WEST COAST NOTES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11510, 17 February 1903, Page 5

WEST COAST NOTES.

(special to "the pbess.") GREYMOUTH, February IG. The returns for last week are coming out better than was expected, 22 dredges giving 700oz, -t>r an average of Slot 16dwt per dredge , , , . . The Bullor Junction Company s dredge only worked 91 hours for 80oz. She has now got a olear run of apiparently Tich wash. Tho !7clson Creek Company's dredge was working all the week in the centre of the creek, on poor ground, and 470 a was as much as was expected. The Staff ord-Waimea. Company's dredge, after having undergone pretty extensive repairs, had a week's steady run for 320z lOdwt. The Feddersen'a Company's return for 137 i hours' work was 220z. The claim cannot yet be considered to be properly opened out. Tho Notown Creek Company got 350z. Tho Greenstone Three Mile y Company s dredge was idle three days last week repairing the ladder. The Greenstone Creek Company's dredge, in addition to being in worked ground, was injuriously affected by the quantity of silt brought down by * flood. The Greenstone Junction Company 9 dTedge has got. through most of tho silt lodged in the paddock, and is now entering deeper ground.