He examined ten auriferous tracts or localities in the central group, beginning with the Holgen workings near the southern border of the province, and ending with the Hale Kalgudda locality near the northern border, and reports more or less favourably on five out of the ten localities in question.  For brevity I use the numbers into which he has divided the localities he regards as more or less promising.  Of part of number three, he says that his examination, though but a cursory one, led him to regard it “very favourably,” and of another part, he says that the whole outline indicated, which is seven miles long by about a mile wide, is deserving of very close examination, and the reefs of being prospected to some depth.  As regards number five, he reports the existence of old native workings occupying a considerable area, and which showed evidence of much work being done.  Fine reefs are to be seen pretty numerously, and he desires to draw attention to this promising tract.  With reference to number eight, he says that “taking all things into consideration this tract is one of the most promising I have seen.”  Of number nine he says, “with regard to this gold-yielding locality, it is one of very great promise and worthy of all attention from mining capitalists,” and as regards number ten, he reports that, though not so favourable as the two numbers previously mentioned, it is yet deserving of the closest investigation.

The west-central group was examined by Mr. Foote in the same order, i.e., from south to north, and he tells us that the auriferous localities in this group occur all in small detached strips or patches of schistose rock scattered over the older gneissic series.  They are really, he says, remnants of the once apparently continuous spread of schistose (Dharwar) rocks which covered great part of the southern half of the Peninsula.  Mr. Foote examined in all fifteen localities, and they do not, from his account, seem to present appearances as favourable as those of the central group, and he only recommends that attention should be paid to six of them.  As regards the first locality mentioned, he says that, though the results from washings and other indications were not very favourable, the field was deserving of further close prospecting, as the nature of the country is favourable.  Of locality number five, he says that it contains a considerable number of large and well defined reefs, to which a great amount of attention has been paid by the old native miners, and thinks that they are deserving of the closest attention at the present time by deep prospecting on an ample scale.  Of number seven he finds it impossible to form any positive opinion, though he adds that the size of the old workings show that the old miners found the place worth their attention for a long period.  He advises that number eleven should be prospected and tested.  Locality thirteen he considers to deserve close prospecting, and he makes much the same remark as to number fourteen.