MINING NEWS.
Owing to «ho .stoppage of <»ho Welcome Company's dredgo laet weeV, there was no ■meh up yesterday. Mr f. P. (Jilhce, one of the West, Coesi Sirectors o{ 'the Greenstone Creek Company, report* having visited tho ckim Inst Friday. Hβ found th« dredge working well, flixl ahift"ing c fair amount of dirt. At tho place wherfc ah* -was working there appeared io h* vj-ry little eolid ground, and Iho go.d obtiinrd wee evidently surface or tailings gold. "Whfn operations were- suspended in December, tho width of -the Cnce wan about 200 ft, btit fin<Kng. on starting ngain, thai a lnrgo portion had been silted. up, and Jcnowinß that tho preund was worked ground, the diedgenMßter wisely decided "to drop out •ed work aJiead, wideijrnjj out to the south «« he went, to 7.S to pick tip the. solid parts left hy the Cliineso when they were flooded out. In the opinion o£ Mr Oillie*, tho solid pronnd should bo met with between 100 and 130 ft ahead of tho position ol tho dredge, on the north side.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11507, 13 February 1903, Page 3
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178MINING NEWS. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11507, 13 February 1903, Page 3
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