ORIENTAL GOLD MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.

Inangahua Times, Issue 51, 3 July 1878, Page 2

ORIENTAL GOLD MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.

Directors lluroßT, To tho Shareholders of tho On'onl.\l Gol.i Mining Company, Limited: Gi:NTr,ptEN,— During our term of ollioo ho reef iirst discovered tins been tracod ou the surface for « len«th of 2:M Tool, and stripped for n. distance of eighty |'<vl, showing an nvorngn width of twelvo foot for thut distanoo, This body of stone hn* boon oarofuily prospcoted by froqttenlly crushing piocos taken from if, pro mis'ouously. nnd jndginc; from tho results obtained tho yield may bo safely set, down at half nu ounno (at least) to tho ton. Tho coarso of tho reef is neurly cast and west. About 250 feot to tho sonlhwanl of tho roof just, inontionod nnolhcr l>odv of quartz bus boon discovered running parullol to it, this body of stona has boo trncod along the surfane for a length of eighty loot, nud shows nu. nverogp wldlb.

of nino feot, « funnel nincty-nino foot in length Imh boon driven bciionlh tho out" crop of this lust raontioned reof nt ft porpondicuUr dnpih of forty foot woioh tunri\l cufc tho rouf. Tho width of fclif rant whoro out i« nlno foot, tho tunnol in ', now oirivon aloni? tho oourno of Lho rod (or ft fllisiimoo of tvvonty*oiio foot, and nt l^tfJ^t in Htronp; in thn fuoo. Tho stouo (tommn from tho tunnol mny bo fnirl,y aot • down at 15 dwtn to tho ton, gold beinu i'reoly rlistribulod through it, nnd easily neon. Thoro is a good pack trnok from Boldier'» Crock to tho mine. It Ims boon cut at tho exponiio of lho Oompntiy »t n coot of £75. A mnohino »ito . and wntnr rights lmvo boon neourad, tho tnucliino flite, a very oli«iblo one, is situated on tho Doril'fl Crook, nnd can ho ensily ronohod by drayfl or waggons should tho Company dotormino nt any timo to oroot luachinory. A good hut Imr boon erected nfc tho mine and a forge for shnrponing 4ooln, Tlifl biiliuuio Rhoot will hliow (ho rocoiptfl and oxpondituro and tho general financial ponition of tho Oompnny. Wo are, gontloman, yours fco, Matihrw Bvunk, Jamkb Dim. For tho Dirootors. Itwfton, Jnno 29Ji ( 1878,