THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 12 May 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1880.

U spite of the many complainti bting j , made oa all «ide 4as to tka Blackness j ( of trade, and general icarcity of the j i sinews of war m Beefton, we hajei| teetimooy of a large amoant of viyj«B going on amongst the niinet^^^^H district. This is notably the. C 4^BI -Boatmans, where the namber of ma^R [engaged is probably as large as at any- ■ time during the pait two years. At J present the mine* there whiab standi out most prominently m this direc* T tidn are tbe Just-in-Time, Wei- I come and Fiery Gross. Tbe tmo\former have already esUb!i»hed^their J fame as producer*, as alio has the latter, bat upon a so*pe%bat lesser scale, but this company baa had a large amount of dead^wprk to perform, and has thereby, so far as the present is concerned, bean to Borne* extent distanced m tbe race. Tbe miue has, L b«weyer, before now well earned the faith of M»e shareholdars, sod its position fairly considered, there can be no possible doubt of its coming well to tbe front before the lapse of many months. The Hopeful, too once the light and the life of Boatman's, though long buried away m oblivion/ has neither been forgotten nor neglected. A large amount of waste work 'tias beet) done m quest of tbe errant lode which yielded so much and danced away so suddenly ; 'but the shareholders have never tired of the chase after it, and it is certain that whenever it is found' bnt little time will suffice to pull up tbe lee way. The company have recently obtained permission to follow m the track of the reef from the Welcome boundary, so that the' probabilities are m favor lot; 'the reef being early met, with. Counting m these mines alone, then, Boatman's offers undoubtly good promise for the immediate future. Turning to the Murray Creek division, we have the Fleece Extended once more m the foreground with the prospect at hand of * divi* den to the shareholders, and this from ■tone obtained at a depth that speaks, more eloquently than, words ejan do of the enduring nature of our reefing in* dustry. Then we bave the Golden Treasure mine, which, only awaits additional crushing 'power to make it a permanent wealtb»producer. In the light of these facts then, we think there is no room for misgiving as to the out-look of the 6eld. Prospecting there is little or none going on, it is true, bat as the working ventures begin to tell their own tale, there is no doubt people will appreciate the necessity, like the frugal fisherman* of casting the net wider.