532 Scientific Proceedings, Royal Dublin Society. 
Bangalore, the elevation being 3,800 feet above the sea, and the 
arrangements made by the Government for leasing the land are 
described as being favourable to enterprise. The following 
extract is from the Pioneer of the 29th April, 1880 (quoting the 
Bangalore Spectator) :— 
“Gotp Minine 1x Mysorr.—From a notice issued by Messrs. 
Arbuthnot and Co., it appears that a company is being formed to work 
a portion of the land in the gold-yielding region of Ooregaum in the 
Kolar district. The Ooregaum company is now hard at work, and the 
analysis of quartz from its mines, by Mr. Brough Smyth, show conelu- 
sively that the auriferous yield is exceedingly good, and that the results 
to be obtained are all that can be desired. The gold-fields are not far 
from the Kolar Road Station (six miles) and have everything in their 
favour—climate as good as Bangalore, food and labour cheap and plen- 
tiful, and there is every reason to believe that the gold mining industry 
will be a great ‘success in the Mysore country. Those who wish to in- 
vest in a good speculation have now such an opportunity placed within 
their reach, while the well-known name of Messrs. Arbuthnot and Co., 
is a sufficient guarantee that the Madras Gold Mining Company will be 
carried on properly. Judging by our English contemporaries, it would 
appear that there will be no difficulty in allotting the whole of the shares 
in the London market where the gold mining companies are highly 
thought of as safe investments.” 
BOMBAY. 
Within the limits of the Bombay presidency the districts of 
Dharwar, Belgaum, and Kaladgi are the principal in which gold 
is known to exist, and where native gold-washers locally called 
Jalgars derive a livelihood from searching the auriferous sands. 
DxHaARWwAR DistRict.—In a paper entitled “The Auriferous 
Rocks of the Dambal Hills, Dharwar District,’* Mr. R. B. Foote, 
F.G:S8., of the Geological Survey of India, has given an account of 
his researches when tracing the source from whence the alluvial 
gold of the region has been derived, together with a description 
of the system adopted in washing for gold in the streams which 
flow through the auriferous tracts. 
Mr. Foote considers that the gneissic rocks of this area belong 
to three distinct series, each characterized by certain lithological 
peculiarities. He distinguishes them by the following local 
names :—1. Dhoni; 2. Kappatgode ; 3. Soortoor— 
“ All the streams said by the natives to be auriferous, rise within the 
limits of the tract occupied by the Soortoor series, and the upper course 
* “Records Geological Survey of India, 1874,” Vol. VII., p. 133 
