TE AROHA MINING. (From Saturday's News)

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1819, 4 March 1884, Page 2

TE AROHA MINING. (From Saturday's News)

Theke aro signs of renewed energy on the ' field, and it is satisfactory to learn that work is about to be resumed in some of the claims termed outsiders. In the Victoria, the Coquette, and the Little Jimmy men either have been or are about to be put on, and there is every reason to hop j that this fresh activity will produce good re&ult-j. We understand the Victoria Company have jo.ned with the Eureka in extending the latter c jinpany's low lev el As a considerable distance has yet to be driven before the bound iry is reached this arrangement will effect a considerable saving to both companies Battery. — the returns of amalgam for the weak ending Satuiday, 23rd ult., aie as follows :—: — Colonist 377 ounces New Find . . . 338 „ Premier 23 10 dwts 738 10 Crushing has bsen going on steadily this week, the Coloni&t having 20 head of stampers, the New Find 15, and the Premier 5. Cor.oxisr. — The whole of the workings present the same salisfactory appeal ance as they did last week. The Canadian end of the upper level looks it anything better than at that time. The north end of the low level is now through the grass, the reef carrying good gold all the way. A nice looking cross vein 2 feet thick and yielding excellent stone was cut just before breaking through. New Find. — In the Arizona level both ends continue to look well. A ri&e had baen started at the end of the cross-cut and is now up about (5 feet. The last stuff broken down was of excellent quality, and quite equal to anything yet got m that part of the mine. There has not been much done ir. the winze in the No. 2 reef. Sinking had to be suspended at 4 or 5 feet, as it was found that the ground above required timbering, and at this work the men are now employed. The surface stopes in the higher part of the claim are still yielding excellent crushing stuff. Phojnix. — The news from this claim is very satisfactory. During the last few weeks the reef has been gradually improving, and has recently yielded some excellent stone. Its average size is about 15 inches, although in the face it is somewhat less at present. The drive, where work is now going on, is well down into the blue country — the lode is conipaot and well defined with a clean hard hanging wall, and has all the signs of permanence. Inverness. — Very good &tone is at present being obtained from the leader opened up at Christmas time in the upppr part of the claim. The vein is about 18 inches wide, and has baen driven on 1G or 18 feet, yielding excellent crushing stuff all the way. In the low level the contractors are still driving ahead, not having yet struck the reef. Waiorongomal— The attention of the manager is still being given to tha Three Fools reef, from which some good looking stuff has been got during this week and last. Much cannot yet be said about the main body of the lode, that is, the more solid portion of it, for very little of the stone has been broken down, but some of the softer stuff from the western wall shows gold very freely, though it is still chiefly found in the honeycombed stone. Work in the winze on the Virginia section is progressing, but since the rain last week the water has been rather troublesome. VuiOAN.— The reef that takes its name from the Premier claim runs into this property, and dhows for some distance on the surface, but seems to split up about the centre of the claim. It has been stripped some 50 feet in length, and shows a strong body of quartz over 6 feet in $h.iokness. Fair stone has been got from this portion of the lode, which is indeed the only part that can be said to have had a trial. Toe manager [ has bad a few tons of this stuff bagged, and | is sending it to the mill." Should the return p&y# aifciaWotaq? : Jw|« ywafflm of

stone can readily be got out, and as the hopper is now completed and connected with the main tramway by a branch line, steady supplies c.in at oner; bo forw«rded to the battery. Other leefs aro known to exist in the claim, but nithing has yet been wholly given to the tobting of the Prvinier vein. A start will bo m ide in a few days to crush fifty tons (if qiurti at the battery with 5 head of stampers. Hero. — The workings in this claim comprise an upper and lower diivo, the former having been carried in 12 or 15 feet on the hanging wall side of the reef. From the east of the lower diive a vise has been put up to the one above and at the top of this rise men are now employed bieiking out quartz for a trial crushing. Froir 2to 3 feet of the reef is being taken on the hanging wall side, and some of the stone shows gold pretty freely, giving fair promise of a payable return at the battery. The crushing, however, will hardly allow of a fair estimate being formed of the real value of the reef, as the large body of htone that is loft on the footwall may be either better or worse than the trial lot. It was at the top of the rise that the reported find of picked stuff last week was obtained. An | examination of this parcel of stone will not greatly impress an old Thames or Goio mandel miner with its richness. Indeed at either of those places it would class only as very good general stuff, .and it would be well if this were borne in mind, for the mention of picked stone in connection with a crushing, may lead shareholders to expect a larger return than the usual state of things warravts. It is always advisable to guard as much as possible against disappointments even in claims of proved richness, and it is especially necessary to do so in those whose reputation has yet to be made, for in them the re-action that follows upon the nonfulfilment of unduly raised hopes tells with worse effect than an occasional falling off does in a mine of good standing, aud-is perhaps more injurious in its consequences to adjoining properties, and indeed to the field generally.