GOLDEN FLEECE.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 5 July 1880, Page 2

GOLDEN FLEECE.

Probably no nrne in the Inanannua has so aptlj realised the truth of the saying that ' the darkest hour is that before the Jiwn.' as this. Little more than six months ago its prospects were gloomy indeed. True it is that operations never were allowed to fl >g, hut the calls which it became necessary to make upon the shareholders began to press heavily, and not a few beg«n to think that the grand old mine which had yielded so many thousands in dividends, had been 1 pumped out.' The management, however, prrsevered confidently with the works in that part of the mine to which experience pointed as the resting place, of ' the lost riches, and time has confirmed the judgment. The stone as it was first met with was no thicker than a sheet of paper and in less experienced hands might j easily have escaped notice, but to the J watchful management it was as a streak of light shining through a chink in the wall, and npon following it the vein gradually widened until it displayed the substantial proportions of a well-defined reef, and Mr Trennery was rewarded with the consciousness that • Richard is himself again.* Such is briefly the his' tory of the recent find, and besides the good direct result which the profitable workiDg of such a mine must bave upon the community, it shows to what great extent the fate of a miring undertaking rests with the wisdom and prudence of the mining management. There is already about 200 tons of stone in the paddock, but. until the coul tramway i« completed, which will be about a month, crushing cannot be resumed. In the meantime the stone is being opened up ana everything above and below ground prepared for a long and prosperous in<* nings, with which in the minds of share* holders may be appropriately associated visions of the Melbourne Exhibition.