreaver and party 2 „ Bolton and party 4 „ Shaw and party ... ... ... 5,, Bell and party 4 „ Phil. Gillon and party 5 „ Baptist and party ... ... 4 „ T. Gormley and party 8 „ Lomas and party 4 „ Wilkinson and party ... ... 1 „ Morrissy and party 6 „ RACES AT WORK ON THE FLAT. D. Wilson and party 4 „ Rogers and party 4 „ Weatherally and party ... 4 „ Wylie's race ... ... ... 4 „ Bule'srace 4 „ Rip-and-tare (Ritchie) 5 „ Joe Kelly and party (water from Rip-and-tare) Richard Pilling and party ... 4 „ Dan. Little and party 3 „ Chedgey and party 4 „ Trevelyan and party 3 „ Manley and party 3 „ ! Trial Company... 4 „ | White and party 4 „ j Jenkin and party 4 „ Quilter and party ... ... 6 „ Albion party ... 2$ „ Mornington and Waipori races amalgamated 10 „ Nelson race 5 „ races at "work in ground sluicing on Mitchell's flat. Jones and party, from Mitchell's Creek to Pipeclay Gully, 2 miles ; 3 heads Ross and party, from Mitchell's Creek to Blue Spur, Mitchell's Flat, 4_miles ; 4 heads Dickson's race, from Middle Creek, 4 heads (not at work) PO3T OFFICE CREEK, about nine miles from Waipori, on the Dunedin side, a small diggings which has supplied work for twenty or twenty-five miners for several years. There are four or five races at work. RACES PROJECTED, OR IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION. Butson and party's race, 2 feet deep by 4 feet wide ; to carry about 20 heads of water ; through solid rock a quarter of a mile Booth, Hurst and Co., 3 heads from Shepherd's Creek, and 2 from Northwest Creek, a distance of 9 miles Butson and party have another race nearly completed, from Burnt Creek to Caldwell Point, 7 miles ; 10 heads Shaw and party, extension of race from Rocky Creek to Long Gully, 5 miles; 4 heads Lees and party, from head of Deep Stream to Waipori Gorge, 20 miles ; 12 heads Bolton and party, from Nardoo Bush to Johnston's Point, Waipori township, 10 miles ; 6 heads Taylor and party, from Devil's Creek to Fiddler's Gully, Deep Stream, 4 miles ; 5 heads Bell and party, extending race from Long Gully (south side of river) to Frenchman's Gully (below Dickson's Diggers' Rest Hotel), 5 miles ; 3 heads Fred. Johnston and party, from Ferris' Gully to Portuguese Spur, Lammerlaw, 3 miles ; 2 heads James Clark Elliot aud party, from Butcher's Point, Lammerlaw, to Maori Ned's Point, Lammerlaw Creek, at feot of Lomas', l£ miles (just completed); 5 heads Lomas and party, extending their race from Butcher's Point to junction of Nardoo and Lammerlaw Creeks, 4 miles ; 4 heads Wm Farren and Dennis Malone, race and dam from gully in Lammerlaw Creek to a flat at foot of Lammerlaw, 1 mile ; 2 heads. In this race there is a fluming 120 feet in length and 20 feet in height, spanning two spurs.