OUR MINES.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 25 April 1881, Page 2

OUR MINES.

(FBOM OUB MINING BEPOBTEB.) ihe"week. Saturday, April 23. The operations of the past week furnish little matter fer comment. Tbe Welcome continues to maintain its good name and fame, and tbe appearance of the mine fully sustains the anticipations formed at the commencement of crushing. It is, however, an encouraging sign that the whole of the applications for mining areas made during tbe recent excitement are being persevered .with, thus showing that the ground was taken up with a bona Hie intention of working it, and not merely to see how the proverbial cat would jump. The application for three square miles of country np the Inangahua Valley in the vicinity of Lanky Gully has naturally created some sur prise and fear lest it should succeed, but acting upon proper representations such a form of object ion has been lodged with the Nelson Waste Lands Board, as will prevent that body from falling unwittingly into the error of granting it. The record of weekly yields up to Saturday, 16th, was omitted, and is, therefore, now given, together with the totals for tbe past week. They are as follows :— For week ended 16:h AprjJ — WELCOME, 410oz8. amalgam, from 100 tons of stone. HOPEFUL, 1750z5. 13dwt of retorted gold, from tons of stone. FIERY CROSS, 81ozs ldwt of retorted gold, from 61 tons of stone. UNITED ALPINE, 2030zs of amalgam from 170 tons of stone. NIL DESPERANDUM. 114ozi 14dwt of retorted gold, from 162 tons of stone. GOLDEN FLEECE, 19702* amalgam, from 130 tons of stone (top plates.) For week ended 23rJ April— WELCOME— returns not to band. GOLDEN FLEECE, 214 ozs. amalgam, from 138 tons of stone. UNITED ALPINE, 172 ->zs of amalgam from 168 tons stone.