MOUNT OPHIR.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2859, 28 December 1892, Page 2

MOUNT OPHIR.

On the identical spot where King Solo, mon procured ''geld dust, peacocks, and monkeys " a syndicate, with £1,000,000 capital stock issued and a ten-stamp mill erected ? ha^ jugt pounded ouj: Mount Ophir, of scriptural renown, is ckwe by. The old rocks, wh.ich *ere too low grade for I^ing Solomon's reduction processes, are being ground up, and they average half an ounce to the town, goldfield of SoJonioH, whioh has been idle all the centuries till now, is in tha Malay peninsula, The people who have gone in to develop it have had to cut seven miles of road through ihe jungle and clear sixty miles of river. They are just taginning to realise o,n the|r investment. company with the big! papitai haa a concession on twenty square miles of this goldileld, The formation is black slato, A shaft sunk one hundred feet on the lode has uncovered enough ore to keep, the mill g'ojng a year. The ore will yie^d two ounces to/the ton. In oi)e place on the concession tl^ere is a hill two hundred and fjfty feet h'gh a»d h.*lf (\ mile long, The company hay ti;nuolled ii\to this hill about lialf-way from the bottom and found ore ranging from seven pennyweights to seven ounces of grid. The reef varies in width from two to nine feefc. Even the loose rocks scattered about on the hillside yield half an ounce of gold to the ton. The superintendent said to the American Consul recently.: "Idid noj; think there was anything of this kind so extensive in the world. Wherever you try you find gold." Raub is the modern name of the ancientkl Dorado.