A GOLD ISLAND IN THE "WEST INDIES

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 199, 23 November 1871, Page 7

A GOLD ISLAND IN THE "WEST INDIES

[From the Patterson (N. J.) "Guardian"]

.Some few months since a small Island in the Carribean Sea, Vnown. as the Biinita, and about eight hun-^ dred miles south of Trinidad, while' being explored, under the direction of Agassis, was found to contain gold. The rock is quartzose, and quietly a few individuate obtained possession of the island, and these individuals — all Americans — will not dispose of any interest, although last week several offers from English capitalists in London were received — information having reached them through the Custom House, it is supposed, although every arrangement had been made to keep tbe matter as quiet as possible. The gold is free and easily amalgamated, and in purity in tbe veins in the quartz. Forty veins have been discovered on the island, and five are now being worked, and the ore is being received from ships at the Centreville Works, in Greenville, in Hudson country. The works are running night and day. The ore is now, with very perfect machinery, yielding $60 per ton, and they are only getting one-third of the. gold, but the "tailings" are being saved, -with the view of running them through the improved machine being contracted for. All the gold ore seen by our reporter, who tested the specimens just as dumped out t on the wharf, will yield $180 per ton. This great discovery is believed to be likely to build up a very imporfcaufc enterprise in Hudson county. The ore is as ' rich as the richest ores of California and Venezuela.