SHAMROCK LEAD—ADDISON'S FLAT.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 445, 4 January 1869, Page 2

SHAMROCK LEAD—ADDISON'S FLAT.

(from our owk correspondent.) There are about ten claims on the Shamrock Lead paying well. One ■half pays about £ls per week a man, and the remainder from £7 to £8 a man. The depth of sinking is about sixty-five feet, the gold being struck generally about ten feet from the reef; in fact similar to the Great North Lead, where the wash-dirt rests on a large bed of boulders above the reef. The extension southwards of the lead on the Shamrock has not yet been traced, as, from the difficulty of unwateriug, no parties have as yet gone sufficiently deep to test it. Graham and party have purchased the new tramway constructed for supplying timber to the various workings. In three weeks it cleared itself. The same party refused £l5O last week for a share in their claim. The workings at Addison's are now principally confined to the Shamrock, and many parties would go up the river and give the place a thorough prospecting, but the country is literally impregnable to the right or left of the track, and the track itself is in so dangerous a state that no one will attempt it while they cau get anything else to do. If the track up the country was in a fair passable condition, I do not hesitate to say that hundreds would go up there this season, as there is proof enough of its wealth. Surely your Progress Committee might wait on the Government officials and press the matter on them, as there is no doubt of the Buller district yet having the greatest influence on the prosperity of Westport.