OUR MINES.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 30 June 1880, Page 2

OUR MINES.

the year 1877 the Mnrnys re-entpred the Creek which now bears tbeir name, and found Mr John Butler and others it work there. They set to work in some old ground, often "making a^ much as £30 per m>m a week. The gold wa« very coarse and nugge'y, and in general easily Q[ot. A year or t«*o later numbers of men began to arrire from the Little Grey way, and every inch of ground was occuP'd, and from that time to this the bed of of the Creek ha 3 been worked something about twenty times. Although the extis!enee of quartz reefs was known at tha tim?, it was not till the year 1870 that quartz mining began to attract attention, but f,it was even then Utile thought that tbe place would att iin the importance which it subsequently did.

p — - — I MURRAY OREkK. (PEOM OUE MINING EEPOKTEE.) MUBBAY CBEEK. It is fourteen years to-day since Murray Creek was opened. On the 30th June, 1566, Murray brothers en.lered Murray Creek for the purpose of prospecting for alluvial gold. Their search was of short duration, as they s ;on found sufficient to justify them in removing iheir camp from the present site of ."•quaretown. They woike^d witii fair sneces for some time, but on the news ol the discovery of gold at liei Jack's, in the Grey Valley, reaching them, they at once started off, osiy to find, howeyer, that inrush was larcely-overdone. They then decided to return to the. Inar.eMhua, which they did, by way of the Bi>4 Hirer, and Maori Gully, projecting aa they with, ssryißg succeas, ii;u!j it;