TE AROHA MINING NEWS. (Te Aroha News.)

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1816, 26 February 1884, Page 2

TE AROHA MINING NEWS. (Te Aroha News.)

A PARTY, subsidised by a number of resi* dents in Te Aroha, is now out prorpecting the township side of the mountain. Their present sphere of operations is on the rangB J above the old Morning 1 St»r claim. Although much money and labour has been expended unsuccessfully in various attempts to discover permanently paying reefs on this side of the hill, there ii yet ample encouragement for fresh efforts being made. The men now out are old and experienced quartz miners, and as there is a large area of untried and likely country before them, there is fair reason to hope tha.it their exertjons in trying to open up a new field, or resuscitate the old. one, will yet be crowned with success. The Battery.— The dry -weather which prevailed in the early part of the'week, and for some, time previously, had begun to affect the water supply. For two or three days before, the rainfall of Thursday the want -of I'power1 'power began to <be felt, and it was found necessary to hang up ten t head of stunners. This circumstance -will largely affect the.

would have been fully up to the average of previous yields. The recent rains, however, have again filled the races, and the whole strength of the battery is now going at full speed. The following are the returns for the week ending Saturday, the t J6th inst. :— INew Find— From Plates 5(53 0 \ Blanketings 117 0 Colonist—From Plates . ... MO 0 Tailings . 31 10 Total . .871 10 New Find.— The vaiious workings continue to look well. A winze has been started in the No. 2 drive to connect with the new low level. Gold .still going down and reef of average size. Tenders for the extension of the low level have been received, and the work will be proceeded with early next week. A full lcpoit on this mine will be given in our ne\t is>.ue. Colonist. — It is giatifying to have to chronicle further good news from this claim. A marked improvement has taken place within the last day or two in the south end of the low level. The leef there has increased in size fioni 4ft. to neaily 7ft., and is now yielding btone quite equal to that recently got in the north end of the lowlevel, the gold being also of a slightly coarser qua! it v. EciiKKA.— The systematic way in which the mine is being opened up will give every .facility for carrying on operations cheaply, and the manager will have no difficulty in keeping up a steady supply of stuff for the 10 head of stampers for which arrange.ments have been made with the Battery Company. Perhaps in no other claim on the field has woik been earned on more steadily and under greater difficulties than in this ; and to all who desire to nee patient industry and unflagging energy duly rewarded, the news at an early date of satis•factory returns from the battery will be, as . well as to the shareholders, a cause of much gratification. „ Ahmt. — A large amount of prospecting work has been done m this claim, chiefly on the No. 1 reef, which is a fine coirpact body of stone, varying fioni 2ft Gin to 4ft in thickness. In one pait the cap has been stripped 40 or oO feet, the vein boing 4ft wideband giving very fair mortar prospects. Alphabet Compan}.— Men are employed prospecting the F claim, and other poitions of this company's ground. Inverness, — The contractors have finished driving. A fresh start will be immediately made to pick up the reef, which his supposed to be still a little distance ahead. Aki/oxa. — The low level is now in 100 feet, the last 2."> being through good working country in which several stiingers of quartz have been crossed, indicating the probable existence of a large body in the neighbourhood. This dm cis aho expected to intersect two good sized veins that were cut in the Arizona level of the New Find claim, as well as offshots of the main reef. It is probable that another leader, which crosses the New Find low level, and it is supposed to be indentical with the Diamond Gully reef, may also be met vyitb, but this is only burmi.se. The company's .surveyor hab been on the ground dining the week laying off the strike of the more impoitant of the leadeis discovered in the claim and in the adjoining propeities. Thih work when completed will be of much value to shaiehelders m enabling them to judge of the value of their claim, and will gieatly assist the manager in the tatUfactoi y working of the mine.