BLUE SPUR MINING NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 107, 26 February 1870, Page 5

BLUE SPUR MINING NEWS.

(From our Mining Correspondent.) < The mining claims are on their full \ swing, as usual, and the demand for \ water is much greater than the supply. s Mr. John Elliot has disposed of his 7 interest in the tailings claim in No. 1 ( Gully, Monro's, Mr. John Cooper being , the purchaser. These tailings have been \ paying very handsomely, and, as far as I ; can learn, are still continuing A 1. ; The Otago Co. fired two excellent blasts in one face. The charges of powder consisted of 65 kegs in one blast and 75 * kegs in the other. The blocks of cement , brought down by the explosion were very , massive, and will require hand blasting to reduce them to the ordinary size for the knapping operatives to pulverise for J the water to carry away. ' Morrison and Co. fired a blast of nearly l two tons of powder. The blast did not bring down a very large quantity of ( cement, but displaced a large body of it with wrenches and rents. T The tributors of the Blue Spur Sluicing 1 Company fired a small blast, in order to "* give them a greater advantage for a much larger one. * The Perseverance Co. fired a small blast ' in a corner block, in order to relieve a } blast which was fired some time ago. ] The shot answered their expectations. This company are erecting a fluming for ' a tailrace. It will be several chains in ; length and between thirty and forty feet J in height. This is the tailrace that has ' caused the Old Major's name to appear ( in your last week's paper. I should not have drawn your attention to the fact had not Mr. M'Kinlay made an unreliable * assertion eespecting the miners on the Blue Spur wishing the Old Major back. The boot is on the other leg, for nineteen ' out of every twenty of the miners here had great difficulty in his riddance ; and , I have no hesitation in stating that Mr. M'Kinlay could not get nineteen miners j in the whole district to concur in his opinion that the Old Major ever possessed the ability of a Warden for this district.