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rugged country ill-provided with roads, and occasionally 
stopped by floods in the rivers, it is considered that a digger 
earns on an average twelve shillings a day. 
The history of the gold-field does not record any large 
fortunes made by single diggers, but steady average gains. 
The largest nugget found was in the Rocky River, a nugget of 
9 oz. 18 dwts. 
The whole produce of the gold-field from the beginning, in 
1857, up to the middle of August, is recorded, in the General 
Government Gazette, as about £150,000. 
I may add that, looking to the position of the gold-field 
generally, and its proximity to the sea, there is probably no 
other gold-field which, with moderate outlay upon roads, 
could be made more easily accessible, or might afford greater 
facilities for being worked. I have very little hope that quartz 
reefs will be found in this district rich enough to pay for 
crushing. 
The country on the western side of the gold-bearing ranges, 
further south than the Clarke River, has not yet been perfectly 
explored with regard to probable gold-fields, and i proceed, 
therefore, to the eastern side ot the gold-bearing formations. 
I may remark that there is 119 foundation for the belief, so 
generally entertained amongst diggers, that gold-fields are 
only found on the western side of ranges, and not on the 
eastern. 
The Anatoli and Takaka Diggings —From the same mica- 
slate and clay-slate zone, from which on the western side the 
o’old-beariim’ branches of the Aorere valley run, on the eastern 
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side the Takaka river with its branches takes its rise. It is 
therefore not surprising that gold is also found on those 
rivers. If the farmer settled on the rich alluvial plains ol tne 
Takaka finds markets bad, he has but to ascend to the higher 
parts and branches of the river to fdl his pocket. Grold is 
found in sufficient quantity to pay river diggings in the upper 
Anatoki, Waingaro, and Takaka, the heaviest nuggets in the 
Waitui river, which takes its rise from the Mount Arthur 
range. In the Anatoki valley a quartz reef is spoken of which 
promises well. The interesting metal, osmiridium, as lias been 
proved by specimens forwarded for analysis to Mr. Clarke, of 
Melbourne, is a peculiar accompaniment of the Takaka gold. 
